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#MAC FREECAD MACROS TUTORIAL MAC OSX#
#MAC FREECAD MACROS TUTORIAL MAC OS#
#MAC FREECAD MACROS TUTORIAL INSTALL#
#MAC FREECAD MACROS TUTORIAL CODE#
#MAC FREECAD MACROS TUTORIAL LICENSE#

Once FreeCAD is installed, you might want to open it and set a couple of preferences. On Mac, all you need to do is remove it from the Applications folder.

#MAC FREECAD MACROS TUTORIAL INSTALL#

Use the standard "remove software" option found in the control panel on Windows, or remove it with the same software manager you used to install FreeCAD on Linux. On Windows and Linux, uninstalling FreeCAD is very straightforward. Hopefully you won't want to do that, but it is good to know anyway.

If the system prevents FreeCAD to launch, due to restricted permissions for applications not coming from the App store, you will need to enable it in the system settings:.

Drag the FreeCAD application from inside the zip to the Applications folder:.

Open the Downloads folder, and expand the downloaded zip file:.

Download a zipped package corresponding to your version from the download page.

However, since there are less people in the community who own a Mac, the available packages often lag a couple of versions behind the other platforms.

#MAC FREECAD MACROS TUTORIAL MAC OSX#

Installing FreeCAD on Mac OSX is nowadays as easy as on other platforms. On Ubuntu and derivatives, FreeCAD can also be installed from a PPA maintained by the FreeCAD community (it contains both stable and development versions) and since this is open-source software, you can also easily compile FreeCAD yourself. One of the big joys of using Linux is the multitude of possibilities to tailor your software, so don't restrain yourself.

Click the "install" button and that's it, FreeCAD gets installed.

Open the software manager and search for "freecad":.

On most modern Linux distributions (Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Debian, Mint, Elementary, etc), FreeCAD can be installed with the click of a button, directly from the software management application provided by your distribution (the aspect of it can differ from the images below, each distribution uses its own tool). This also allows you to keep both the stable and "unstable" versions together on the same computer. These don't need to be installed, just unpack them and lauch FreeCAD by double-clicking the FreeCAD.exe file that you will find inside. Packaging FreeCAD and creating an installer takes some time and dedication, so usually, development (also called pre-release) versions are provided as.

During the installation, a couple of additional components, which are bundled inside the installer, will be installed too:.

No need to set the PYTHONPATH variable, unless you plan to do some advanced python programming, in which case you probably already know what this is for:.

You can leave the default path here, or change if you wish:.

#MAC FREECAD MACROS TUTORIAL LICENSE#

Accept the terms of the LGPL license (this will be one of the few cases where you can really, safely click the "accept" button without reading the text.The FreeCAD installers should work on any windows version starting from Windows 7. Download an installer (.exe) package corresponding to your version of Windows (32bit or 64bit) from the download page.If you are installing FreeCAD in a virtual machine, please be aware that the performance might be low, or in some cases unusable due to the limits of OpenGL support on most virtual machines. These development versions, or pre-releases, are uploaded from time to time to the download page mentioned above, or, if you are using Ubuntu, the FreeCAD community also maintains PPA (Personal Package Archives) or 'daily builds' which are regularly updated with the most recent changes. Since it can sometimes take a long time between stable releases, you might be interested in trying a more bleeding-edge version of FreeCAD. However, the development of FreeCAD is fast! New features and bug fixes are added almost every single day. The official releases of FreeCAD, on the page above or in your distribution's software manager, are stable versions.

#MAC FREECAD MACROS TUTORIAL MAC OS#

The official FreeCAD download page for Windows and Mac OS is As a result, on Linux, you can usually install FreeCAD right from the software manager application.

#MAC FREECAD MACROS TUTORIAL CODE#

On Windows and Mac, the FreeCAD community provides precompiled packages (installers) ready to download, while on Linux, the source code is made available to Linux distributions maintainers, who are then responsible for packaging FreeCAD for their specific distribution. However, the ways to install it differ slightly depending on your platform. The only thing that the license prohibits, really, is to claim that you programmed FreeCAD yourself!įreeCAD runs without any difference on Windows, Mac OS and Linux. You are not bound to any clause or restriction, and the files you produce with it are fully yours. FreeCAD uses the LGPL license, which means you are free to download, install, redistribute and use FreeCAD the way you want, regardless of the type of work you'll do with it (commercial or non-commercial).