For this reason the 2D drawing tools in FreeCAD are not as efficient/flexible. FreeCAD's purpose is to build 3D models, then generate 2D drawings from the 3D model. Honestly, if you want to only work with 2D drawings, I would suggest to use a dedicated 2D CAD program like LibreCAD or DraftSight. Or, the the front view should be rotated 90 degrees and horizontally aligned with the top view. But it's not as capable as FreeCAD's sketcher (no constraints ). Today, when doing simple 2D drawings, I use LibreOffice Draw, which is the best 2D drawing program I found. And a proper technical drawing would place the top view aligned vertically with the front view, either below it with first angle projection (European) or above it with third angle projection (USA and Canada). You can trick FreeCAD to do very good 2D drawings, by making 2D sketeches in 3D and importing them into TechDraw. The side view at the right does not properly show the thickened regions that can be guessed from the top view at the left. Importing the image in FreeCAD is useful to trace over it.īut I'm afraid your drawing is not made correctly. As Willem explained the only thing that can be done is to redraw the drawing from scratch.

No, because what you posted is a bitmap image, not the CAD drawing itself. Bobber65 wrote:is it possible to import this drawing into freeCAD and be able to make adjustments to it? I attached the file that I would like to make in freeCAD.

2d drawing in freecad