Heeks

I don't have time to administer HeeksCAD properly and I suggest for a more active project you look at FreeCAD.

However, I plan to use this Google Code repository as a fork of HeeksCAD aimed at being simpler than it is. I plan to revert the undo code, so that HeeksCAD is quicker and so I can understand it I plan to remove constraints. HeeksCAD will never be a parametric CAD system.

If you have fixes for HeeksCAD, then please email me the details.

HeeksCAD is a free, open source, CAD application written by me, Dan Heeks, danheeks@gmail.com

Functionality: Import solid models from STEP and IGES files. Draw construction geometry and lines and arcs. Create new primitive solids, or make solids by extruding a sketch or by making a lofted solid between sketches. Modify solids using blending, or boolean operations. Save IGES, STEP and STL. Printer plot the 2D geometry or to HPGL. Import and export dxf files; lines, arcs, ellipses, splines and polylines are supported.

See here for instruction how to use HeeksCAD.

The solid modeling is provided by Open CASCADE. The graphical user interface is made using wxWidgets.

HeeksCAD can be translated into any language. There are currently English, German, and Italian translations.

HeeksCAD has been built for Windows, Ubuntu, Debian, and OpenSUSE.

see the Wiki tab for details

There are packages for Ubuntu here.

It is possible to make Add-In modules, see HeeksCNC, HeeksArt, and HeeksPython projects.

If you want to edit the wiki, or the source code, I need to add you as a project member, tell me your Google account user name. I am danheeks@gmail.com

License: New BSD License. This means you can take all my work and use it for your own commercial application. Do what you want with it. It uses wxWidgets and Open CASCADE. Any changes to wxWidgets or Open CASCADE are subject to their licenses.