Workbenches

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O FreeCAD, como outros programas como o Revit ou Catia, é baseado no conceito de bancadas. Uma bancada pode ser considerada como um conjunto de ferramentas agrupadas para fazer uma certa tarefa. Numa oficina de carpintaria tradicional, haveria uma mesa para a pessoa que trabalha com madeira, outra para peças metálicas, e talvez uma terceira para a pessoa que faz a montagem das várias peças.

FreeCAD, like many modern design applications such as Revit or CATIA, is based on the concept of Workbench. A workbench can be considered as a set of tools specially grouped for a certain task. In a traditional furniture workshop, you would have a work table for the person who works with wood, another one for the one who works with metal pieces, and maybe a third one for the guy who mounts all the pieces together.

No FreeCAD aplica-se o mesmo conceito. As ferramentas são agrupadas em bancadas de acordo com as tarefas em que são usadas.

Quando muda de uma bancada para a outra, as ferramentas disponíveis no interface mudam. As barras de ferramentas, barras de comandos e eventualemnte outras partes do interface mudam com a nova bancada, mas os conteúdos do seu trabalho não mudam. Poderia, por exemplo, começar a desenhar formas em 2D com a Bancada de Desenho, e depois fazer mais trabalho na Bancada de Peças.

Note that sometimes a Workbench is referred to as a Module. However, Workbenches and Modules are different entities. A Module is any extension of FreeCAD, while a Workbench is a special GUI configuration that groups some toolbars and menus. Usually every Module contains its own Workbench, hence the cross-use of the name.

Built-in workbenches

Neste momanto estão disponíveis as seguintes bancadas:

Std Base. This is not really a workbench, but this category serves to collect all "standard" commands and tools of the system which can be used in all workbenches.

A Bancada de Arquitetura para trabalhar com elementos arquitetónicos
The Complete Workbench hold all commands and features from all the modules and workbenches which met certain quality criteria.
A Bancada de Desenho para fazer desenhos CAD 3D básicos
A Bancada de Desenho Técnico para mostrar o seu trabalho em 3D em folhas 2D
The FEM Workbench provides Finite Element Analysis (FEA) workflow.

A Bancada de Imagens para trabalhar com imagens de bitmaps
The Inspection Workbench is made to give you specific tools for examination of shapes. It is still in development.
A Bancada de Malhas para trabalhar com malhas triangulares
A Bancada OpenSCAD para interoperabilidade com o OpenSCAD e reparação de historiais CSG
A Bancada de Peças para trabalhar com peças CAD

A Bancada de Desenho de Peças para criar peças a partir de esboços 2D
The Path Workbench is used to produce G-Code instructions. It is still in a stage of development. Only basic functions in 0.16
The Plot Workbench is used to edit and save output plots created from other modules and tools.
The Points Workbench for working with point clouds.
A Bancada de Raytracing fazer raytracing (renderiação)

The Reverse Engineering Workbench is intended to give you specific tools to convert shapes/solids/meshes into parametric FreeCAD-compatible features. It is still in development.
A Bandade de Robotica para estudar os movimentos de robots
The Ship Workbench FreeCAD-Ship works over Ship entities, that must be created on top of provided geometry.
A Bancada de Esboços para trabalhar com rdboços com geometria restringida
The Spreadsheet Workbench for creating and manipulating spreadsheet data.

The Start Center Workbench allows you to quickly jump to one of the most common workbenches.
The TechDraw Workbench is the more advanced and feature-rich successor of Drawing
The Test Framework Workbench is for debugging FreeCAD.
The Web Workbench provides you with a browser window instead of the 3D-View within FreeCAD.

Deprecated

The following workbenches are still included in the base installation for compatibility purposes, but they should no longer be used.

The Complete Workbench holds all commands and features from all the modules and workbenches which met certain quality criteria. obsolete in version 0.17
The Drawing Workbench was used for displaying your 3D work on a 2D sheet but has now been deprecated, it is still needed to read old FreeCAD files that contain a Drawing object originally made with this workbench. See TechDraw Workbench, which is a more advanced replacement. obsolete in version 0.17

External workbenches

FreeCAD workbenches are easy to program in Python, there are therefore many people developing additional workbenches outside of the FreeCAD main development area.

The external workbenches page lists all that are known to this community. Most are easily installable from within FreeCAD, using the Addon Manager, found under menu Tools → Addon manager.