Solid Modeling with the power of Python with this book and ebook.
Key Features
- Learn something new in an Instant! A short, fast, focused guide
delivering immediate results.
- Packed with simple and interesting examples of python coding for the
CAD world.
- Understand FreeCAD's approach to modeling and see how Python puts
unprecedented power in the hands of users.
- Dive into FreeCAD and its underlying scripting language.
Book Description
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.
What you will learn
- Creating 3D solid objects with python
- 2D draft design and constraint modeling
- Turning 2D drawings into 3D objects
- Combining simple primitives into complex solids
- Recording Macros
- Creating objects with code
- Importing and exporting data
- Creating a Custom python dialog to automate a task
- Harnessing the constraints engine with python
