FreeCAD [How-to]

By Daniel Falck and Brad Collette

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Release date: Sep 18, 2012
• ISBN: 9781849518871

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FreeCAD [How-to]

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FreeCAD [How-to]

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First published: September 2012

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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

Meeta Rajani

Priyanka Shah

Technical Editor

Joyslita D'Souza

Project Coordinator

Michelle Quadros

Proofreader

Aaron Nash

Indexer

Hemangini Bari

Production Coordinator

Prachali Bhiwandkar

Cover Work

Prachali Bhiwandkar

Cover Image

Manu Joseph

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 commercial applications that have large teams of developers behind