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title: freecad-cheatsheet
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title: freecad-cheatsheet
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# `freecad-cheatsheet`

## navigation
### axes and perspectives
![](https://i.imgur.com/kLp0rd2.png =500x) [:link:](https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?t=33395)

## tree organization

[:link:](https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=54870&p=471792#p471792)

Both Group and Part "can be used as organizational tools when making (simple, not using an assembly workbench) assemblies and sub-assemblies."

Group
- for logical organization of the (feature) tree
- has not Placement property

Part (Std_Part)
- general purpose container object
- has Placement property, thus it "can move all objects in it as one. For example, the Part may contain multiple Body objects that constitute a sub-assembly."

## shortcuts
`H` to define rotation axis in 3D view  
`Alt` in Sketcher to rotate 3D view

## object manipulations
### refine
![](https://i.imgur.com/T9tzgHp.png) [:link:](https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=62219)


## Sketcher

![](https://i.imgur.com/bqUvavj.png) [:link:](https://owncloud.gwdg.de/index.php/s/eZisrfTTCCjDEd9/download)

![](https://i.imgur.com/b1OJ9PO.png)


## Part

![](https://i.imgur.com/AcQ9cEz.png)

![](https://i.imgur.com/fIu9oCk.png)
