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Please note that FreeCAD is still in development, and has not reached version 1.0 status in our view. It might not be ready for production use, but many people already use it professionally. To find out if FreeCAD is appropriate for your project, please visit the FreeCAD forum.

Current stable version

The first 0.18 release of FreeCAD (0.18.16093) was published on 2019-03-12. The latest bug fix release 0.18.3 (0.18.16131) was published on 2019-07-07. To find out what's new, see the release notes.

You will find SHA256 checksums to verify integrity of your download on the 0.18.3 release page.

Windows 32-bit Windows 64-bit

Mac 64-bit

AppImage (Linux) 64-bit

Notes for Windows users

• The 32-bit installer (x86) supports the following versions of Windows: 7/8/10.
• The 64-bit installer (x64) supports the following versions of Windows: 7/8/10.
• A Windows portable version is in the 0.18.3 release page.

Notes for Mac OS X users

Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan is the minimum supported version.

Notes for GNU/Linux users

FreeCAD can be installed from most Linux distributions official repositories, but the version they provide might be outdated and missing features. Instead you can download the AppImage above, mark it as executable and launch it without installation.

Please see the Install on Unix page for more installation options, including daily packages for Ubuntu and derivatives.

Development versions

FreeCAD's development is active.

• For Linux users, check out the development AppImage.
• For MacOS, Windows, and development source code, see the FreeCAD/releases page.

Additional modules and macros

The FreeCAD community provides many additional modules and macros. Since 0.17 they can be easily installed from within FreeCAD using the Addon manager.

User documentation

• Getting started
• Installation: Download, Windows, Linux, Mac, Additional components, Docker, AppImage, Ubuntu Snap
• Basics: About FreeCAD, Interface, Mouse navigation, Selection methods, Object name, Preferences, Workbenches, Document structure, Properties, Help FreeCAD, Donate

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• Help: Tutorials, Video tutorials
• Workbenches: Std Base, Arch, Assembly, CAM, Draft, FEM, Inspection, Mesh, OpenSCAD, Part, PartDesign, Points, Reverse Engineering, Robot, Sketcher, Spreadsheet, Start, Surface, TechDraw, Test Framework, Web

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• Addons: Addon Manager, External workbenches, Scripting and macros

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• Hubs: User hub, Power users hub, Developer hub