Parametric CAD · Stream Deck plugin

FreeCAD macOS Studio Pro

FreeCAD binds most of its tools to multi-key chord sequences: G then C for a circle, W then 8 for Part Design. 212 of the 330 commands are sequences, and each fires whole from one key.

330commands
27categories
8dials
6bundled profiles

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What it does

All 330 commands from FreeCAD 1.1's default shortcut set, across 27 remappable category keys matching how FreeCAD works: the Std workbench split by function, the Sketcher across six pages, Draft, BIM, Arch, Assembly, FEM, CAM and Extras. Every command has its own key illustration.
Eight dials: history, zoom, view roll, selection history, workbench, documents, standard views and draw style. The Stream Deck + seats four, the Stream Deck + XL six, and each dial paints its own strip art with pressable tap zones.
Undo, Redo and Save light only when FreeCAD says they are available. Run the bundled FreeCADHotkeysBridge macro once and the faces go live: true undo depth with the next step's name, the open document starred while unsaved, and real workbench, view and draw style names. On a Mac every live reading comes from this macro.
The theme key: one press restyles FreeCAD's windows, panels and 3D view live. Void, Graphite and Neon Grid are three dark colour ways, My theme puts your own look back, and Cycle steps through all four. It ships on every bundled profile, and its first press installs the theme packs and the PathfinderTheme.FCMacro macro into your FreeCAD 1.1 settings folder, never into the install folder. Needs FreeCAD 1.1 running.
The Stream Deck + XL and 32-key Stream Deck XL hubs carry a 14-key number pad that stays put while you page: digits, 00, decimal point, Backspace and Enter, with undo and redo beside it, typing straight into whatever numeric field FreeCAD has open.
Six bundled profiles, Easy Link on every one: colour-coded category hubs on the 15-key Stream Deck, the 32-key Stream Deck XL and the Stream Deck + XL, the four dials and starter keys on the Stream Deck +, and starter keys on the Stream Deck Mini and the Stream Deck Neo.

What you need

FreeCAD 1.1 on macOS 13 or later or on Windows 10 or later, and Stream Deck software 6.9 or newer. Tested on FreeCAD 1.1.3 on macOS and 1.1.4 on Windows. One pack installs on either platform; FreeCAD Hotkeys is the same plugin under its own listing.

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Good to know

Built for FreeCAD 1.1 on macOS 13 or later and on Windows 10 or later, tested on FreeCAD 1.1.3 on macOS and 1.1.4 on Windows. Requires the Stream Deck app 6.9 or newer. Profiles are bundled for six decks: the 15-key Stream Deck, the Stream Deck +, the Stream Deck + XL, the 32-key Stream Deck XL, the Stream Deck Mini and the Stream Deck Neo. The dials need one of the two Stream Deck + models.
On a Mac, two permissions. Elgato Stream Deck needs both in System Settings, Privacy & Security. Accessibility: if a key reads Allow Accessibility, turn Elgato Stream Deck on there, then restart the Stream Deck app. Automation: if keys only alert, allow Elgato Stream Deck to control System Events there.
The live faces need the bundled bridge macro: copy FreeCADHotkeysBridge.FCMacro out of the plugin's macro folder into FreeCAD's macro folder, then run it once from Macro, Macros. Every key still sends without it; only the live faces stay dark, and they say so.
Keystrokes go to the focused window, so keep FreeCAD in front. On a Mac the keys send FreeCAD's macOS shortcuts, Command for Ctrl, and six that cannot be sent safely, F11 and Command and Space among them, alert instead of failing silently.

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Every key carries the app's own shortcut for that command, and every key is remappable. Type your combination into the key's property inspector (its settings panel in the Stream Deck app) or click Capture and press it once. Where an app leaves a command unbound, the key still reaches it by the route that app exposes.
Keystrokes go to the front window and nothing steals focus, so keep the target app in front when you press.
Every command has its own drawn key art, so the deck reads at a glance instead of listing shortcuts.

Read the full quick fixes, or see this plugin on the support hub.

Still stuck? Email tony@pathfinderprototyping.com with the plugin name, your Stream Deck software version, and what you pressed versus what happened. A human answers.