![]() ![]() But then again, for similar reasons I’m also not a fan of autorouters. In my experience they need more fixing later on then doing it right the first time. I am generally not a fan of such quick shortcuts. (Verified it works, but had not posted that). I created a parametric sketch from scratch, and it’s fully adjustable, and has the locations for the mounting holes. How do you verify measurements, how do you adjust measurements if the offset is not correct, or you need different offsets for the long and short side? Injection molded cases rarely have straight walls. For example, why create a KiCad project first, before you switch to FreeCAD? But is it correct? And I’m missing context with the video. That sure is a nice video of creating a PCB outline quickly from a STEP file in FreeCAD and it uses some functions I’m not familiar with (yet). Download the earlier linked zipfile for more). (the real sketch can be zoomed and scrolled. Below a screenshot of the sketch I made for the PCB in the Hammond box. Such as mirrored items, lines of arcs of the same radius. There are also lots of other constraints. The “stretch” function in autocad, is just typing in another number in the length measurement of the line. With parametric drawing, the number you type into the measurement is the definition of that constraint. Adding measurements, add a number to the measurement, and that number is derived from the object. So it’s pretty much the reverse of what AutoCAD does. ![]() And then add another constraint for the length. ![]() For example, you can make it a horizontal line. After that you add “constraints” to that line. With some limited ability to stretch a line and create offsets. You draw a line, and then you add measurements to that line. The old fashioned (such as Autocad) way of drawing pretty much resembles what is done on paper. All the development communication happens on the forum, so be sure to visit it if you are interested in participating.Because of FreeCAD I was introduced to parametric drawing, and I quickly got addicted to it. The source code documentation is hosted here, generated by Doxygen, and documented on the wiki.Ĭheck the Development roadmap for news about what is being planned, the Changelog and Roadmap pages on the FreeCAD tracker to see the progress towards next release, or the Project statistics for even more information about the FreeCAD codebase. There are build instructions for Windows, Linux and MacOS. The source code is LGPL-licensed and hosted on GitHub and mirrored on GitLab, SourceForge and CodeBerg. Starting from 2016, FreeCAD also participates in the Google Summer of Code.įreeCAD can be compiled on all platforms using CMake. The help FreeCAD page describes it all with more details. helping other people around you to discover FreeCAD.helping with the packaging of the latest release of FreeCAD for your favourite operating system.translating the application and documentation.writing documentation and editing the wiki (en).Of course, there are programming tasks for C++ or Python programmers, but there are also many things you can do even if you cannot code, such as There is plenty to do inside the FreeCAD project, if you are interested in helping us. ![]() The Table of contents is available in several languages: ![]()
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