Bancadas de trabalho
O FreeCAD, como muitos aplicativos de design modernos, como Revit ou CATIA, baseia-se no conceito de Workbench (Bancada de trabalho). Uma bancada de trabalho pode ser considerada um conjunto de ferramentas especialmente agrupadas para uma determinada tarefa. Em uma oficina de móveis tradicional, você teria uma mesa de trabalho para quem trabalha com madeira, outra para quem trabalha com peças de metal e talvez uma terceira para quem monta todas as peças.
No FreeCAD aplica-se o mesmo conceito. As ferramentas são agrupadas em bancadas, de acordo com as tarefas em que são utilizadas.
Quando você muda de uma bancada para outra, as ferramentas disponíveis na interface mudam. Barras de ferramentas, barras de comando e possivelmente outras partes da interface mudam para a nova bancada de trabalho, mas o conteúdo de sua cena não muda. Você poderia, por exemplo, começar a desenhar formas 2D com o Draft Workbench e, em seguida, trabalhar mais neles com o Part Workbench.
Observe que às vezes uma bancada de trabalho é referida como sendo um Módulo. No entanto, Bancadas de Trabalho e Módulos são entidades diferentes. Um Módulo é qualquer extensão do FreeCAD, enquanto uma bancada de trabalho é uma configuração de GUI especial que agrupa algumas barras de ferramentas e menus. Normalmente, cada módulo contém sua própria bancada de trabalho, daí o uso cruzado do nome.
Built-in workbenches
The following workbenches are available on every FreeCAD installation:
- Std Base. This is not really a workbench, but rather a category of 'standard' commands and tools that can be used in all workbenches.
- The Arch Workbench for working with architectural elements.
- The Draft Workbench contains 2D tools and basic 2D and 3D CAD operations.
- The FEM Workbench provides Finite Element Analysis (FEA) workflow.
- The Image Workbench for working with bitmap images.
- The Inspection Workbench is made to give you specific tools for examination of shapes. It is still in development.
- The Mesh Workbench for working with triangulated meshes.
- The OpenSCAD Workbench for interoperability with OpenSCAD and repairing constructive solid geometry (CSG) model history.
- The Part Workbench for working with CAD parts.
- The Part Design Workbench for building Part shapes from sketches.
- The Path Workbench is used to produce G-Code instructions. It is still in a stage of development.
- The Points Workbench for working with point clouds.
- The Raytracing Workbench for working with ray-tracing (rendering)
- The Reverse Engineering Workbench is intended to provide specific tools to convert shapes/solids/meshes into parametric FreeCAD-compatible features. (under development)
- The Robot Workbench for studying robot movements.
- The Sketcher Workbench for working with geometry-constrained sketches.
- The Spreadsheet Workbench for creating and manipulating spreadsheet data.
- The Start Center Workbench allows you to quickly jump to one of the most common workbenches.
- The Surface workbench provides tools to create and modify surfaces. It is similar as the Part Shape builder Face from edges.
- The TechDraw Workbench is the more advanced and feature-rich successor of Drawing
- The Test Framework Workbench is for debugging FreeCAD.
- The Web Workbench provides you with a browser window instead of the 3D view within FreeCAD.
Deprecated
The following workbenches are still included in the base installation for compatibility purposes, but they should no longer be used.
- The Complete Workbench holds all commands and features from all the modules and workbenches which met certain quality criteria. obsolete in version 0.17
- The Drawing Workbench was used for displaying your 3D work on a 2D sheet but has now been deprecated, it is still needed to read old FreeCAD files that contain a Drawing object originally made with this workbench. See TechDraw Workbench, which is a more advanced replacement. obsolete in version 0.17
External workbenches
FreeCAD workbenches are easy to program in Python, there are therefore many people developing additional workbenches outside of the FreeCAD main development area.
The external workbenches page lists all that are known to this community. Most are easily installable from within FreeCAD, using the Addon Manager, found under menu Tools → Addon manager.
New workbenches are always in development, stay tuned!
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