However, the development of FreeCAD is fast! New features and bug fixes are added almost every single day.

The official releases of FreeCAD, on the page above or in your distribution's software manager, are stable versions. The official FreeCAD download page for Windows and Mac OS is As a result, on Linux, you can usually install FreeCAD right from the software manager application. On Windows and Mac, the FreeCAD community provides precompiled packages (installers) ready to download, while on Linux, the source code is made available to Linux distributions maintainers, who are then responsible for packaging FreeCAD for their specific distribution. However, the ways to install it differ slightly depending on your platform. The only thing that the license prohibits, really, is to claim that you programmed FreeCAD yourself!įreeCAD runs without any difference on Windows, Mac OS and Linux. You are not bound to any clause or restriction, and the files you produce with it are fully yours. FreeCAD uses the LGPL license, which means you are free to download, install, redistribute and use FreeCAD the way you want, regardless of the type of work you'll do with it (commercial or non-commercial).

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