From 402ddf15348ec0c13aa024365e29014c6a645449 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Allan=20Nordh=C3=B8y?= Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2020 10:14:23 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Typos and language in README --- README.md | 28 ++++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index bea88e986b..ccd33fabd1 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -25,31 +25,31 @@ Overview * **Freedom to build what you want** FreeCAD is an open-source parametric 3D modeler made primarily to design real-life objects of any size. Parametric modeling allows you to easily modify your design by going back into -your model history and changing its parameters. +your model history to change its parameters. -* **Create 3D from 2D & back** FreeCAD allows you to sketch geometry constrained +* **Create 3D from 2D & back** FreeCAD lets you to sketch geometry constrained 2D shapes and use them as a base to build other objects. It contains many components to adjust dimensions or extract design details from - 3D models to create high quality production ready drawings. + 3D models to create high quality production-ready drawings. * **Designed for your needs** FreeCAD is designed to fit a wide range of uses including product design, mechanical engineering and architecture. - Whether you are a hobbyist, a programmer, an experienced CAD user, - a student or a teacher, you will feel right at home with FreeCAD. + Whether you are a hobbyist, programmer, experienced CAD user, student or teacher, + you will feel right at home. -* **Cross platform** FreeCAD runs on Windows, Mac and Linux +* **Cross platform** FreeCAD runs on Windows, macOS and Linux * **Underlying technology** * **OpenCASCADE** A powerful geometry kernel, the most important component of FreeCAD * **Coin3D library** Open Inventor-compliant 3D scene representation model * **Python** FreeCAD offers a broad Python API - * **Qt** Graphical User Interface built with Qt + * **Qt** Graphical user interface built with Qt Installing ---------- -Precompiled (installable) packages are available for Windows and Mac on the +Precompiled (installable) packages are available for Windows and macOS on the [Releases page](https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/releases). On most Linux distributions, FreeCAD is directly installable from the @@ -73,18 +73,18 @@ Compiling --------- Compiling FreeCAD requires installation of several libraries and their -development files such as OpenCASCADe, Coin and Qt, listed in the -pages below. Once this is done, FreeCAD can be simply compiled with -cMake. On Windows, these libraries are bundled and offered by the +development files such as OCCT, Coin and Qt, listed in the +pages below. Once this is done, FreeCAD can be compiled with +CMake. On Windows, these libraries are bundled and offered by the FreeCAD team in a convenient package. On Linux, they are usually found -in your distribution's repositories, and on Mac OSX and other platforms -you will usually need to compile them yourself. +in your distribution's repositories, and on macOS and other platforms, +you will usually have to compile them yourself. The pages below contain up-to-date build instructions: - [Linux](https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Compile_on_Linux) - [Windows](https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Compile_on_Windows) -- [Mac OSX](https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Compile_on_MacOS) +- [macOS](https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Compile_on_MacOS) - [Cygwin](https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Compile_on_Cygwin) - [MinGW](https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Compile_on_MinGW)