This article introduces an example of modeling a sheet metal structure using FreeCAD. Assuming a CAD creation request from a sheet metal processing company, I built the model from the perspective of ...

If you’ve been interested in FreeCAD but haven’t known where to start, here’s a wonderful video tutorial for FreeCAD 1.1 by [Deltahedra] aimed squarely at how to model a 3D part from scratch while ...

We use FreeCAD's feature for drawing rectangles with rounded corners to create the basic shape, then PAD it to make it 3D. We need to make 8 holes for the USBs, but we only draw one; then, we use ...

This tutorial explains how to export your model and/or assembly from FreeCAD (or any CAD program generating a STEP file) to a useful web page. This only use free software and does not depend on ...

Solidworks and Inventor receive a lot of attention, and so we tend to forget the surprising number of other MCAD programs that exist. They are not fly-by-nighters – many have been around for more than ...

Assembly3 workbench is yet another attempt to bring assembly capability to FreeCAD. There is the original unfinished Assembly workbench in FreeCAD source tree, and Assembly2, which is an inspiration ...

There’s a new open-source 3D CAD tool on the loose: Dune 3D. This new tool was developed by Lukas K of carrotindustries, and attempts to rectify some of the deficiencies in current open-source 3D CAD ...

Good things come to those who wait. And for 3D modelling professionals using open-source software, the wait for FreeCAD 1.0 has been a long one – over 22 years in the making! A major milestone all ...

3D printing requires for a 3D model to be sent to a slicer, before being sent to the 3D printer. There are sites such as Thingiverse where a variety of such models ...

If you’ve tried FreeCAD, you know that it has a daunting number of workbenches and options. [MangoJelly] has a large number of video tutorials on FreeCAD, and the latest one, below, covers working ...