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FreeCAD Developers Handbook

A handbook about FreeCAD development

FreeCAD Developers Guide #

Welcome to the FreeCAD Developer’s Guide! This is a work-in-progress, so please feel free to submit Issues and Pull Requests when you find areas that need work.

Roadmap #

Describes the broad objectives for FreeCAD Development

Getting Started #

How to set up a development environment to work on FreeCAD.

Design Guide #

Covers guidelines for User Experience, Interaction and Interface in FreeCAD.

Code Formatting Guide #

Covers the C++ and Python code formatting guidelines.

Maintainers Guide #

Gives guidelines to maintainers about code reviews and merge procedures.

Technical Guide #

A guide for developers learning their way around the FreeCAD codebase.