I will be the first to say – I am not an expert with FreeCAD – I normally work with OpenSCAD because it better suits the work that I do. That said – I realize the OpenSCAD really isn’t a tool that meshes with everyone’s way of thinking – and many of you would prefer a solid modeling application. The most fully formed and user-friendly Open Source Solid Modeling software is FreeCAD.
Download FreeCAD from this link – you should be able to keep all of the installation steps at their default
Let’s explore part design in this set of tutorials provided by FreeCAD’s Wiki:
There are two topics that I think are particularly important to touch on:
- Creating Parametric Models in FreeCAD (there are a couple methods of this – but I find this to be the best)
- Exporting parts to STL
