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SEPA Information
Please set up your SEPA bank transfer to:
Beneficiary:	The FreeCAD project association
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If you are not sure or not able to commit to a regular donation, but still want to help the project, you can do a one-time donation, of any amount.

Choose freely the amount you wish to donate one time only.

You can support FreeCAD by sponsoring it as an individual or organization through various platforms. Sponsorship provides a steady income for developers, allowing the FPA to plan ahead and enabling greater investment in FreeCAD. To encourage sponsorship, we offer different tiers, and unless you choose to remain anonymous, your name or company logo will be featured on our website accordingly.

from 1 USD / 1 EUR per month. You will not have your name displayed here, but you will have helped the project a lot anyway. Together, normal sponsors maintain the project on its feet as much as the bigger sponsors.

from 25 USD / 25 EUR per month. Your name or company name is displayed on this page.

from 100 USD / 100 EUR per month. Your name or company name is displayed on this page, with a link to your website, and a one-line description text.

from 200 USD / 200 EUR per month. Your name or company name and logo displayed on this page, with a link to your website and a custom description text. Companies that have helped FreeCAD early on also appear under Gold sponsors.

Instead of donating each month, you might find it more comfortable to make a one-time donation that, when divided by twelve, would give you right to enter a sponsoring tier. Don't hesitate to do so!

Choose freely the amount you wish to donate each month.

Please inform your forum name or twitter handle as a notein your transfer, or reach to us, so we can give you proper credits!

Migrating to FreeCAD from Fusion360

Background

This page is intended for users who are interested in migrating to FreeCAD from the Fusion 360 world.

What do I do?

The first thing that you want to do is to get your files out of proprietary formats and storage. Start by exporting your models from the cloud to your local machine.
- A popular method is using this Fusion360 total exporter script.
We recommend exporting to STEP format.

Glossary

Please also reference the ongoing work in progress CAD Rosetta Stone project to learn the analogous names that popular proprietary CADs use

Reference the Glossary page in general but here is a short list of specific terms that F360 folks may find spefically helpful:

Tangent constraint - FreeCAD\'s form of Collinear Constraint. See Sketcher ConstrainTangent.
Pad - The extrude function in FreeCAD. Read the PartDesign Pad documentation to learn more.
Toponaming - Short for Topological naming problem. Covered very well in Brodie Fairhall\'s youtube clip].

FAQ

What formats do you support in FreeCAD?
- The native file format in FreeCAD is BREP, boundary representation, provided by the internal OpenCASCADE (OCCT) geometry kernel.
- FreeCAD supports all formats that OCCT supports, so STEP and IGES at least.
What formats should I use to migrate to FreeCAD?
- STEP is the best format because it is a solid Shape format, as opposed to a Mesh (STL, OBJ, DAE). Example, Importing Step with Colors.
- Importing an STL is possible, but this mesh format will be difficult to modify further. We recommend converting imported meshes to solid Shapes using [ Part ShapeFromMesh. Remodelling the object in FreeCAD, while using the mesh as reference, is the best advice.