How do I self-host FreeCAD?

FreeCAD can be deployed using Docker Compose. The AltStack provides a production-ready configuration that you can deploy on your own server. Simply copy the configuration and run it on any machine with Docker installed.

Is FreeCAD free to self-host?

Yes, FreeCAD is open source under the LGPL-2.1 and free to self-host. Your only costs are the server infrastructure. A basic cloud VPS starts at around $5-10/month.

What programming language is FreeCAD built with?

FreeCAD is built with C++. It has 34,264 stars on GitHub, indicating strong community adoption and support.

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Deploy FreeCAD

A general-purpose parametric 3D CAD modeler and a BIM software application.

Quick Start

Create a directory

mkdir freecad-self-hosted && cd freecad-self-hosted

Create config file

Copy the content from the Config tab below into a file named docker-compose.yml

Deploy

docker compose up -d

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Metadata

License

LGPL-2.1

Language

C++

Last Updated

10/14/2026

Configuration

yaml


# ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
# 🚀 BUILT & MAINTAINED BY THE ALTSTACK
# 🌍 https://thealtstack.com
# 💡 Open-source deployment templates for modern self-hosting.
# ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━




services:
  freecad:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/freecad:latest
    container_name: freecad
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - "3000:3000"

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