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 gives access to commands that can be used in all workbenches. The menu may look slightly different depending on the desktop environment (KDE, Gnome, Windows, OS X, etc.). Workbenches can also add sub-menus depending on how they decide to structure their 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 commands related to file input and output, such as Open, Print, Export, etc.
- Edit The Edit menu provides commands related to changing the model, such as Copy, Paste, etc.
- View The View menu provides commands for changing the 3D view and the view properties of objects in the model, and commands related to the display of interface components.
- Tools The Tools menu provides commands for debugging models, customizing FreeCAD's behavior, as well as auxiliary commands.
- Macro The Macro menu provides commands related to the recording and execution of macros
- Windows The Windows menu allows switching and rearranging of the Main view area windows.
- Help The Help menu provides access to the help system and links to the website and forum.
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, Arch, Assembly, 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