FreeCAD is a parametric 3D modeler. Parametric modeling allows you to easily modify your design by going back into your model history and changing its parameters. FreeCAD is open source (LGPL license) and completely modular, allowing for very advanced extension and customization.
FreeCAD is multiplatfom, and reads and writes many open file formats such as STEP, IGES, STL and others.
Channels
There are three maintained channels for this snap:
stable contains the latest upstream release, i.e. the most recent tagged commit. (Use this if you don't know what you're doing.)beta contains automated weekly promotions from edge. (Use this if you want edge with fewer updates.)edge contains automated (daily) builds from the latest master commit. (Use this to test new features. Might be unstable.)Apps/Commands
There are multiple apps/commands included in the snap:
freecad: Run FreeCADfreecad.cmd: Run FreeCAD command line interfacefreecad.pip: Install python packages for user (not system-wide).freecad.pip install py_slvs for Assembly3.Side note: There is a FreeCAD experimental branch called 'Link branch' created by a user named 'realthunder' that has become popular. It is available as a Snap package named freecad-realthunder (https://snapcraft.io/freecad-realthunder).
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Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.
Snaps are discoverable and installable from the Snap Store, an app store with an audience of millions.
If you’re running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) or later, including Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa), you don’t need to do anything. Snap is already installed and ready to go.
For versions of Ubuntu between 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) and 15.10 (Wily Werewolf), as well as Ubuntu flavours that don’t include snap by default, snap can be installed from the Ubuntu Software Centre by searching for snapd.
Alternatively, snapd can be installed from the command line:
sudo apt update
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sudo snap install freecad
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