Téléchargement
Plusieurs téléchargements pour des systèmes d'exploitation variés sont disponibles. Avant de télécharger, une mise en garde :
Installateurs FreeCAD officiels
Des paquets prêts à être installés pour Windows (XP, Vista et 7 en 32 et 64 bits), Mac OS X (Lion 10.7) et pour les systèmes Linux basés sur Debian/Ubuntu 32 et 64 bits sont disponibles.
Ci-dessous les liens vers les fichiers d'installations stables pour les différents systèmes.
Sont aussi disponibles sur la page des fichiers FreeCAD les paquets en cours de développement journalier, totalement fonctionnels et qui fournissent en avant-première de nouvelles fonctionnalités en cours d'élaboration, mais ces paquets pourraient bloquer votre machine plus souvent, ou contenir des fonctionnalités qui ne sont pas compatibles avec les versions antérieures. Avec ces paquets, vous êtes en mesure de suivre le développement de FreeCAD au jour le jour.
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Versions de développement
Pour installer FreeCAD avec les toutes dernières fonctionnalités présentement en développement (tout en acceptant que ces versions pourraient être plus boguées et instables), consultez la page de téléchargement FreeCAD officielle pour télécharger des versions 64 bits, plus anciennes ou instables. Bien sûr, si vous voulez expérimenter les développements les plus récents, vous pouvez compiler FreeCAD, ou utiliser le dépôt des paquets journaliers Ubuntu.
Notes aux utilisateurs de Windows
L'installateur pourrait fonctionner sur des version Windows plus anciennes, mais n'a pas nécessairement été testé. Vous avez besoin de Windows Installer V1 sur votre système (msiexec.exe).
Voir Installation sous Windows pour les détails sur les différentes options d'installation. Téléchargez le dernier .msi file pour Windows, ou le fichier .deb approprié pour votre version Ubuntu ou Debian.
Notes for Linux users
On most recent distributions such as Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora or Arch, FreeCAD is included in the official distribution's packages repository, and you are advised to preferably get FreeCAD from there, to make sure you have a version that is 100% compatible with your system. The pivy python module (usually named python-pivy) is needed by FreeCAD from version 0.9 or above. If it is not available on your system, you must download it from here too.
Notes for Debian users
Because of a licensing conflict between third-party libraries required by FreeCAD, the freecad package was removed from the current Debian stable (wheezy) repository. This will be solved when the next stable release of FreeCAD comes out. In the meanwhile, you can either compile FreeCAD or use an alternate build.
You should also note that although Ubuntu is based on Debian, the Ubuntu PPA packages are NOT compatible with Debian.
Notes for Mac users
We rely on very few people to help building Mac OSX packages, so it doesn't get updated as often as the other platforms. The version available on this site might be slightly outdated. (To compile the most up-to-date version from source see CompileOnMac)
Ubuntu PPA packages
The FreeCAD Launchpad team has set up a PPA (Personal Package Archive) repository that allows easy install of Ubuntu packages based on the development branch. Updates to the software are pushed to the Ubuntu Update Manager, which makes it the easiest way to get the latest FreeCAD build.
The FreeCAD Daily Builds PPA is an automatic daily build system, which can provide you with a fresh, daily-up-to-date version of FreeCAD. Please be advised that the packages from this bleeding edge PPA may be broken from time to time.
Current supported architectures and versions are:
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) 32 & 64-Bit * Additional Step!
- Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quertzal) 32 & 64-Bit
- Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) 32 & 64-Bit
- Ubuntu 13.10 (saucy Salamander) 32 & 64-Bit * Additional Step!
Adding the PPA and installing FreeCAD from the console
Type (or copy-paste) these commands in a console to add the PPA and install FreeCAD along with the documentation:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:freecad-maintainers/freecad-daily
Then:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install freecad freecad-doc
Adding the PPA and installing FreeCAD from the GUI
Add to your system's Software Sources the following PPA (read What are PPAs and how do I use them? if you don't know how):
ppa:freecad-maintainers/freecad-daily
When a dialog window asks you to refresh your software sources, click OK.
Now you can install FreeCAD and FreeCAD documentation through the Ubuntu Software Center, or your package manager of choice.
Additional Step for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and 13.10
FreeCAD Daily Build packages for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and 13.10 are now built with the latest OCE version available (0.15+) rather than the older version in the standard Ubuntu repositories. That means that you must add the OCE Releases PPA to your software sources.
From the GUI:
Add this line to your software sources:
ppa:freecad-maintainers/oce-release
From the terminal:
Type (or paste) these commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:freecad-maintainers/oce-release
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
Now you are ready to get the latest version of FreeCAD for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS or 13.10.
Fedora package
To install FreeCAD on Fedora, make sure you have the *NONFREE* repositories installed (necessary because of OCC/OCE license)
yum install freecad
Or use the GUI installer.
Alternative FreeCAD builds
These are versions of FreeCAD built by other persons and not officially maintained by the FreeCAD team. They may include customized parts or be optimized for certain types of processors, or other modifications that the package maintainers judged necessary. They might also be out-of-date, since the people who make those package may take time to grab the newer versions of FreeCAD. But they are also sometimes better suited for certain operating systems. Note that on most common linux distributions, official packages are typically installed by the system's package management tool, so you don't need to download and install FreeCAD manually.
- Official Debian package
- Official Ubuntu package
- Official OpenSuse package
- Softpedia Windows build
- Packman RPM package (for opensuse, fedora)
- Slackbuilds package (for Slackware)
- ArchLinux AUR package
- Gentoo ebuild package
- Pardus linux build script
- Unofficial but well maintained Fedora FreeCAD repository
- Unofficial Debian Wheezy package (32-Bit and 64-Bit)
FreeCAD documentation
The user documentation of FreeCAD is being written together by the developers and the users community, on this wiki site. The best way is to read it online, so you are sure to get the latest version:
The manual can also be displayed as one big text, so you can print it or save it as a pdf file:
The manual is also be compiled as a qt help file, so it can be browsed offline with the Qt help viewer. This is usually made at each release and is available together with FreeCAD package on most linux software repositories (on debian/ubuntu-based systems, look for freecad-doc package) and is also bundled in the windows installer. To access it, simply open the "help" menu inside FreeCAD, or use the "What's this?" button.
For convenience, we also provide a pdf version of this manual:
Here you can also find a copy of the OpenCasCade 5.2 docs, in a .chm file. After 5.2, the openCasCade documentation is not available as a single file anymore, but as a heavy 180Mb package. So, since there is little change, we keep this one around for convenience:
FreeCAD Source package
For all other platforms you need to compile FreeCAD on your own from the Source package. You might also want to compile FreeCAD yourself if you want to optimize certain things, or customize certain parts of FreeCAD. Instructions for compiling can be found on the CompileOnWindows, CompileOnMac and CompileOnUnix pages. You can grab a zip or tar.gz file containing the latest official version here (look for the latest version for your system):
Alternatively, you can also download latest source code from the Git repositories. You'll get a more recent version, but it might contain bugs or even fail to compile. Instructions for accessing the Git repositories can be found here:
- FreeCAD Git repository (most active)
- FreeCAD repository on github.com
You can also download automatically a GNU tarball from the latest source code tree or any part of it by using the code browser and clicking the "Download GNU tarball" at any time. The trunk folder contains the current development version, while the branches folder contains a snapshot of all stable releases to date.
FreeCAD LibPack
To collect all the needed libraries to compile FreeCAD can be a time consuming task. So we deliver a convenient package for development on Windows (VS8) with all needed libraries. You can download the latest version of the libpack from:
For linux, you will normally find all necessary libraries in your software management system, so you should just read the CompileOnUnix page.
There are additional modules, addons of plugins for FreeCAD developed outside of the main FreeCAD development team. They are listed here but are not officially supported by the FreeCAD team.
- Fold module: a module for working with metal sheets (abandoned for some time, lmay not work anymore).
- Ship module, The blog of Jose Luis Cercós Pita : a module in development for ship design (since 0.13, it included in official FreeCAD sources).
- MendelMax: a macro suite for FreeCAD to generate a MendelMax machine.
- OpenPLM: an online PLM platform with FreeCAD support.
- Macros recipes: additional tools for your FreeCAD installation.
- Drawing templates: additional SVG templates for the Drawing module.
- Tumbler thumbnailer: show .FcStd files as thumbnails in Thunar and Marlin file managers.
- KDE thumbnailer: show .FcStd files as thumbnails in KDE Dolphin file manager.