Translations:Manual:A gentle introduction/3/en

FreeCAD makes an extensive use of Python. With it, you can access and control almost any feature of FreeCAD. You can for example create new objects, modify their geometry, analyze their contents, or even create new interface controls, tools and panels. Some workbenches of FreeCAD and most of the addon workbenches are fully programmed in python. FreeCAD has an advanced python console, available from menu View->Panels->Python console. It is often useful to perform operations for which there is no toolbar button yet, or to check shapes for problems, or to perform repetitive tasks: