FreeCAD Community Portal

This is the place to put all kind of FreeCAD-related stuff! If you work on something FreeCAD-related, please include it here!

Places where FreeCAD appears on the net

 * Wikipedia
 * Softpedia
 * Free Software Foundation
 * Linux Appfinder
 * Superdownloads (Brasil)
 * Programas livres
 * Freshmeat
 * Freshports
 * Packman
 * RepRap
 * Opennovation Repository

FreeCAD-related projects

 * FreeCAD repository and Draft module roadmap on Yorik's site. Yorik is working on the Draft module.
 * FreeCAD development page on Jacques-Antoine's site. Jacques-Antoine is working on a new Fold module.
 * FreeCAD Ship Design Module by Jose Luis Cercós Pita. Has been incorporated into the main FreeCAD project, Ship workbench.
 * Blender:FreeCAD project on Milovann's site
 * pythonOCC is a python binding collection for openCasCade, the 3D modeling kernel used by FreeCAD. With pythonOCC, the full power of OpenCasCade can be accessed and used from within FreeCAD.
 * David is a very low cost 3D scanning system that can work with FreeCAD
 * Architecture workflow : An example of how FreeCAD can begin to have its preliminary place in an architecture workflow...

FreeCAD Community addons
Community developed workbenches, scripts and addons for FreeCAd are available at Addons include: Links provide access to sources/repositories.
 * Addons Launchpad ppa for download. The contents of this ppa are not supported by FreeCAD
 * https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD-addons FreeCAD GitHub addons page. This github repository can also be used to access many of the above addons. Includes plugin manager by microelly2.
 * Animation Workbench
 * Assembly2 Workbench
 * Bolts
 * CADQuery
 * Drawing Dimensioning
 * EaglePCB2FreeCAD
 * Fasteners
 * fcgear
 * kicadstepuptools
 * Lattice
 * Lattice2
 * Parts Library
 * Plugin Manager
 * Sheetmetal
 * Symbols Library
 * Timber
 * Workfeature

Scripting, math, vectors, 3d resource & tutorials

 * Yorik's FreeCAD-related bookmarks
 * http://www.sloan-home.co.uk/FreeCAD/Info/Info.html a user-friendly "Info" module. See http://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4036

Publicity
(From Release process)

This is a raw list of sites and blogs that have at some point mentioned FreeCAD. It is mostly harvested from http://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=143 (until June 29th 2014).

Feel free to add more pages or assign one or more pages to yourself to take care of notifying them about a new release of FreeCAD.

Social networks

 * http://plus.google.com/107660967460246172334/posts
 * yorik - http://www.facebook.com/FreeCAD (also updates http://twitter.com/FreeCADNews automatically)

News Sites

 * http://makezine.com/
 * http://www.webupd8.org/
 * http://libregraphicsworld.org/
 * http://www.techrepublic.com/
 * http://www.linuxjournal.com/
 * http://www.reddit.com/r/freecad (or http://www.reddit.com/r/cad/)
 * http://hackaday.com/contact-hack-a-day/
 * http://www.linuxformat.com/
 * http://www.inside3dp.com/
 * http://diy3dprinting.blogspot.com/

Other Sites

 * http://www.bld3r.com/
 * http://forum.lulzbot.com/viewforum.php?f=30
 * http://cad.about.com/
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeCAD
 * http://forum.diigiit.com/

Spanish

 * http://www.taringa.net/

Blogs

 * http://www.junauza.com/
 * http://www.blender3darchitect.com/
 * http://linuxaideddesign.blogspot.de/
 * http://www.techdrivein.com/
 * http://sliptonic.com/
 * http://opensourcedesigntools.blogspot.de/
 * yorik - http://yorik.uncreated.net

French

 * http://www.linuxgraphic.org/
 * http://betlibre.wood3dservices.fr/

Portugese

 * http://www.geosaber.com.br/ (not sure how appropriate/relevant)

Spanish

 * http://www.iearobotics.com/blog/

Italian

 * http://ingegnerialibera.altervista.org/blog/doku.php

Polish

 * http://www.ubucentrum.net
 * http://wkupiesila.blogspot.com
 * http://cadblog.pl
 * http://jakilinux.org/

Chinese

 * http://www.lirui.name/post/208.html

Other resources

 * Interesting links contains some maybe useful links to other FLOSS resources and project in this area.

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