FreeCAD Forum

I am curious to know how CAD programs and FreeCAD in particular stores data? Is it a relational DB, an object store, NoSQL, a structured file format or something else? The reason I'm asking is that I've been exploring Graph Databases recently and there are some really useful features. They contain v...

Thank you all for your responses. Taking them in no particular order: I am aware that the rendering is done externally, I use POVray (without much success because of difficulty setting up the lighting) _ I used to use Kpovmodeler (a KDE modeller), which was tied to POV but which allowed cameras and ...

I'm just going to come out with it... It is perverse that I have access to create my CAD model in FreeCAD, but cannot use it to place lights. Manually text editing a template file to specify the lights seems just the most bizarre twist of poor usability I could think of, and exporting to Blender to ...

Many thanks for the update. The one that isn't implemented; offsetting an array would be very useful. Using the tiling example, it would allow me to accurately plan the tile arrangement and also align tiles on the floor plane and wall planes.

Hi, Having used FreeCAD 0.18 to fairly comprehensively CAD my bathroom, I have come across at least three issues for which I'd like to propose enhancements. It's entirely possible that some/all of these are possible but even if they are, the usability is impenetrable to me. Arrays When I want to til...