MobileCAD 0.5.3

Install: download MobileCAD-arm64.apk on your phone or tablet (Android 8 or newer, 64-bit ARM; about 1 GB free: the CAD engine is unpacked on first start). It updates earlier versions in place.

Fixes (thanks for the feedback on YouTube!)

• Sketcher: B-splines are now drawn while you edit a sketch (only their points showed), and they can be selected, dragged and deleted.
• Sketcher: deleting a selected point works like on the desktop: a sketch point is deleted, any other point loses the constraints on it.
• Zoom: from a tenth of a millimetre to kilometres, so buildings and sites can be worked on without Fit All; the grid and the origin axes scale with the zoom.
• Tools: dropdown tools (Part compound tools, Radius/Diameter dimension, FEM equations, CAM drilling ...) show their icons; tools that have no icon in FreeCAD are text buttons instead of gray boxes.

Source code: this repository at v0.5.3 plus the archives below (FreeCAD at the commit built with our patch, and the (L)GPL dependencies); checksums in SHA256SUMS.

MobileCAD is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, sponsored or endorsed by the FreeCAD project or the FreeCAD Project Association. FreeCAD is a trademark of the FreeCAD Project Association.

MobileCAD 0.5.2

Install: download MobileCAD-arm64.apk on your phone or tablet (Android 8 or newer, 64-bit ARM; about 1 GB free: the CAD engine is unpacked on first start). It updates earlier versions in place.

Changes

• Smaller app: the app's own code is now optimized and shrunk with R8 (APK about 10 MB smaller). No functional changes.

Source code: this repository at v0.5.2 plus the archives below (FreeCAD at the commit built with our patch, and the (L)GPL dependencies); checksums in SHA256SUMS.

MobileCAD is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, sponsored or endorsed by the FreeCAD project or the FreeCAD Project Association. FreeCAD is a trademark of the FreeCAD Project Association.

MobileCAD 0.5.1

Install: download MobileCAD-arm64.apk on your phone or tablet (Android 8 or newer, 64-bit ARM; about 1 GB free: the CAD engine is unpacked on first start). It updates 0.4 in place.

Fixes

• Sketcher: undo / redo now stay inside the open sketch. Undoing past your first step used to remove the sketch itself and close the editor; now undo stops there (the same in feature dialogs).
• Polyline: horizontal and vertical segments are created again; they failed with an error, so nothing was added.
• OK and Cancel are further apart in sketches and feature dialogs, and a sketch cancelled by mistake can be brought back with redo.

Build: the whole app is now built from source: every upstream archive is pinned in engine/sources.lock and built by engine/build_all.sh (no prebuilt Python, Termux or emulator steps); MobileCAD has been submitted to F-Droid. From this release on, only the arm64 APK is published; the x86_64 flavor (emulators) can be built from source.

Source code: this repository at v0.5.1 plus the archives below (FreeCAD at the commit built with our patch, and the (L)GPL dependencies); checksums in SHA256SUMS.

MobileCAD is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, sponsored or endorsed by the FreeCAD project or the FreeCAD Project Association. FreeCAD is a trademark of the FreeCAD Project Association.

MobileCAD 0.4

First public MobileCAD build: parametric CAD for Android phones and tablets, running FreeCAD's modelling engine on the device.

Install: download MobileCAD-arm64.apk on your phone or tablet (Android 8 or newer, about 1 GB free: the CAD engine is unpacked on first start). MobileCAD-x86_64.apk is for emulators.

Highlights

• Opens FreeCAD .FCStd projects: Part Design, Sketcher, Part, Assembly, FEM, BIM, Draft, TechDraw and more
• Every feature stays editable; failed features show the last good model in transparent red
• Layouts for phones, tablets and foldables; light and dark themes
• About ▸ Open-source licenses lists every included component

Source code: this repository plus the archives below: FreeCAD at the commit built (freecad-e95a31c.tar.gz) with our patch, and the (L)GPL dependencies we built (Open CASCADE, Qt, Gmsh, CalculiX + SPOOLES, MED, IfcOpenShell). Checksums are in SHA256SUMS.

MobileCAD is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, sponsored or endorsed by the FreeCAD project or the FreeCAD Project Association. FreeCAD is a trademark of the FreeCAD Project Association.