Translations:History/2/en

How it all started
FreeCAD history began in January 2001 when Jürgen Riegel started working on the Cas.CADE project, a commercial software development framework including a geometric modeling kernel (or CAD kernel) that in 2000 had been released under an open source license and renamed as OpenCASCADE. This made the realization of an open source 3D CAD program possible, as having to program a CAD kernel from scratch would have required a huge amount of work.