Standard Menu
This documentation is a work in progress. Please don't mark it as translatable since it will change in the next hours and days.
Introduction
The standard menu allows access to functions which are used in all workbenches. The menu may look slightly different depending on the desktop environment (KDE, Gnome, Windows, OS X, etc.). Different workbenches can also add sub-menus depending on how they decide to structure their own tools.
File Edit View Tools Macro Windows Help
The standard menu
The standard menu is composed of 7 sub-menus:
- File The File menu provides functions related to file input and output, such as Open, Print, Export, etc.
- Edit The Edit menu provides functions related to changing the model, such as Copy, Paste, etc.
- View The View menu provides functions related to the display of the 3D view, as well as choosing which components of the main window and panels to show.
- Tools The Tools menu provides functions for debugging models, customizing FreeCAD's behavior, as well as auxiliary functions.
- Macro The Macro menu provides functions related to the recording and execution of macros
- Windows The Windows menu allows switching and arranging open windows of the application.
- Help The Help menu provides access to the help system, links to the website, forum, scripting documentation, and also shows the information about the application.
Interface
- Preferences Editor, Interface Customization
- Main window: Standard menu, Main view area, 3D view, Combo view (Tree view, Task panel, Property editor), Selection view, Report view, Python console, Status bar, DAG view, Workbench Selector
- Auxiliary windows: Scene inspector, Dependency graph
User documentation
- 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, Assembly, BIM, CAM, Draft, FEM, Inspection, Mesh, OpenSCAD, Part, PartDesign, Points, Reverse Engineering, Robot, Sketcher, Spreadsheet, Surface, TechDraw, Test Framework
- Hubs: User hub, Power users hub, Developer hub