About FreeCAD/de



FreeCAD ist ein universelles 3D CAD Zeichenprogramm. Die Entwicklung ist komplett Open Source (GPL & LGPL Lizenz). FreeCAD zielt direkt auf Maschinenbau und Produkt Designab, ist aber auch für eine große Bandbreite anderer Ingenieur Anwendungen, wie Architektur oder andere technische Disziplinen geeignet.

FreeCAD unterstützt Werkzeuge die mit denen von Catia, SolidWorks oder Solid Edge vergleichbar sind, und deshalb auch in Kategoerien wie MCAD, PLM, CAx und CAE einzuordnen ist. It will be a feature based parametric modeler with a modular software architecture which makes it easy to provide additional functionality without modifying the core system.

As with many modern 3D CAD modelers it will have a 2D component in order to extract design detail from the 3D model to create 2D production drawings, but direct 2D drawing (like AutoCAD LT) is not the focus, neither are animation or organic shapes (like Maya, 3ds Max or Cinema 4D), although, thanks to its wide adaptability, FreeCAD might become useful in a much broader area than its current focus.

Another major concern of FreeCAD is to make heavy use of all the great open-source libraries that exist out there in the field of Scientific Computing. Among them are OpenCascade, a powerful CAD kernel, Coin3D, an incarnation of OpenInventor, Qt, the world-famous UI framework, and Python, one of the best scripting languages available. FreeCAD itself can also be used as a library by other programs.

FreeCAD is also fully multi-platform, and currently runs flawlessly on Windows and Linux/Unix and Mac OSX systems, with the exact same look and functionality on all platforms.

Got curious? Take a look at the Feature list or the Getting started articles, or head directly to the User hub!