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Parametric modeling allows you to easily modify your design by going back to the model history and changing the parameters. FreeCAD is open source (LGPL license) and fully modular, allowing for very advanced extension and customization.

FreeCAD reads and writes open file formats such as STEP, IGES, STL and others.

Who is FreeCAD for?

• The home user/hobbyist. Do you have a project that you want to build, have built or 3D printed? Model it in FreeCAD. No previous CAD experience is required. Our community will help you get the hang of it quickly!
• The experienced CAD user. If you use commercial parametric modeling software at work, you’ll find similar tools in FreeCAD.
• The programmer. Most of FreeCAD’s functionality is available for Python. You can easily pilot FreeCAD from scripts, build your own modules or even embed FreeCAD in your own application.

Characteristics

• Solid OpenCasCade-based geometry core, allows complex 3D operations on complex shape types, and supports native concepts such as brep, nurbs, boolean operations or fillets
• Full parametric model that allows all kinds of parameter driven custom objects, which are even fully programmable in python
• Full access from python built-in interpreter, macros or external scripts to almost any part of FreeCAD, be it geometry creation and transformation, the 2D or 3D representation of that geometry (the scene graph) or even the FreeCAD interface
• FreeCAD is multi-platform. It runs and behaves exactly the same on Windows Linux and Mac OSX platforms.
• FreeCAD is a full GUI application. FreeCAD has a complete graphical user interface based on the famous Qt framework, with a 3D viewer based on Open Inventor, which allows fast rendering of 3D scenes and a highly accessible scene graph representation.
• FreeCAD also runs as a command line application, with low memory. In command line mode, FreeCAD runs without the interface, but with all the geometry tools. For example, it can be used as a server to produce content for other applications.
• FreeCAD can be imported as a Python module, in other applications that can run python scripts, or in a python console. As in console mode, the interface part of FreeCAD is unavailable, but all geometry tools are available.
• Plugin/module framework for late loading functions/data types. FreeCAD is divided into a core application and modules, which are only loaded when needed. Almost all tools and geometry types are stored in modules. Modules behave like plugins and can be added or removed to an existing installation of FreeCAD.
• Built-in scripting framework: FreeCAD has a built-in Python interpreter and an API that covers almost every part of the application, the interface, the geometry and the representation of this geometry in the 3D view. The interpreter can run single commands up to complex scripts, in fact entire modules can even be fully programmed in Python.
• a modular MSI installer allows flexible installations on Windows systems. Packages for Ubuntu systems are also maintained.
• Undo/Redo framework: Everything can be undone/redone, with access to the undo stack, so that several steps can be undone at a time.
• Transaction management: The undo/redo stack stores document transactions and not individual actions, so each tool can define exactly what needs to be undone or redone.
• Parametric associative document objects: All objects in a FreeCAD document can be defined by parameters. These parameters can be modified on the fly and recalculated at any time. The relationships between objects are also stored, so modifying one object also changes its dependent objects.
• Composite (ZIP-based) document storage format: FreeCAD documents saved with the .fcstd extension can contain many different types of information, such as geometry, scripts, or thumbnail icons.
• Fully customizable/scriptable graphical user interface. The Qt-based interface of FreeCAD is entirely accessible via the python interpreter. Apart from the simple features that FreeCAD itself provides for workbenches, the full Qt framework is also available, allowing any operation on the GUI, such as creating, adding, docking, changing or removing widgets and toolbars.
• Workbench concept: In the FreeCAD interface, tools are grouped by workbenches. This makes it possible to show only the tools used to perform a specific task, keeping the workspace clean and responsive, and the application fast to load.
• Built-in Python console with syntax highlighting, auto-completion and class reader: Python commands can be issued directly in FreeCAD and immediately return results, allowing script writers to test functionality on the fly, explore module content and easily learn about FreeCAD built-ins.
• User interaction mirroring on the console: Everything the user does in the FreeCAD interface runs python code, which can be printed on the console and recorded in macros.
• Full macro recording and editing: The Python commands issued when the user manipulates the interface can then be recorded, edited if necessary and saved to be reproduced later.
• Thumbnail (currently Linux systems only): The FreeCAD document icons display the contents of the file in most file management applications such as gnome’s nautilus.
• Primitive creation (box, sphere, cylinder, etc), offset (trivial or by Jung/Shin/Choi) or Boolean operations (add, cut, slice)
• Testing and repairing tools for meshes: solid test, non-two-manifold test, self-crossing test, hole filling and uniform orientation.
• Graphical creation of simple planar geometry such as lines, wires, rectangles, arcs or circles in any plane in 3D space
• Annotations such as texts or dimensions
• Graphical modification operations such as translation, rotation, scaling, mirroring, offset or shape conversion, in any plane in 3D space
• Parametric primitive shapes such as box, sphere, cylinder, cone or torus.
• Topological components such as vertices, edges, wires and planes (via python scripting).
• Modeling with straight or revolutionary profiles, sections and fillets.
• Boolean operations such as union, difference and intersection.

What is new

Addon Manager fixes:

• #7112: Addon manager did not work on windows with special characters in username
• 0e2508c : Fix for non-Github URLs
• 119a402 : Add download other_files for wiki macros
• 0865b97 : Fix thread termination bug

Arch corrections:

• #7135: Invert opening symbol for single door
• #7212: Fix getCutVolume
• #6679: Couldn’t change profile type after it was added

Core (App and Gui) fixes:

• #7032: Fix assignment of expressions for FreeBSD
• #7044: Specify missing angle in Rotation::inverse function
• #5592: Respect symbolic links
• 212b140 : GuiPy: allow calling setupWithoutGUI more than once
• 3f8dc1a : Fix crash in ViewProviderLink::currentDraggingPlacement()
• #7113: Pressing the OK button in the “Location Panel” changed the color of the Link object
• c4547c0 : Python console: Fix a Latin1 UTF-8 conversion problem

Complete release notes here.