Design456 Workbench

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This workbench is under heavy development

Introduction

Design456 External workbench icon

The Design456 workbench is an External workbench that plans to implement a Direct Modeling methodology in FreeCAD. Think 'push and pull geometry' that one finds in CAD suites like SketchUp and Fusion360.

Background

Traditionally, FreeCAD employs a Parametric Modeling methodology which is a powerful and scalable approach. It is also has been an industry standard.

Installation

Download the Design456 workbench via the Addon Manager Tools → Addon Manager

References

Tools

2D Drawing and manipulation tools

  • Design456 3Point: Use this tool to create an Arc. The points you choose or select could be from other shapes for example a cube, or they could be just points you put on any plane (delete them later). You can combine several planes to get a curve crossing several planes. This tool is useful if you want to use it with surface tool to create a new surface. Any three points should be sufficient to create the arc. Combining two arcs could be used to make a circle also.

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