Tutorials

Each tutorial takes a few minutes and builds on the quick start. The screenshots use a small example project, Gearbox: a bracket, a shaft and an assembly that links them.

Coming from Onshape? Coming from Onshape maps each Onshape PDM and release tutorial to its Strata counterpart.

Go back in time
View earlier states read-only, restore the whole project or chosen documents.
Explore an alternative
Create a workspace and switch between designs.
Merge workspaces
Merge strategies, a choice per document, compare with base, undo.
Compare two designs
See which features and parameters changed, and overlay both in 3D.
Assemblies and linked parts
How projects keep an assembly and its parts consistent.
Part numbers and properties
Part numbers, descriptions and custom properties for all documents in one table.
Release a design
Release candidates, approval, reject and resubmit, revision schemes.
Revision history
All revisions of a part number, obsolete revisions, export for a supplier.
Work as a team
Share a project, open a colleague’s, sync and resolve a merge.
Automate with Python
Runnable minimal examples for scripts and batch jobs.

The examples are tested

Every Python example in these pages is run inside FreeCAD by Strata’s test suite (tests/docs_examples_test.py), and the output shown under each example is the output of that run. If an example and Strata ever disagree, the test fails before the documentation is published.