Translations:History/2/en

FreeCAD history began in January 2001, when Jürgen Riegel started working on the project that would later officialy become FreeCAD. CAS.CADE, a commercial software development framework including a geometric modeling kernel (or CAD kernel), had been released under an open source license in 2000 and renamed Open Cascade. This made the realisation of an open source 3D CAD program possible, as having to program a CAD kernel from scratch would have required a huge amount of work.