FreeCAD Reviews & Product Details

It offers basic functionality and converting options not available in other software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is too basic to do any meaningful CAD with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that it is an open-source 3D parametric modeling software with good basic features and part modeling capabilities. I can recommend this software mainly for the maker's space, because it is free Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I would recommend to the FreeCAD developers community to focus on the main features of what a robust and reliable 3D CAD parametric solid modeling tool must be capable of. Adding more robustness to the part modeling workspace and unifying the assembly workspace are, in my opinion, two ways to have a better user experience Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to draw, modifications in existing drawings,plotting and converting asper required formate in simple it's very useful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some time stuck hanging need to improve server Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

free program with good features. work from under different OS. flexibility of settings Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

unintuitive interface, slowdowns, glitches.

you constantly need to edit something yourself Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have a 3d printer, and simetemes I need to make a diffrent simple 3d model. Freecad helps me to do this. It free software, and its wonderful. It crosplatform app. It is fine to me, because I use ubuntu. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Freecad has slow performanse. It inposible to edit or wiew large models. In my work, my colleagues give me to view step models. Its so hard to view this models using Freecad.

Also Freecad not good works with b-spline with Skether and PartDesign worckbanches. Sometimes inpossible make a fillet if you use b-spline. Its hard to undestnd how to clone skecth to another body. How to move, clone, or rotate it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Free CAD is a rare bird because the number of open-source CAD applications is somewhat limited. The application appears a suite with modules for different CAD applications, called "workbenches". There are workbenches for Architecture, Draft, Reverse Engineering, Part Design, and much more.

Being open-source, we can expect more workbenches to be added as the community around FreeCAD grows.

FreeCAD can also import and export in a variety of formats. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

FreeCAD is still under development, and its learning curve is rather steep at the moment.

The interface needs some refinement, and could puzzle the new user.

Also some import filter do not work as expected. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

-Effective tool for Engineering and Construction drawings creation.

-Perfect for 3D modelling.

-Rendering of large 3D designs is quick.

-Architectural design management.

-Engineering drawings editing software.

-CAD capability is excellent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

None for FreeCAD and all the features, and on getting started setting the 3D modelling tools was easy but the file export takes a lot of time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

FreeCAD is one of the best CAD software which is completely free to use and the most things I like in FreeCAD are as below:

- Their user interface is very easy to understand and use.

- They also provide a model meshing feature that is good to mesh any object inside FreeCAD.

- I can create Python script and run Python script inside FreeCAD as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are some points that I don't like in FreeCAD are as below:

- There is a missing lasso tool in FreeCAD.

- Sometimes it crashed when I am working on a big project.

- Their design rendering speed is a little bit slower than expected. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The most helpful feature of FreeCAD is its GUI and user-friendly interface.

It's Reverse engineering feature to check the legacy parts to better understand their functions.

POV-Ray, Raytracing, and export to slicer these features are very interesting.

Its BIM Modeling and G Code generation feature.

Model meshing, mesh scripting, and python API is best in FreeCAD. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We don't have access to define material properties in FEM and limited point tools.

We can not register two datasets for deviation analysis.

It gets frozen while linking an existing dimension to the 3D geometry.

The Lasso tool is missing and we can not check the printability of the 3D Model.

There is no specific tool for checking surface quality, watertight, and self-intersection in our 3d model. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The most amazing feature of this software is that it has an inbuilt option for Python script, C++ programming which helps us to create and design models very fastly and you will also get an option for extensions. its FEM option and Model export formats are very useful, and we use this on both Linux and Windows systems, it is open-source software with excellent GUI. I like its parametric modelling, thanks to FreeCAD for helping us and providing such a wonderful tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't like its crashing problem, sometimes the software gets crashed when we are working with large datasets, it crashed without any warning even if you are having the best hardware, we can not prepare watertight and without self-intersection file for 3D printing preparation and we can not check the mesh quality and you can not register two different CAD files and you can not define the properties of the material for FEM and we can not control the mesh coarseness or fineness. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.