Plugin/Module framework for late loading of features/data-types.

Like in console mode, the interface part of FreeCAD is unavailable, but all geometry tools are accessible.

FreeCAD can be imported as a Python module, inside other applications that can run python scripts, or in a python console.

It can be, for example, used as server to produce content for other applications. In command line mode, FreeCAD runs without its interface, but with all its geometry tools.

FreeCAD also runs as a command line application, with low memory footprint.

FreeCAD has a complete Graphical User Interface based on the famous Qt framework, with a 3D viewer based on Open Inventor, allowing fast rendering of 3D scenes and a very accessible scene graph representation. It runs and behaves exactly the same way on Windows Linux and Mac OSX platforms.

Complete access from python built-in interpreter, macros or external scripts to almost any part of FreeCAD, being geometry creation and transformation, the 2D or 3D representation of that geometry (scenegraph) or even the FreeCAD interface.

Full parametric model allowing any type of parameter-driven custom objects, that can even be fully programmed in python.

Rock-solid OpenCasCade-based geometry kernel, allowing complex 3D operations on complex shape types, and supports natively concepts like brep, nurbs, booleans operations or fillets.

You can easily pilot FreeCAD from scripts, build your own modules or even embed FreeCAD in your own application.

Most of FreeCAD's functionality is accessible to Python. If you use commercial parametric modeling software at work, you will find similar tools in FreeCAD.

Our community will help you get the hang of it quickly! Got yourself a project you want to build, have built, or 3D printed? Model it in FreeCAD. FreeCAD is open source (LGPL license) and completely modular, allowing for very advanced extension and customization.įreeCAD reads and writes open file formats such as STEP, IGES, STL and others. Parametric modeling allows you to easily modify your design by going back into your model history and changing its parameters.

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