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FreeCAD [How-to]
About this book
Written in cookbook style, this book offers many recipes to create objects, import and export data, create 3D solid objects. Each recipe contains step-by-step instructions followed by analysis of what was done in each task and other useful information. If you've been toying around with FreeCAD and want to have more control over your work flow then this book is for you. The reader needs to have basic knowledge of modeling.
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FreeCAD [How-to]
Table of Contents
FreeCAD [How-to]
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Downloading the example code
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. FreeCAD [How-to]
Getting and installing FreeCAD (Must know)
Getting ready
How to do it...
There's more...
Daily builds
Building from source
Third-party builds
Understanding the FreeCAD interface (Must know)
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Default views
Freezing and Saving views
Python and Report views
CSG modeling in the Part workbench (Must know)
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works....
There's more...
Create primitives
Why doesn't my part look right?
Recording and editing a macro (Should know)
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Taking advantage of the power of macros
Learn a bit of Python programming by reading macro scripts
Modeling a simple part with the Draft workbench (Must know)
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more....
Create arrays
Converting drafts and sketches
Rotating and extruding to create parts (Should know)
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Lofting
Creating 3D solids with Python (Become an expert)
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Learn more about part scripting online
Creating a custom dialog to automate a task (Become an expert)
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Learn more about Python and PyQt programming
Make things easier by using Qt Designer
Modeling with constraints (Must know)
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Apply constraints carefully
Use multiple simple sketches
Using external constraints (Should know)
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Mapping a sketch to a face
Adding or modifying constraints with Python (Become an expert)
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Add a length constraint to a line
Creating a drawing of a part (Should know)
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Export a PDF file from your drawing
Exporting DXF files for other applications (Should know)
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Importing data (Should know)
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Index
FreeCAD [How-to]
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Credits
Authors
Brad Collette
Daniel Falck
Reviewers
Yorik van Havre
Adrian Przekwas
Acquisition Editor
Mary Jasmine Nadar
Commissioning and Content Editors
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Priyanka Shah
Technical Editor
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Proofreader
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Indexer
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Production Coordinator
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Cover Work
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Cover Image
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Foreword
The FreeCAD project was started around 2002 by two German engineers, Jürgen Riegel and Werner Mayer. It was very ambitious. The Computer Aided Design (CAD) world was, and still is, dominated by a few high-level comme...
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