It runs and behaves exactly the same way on Windows Linux and Mac OSX platforms.

FreeCAD runs exactly the same way on Windows, Mac OSX and Linux platforms. FreeCAD is based on OpenCasCade, a powerful geometry kernel, features an Open Inventor-compliant 3D scene representation model provided by the Coin 3D library, and a broad Python API. It is 100% Open Source and extremely modular, allowing for very advanced extension and customization. According to the only worldwide date standard I recognize: ISO8601, slashes are reserved for time intervals.FreeCAD is a general purpose feature-based, parametric 3D modeler for CAD, MCAD, CAx, CAE and PLM, aimed directly at mechanical engineering and product design but also fits a wider range of uses in engineering, such as architecture or other engineering specialties.

Only an extremely tiny bit annoying they use slashes instead of dashes. Python 3.10.12, Qt 5.15.8, Coin 4.0.0, Vtk 9.2.5, OCC 7.6.3Īlthough, if you look in the GUI window, it does show the date. Now I got the new 0.21 and it shows: OS: Linux Mint 20.3 (XFCE/xfce) Locale: C/Default (C) įreeCAD does not show a build date in it’s version info.Ī quick check shows that the 32821 build I use at the moment has a date of attached to the file itself, and as it’s a weekly build, it was probably made in the week before it. Unfortunately I don’t see a date in the version info.

The FreeCAD version below shows “Release”, but I think it’s one of the weekly builds. The things I was able to do with it back then were promising enough that I kept an eye on the project. The bugs, combined with missing features and not being able to get my head wrapped about how things were supposed to work caused my to put FreeCAD in some corner for years. But there are some GUI resets sometimes after an update, but most times my updates are from a weekly build to a newer weekly build of 0.21.Įven opening an old file, such as one of my first experiments back from 2012 “just works”. Quite often I start using some random “weekly build” a few months after a release, and grab a newer one every few months. I have never seen incompatibilities with drawings in FreeCAD after upgrades.

For iphone instal FreeCAD 0.21.0