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Hi,

it depends totally of what you intend to do with FC.

For me I have chosen to to install

• FCCircular Text
• FCInfo to calculating area, volume, mass moment of inertia etc.
• FC Spring Helix when I want to create springs
• Force Recompute

and there are a lot of Macros to choose from.

Be aware that you do not have to install the add-ons and macros yourself but via the Addon-Manager that can be accessed through the "Tools" bar on top of FC.

Thank you for your reply sir. I am an automobile engineer and I like to design stuff related to that field and also Have great interest in Mechanical engineering , Aeronautical engineering .

Hello. I recommend installing A2plus, SheetMetal, Fasteners.

Thank you sir for your recommendations.

Assembly4 and TechDraw are very useful, too and these may already come installed, not sure? Outside the box, but still inside the open-source world, I also use Blender to help manipulate my projects various textures needed for renderings and Inkscape if you create a new page template and need your own title block with your custom logo, etc.

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Assembly4 and A2+ workbenches handle assemblies, but they are incompatible. So you will have to test the 2 and choose one.

My added workbenches : assembly4, Curves, Sheet metal, Pyramid and polyhedron, Lattice2 and Force Recompute (a macro that you add with addon manager).

I think that you have to use also Blender software to generate superb rendering or animation.

But I'm just a beginner with Freecad.

Before reccomending any workbenches, maybe first tell us, what you are trying to accomplish in FreeCAD