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Lightweight and portable 3D CAD modeler that comes packed with handy options and configuration parameters, targeting all user levels

Portable FreeCAD is a graphics editor that provides tools for creating 3D CAD, MCAD, CAx, CAE and PLM projects. It comes packed with a handy set of features.

Since installation is not a prerequisite, you can drop the program files anywhere on the hard disk and run the executable directly.

It is also possible to save Portable FreeCAD to a USB flash drive or similar storage unit, in order to run it on any machine with minimum effort.

What's more, the Windows registry does not get new entries, and files are not kept on the hard disk after removing the utility.

The interface is user-friendly, and Portable FreeCAD offers help documentation. You can import data (e.g. Mesh, OpenSCAD, Point, Python, STEP), merge projects, and export files to PDF.

The tool allows you to edit mode, choose the navigation style (e.g. inventor, CAD), create a new view, switch to orthographic or perspective view mode, take snapshots, view a scene inspector, show the dependency graph for objects, as well as record and run macros.

Other options of Portable FreeCAD let you customize commands, the keyboard, toolbars, macros, as well as spaceball motion and buttons. It is possible to change the UI language, specify the Undo and Redo depth level, personalize editor settings (e.g. line numbers, folding), and others.

The application does not burden the overall performance of the computer, as it uses minimal CPU and RAM. It has a good reaction speed and works well, without causing the OS to hang, crash or pop up error dialogs. We have not come across any issues in our tests. Thanks to its intuitive layout and options, Portable FreeCAD should please all users.

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Portable FreeCAD was reviewed by Elena Opris

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Portable FreeCAD 0.18.2 Revision 16117 / 0.19.16687 Dev

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portable version

This is the portable version of the application. An installable version is also available: FreeCAD

file size:

447 MB

filename:

FreeCAD-0.18.16117.dbb4cc6-WIN-x64-portable.7z

runs on:

Windows 10 32/64 bit
Windows 8 32/64 bit
Windows 7 32/64 bit

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Drawing is language of engineering, with words you can’t explain that much things precisely which you can with drawings. In Civil Engineering, the drawing is a necessary skill that requires aesthetic as well as technical skills. Civil Engineering Drawing consists of symbols and codes that are easy to understand and are not difficult to draw. In Manual Drawing the tools which are commonly used includes, T-Square, Drawing board, Set Squares, Curve Set, Scale Cards. These tools although are very easy to use, but the hectic manual work is very much lengthy and very time consuming as well.

Introduction to AUTOCAD

Introduction of Computers in calculations and other engineering applications had also made its impacts on engineering drawings as well in the past when AUTOCAD was firstly developed for Personal Computers, CAD is the short form of Computer Aided Drawing.

AutoDesk AutoCAD

Use of Autocad in civil engineering is not just for planes or elevations or section; We also draw structural drawings in it, as well as the profiles and contours are treated in autocad, other softwares of civil engineering like Eagel Points, EPA Net also uses autocad drawings as their input for making horizontal and vertical alignments of road or a highway and similarly the water supply scheme map of a housing facility or a housing society.

Autocad was first released in 1982 by a company named AUTODESK, Inc. before this such CAD softwares were used by large workstations, for the very first time AUTODESK introduced this software for personal computer use. AutoCAD is used for 2D as well as 3D drawings ranging from electrical drawings, mechanical part drawings, architectural drawings as well as Civil engineering Drawings, structural drawings etc.

Development of AUTOCAD

AutoCAD has a lot of versions each new version being more robust and more easier to use then the previous versions. AUTOCAD in earlier stages has only command line interface, which means you can work on AUTOCAD at that time just by typing commands and setting different parameters etc, but with newer versions they have introduced the GUI graphical user interface which is more easy to use and is more user friendly. Now you can just draw things by using drawing tools you find in other softwares like MS Word etc.

Difference between AUTOCAD and Other 3D Programs

Beside AUTOCAD 3d, there are other 3D softwares as well like MAYA, 3D Studio Max etc which are more glamorous comparatively but the difference between CAD softwares like AUTOCAD and other 3d softwares is in the purpose for which they are build, purpose of AUTOCAD is to draw technical drawings for engineers rather than 3d movies and animations.

In this post I will be sharing with you a portable version of AUTOCAD, this portable version can run without even installation, just copy and paste the .exe file of and double click it and run it, simple and straight forward.

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