FreeCAD Community Portal
This is the place to put all kind of FreeCAD-related stuff! If you work on something FreeCAD-related, please include it here!
Places where FreeCAD appears on the net
- Wikipedia
- Softpedia
- Free Software Foundation
- Linux Appfinder
- Superdownloads (Brasil)
- Programas livres
- Freshmeat
- Freshports
- Packman
- RepRap
- Opennovation Repository
- FreeCAD repository and Draft module roadmap on Yorik's site. Yorik is working on the Draft module.
- FreeCAD development page on Jacques-Antoine's site. Jacques-Antoine is working on a new Fold module.
- FreeCAD Ship Design Module by Jose Luis Cercós Pita. Has been incorporated into the main FreeCAD project, Ship workbench.
- Blender:FreeCAD project on Milovann's site
- pythonOCC is a python binding collection for openCasCade, the 3D modeling kernel used by FreeCAD. With pythonOCC, the full power of OpenCasCade can be accessed and used from within FreeCAD.
- David is a very low cost 3D scanning system that can work with FreeCAD
- Architecture workflow : An example of how FreeCAD can begin to have its preliminary place in an architecture workflow...
FreeCAD Community addons
Community developed workbenches, scripts and addons for FreeCAd are available at
- Addons Launchpad ppa for download. The contents of this ppa are not supported by FreeCAD
- https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD-addons FreeCAD GitHub addons page. This github repository can also be used to access many of the above addons. Includes plugin manager by microelly2.
Addons include:
- Animation Workbench
- Assembly2 Workbench
- Bolts
- CADQuery
- Drawing Dimensioning
- EaglePCB2FreeCAD
- Fasteners
- fcgear
- kicadstepuptools
- Lattice
- Lattice2
- Parts Library
- Plugin Manager
- Sheetmetal
- Symbols Library
- Timber
- Workfeature
Links provide access to sources/repositories.
Scripting, math, vectors, 3d resource & tutorials
- Yorik's FreeCAD-related bookmarks
- http://www.sloan-home.co.uk/FreeCAD/Info/Info.html a user-friendly "Info" module. See http://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4036
Publicity
(From Release process)
This is a raw list of sites and blogs that have at some point mentioned FreeCAD. It is mostly harvested from http://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=143 (until June 29th 2014).
Feel free to add more pages or assign one or more pages to yourself to take care of notifying them about a new release of FreeCAD.
Social networks
- http://plus.google.com/107660967460246172334/posts
- yorik - http://www.facebook.com/FreeCAD (also updates http://twitter.com/FreeCADNews automatically)
News Sites
- http://makezine.com/
- http://www.webupd8.org/
- http://libregraphicsworld.org/
- http://www.techrepublic.com/
- http://www.linuxjournal.com/
- http://www.reddit.com/r/freecad (or http://www.reddit.com/r/cad/)
- http://hackaday.com/contact-hack-a-day/
- http://www.linuxformat.com/
- http://www.inside3dp.com/
- http://diy3dprinting.blogspot.com/
Other Sites
- http://www.bld3r.com/
- http://forum.lulzbot.com/viewforum.php?f=30
- http://cad.about.com/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeCAD
- http://forum.diigiit.com/
Spanish
Blogs
- http://www.junauza.com/
- http://www.blender3darchitect.com/
- http://linuxaideddesign.blogspot.de/
- http://www.techdrivein.com/
- http://sliptonic.com/
- http://opensourcedesigntools.blogspot.de/
- yorik - http://yorik.uncreated.net
French
Portugese
- http://www.geosaber.com.br/ (not sure how appropriate/relevant)
Spanish
Italian
Polish
Chinese
Other resources
- Interesting links contains some maybe useful links to other FLOSS resources and project in this area.
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