mghansen256 / freecad-library

A library of Parts for FreeCAD.

FreeCAD-library

This repository contains a library of Parts to be used in FreeCAD. It is maintained by the community of users of FreeCAD and is not part of the FreeCAD project, although it is made with the aim to be used as a repository of parts by FreeCAD in the future.

Contributing to the library

If you are interested in contributing to this library, please ask for write access to this repository on this FreeCAD forum thread: http://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=4205

Each Part should be correctly named, and placed into subdirectories by family or type. They should also be available in both .FcStd and .stp formats, and optionally in .stl format (because github lets you visualize them). They should also be as simple as possible, and parametric so users can easily change their dimensions. In the file properties of each .FcStd file, the author should also be mentioned, and the license information if available.

License

All Parts in this repository are licensed under CC-BY 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Each Part is copyrighted by and should be attributed to its respective author(s). See commit details to find the authors of each Part.

If you are uploading parts to this repository, please make sure you are the author of the model, or otherwise that you have right to share it here under the CC-BY 3.0 license, and make sure the author is mentioned in the commit message.

Install

The library is a simple container for FreeCAD (.fcstd) and STEP (.stp) files. You can download it anywhere and import its files in your FreeCAD projects. Inside the library, there is also a FreeCAD macro (PartsLibrary.FCMacro) that you can edit (you must change the path to your Library) and place in your FreeCAD macros folder. That macro creates a browser window inside FreeCAD, from which you can easily add the parts by double-clicking them.