Parts vs. Bodies - FreeCAD Forum
Feb 19, 2020 · Moreover, FreeCAD has taken inspiration from many CAD programs, and each of them uses their own terminology; it could be called a model, a group, a part, an assembly, a collection, a container, a product, etc. Taking a single term is not so important but rather the behavior of those objects; how are they supposed to be used, what properties ...
Does anyone think this is actually a good program? - FreeCAD
Kunda1 wrote: ↑ Wed Jan 01, 2020 7:44 pm People are working on this for free in their own spare time. why not accept evidence ? Yes, FreeCAD is a great collection of tools, but as a standalone software it's unusable. And I've used all similar CAD programs. And also yes, GIMP is a good example of crap.
Version 0.22 Installer - FreeCAD Forum
Mar 8, 2024 · The 0.22 version is not installed with icons on the desktop and such. It is an archive which you simply have to unpack with a recent 7unzip and run the FreeCAD binary in the bin directory (may depend on the OS you use). A Sketcher Lecture with in-depth information is available in English, auf Deutsch, en français, en español. Vagulus. Posts: 951.
Parasolid: Considerable Feature (Import/Export) - FreeCAD
Jul 13, 2020 · Parasolid file format is native for Parasolid geometrical kernel. Today it is widely used in a range of applications, including SolidWorks, SolidEdge, NX, Microstation, Ansys, Abaqus and others. Parasolid has two primary file extensions: . x_t, which is text-based, and. x_b – binary-based format. The main benefit of the Parasolid file is that ...
no Image Workbench in 0.21? - FreeCAD Forum
Aug 21, 2023 · Hello FreeCAD users, I just installed 0.21 and it worked flawlessly until today when using Sketcher and PartDesign. I wanted to use an image for tracing but I couldn't find the image workbench.
How to update Freecad Versions
Jul 30, 2018 · Like Bejant, to my knowledge, there is now over way to update freecad. The good thing is that you can easily keep older version if you fail loading your old files into a new version. (well, between 0.17.13522 and 0.17.13528, you should not have any version change issue. There are "almost" the same age)
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Apr 10, 2019 · OpenCascade Technology (OCCT), the geometric kernel of FreeCAD, is responsible for the solid modelling that you see on screen. If that piece of code isn't optimized for GPUs, there is not going to be any benefit from using GPUs to run FreeCAD. If I'm not mistaken, OCCT still doesn't have any support for this.
Fusion 360 Archive (.f3d) to FreeCAD Converter
Sep 21, 2020 · As many people are coming over from Fusion 360, including me, I was wondering if it would be possible to create a converter to allow importing of Fusion 360 archive files (f3d) to FreeCAD. Ideally, this would allow preservation of at least some of the sketch and operation history. An f3d file is a compressed zip file with a number of binary-ish ...
Grid visibility - FreeCAD Forum
Feb 20, 2014 · 3. Put a rectangle from top left to bottom right of screen . The grid stays put inside the drawing, which means you can zoom in and draw away. No grid inside the rectangle disappears. Last thing is to remove the first rectangle, when you're finished editing the sketch.
Import SolidWorks (sldprt) to FreeCAD - FreeCAD Forum
Oct 21, 2010 · Code: Select all. FreeCAD.addImportType("SolidWorks (*.sdlptr)","importSDL") somewhere into the Init.py of a module (or create you own new module. In this case just create a new directory under Mod and add the files Init.py and InitGui.py.) Then implement the functions in the file importSDL.py. Code: Select all. import FreeCAD.