Donate

Thanks for your interest in helping the FreeCAD project with donations.

FreeCAD is a fast-growing project, developed by a community of developers and users working mostly on a voluntary basis, motivated mainly by their will to build a great, free 3D parametric modeller. The development of FreeCAD happens mostly because of the energy of all these people, without the need for money.

However, money can help the project to achieve many other goals. It can help some of its developers to work more frequently or more regularly on the project, by paying for their time so they can dedicate more of it to FreeCAD, or it can help the community to send people to CAD-related events, so we can showcase FreeCAD and interest professional users. It can also help to organize events ourselves so community members can meet, pay for server space and web services, and many other things.

There are several ways you can donate money and help the FreeCAD project, being an individual, a company or an institution, depending on your preferences. The money you donate to the FreeCAD project will be received and handled by the FreeCAD Project Association (FPA), a non-profit association created by FreeCAD administrators and core developers. The FPA will redistribute the money it gathers to FreeCAD developers and sponsor itself several projects, efforts and ideas to fuel the development of FreeCAD.

Remember, however: FreeCAD is free, and will always be free. You are not required, and never will be, to donate anything in order to use FreeCAD, neither to modify or distribute it. Your donation will be welcome, and can help a lot, but you will never be required to pay anything to access any of the FreeCAD features.