Builtin modules

(October 2019) Do not edit these pages. The information is incomplete and outdated. For the latest API, see the autogenerated API documentation, or generate the documentation yourself by following Source documentation.

This page presents more in-depth information over the built-in FreeCAD modules, and what are the functions and properties availible to you. This page is not a complete list of all the contents of these modules, and, because of the fast evolution of FreeCAD, the information presented here might be slightly outdated, but it should give you a good overview of the possibilities. For complete list of the modules content, use the dir(module) function in the interpreter.

Non graphical

• The FreeCAD module
• Base
• Vectors
• Matrices
• Console module
• Placement
• Document Objects

Graphical

• The FreeCADGui Module
• Selection module
• View Objects

Power user documentation

• FreeCAD scripting: Python, Introduction to Python, Python scripting tutorial, FreeCAD Scripting Basics

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• Modules: Builtin modules, Units, Quantity
• Workbenches: Workbench creation, Gui Commands, Commands, Installing more workbenches
• Meshes and Parts: Mesh Scripting, Topological data scripting, Mesh to Part, PythonOCC

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• Parametric objects: Scripted objects, Viewproviders (Custom icon in tree view)
• Scenegraph: Coin (Inventor) scenegraph, Pivy
• Graphical interface: Interface creation, Interface creation completely in Python (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), PySide, PySide examples beginner, intermediate, advanced
• Macros: Macros, How to install macros
• Embedding: Embedding FreeCAD, Embedding FreeCADGui

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• Other: Expressions, Code snippets, Line drawing function, FreeCAD vector math library (deprecated)

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• Hubs: User hub, Power users hub, Developer hub