Migrating to FreeCAD from SolidWorks

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Overview

The intention of this page is to serve as a guide for users that are accustomed to the Solidworks CAD/CAM workflow and want to use try or perhaps migrate to FreeCAD.

History

Understanding a little of the history of FreeCAD potentially help users comprehend and orient better to it.

Tips

The Part Design Workbench has many equivalent functions to SolidWorks. See images below:

Tutorials

List of helpful tutorials

Joko Engineering

There are many video tutorials online. One of the most popular (at the time this was written) is by a Youtuber calling himself Joko Engineering (he also participates on the FreeCAD Forum as Celica_Supra (profile link).

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