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FreeCAD Rocketry Workbench

FreeCAD Rocketry Workbench

A rocket design workbench for FreeCAD

Install

Automatic

The Rocket Workbench is available as part of the Addon Manager. See https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Std_AddonMgr

Manual

Expand for Manual install instructions

1. Obtain your user's default FreeCAD folder by typing the following in to the FreeCAD Python console FreeCAD.ConfigGet("UserAppData")
2. Open a shell terminal
3. Switch to folder in step 1 and append the Mod/ subfolder ex: cd ~/.FreeCAD/Mod
4. Type git clone https://github.com/davesrocketshop/Rocket

The Rocket workbench will automagically download to your local machine.

5. Restart FreeCAD for changes to take place.
6. Rocket WB should now be available in the workbench dropdown menu.

Note: In order to keep Rocket WB up-to-date you'll need to follow Steps 2 and 3. But for step 4 replace with git pull
Again, restart FC to use the latest changes.

Internationalization

This workbench has been written with multiple language support. If you are willing to provide a translation to your native language please open an issue and we'll work to get that done.

Feedback

For any feedback, bugs, features, and discussion please refer to the Rocketry workbench FreeCAD forum thread.

Developers

David Carter AKA @davesrocketshop

Component database taken from the Open Rocket project (https://github.com/openrocket/openrocket)

License

LGPLv2.1 (see LICENSE)