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### Your own 3D parametric modeler
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[Website](https://www.freecadweb.org) •
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[Documentation](https://wiki.freecadweb.org) •
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[Forum](https://forum.freecadweb.org/) •
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[Bug tracker](https://www.freecadweb.org/tracker/) •
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[Git repository](https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD)
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[](https://github.com/freecad/freecad/releases/latest) [![Master][freecad-master-status]][travis-branches] [](https://crowdin.com/project/freecad) [](https://gitter.im/freecad/freecad?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=badge&utm_campaign=pr-badge&utm_content=badge) [](https://lgtm.com/projects/g/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/context:python) [](https://liberapay.com/FreeCAD)
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<p>This project receives generous infrastructure support from
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<a href="https://www.digitalocean.com/">
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<img src="https://opensource.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/attribution/assets/SVG/DO_Logo_horizontal_blue.svg" width="91px">
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</a>
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</p>
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Overview
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* **Freedom to build what you want** FreeCAD is an open-source parametric 3D
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modeler made primarily to design real-life objects of any size.
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Parametric modeling allows you to easily modify your design by going back into
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your model history and changing its parameters.
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* **Create 3D from 2D & back** FreeCAD allows you to sketch geometry constrained
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2D shapes and use them as a base to build other objects.
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It contains many components to adjust dimensions or extract design details from
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3D models to create high quality production ready drawings.
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* **Designed for your needs** FreeCAD is designed to fit a wide range of uses
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including product design, mechanical engineering and architecture.
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Whether you are a hobbyist, a programmer, an experienced CAD user,
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a student or a teacher, you will feel right at home with FreeCAD.
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* **Cross platform** FreeCAD runs on Windows, Mac and Linux
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* **Underlying technology**
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* **OpenCASCADE** A powerful geometry kernel, the most important component of FreeCAD
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* **Coin3D library** Open Inventor-compliant 3D scene representation model
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* **Python** FreeCAD offers a broad Python API
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* **Qt** Graphical User Interface built with Qt
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Installing
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Precompiled (installable) packages are available for Windows and Mac on the
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[Releases page](https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/releases).
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On most Linux distributions, FreeCAD is directly installable from the
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software center application.
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Other options are described at the [wiki Download page](https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Download).
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Build Status <img src="https://blog.travis-ci.com/images/travis-mascot-200px.png" height="30"/>
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| Master | 0.18 | Translation |
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|[![Master][freecad-master-status]][travis-branches]|[![0.18][freecad-0.18-status]][travis-branches]|[](https://crowdin.com/project/freecad)|
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[freecad-0.18-status]: https://travis-ci.org/FreeCAD/FreeCAD.svg?branch=releases/FreeCAD-0-18
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[freecad-master-status]: https://travis-ci.org/FreeCAD/FreeCAD.svg?branch=master
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[travis-branches]: https://travis-ci.org/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/branches
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[travis-builds]: https://travis-ci.org/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/builds
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Compiling
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Compiling FreeCAD requires installation of several libraries and their
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development files such as OpenCASCADe, Coin and Qt, listed in the
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pages below. Once this is done, FreeCAD can be simply compiled with
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cMake. On Windows, these libraries are bundled and offered by the
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FreeCAD team in a convenient package. On Linux, they are usually found
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in your distribution's repositories, and on Mac OSX and other platforms
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you will usually need to compile them yourself.
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The pages below contain up-to-date build instructions:
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- [Linux](https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Compile_on_Linux)
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- [Windows](https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Compile_on_Windows)
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- [Mac OSX](https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Compile_on_MacOS)
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- [Cygwin](https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Compile_on_Cygwin)
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- [MinGW](https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Compile_on_MinGW)
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Usage & Getting help
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The FreeCAD wiki contains documentation on
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general FreeCAD usage, Python scripting, and development. These
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pages might help you get started:
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- [Getting started](https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Getting_started)
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- [Features list](https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Feature_list)
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- [Frequent questions](https://wiki.freecadweb.org/FAQ/en)
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- [Workbenches](https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Workbenches)
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- [Scripting](https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Power_users_hub)
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- [Development](https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Developer_hub)
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The [FreeCAD forum](https://forum.freecadweb.org) is also a great place
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to find help and solve specific problems you might encounter when
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learning to use FreeCAD.
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