Manual:All workbenches at a glance/ro

Una dintre cele mai mari dificultăți pentru noii utilizatori de FreeCAD este să știm în ce atelier de lucru să găsim un instrument specific. Tabelul de mai jos vă va oferi o imagine de ansamblu asupra celor mai importante tabele de lucru și a instrumentelor acestora. Consultați fiecare pagină de atelier workbench în documentația FreeCAD pentru o listă mai completă.

Patru ateliere de lucru sunt, de asemenea, proiectate pentru a lucra în perechi, iar una dintre ele este pe deplin inclusă în cealaltă: Arch conține toate instrumentele Draft și PartDesign toate instrumentele Sketcher. Cu toate acestea, pentru claritate, acestea sunt separate mai jos.

Part
Atelierul Part oferă instrumente de bază pentru lucrul cu componente solide: primitive, cum ar fi cuburile și sferele, precum și operații geometrice simple și operații booleene. Fiind punctul principal de ancorare cu OpenCasCade OpenCasCade, atelierul Part furnizează fundamentul sistemului de geometrie al FreeCAD, iar aproape toate celelalte ateliere de lucru produc o geometrie bazată pe Part.

Draft
The Draft Workbench provides tools to do basic 2D CAD drafting tasks: lines, circles, etc... and a series of generic handy tools such as move, rotate or scale. It also provides several drawing aids, such as grid and snapping. It is principally meant to draw the guidelines for Arch objects, but also serves as FreeCAD's "swiss knife".

Sketcher
The Sketcher Workbench contains tools to build and edit complex 2D objects, called sketches. The geometry inside these sketches can be precisely positioned and relationed by the use of constraints. They are primarily meant to be the building blocks of PartDesign geometry, but are useful everywhere in FreeCAD.

Part Design
The Part Design Workbench contains advanced tools to build solid parts. It also contains all the tools from the sketcher. Since it can only produce solid shapes (the rule number one of Part Design), it is the main workbench to use when designing pieces (parts) to be manufactured or 3D-printed, as you will always obtain a printable object.

Arch
The Arch Workbench contains tools to work with BIM projects (civil engineering and architecture). It also contains all the tools from the Draft workbench. The main use of the Arch Workbench is to create BIM objects or give BIM attributes to objects built with other workbenches, in order to export them to IFC.

Drawing
The Drawing Workbench handles the creation and manipulation of 2D drawing sheets, used for displaying views of your 3D work in 2D. These sheets can then be exported to 2D applications in SVG or DXF formats, to a PDF file or printed.

Other built-in workbenches
Although the above summarizes the most important tools of FreeCAD, many more workbenches are available, among them:


 * The Mesh Workbench allows to work with polygon meshes. Although meshes are not the preferred type of geometry to work with in FreeCAD, because of their lack of precision and support for curves, meshes still have a lot of uses, and are fully supported in FreeCAD. The Mesh Workbench also offers a number of Part-to-Mesh and Mesh-to-Part tools.
 * The Raytracing Workbench offers tools to interface with external renderers such as povray or luxrender. Right from inside FreeCAD, this workbench allows you to produce high-quality renderings from your models.
 * The Spreadsheet Workbench permits the creation and manipulation of spreadsheet data, that can be extracted from FreeCAD models. Spreadsheet cells can also be referenced in many areas of FreeCAD, allowing to use them as master data structures.
 * The FEM Workbench deals with Finite Elements Analysis, and permits the performing of pre- and post-processing FEM calculations and to display the results graphically.

External workbenches
A number of other very useful workbenches produced by FreeCAD community members also exist. Although they are not included in a standard FreeCAD installation,they are easy to install as plug-ins. They are all referenced in the FreeCAD-addons repository. Among the most developed are:


 * The Drawing Dimensioning Workbench offers many new tools to work directly on Drawing Sheets and allow you to add dimensions, annotations and other technical symbols with great control over their aspect.
 * The Fasteners Workbench offers a wide range of ready-to-insert fasteners objects like screws, bolts, rods, washers and nuts. Many options and settings are available.
 * The Assembly2 Workbench offers a series of tools to mount and work with assemblies.

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 * The complete list of workbenches
 * The Part Workbench
 * The Draft Workbench
 * The Sketcher and Part Design Workbench
 * The Arch Workbench
 * The Drawing Workbench
 * The FEM Workbench
 * The FreeCAD-addons repository