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Deploy FreeCAD to Microsoft Intune

FreeCAD TeamWindowsversion 1.1.4, 28 September 2026

FreeCAD is in the PatchBee catalog as a Windows app from FreeCAD Team, synced from the Windows Package Manager community repository (winget). Pick it in the App Library and PatchBee writes the deployment plan below, builds the package, publishes it to your Intune tenant and assigns it to the Entra groups you choose. New versions then follow through your update rings.

The plan PatchBee writes

FreeCAD as an Intune app

The standard form for a NSIS (x64, per machine). The real plan is generated from the installer when you package, and shown in full before anything is published; every field can be changed.

Intune app type
Windows app (Win32), .intunewin
Install
"FreeCAD.exe" /AllUsers
Uninstall
"uninstall.exe" /S
Detection
Registry: the NSIS uninstall key. Uninstall key FreeCAD114, DisplayVersion 1.1.4 or newer.
Requirements
x64 · per user or per machine

Installers in version 1.1.4

ArchitectureTypeScopeHash
x64NSISper userSHA-256 published
x64NSISper machineSHA-256 published

PatchBee downloads the installer from the publisher's own URL and verifies its SHA-256 against the catalog before packaging. "None published" means the source carries no hash for this download, so that check has nothing to compare against; packaging still works.

Silent install switches

Recorded for FreeCAD in its winget manifest. PatchBee uses them as the installer's unattended switches, so the package installs without a click.

Custom (always added)
/CurrentUser
Custom (always added)
/AllUsers

About FreeCAD

FreeCAD is a general purpose open source parametric 3D CAD modeler licensed under the LGPL License. FreeCAD is aimed directly at mechanical engineering and product design but, being very generic, also fits in a wider range of uses around engineering, such as architecture, finite element analysis, 3D printing, and other tasks.

FreeCAD features tools similar to CATIA, SolidWorks, Solid Edge or Revit, and therefore also falls into the category of CAD, PLM, CAx, CAE and BIM. It is a feature based parametric modeler with a modular software architecture making it possible to provide additional functionality without modifying the core system.

As with other CAD modelers it has many 2D components in order to sketch planar shapes or create production drawings. However, direct 2D drawing (like Inkscape or AutoCAD LT) is not the focus, neither are animation or mesh editing (like Blender, Maya, 3ds Max, or Cinema 4D). Nevertheless, thanks to its wide adaptability, FreeCAD is useful in a much broader area around its base feature set.

FreeCAD makes heavy use of open-source libraries that exist in the field of scientific computing. Among them are Open Cascade Technology (OCCT), a powerful CAD kernel; Coin3D, a toolkit for 3D graphics development compatible with Open Inventor; Qt, the world-famous user interface framework; and Python, a modern scripting language. FreeCAD itself can also be used as a library by other programs.

FreeCAD is also multi-platform, and currently runs on Linux/Unix, Windows, and macOS systems with the same look and functionality on all platforms.

Publisher
FreeCAD Team
License
LGPL-2.0-or-later
Source
winget · FreeCAD.FreeCAD
Versions in catalog
18
3d-modelercadengineerengineering

Also in the catalog for the other platform: FreeCAD for macOS

How this becomes an app in your tenant

Sign in with your Microsoft work account and connect your Intune tenant once. Find FreeCAD in the App Library, open its plan (the commands, detection rule and requirements above, editable) and publish: PatchBee downloads and verifies the installer, builds the package, creates the Intune app and assigns your groups. When FreeCAD Team ships a new version, PatchBee detects it and rolls it out through your rings, with supersedence and rollback.

Read the step-by-step guide

More Windows apps

Catalog data as of 11 October 2026, from the Windows Package Manager community repository (winget). The product re-reads the source every night and plans against the live catalog, so the version here may already be one behind. Nothing is published to a tenant without an administrator approving the plan.