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- Herausgeber: Packt Publishing
- Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
- Sprache: Englisch
FreeCAD is a general purpose platform for CAD development. It can be extended to use different workbenches to solve different problems. Targeted squarely at the engineering community, FreeCAD is an open source design application built to be extended. Python, the powerful scripting language, is woven deeply into FreeCAD's DNA and gives users unprecedented power to automate and invent.
"FreeCAD [How-to]" is a lean, fast tour of FreeCAD's major workbenches and design philosophy. The reader will get a hands-on introduction to several modeling techniques and learn how Python makes macro automation and design possible.
FreeCAD allows users to design in a variety of ways; from drawing 2D designs as lines and circles to combining primitive solids into complex 3D shapes. Objects can even be created or modified by code you write in Python. FreeCAD even allows power users to extend the application itself with new dialogs, panels, and scripts. This book will not only show you how to get started using FreeCAD in a traditional GUI mode, but will teach you how to harness its powerful scripting language for more power.
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2012
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FreeCAD [How-to]
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 them.
The event that made it possible to create an open source professional-grade CAD application was the open sourcing of the OpenCasCade library, a powerful 3D modeling kernel, which is a core component of FreeCAD. After that, very clever ideas about how a modern CAD application should behave and be developed helped it evolve to its present form. Although it still cannot compete with its commercial counterparts, it begins to be very useful for small CAD projects.
I discovered the project around 2006, watched it for some time, then began to write some scripts for it, and in 2008 I officially joined the development team. The community of developers, users, and enthusiasts around the project is now growing faster than ever; this helps the project to reach higher development speed and quality level, and it is thrilling to see now the first steps of FreeCAD in the professional world.
I have also known Dan Falck for a long time, from the old mailing lists, when we were all desperately looking for ways to do CAD work on the Linux platform. Dan is a well-known figure of the Linux, CAD, and CNC world, and worked a lot on HeeksCAD, a very close cousin of FreeCAD, also based on the OpenCasCade kernel. Along the road, Dan got more and more involved with FreeCAD too, contributing several additions to the FreeCAD project, and has many more ideas in the drawer.
A little bit later, from the HeeksCAD and CNC community also came the famous Brad Collette (known as Sliptonic, in the open source CADCAM world). These are two heavyweights of the open source CAD world, and no book about FreeCAD could have had better authors.
Yorik van Havre
FreeCAD developer
About the Authors
Brad Collette once designed software for a big company but doesn't like to remember that. These days, he is an entrepreneur, hobbyist, jack-of-all-trades, and a gentleman farmer. He is engaged in a multi-year project to raise two hacker sons. He has contributed to numerous open source projects and is an organizing member of Columbia Gadget Works, central Missouri's finest hackerspace.
Daniel Falck has always been interested in how things work. As a boy, he learned to play the guitar and decided to learn how to build guitars. This later progressed into learning how to make the tools that help build guitars. He still exhibits this sort of behavior today, as he tries to learn how to build open source CADCAM software that helps him build other tools of the trade, as well as guitar parts.
In the past, he has worked for Gibson Guitar Corporation as a tooling designer and prototype machine shop supervisor, where he learned CAD software. He currently does the same thing for Chris King Precision Components, running the prototype machine shop, designing tooling, gaging, fixtures, machine parts, and software.
Over the years, he has gained an appreciation for open source software and has been involved with several open source CADCAM projects. Linuxcnc was the inspiration that got him interested in Linux and open source. He has also participated in APTOS, the HeeksCNC project, and now FreeCAD.
I would like to thank the developers and users of FreeCAD, who are building a powerful open source CAD program together. Thanks go to Jürgen Riegel, Werner Mayer, and Yorik van Havre for creating such a wonderful application.
Brad and I have collaborated in the past, writing an article on HeeksCNC, for Digital Machinist Magazine. I would like to thank Brad for working with me again.
About the Reviewers
Yorik van Havre
