FreeCAD [How-to] - Falck, Daniel

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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. Spis treści:
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 (...) więcej code
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. FreeCAD [How-to]
Getting and installing FreeCAD (Must know)
Getting ready
How to do it...
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Daily builds
Building from source
Third-party builds
Understanding the FreeCAD interface (Must know)
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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Create arrays
Converting drafts and sketches
Rotating and extruding to create parts (Should know)
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
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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...
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Apply constraints carefully
Use multiple simple sketches
Using external constraints (Should know)
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
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Mapping a sketch to a face
Adding or modifying constraints with Python (Become an expert)
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
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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...
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