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FreeCAD Tutorial for Beginners (2025) | Navigating and Selecting in FreeCAD v1 Welcome to Lesson 4 of the FreeCAD Basics for Beginners course!
In this FreeCAD tutorial, we'll cover 3D navigation and selection techniques to confidently navigate around FreeCAD's 3D space using your mouse, keyboard, or touchpad.
This guide is ideal for beginners to open-source CAD software. It also introduces the Part Workbench, object properties, and selecting multiple objects, all essential skills for creating your own 3D models.
What you'll learn in this #FreeCAD Navigation Tutorial:
Getting Started
Organizing the toolbar into a single row
Creating and positioning objects
Adding cubes and spheres via Part... Primitives
Understanding the global coordinate system (X-red, Y-green, Z-blue)
Moving objects using Transform or Placement (X, Y, Z)
Toggle transparency and cross axes for better reference
Navigating the 3D View
Choose a navigation style (CAD, Touchpad, Blender, Maya, TinkerCAD)
Zoom, rotate, pan
Reset View:
Use Home, Fit All, or the Navigation Cube (top right)
Use shortcut keys 1–6 for standard view
Selection Techniques
Hover the mouse to highlight a pre-selected selection
Toggle Visibility (eye icon or Spacebar)
Multiple Selections: Hold Ctrl (one item at a time) or Shift (a range in tree view)
Fit Selection: Zoom to the highlighted portion of the object
Customize navigation in Edit... Preferences... Display... Navigation
Use the arrow keys / PgUp-PgDn to quickly adjust the numbers
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