FreeCAD 3D Printing Tools

A FreeCAD Workbench for working on imported Meshes.

Description

This workbench has a number of features to help working with imported .stl models.
Utilizing the functionality available within the FreeCAD Mesh Design workbench this workbench helps the user to scale and modify meshes.

Features

• The ability to convert imperial mesh(es) to Metric and vice-versa.
• Scale a mesh up/down 50%.
• Scale mesh a set factor.
• Scale Mesh to fit a 3D printer bed size.
• Generate an STL box by the size of the printer bed for reference.
• Convert mesh(es) to solid(s).
• Make a transparent object.
• Make an object's transparancy Solid.
• Show/Hide an object.
• Change colours of objects to 11 different colours.
• Change the color of a group of objects to a random colour.
• Change the line width to 2.0
• Show the bounding box of an STL mesh.
• Define the printer bed size.
• Define the size of the object to be scaled from.
• Define the Scale factor for the mesh to be scaled, ex. 0.5 = 50% scale; 2.0 = 200% scale.

Requirements

• FreeCAD v0.X.Y
• Python3
• Qt5

Installation

Addon Manager

3D Printing Tools workbench has been added to the FreeCAD-adoons repository and is therefore available to download from the built-in Addon Manager.
Note: Restarting FreeCAD is required to enable the workbench.

Manual Installation

1. Use git clone or download the .zip file of this repo directly in to your FreeCAD Mod/ directory.
2. Restart FreeCAD

Feedback

If you have feedback or need to report bugs please participate on the related 3D Printing Tools FreeCAD Forum Post.

License

LGPL v2.1