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-related projects

• 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

• http://www.taringa.net/

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

• http://www.linuxgraphic.org/
• http://betlibre.wood3dservices.fr/

Portugese

• http://www.geosaber.com.br/ (not sure how appropriate/relevant)

Spanish

• http://www.iearobotics.com/blog/

Italian

• http://ingegnerialibera.altervista.org/blog/doku.php

Polish

• http://www.ubucentrum.net
• http://wkupiesila.blogspot.com
• http://cadblog.pl
• http://jakilinux.org/

Chinese

• http://www.lirui.name/post/208.html

Other resources

• Interesting links contains some maybe useful links to other FLOSS resources and project in this area.

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