FreeCad Users Conference

The (online) inaugural 2023 FreeCAD (& free CAE) conference that ran from 1 - 3 March 2023 was a huge success! We've had 14 excellent presentations from all over the world - thank you to each of the presenters for showcasing the wonderful abilities of FreeCAD and the fantastic Workbenches that have been and are continuously being developed.

Thank you also to the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and IT at the University of Pretoria/Universiteit van Pretoria and specifically the Department of Mechanical & Aeronautical Engineering for allowing us to host the conference under a very proud banner that has been established over the course of 6 decades.

I have deep gratitude towards Engineering X, the Royal Academy of Engineering & Lloyd’s Register Foundation. The funding that I was awarded and that made the conference possible is part of the Engineering X Engineering Skills Where They are Most Needed Mission, which seeks to support the delivery of skills and education programmes that will lead to development of much needed engineering skills capacity, enhanced safety standards, and infrastructure that remains safe and fit for purpose.

A special thank you goes to Varnu Govender who acted as my right hand with all the arrangements, and for facilitating the Hopin formalities as the online platform we used.

Now it's getting to work on next year's FreeCAD (& free CAE) Users Conference that is envisaged as a hybrid (in person & online) event!

Lukas du Plessis

Full Day 1 Video

Day 1 Subvideos

Day 1 Presentation 1	Day 1 Presentation 2	Day 1 Presentation 3
Freecad state of affairs - Yorik van Havre	Cfdof workbench - Oliver Oxtoby	Nikradap workbench - Cecil Churms

Day 1 Presentation 4	Day 1 Presentation 5
Betrami workbench - Michel Sabourin	Frontistr workbench - Hiroshi Okuda

Full Day 2 Video

Day 2 Subvideos

Day 2 Presentation 1	Day 2 Presentation 2	Day 2 Presentation 3
Conda and freecad - Lorenz Lechner	Fasteners workbench - Alex Neufeld	Gdml workbench - Keith Sloan

Day 2 Presentation 4	Day 2 Presentation 5	Day 2 Presentation 6
Guitar workbench - Frank Martinez	Electromagnetic workbench - Fastfieldsolvers	POV-Ray-Render workbench - The ray tracers

Day 2 Presentation 7	Day 2 Presentation 8
Osafe workbench - Rayat Ebrahim	Steel column workbench - Rayat Ebrahim

Full Day 3 Video

Day 3 Subvideos

Day 3 Closing Remarks	Day 3 Conference QnA Session
Varnu Govender	Lukas du PLessis & Brodie Fairhall

Day 3 Presentation 1	Day 3 Presentation 2
Advanced Parametric Modelling - Brodie Fairhall	Closing Speech - Lukas du Plessis

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