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<html><head><title>Development roadmap</title><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><link type='text/css' href='wiki.css' rel='stylesheet'></head><body><h1>Development roadmap</h1></div>
<div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr"><div class="mw-parser-output"><p>FreeCAD - though usable in many applications - is at the beginning of a long journey into CAD mainstream. There is still a lot to do to reach a state where we can compete with commercial software.
</p><p>This section gives an overview of what is planned and gives you the opportunity to participate or give your opinion. As we are volunteers to FreeCAD we have only a certain amount of time. So if you interested in one of the topics and willing to help, just let us know! We use the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done#Methodology">Getting Things Done (GTD)</a> style for the project document. Here is the <a href="Project_template.html" title="Project template">Project template</a>.
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<ul><li> The <a href="Organization_chart.html" title="Organization chart">Organization chart</a> shows who does what in the FreeCAD universe.</li>
<li> You can follow issues that are currently being worked on via the bugtracker here: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.freecadweb.org/tracker/roadmap_page.php">http://www.freecadweb.org/tracker/roadmap_page.php</a></li></ul>
<div id="toc" class="toc"><div class="toctitle"><h2>Contents</h2></div>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Projects"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Projects</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2"><a href="#Current_projects"><span class="tocnumber">1.1</span> <span class="toctext">Current projects</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="#Future_projects"><span class="tocnumber">1.2</span> <span class="toctext">Future projects</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="#So_far_finished_projects"><span class="tocnumber">1.3</span> <span class="toctext">So far finished projects</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="#Ideas"><span class="tocnumber">1.4</span> <span class="toctext">Ideas</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="#Release_schedule"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Release schedule</span></a></li>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Projects">Projects</span></h2>
<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Current_projects">Current projects</span></h3>
<p>These are work in progress.
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<ul><li> <b><a href="STEP_project.html" title="STEP project">STEP project</a></b> about improving and advancing the STEP support in FreeCAD</li>
<li> <b><a href="Naming_project.html" title="Naming project">Naming project</a></b> is about implementing a robust Shape referencing frame work. </li>
<li> <b><a href="FreeCAD_development_model_project.html" title="FreeCAD development model project">FreeCAD development model project</a></b> move FreeCAD to a more capable development model </li>
<li> <b><a href="Sketcher_project.html" title="Sketcher project">Sketcher project</a></b> is ongoing implementation of the constraint/parametric Sketcher</li>
<li> <b><a href="PartDesign_project.html" title="PartDesign project">PartDesign project</a></b> is the effort towards a working part-design in FreeCAD </li>
<li> <b><a href="Assembly_project.html" title="Assembly project">Assembly project</a></b> creates a assembly module which handle product creation, part-lists and some kinematics.</li>
<li> <b><a href="Arch_Concept.html" title="Arch Concept">Architecture project</a></b> will throw the bases of a modern, parametric architectural modeling environment.</li>
<li> <b><a href="Units_project.html" title="Units project">Units project</a></b> finally get FreeCAD to recognize different Units and Units-systems.</li>
<li> <b><a href="Resource_framework_project.html" title="Resource framework project">Resource framework project</a></b> address the user collaboration, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_Data_Management">PDM</a> catalog/standard part stuff</li>
<li> <b><a href="Quality_project.html" title="Quality project">Quality project</a></b> aims to hide unfinished features and improve the documentation.</li>
<li> <b><a href="Raytracing_project.html" title="Raytracing project">Raytracing project</a></b> provide a new generic interface for external renderers for visualisation</li>
<li> <b><a href="UTF_Project.html" title="UTF Project">UTF Project</a></b> aims to update FreeCAD's Coin3D interface to utilise UTF Strings for better multilanguage experience with non ASCII characters</li>
<li> <b><a href="FEM_project.html" title="FEM project">FEM project</a></b> provides a <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_element_method">FEM</a> module in FreeCAD.</li>
<li> <b><a href="Material_data_model.html" title="Material data model">Material data model</a></b> Effort to describe a material data model in FreeCAD</li>
<li> <b><a href="Python_3.html" title="Python 3">Python 3</a></b> Porting FreeCAD to Python 3.</li></ul>
<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Future_projects">Future projects</span></h3>
<p>Projects for the near future.
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<ul><li> <b><a href="CAM_project.html" title="CAM project">CAM project</a></b> will make the existing <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-aided_manufacturing">CAM</a> stuff in FreeCAD usable.</li>
<li> <b><a href="Land_Survey_Workbench_Blueprint.html" title="Land Survey Workbench Blueprint">Land Survey Workbench Blueprint</a></b></li></ul>
<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="So_far_finished_projects">So far finished projects</span></h3>
<ul><li> <b><a href="Robot_project.html" title="Robot project">Robot project</a></b> A Robot simulation workbench</li></ul>
<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Ideas">Ideas</span></h3>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Release_schedule">Release schedule</span></h2>
<p>Like in the most <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOSS">FLOSS</a> projects a release schedule is very rough. There will be no fixed dates and <b>"It's done, when it's done!"</b>
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<ul><li> The <a href="Release_process.html" title="Release process">Release process</a> page gather ideas for a more efficient release workflow</li></ul>
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