FreeCAD Beginner's Handbook

FreeCAD Beginner's Handbook by Aleksander Sadowski (Author)

ALSADO Independently Published

Publication Date: Dec. 26, 2025  (English, pp. 293)

ISBN-13: 979-8275865370

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G9HXYYGX

Learn 3D Design with FreeCAD Through Real-World Examples and Hands-On Projects

Discover the world of 3D design with FreeCAD, the free and open-source CAD software used by engineers, designers, and makers worldwide. This full-color, practical guide takes you step by step through a reliable modeling workflow, showing you how to create real-world products and inventions and even complete a complex project like designing a Mars Rover from scratch to solidify your knowledge.

Table of Contents

1. Working with 3D Shapes on Paper
2. Getting Started with Solid Modeling Theory
3. Quickstarting FreeCAD with your first 3D CAD Model
4. Creating Sketches using the Sketcher Workbench
5. Creating Parts using the Part Design Workbench
6. Creating Assemblies using the A2Plus Workbench
7. Preparing your FreeCAD Designs for 3D printing
8. Sharing your FreeCAD Designs in the Maker Community
9. Building the Mars Rover in FreeCAD from Scratch

About the author

Aleksander Sadowski is the founder of ALSADO, the world’s first company offering professional FreeCAD support in the industry. He is studying mechanical engineering at the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences and has been actively involved in the FreeCAD community for many years. Aleksander is developing a workflow for product development in mechanical engineering, fully composed of open-source-software, including FreeCAD, LibreOffice, PrePoMax and OpenRadioss. Based on that he is developing an open-source-software to make collaboration in engineering teams more accessible to manufacturing start-ups and small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs).

In the past, Sadowski worked in product safety at the machine manufacturer GROB and at a company, that specializes in developing simulation software for defense applications. He has been collaborating with Altair, the association of German engineers (VDI) and the German space agency (DLR) to promote the use of open-source software in the industry, especially in mechanical engineering, automotive and aerospace. Aleksander Sadowski is the inventor of a safety screw, that he developed with the help of an open-source-workflow.

Through his books, Aleksander aims to reduce the beginner learning challenges and frustration by teaching a systematic process of working with FreeCAD consisting of most-used functions and a standard modeling workflow which he has refined through his years of experience of teaching FreeCAD in a productive and mission-critical environment. The books make this knowledge accessible to everyone, not just the companies.

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[workshop] FreeCAD 3D parametric modeler

PSG COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY, COIMBATORE

9 DECEMBER, 2023

About the FreeCAD

FreeCAD is a general purpose open source parametric 3D CAD modeller. FreeCAD is aimed directly at mechanical engineering and product design but, being very generic, also fits in a wider range of uses around engineering, such as architecture, finite element analysis, 3D printing, and other tasks. FreeCAD offers tools to produce, export and edit solid, full-precision models, export them for 3D printing or CNC machining, create 2D drawings and views of your models, perform analyses such as Finite Element Analyses, or export model data such as quantities or bills of materials. FreeCAD features tools similar to other popular CAD packages and therefore also falls into the category of CAD, PLM, CAx, CAE and BIM. It is a feature based parametric modeler with a modular software architecture, making it possible to provide additional functionality without modifying the core system. As with other CAD modelers, it has many 2D components in order to sketch planar shapes or create production drawings. FreeCAD is also fundamentally a social project, as it is developed and maintained by a community of developers and users united by their passion for FreeCAD. In precise FreeCAD is:

• Made to build for the real world
• A powerful solid-based geometry kernel
• A wi(l)dly parametric environment
• File formats frenzy
• A parametric constraints-based 2D sketcher
• A large (and growing) multi-specialty ecosystem

About the Workshop 

The workshop will be conducted through spoken tutorial videos of 10 minutes duration. After the workshop, a link for the video tutorials will be shared to the participants for further learning. As it is an open source software, FreeCAD can be used free of cost for educational and industrial design purposes. Participants of this workshop can install this software on their laptop during this workshop and take it with them. Target participants of this workshop include: practicing engineers, faculty members, research scholars and students.

Registration details
The registration fee for the participants (Inclusive of GST) :

• Faculty members / Students / Research Scholars : Rs. 900/-
• Industry participants : Rs.1200/-

No TA/ DA/ ACCOMMODATION will be provided. Payment of registration fee for the workshop can be made through online mode

https://forms.gle/xqcQLSTnJcYLK2DNA

Last date for registration: November 25, 2023

For any queries, contact

The Organizing Secretaries,

FreeCAD Workshop, PSG College of Technology,

Peelamedu, Coimbatore-641004

email : vsk.amcs@psgtech.ac.in / mrp.prod@psgtech.ac.in

Mobile : 9952418357

SourceForge Project: FreeCAD

FreeCAD is a general purpose feature-based, parametric 3D modeler for CAD, MCAD, CAx, CAE and PLM, aimed directly at mechanical engineering and product design but also fits a wider range of uses in engineering, such as architecture or other engineering specialties. It is 100% Open Source and extremely modular, allowing for very advanced extension and customization.

FreeCAD is based on OpenCasCade, a powerful geometry kernel, features an Open Inventor-compliant 3D scene representation model provided by the Coin 3D library, and a broad Python API. The interface is built with Qt. FreeCAD runs exactly the same way on Windows, Mac OSX and Linux platforms. [Download FreeCAD]