The Spreadsheet Workbench for creating and manipulating spreadsheet data.
The Sketcher Workbench for working with geometry-constrained sketches.
The Robot Workbench for studying robot movements.
The Reverse Engineering Workbench is intended to provide specific tools to convert shapes/solids/meshes into parametric FreeCAD-compatible features.
The Raytracing Workbench for working with ray-tracing (rendering).
The Points Workbench for working with point clouds.
The Path Workbench is used to produce G-Code instructions.
The Part Design Workbench for building Part shapes from sketches.
The Part Workbench for working with CAD parts.
The OpenSCAD Workbench for interoperability with OpenSCAD and repairing constructive solid geometry (CSG) model history.
The Mesh Workbench for working with triangulated meshes.
The Inspection Workbench is made to give you specific tools for examination of shapes.
The Image Workbench for working with bitmap images.
The FEM Workbench provides Finite Element Analysis (FEA) workflow.
The Draft Workbench contains 2D tools and basic 2D and 3D CAD operations.
The Arch Workbench for working with architectural elements.
These commands and tools are present in all workbenches. These are the base workbenches bundled with every FreeCAD installation: Workbenches are collections of tools used for specific tasks.
File formats: the different file formats that FreeCAD can read and write.
Preferences Editor: the system that allows you to control many properties of the base system and of the individual workbenches.
Objects naming: FreeCAD objects have a read-only Name that uniquely identifies them, and a Label which is user editable.
Selection methods: the different methods of selecting objects in the software.
Mouse navigation: the different types of using the mouse or trackpad to navigate in the 3D view.
Interface: the FreeCAD interface is composed of various graphical elements on the screen, including the 3D view, the tree view, the property editor, the task panel, and the Python console.
Tutorials covering different parts of FreeCAD.
Getting started: A quick overview of the available tools.
Installing additional components: how to install additional third-party components that can work together with FreeCAD.
Installing help files: how to install the offline documentation which is based on this wiki.
Installing: How to install FreeCAD on Windows, Linux and Mac.
Application Overview: A general overview of FreeCAD.
If you would like to know how FreeCAD started years ago visit the History page. If you'd like to edit this wiki, request a wiki account with editor permissions in the forum, and read the WikiPages for the general guidelines that you should follow. If you'd like to contribute to FreeCAD, please donate, and see the Help FreeCAD page for other ways to contribute. If you cannot find the information that you need, don't hesitate to ask in the FreeCAD forum. This is the main help area for newcomers to FreeCAD.įreeCAD is in continuous development, so there may be missing or outdated information.