Designing with spreadsheets in FreeCAD

This tutorial shows how to use the FreeCAD Spreadsheet Workbench in furniture design. Utilising a spreadsheet during the design process helps to increase flexibility into the design.

The FreeCAD Spreadsheet Workbench provides basic spreadsheet functionality such as addition, subtraction, trigonemtric functions, etc. that can be used to drive the constraints in the FreeCAD model.

We demonstrate this functionality by modelling two components that are commonly made by wood workers - a box side and a drawer side.

In this tutorial you will learn how to to set up a spreadsheet, design the parts using spreadsheet cells in the model.

Workbenches used:

- Spreadsheet
- Sketcher
- Part Design

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Writer, Editor, Producer: Geoff Glasson

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About FreeCAD

FreeCAD is a parametric 3D modeler made primarily to design real-life objects of any size. Parametric modeling allows you to easily modify your design by going back into your model history and changing its parameters.

FreeCAD is open-source and highly customizable, scriptable and extensible.

FreeCAD is multiplatfom (Windows, Mac and Linux), and reads and writes many open file formats such as STEP, IGES, STL, SVG, DXF, OBJ, IFC, DAE and many others.

(From FreeCAD website)

FreeCAD website: https://www.freecadweb.org/