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User documentation
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Menu location |
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Part → Shape builder... |
Workbenches |
Part |
Default shortcut |
None |
Introduced in version |
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See also |
Part Primitives |
Description
A tool to create more complex shapes from various parametric geometric primitives.
Usage
This tool can create the following objects:
Edge from two vertices
- Select two vertices
- Click on Create
Wire from edges
- Select a set of adjacent edges in the 3D view
- Click on Create
Face from vertices
- Select vertices bounding the face in the 3D view
- Select if face should be planar
- Click on Create
- Object will be created in 3D view and will be listed in tree view
Face from edges
- Select a closed set of edges bounding the face in the 3D view
- Select if face should be planar
- Click on Create
- Object will be created in 3D view and will be listed in tree view
Shell from faces
- Select faces in the 3D view
- Select if the shape should be refined
- Select if all faces should be included in shell
- Click on Create
- Object will be created in 3D view and will be listed in tree view
Solid from shell
- Select if the shape should be refined
- Click on Create
- Object will be created in 3D view and will be listed in tree view
Notes
A possible workflow could be:
- Draw a wireframe-model of your shape using the tools in the
Draft Workbench (for example line and dwire)
- Create all faces with "face from edges"
- Create a "shell from faces"
- Create a "solid from shell"
- Primitives: Box, Cylinder, Sphere, Cone, Torus, Tube, Create primitives, Shape builder
- Creation and modification: Extrude, Revolve, Mirror, Fillet, Chamfer, Make face from wires, Ruled Surface, Loft, Sweep, Section, Cross sections, 3D Offset, 2D Offset, Thickness, Projection on surface, Attachment
- Boolean: Make compound, Explode Compound, Compound Filter, Boolean, Cut, Fuse, Common, Connect, Embed, Cutout, Boolean fragments, Slice apart, Slice, XOR
- Measure: Measure Linear, Measure Angular, Measure Refresh, Clear All, Toggle All, Toggle 3D, Toggle Delta

- Getting started
- Installation: Download, Windows, Linux, Mac, Additional components, Docker, AppImage, Ubuntu Snap
- Basics: About FreeCAD, Interface, Mouse navigation, Selection methods, Object name, Preferences, Workbenches, Document structure, Properties, Help FreeCAD, Donate
- Help: Tutorials, Video tutorials
- Workbenches: Std Base, Arch, Draft, FEM, Inspection, Mesh, OpenSCAD, Part, PartDesign, Path, Points, Reverse Engineering, Robot, Sketcher, Spreadsheet, Start, Surface, TechDraw, Test Framework, Web
- Hubs: User hub, Power users hub, Developer hub