—– Current issues ——

I unfortunately I launched right before my holidays. I’m away for one week and (of course) my laptop screen died on me. So I won’t be able to fix issues before the 24th of February. Sorry about this.

The download fails, I tried 10 times and now the link is expired !

I think the server might be overloaded. Please try to download again later. Note the expiration of the link has been removed. So that should not be a problem anymore.

I cannot drag the window with the custom title bar ?

The custom title bar is currently not working properly on Linux and Mac. I will fix this as soon as possible.

The build for Mac cannot be launched.

There appears to be a problem with the Mac build, it apparantly cannot be started.

I got billed twice

So what is supposed to happen, is that you pay nothing before 30 days have passed. If you got charged right away (as some people reported) I am not sure why it is. Probably a bug between woocommerce and paypal. In any case please do not worry. Any fund that needs to be refunded will be.

For all these issues and more, please either open a ticket on our tracker. Or contact hello@astocad.com. I will try to handle the issues as soon as possible after the 24th of February.

—— Permanent FAQ ——-

Who is behind AstoCAD. and what is their relation to FreeCAD?

AstoCAD was founded by Pierre-Louis Boyer (PaddleStroke), a long-time contributor to FreeCAD, developer of the Assembly workbench, and the most active developer of the Sketcher workbench.

Will you contribute your changes in AstoCAD back to FreeCAD?

Yes. Our mission is to improve FreeCAD to make it the best CAD software ever. But to do so we must be able to make a living. That’s where AstoCAD comes into play.

AstoCAD is a ‘soft-fork’ of FreeCAD. By soft we mean that AstoCAD is not really forking from FreeCAD. Instead it is always on top of FreeCAD. We build new features on top of the latest version of FreeCAD’s main repository. And after some time, we push our new features into FreeCAD main. Our idea is to keep AstoCAD one step ahead, so that you guys are interested into supporting us, while still ultimately bringing all our new features into FreeCAD.

Is AstoCAD free and open source ?

AstoCAD is totally open source, the same as FreeCAD. However we do not distribute builds freely: they are available only to members. By taking the membership, you support us, which enable us to make more cool stuff that will ultimately merge into FreeCAD.

Where can I report an issue ?

AstoCAD being build on top of FreeCAD, to avoid duplicating many issues, you have to determine if the issue you’re having is specific to AstoCAD or if it is a FreeCAD issue.

• If the issue is specific to AstoCAD (it does not happen on FreeCAD weekly build) then you can open the issue on our tracker.
• If the issue is a FreeCAD issue, please open the issue on FreeCAD’s tracker.
• If the issue is a FreeCAD issue, but you have the premium membership and want it fixed, please open an issue on our tracker and link to the original FreeCAD issue.

Can you do custom development ?

Yes, please reach out at hello at astocad.com.