Std Workbench
Std Workbench |
Menu location |
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View → Workbench |
Workbenches |
All |
Default shortcut |
None |
Introduced in version |
- |
See also |
None |
Description
The Std Workbench command activates a selected workbench.
The default ComboBox Workbench selector type
The optional TabBar Workbench selector type (here displayed with icons only) introduced in version 1.0
Usage
- There are several ways to invoke the command:
- Select a workbench from the ComboBox or TabBar (introduced in version 1.0) in the Workbench toolbar.
- Press the
button on the TabBar to select a workbench that has been disabled in the preferences from the menu that opens.
- Select a workbench from the View → Workbench sub-menu.
Notes
- Additional External Workbenches can be downloaded with the
Addon Manager.
Preferences
See also: Preferences Editor.
- A page with related preferences is available: Edit → Preferences... → Workbenches → Available Workbenches. You can change the Start up workbench, the Workbench selector type, and more. The
button on the TabBar gives access to this page via its menu.
Scripting
See also: Autogenerated API documentation and FreeCAD Scripting Basics.
To change the workbench use the activateWorkbench
method of the FreeCADGui module.
import FreeCADGui
FreeCADGui.activateWorkbench("PartDesignWorkbench")
- File: New, Open, Open Recent, Close, Close All, Save, Save As, Save a Copy, Save All, Revert, Import, Export,Merge project, Document information, Print, Print preview, Export PDF, Exit
- Edit: Undo, Redo, Cut, Copy, Paste, Duplicate selection, Refresh, Box selection, Box element selection, Select All, Delete, Send to Python Console, Placement, Transform, Alignment, Toggle Edit mode, Properties, Edit mode, Preferences
- View:
- Miscellaneous: Create new view, Orthographic view, Perspective view, Fullscreen, Bounding box, Toggle axis cross, Clipping plane, Persistent section cut, Texture mapping, Toggle navigation/Edit mode, Material, Appearance, Random color, Color per face, Toggle transparency, Workbench, Status bar
- Standard views: Fit all, Fit selection, Align to selection, Isometric, Dimetric, Trimetric, Home, Front, Top, Right, Rear, Bottom, Left, Rotate Left, Rotate Right, Store working view, Recall working view
- Freeze display: Save views, Load views, Freeze view, Clear views
- Draw style: As is, Points, Wireframe, Hidden line, No shading, Shaded, Flat lines
- Stereo: Stereo red/cyan, Stereo quad buffer, Stereo Interleaved Rows, Stereo Interleaved Columns, Stereo Off, Issue camera position
- Zoom: Zoom In, Zoom Out, Box zoom
- Document window: Docked, Undocked, Fullscreen
- Visibility: Toggle visibility, Show selection, Hide selection, Select visible objects, Toggle all objects, Show all objects, Hide all objects, Toggle selectability
- Toolbars: File, Edit, Clipboard, Workbench, Macro, View, Individual views, Structure, Help, Lock toolbars
- Panels: Tree view, Property view, Model, Selection view, Python console, Report view, Tasks, DAG view
- Dock window overlay: Toggle overlay for all, Toggle transparent for all, Toggle overlay, Toggle transparent, Bypass mouse events in docked overlay windows, Toggle left, Toggle right, Toggle top, Toggle bottom
- Link navigation: Go to linked object, Go to the deepest linked object, Select all links
- Tree view actions: Sync view, Sync selection, Sync placement, Pre-selection, Record selection, Single document, Multi document, Collapse/Expand, Initiate dragging, Go to selection, Selection back, Selection forward
- Tools: Edit parameters, Save image, Load image, Scene inspector, Dependency graph, Export dependency graph, Document utility, Add text document, View turntable, Units converter, Customize, Addon manager, Measure
- Macro: Macro recording, Macros, Recent macros, Execute macro, Attach to remote debugger, Debug macro, Stop debugging, Step over, Step into, Toggle breakpoint
- Help: Help, FreeCAD Website, Donate, Users documentation, Python scripting documentation, Automatic Python modules documentation, FreeCAD Forum, FreeCAD FAQ, Report a bug, About FreeCAD, What's This, Start
- Additional:
- Miscellaneous: Create part, Create group, Make link, Make sub-link, Replace with link, Unlink, Import links, Import all links, Make link group, Create a variable set, Select all instances, Toggle freeze
- Expression actions: Copy selected, Copy active document, Copy all documents, Paste
- Selection filter: Vertex selection, Edge selection, Face selection, All selection filters cleared

- Getting started
- Installation: Download, Windows, Linux, Mac, Additional components, Docker, AppImage, Ubuntu Snap
- Basics: About FreeCAD, Interface, Mouse navigation, Selection methods, Object name, Preferences, Workbenches, Document structure, Properties, Help FreeCAD, Donate
- Help: Tutorials, Video tutorials
- Workbenches: Std Base, Assembly, BIM, CAM, Draft, FEM, Inspection, Material, Mesh, OpenSCAD, Part, PartDesign, Points, Reverse Engineering, Robot, Sketcher, Spreadsheet, Surface, TechDraw, Test Framework
- Hubs: User hub, Power users hub, Developer hub
- Preferences Editor, Interface Customization
- Main window: Standard menu, Main view area, 3D view, Combo view (Tree view, Task panel, Property editor), Selection view, Report view, Python console, Status bar, DAG view, Workbench Selector
- Auxiliary windows: Scene inspector, Dependency graph