Manual:All workbenches at a glance/es

Una de las mayores dificultades para los nuevos usuarios de FreeCAD, es saber en qué ambiente de trabajo encontrar una herramienta específica. La siguiente tabla te dará una visión general de los ambientes de trabajo más importantes y sus herramientas. Consulta la página de cada Ambiente de trabajo en la documentación de FreeCAD para una lista más completa.

Cuatro ambientes de trabajo también están diseñados para trabajar en pareja, y uno de ellos está totalmente incluido en el otro: Arquitectura contiene todas las herramientas de Borrador, y DiseñoPieza todas las de Croquizador. Sin embargo, para mayor claridad, se separan a continuación.

Pieza
El ambiente de trabajo de piezas proporciona herramientas básicas para trabajar con piezas sólidas: primitivas, como cubos y esferas, y operaciones geométricas simples y operaciones booleanas. Siendo el principal punto de anclaje con OpenCasCade, el ambiente de trabajo de piezas proporciona la base del sistema de geometría de FreeCAD, y casi todos los demás ambientes de trabajo producen geometría basada en piezas.

Borrador
The Draft Workbench provides tools to do basic 2D CAD drafting tasks: lines, circles, etc... and a series of generic handy tools such as move, rotate or scale. It also provides several drawing aids, such as grid and snapping. It is principally meant to draw the guidelines for Arch objects, but also serves as FreeCAD's "swiss knife".

Croquizador
The Sketcher Workbench contains tools to build and edit complex 2D objects, called sketches. The geometry inside these sketches can be precisely positioned and relationed by the use of constraints. They are primarily meant to be the building blocks of PartDesign geometry, but are useful everywhere in FreeCAD.



Diseño Piezas
The Part Design Workbench contains advanced tools to build solid parts. It also contains all the tools from the sketcher. Since it can only produce solid shapes (the rule number one of Part Design), it is the main workbench to use when designing pieces (parts) to be manufactured or 3D-printed, as you will always obtain a printable object.

Arquitectura
The Arch Workbench contains tools to work with BIM projects (civil engineering and architecture). It also contains all the tools from the Draft workbench. The main use of the Arch Workbench is to create BIM objects or give BIM attributes to objects built with other workbenches, in order to export them to IFC.



Otros ambientes de trabajo incorporados
Although the above summarizes the most important tools of FreeCAD, many more workbenches are available, among them:


 * The TechDraw Workbench for producing technical drawings from 3D models.
 * The Mesh Workbench allows to work with polygon meshes. Although meshes are not the preferred type of geometry to work with in FreeCAD, because of their lack of precision and support for curves, meshes still have a lot of uses, and are fully supported in FreeCAD. The Mesh Workbench also offers a number of Part-to-Mesh and Mesh-to-Part tools.
 * The Raytracing Workbench offers tools to interface with external renderers such as povray or luxrender. Right from inside FreeCAD, this workbench allows you to produce high-quality renderings from your models.
 * The Spreadsheet Workbench permits the creation and manipulation of spreadsheet data, that can be extracted from FreeCAD models. Spreadsheet cells can also be referenced in many areas of FreeCAD, allowing to use them as master data structures.
 * The FEM Workbench deals with Finite Elements Analysis, and permits the performing of pre- and post-processing FEM calculations and to display the results graphically.



Ambientes de trabajo externos
A number of other very useful workbenches produced by FreeCAD community members also exist. Although they are not included in a standard FreeCAD installation,they are easy to install as plug-ins. They are all referenced in the FreeCAD-addons repository. Among the most developed are:


 * The Drawing Dimensioning Workbench offers many new tools to work directly on Drawing Sheets and allow you to add dimensions, annotations and other technical symbols with great control over their aspect. The Drawing Dimensioning Workbench is no longer maintained.
 * The Fasteners Workbench offers a wide range of ready-to-insert fasteners objects like screws, bolts, rods, washers and nuts. Many options and settings are available.
 * The A2plus workbench offers a series of tools to mount and work with assemblies.

Leer más


 * La lista completa de ambientes de trabajo
 * El ambiente de trabajo de piezas
 * El ambiente de trabajo de bocetos
 * El ambiente de trabajo de Croquizador y Diseño Piezas
 * El ambiente de trabajo Arquitectura
 * El ambiente de trabajo TechDraw
 * El ambiente de trabajo MEF
 * El repositorio de complementos de FreeCAD