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After more than twenty years of intense and sustained development, the FreeCAD community is proud to announce the release of version 1.0. FreeCAD 1.0 is now available for download on all platforms.…
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WIP Wednesday 20 November 2024
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This week in FreeCAD development: BIM: yorikvanhavre fixed several issues and added a new ArchDetail example file compatible with modern FreeCAD and tools. Draft: Roy_043 and fra589 fixed several i…
on Thu, 2AM
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FreeCAD: O teu propio modelador paramétrico 3D
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FreeCAD, the open source 3D parametric modeler
on Tue, 6PM
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New grants: VarSets, Mediawiki, artwork guidelines and icons
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The FPA General Assembly approved three new grant applications. Pieter Hijma will work on improving the user experience of VarSets. The work will include guiding the discussion on the more complica…
on Mon, 10AM
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FreeCAD 1.0 Release Candidate 4 is out
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We've just released the fourth v1.0 release candidate, you can download it on GitHub. There was no official announcement of RC3 yesterday because we discovered a regression immediately after releas…
on Nov 14
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Tutorial: Sketcher Offset Geometry Tool
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In the version 1.0 release candidates and the upcoming version 1.0 a new “Offset Geometry” tool can be spotted on the sketcher workbench. Let’s have a look at how this tool can be used to help crea…
on Nov 14
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WIP Wednesday 13 November 2024
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This week in FreeCAD development: Assembly: PaddleStroke fixed a handful of Exploded View bugs, improved the offset UI for joints, and fixed a few more bugs. Another fix to the workbench was contri…
on Nov 14
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This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher: mwganson defractalized the workbench by disallowing a sketch to be attached to itself. Assembly: paddlestroke fixed two bugs including one release blocke…
on Nov 7
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FOSDEM and KiCAD + FreeCAD day 2025
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It's happening again! FOSDEM 2025 has been announced and, like the previous years, the FPA are thrilled to organise once again our world-famous FreeCAD events. These will take place in Brussels, fr…
on Nov 4
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This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher: PaddleStroke fixed several bugs, including one release blocker, all related to constraints and transformations / arrays. PartDesign: mwganson applied min…
on Oct 31
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Tutorial: Editing the Light Source
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We’ve written numerous tutorials recently looking at some of the larger changes and developments in the upcoming FreeCAD version 1.0 which can already be found in the current release candidate and …
on Oct 28
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This week in FreeCAD development: Part and PartDesign: the unsung hero this week was AIRCAP who single-handedly wrestled with a huge amount of bugs and came out on top: Fixed 7 bugs and regressions…
on Oct 24
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One of the excellent new features in the upcoming version 1.0 release is the addition of “On View Parameters” for many of the tools in the sketcher workbench. These are parameter inputs boxes that …
on Oct 20
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This week in FreeCAD development: PartDesign: wwmayer and FlachyJoe fixed 4 issues including two release blockers. Part: wwmayer fixed the PropertyGeometryList::Save output to save XML attributes i…
on Oct 18
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New grants: CI hosting research, bugfixing, v1.0 teaser video
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The FPA recently approved three more grants: Jackson Oursland will research various options for FreeCAD to get fast CI runners. Currently, we have free runners from GitHub, but they are relatively …
on Oct 17
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This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher: PaddleStroke fixed the bug where double-clicking to select connected wires wouldn’t work. Benj5378 fixed the automatic constraint tool to do distance to …
on Oct 10
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We are sad to announce that last week, Bradley McLean passed away due to unforeseen health complications. Brad joined the project a little less than a year ago. Like many contributors, he started w…
on Oct 8
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This week in FreeCAD development: Part and PartDesign: AIRCAP fixed another Loft issue and then a blocker where Pocket’s up-to-face option would work differently (and incorrectly at that) from v0.2…
on Oct 3
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Tutorial: Getting Started with the Assembly Workbench.
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With the Version 1.0 release candidates coming thick and fast it’s a good time to explore some of the new features that Version 1.0 will have to offer. One of the most eagerly anticipated new featu…
on Sep 30
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Major FEM workbench improvements for FreeCAD 1.0
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FreeCAD 1.0 brings a true revolution. But apart from the TNP mitigation, built-in Assembly workbench, material handling rework, and major Sketcher improvements, there’s a less common module that re…
on Sep 28
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WIP Wednesday 25 September 2024
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This week in FreeCAD development: Measurement: hlorus and AIRCAP fixed several issues including one release blocker, and PaddleStroke fixed Quick Measure to work on bodies in assemblies correctly. …
on Sep 26
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The second release candidate of FreeCAD 1.0 is out
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We’ve just released FreeCAD 1.0rc2, builds are already available for downloading on GitHub. The update is coming with just bugfixes. The number of issues blocking the final release has been circlin…
on Sep 24
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New grants approved: variant parts, debugging with CLion and VSCode, homebrew build update
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The FPA general assembly approved the funding of three more grants. Pieter Hijma will be working on research for variant parts. There’s a number of FreeCAD features that require inserting copy-on-c…
on Sep 24
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Tutorial: Multiple Operations from a Single Sketch
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With the release candidates for version 1 appearing it’s a nice time to explore some of the new features and functionality that FreeCAD now offers. You can read a long detailed list of new features…
on Sep 20
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WIP Wednesday 18 September 2024
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This week in FreeCAD development: FEM: marioalexis84 rewrote meshing with Netgen to use Netgen's Python bindings rather than a broken plugin in salomemesh. He also rewrote the way meshing with Gmsh…
on Sep 18
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WIP Wednesday 11 September 2024
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This week in FreeCAD development: BIM: furgo16 and Roy_043 fixed several bugs including incorrect profile creation, color issues in ArchFence, and incorrect transparency of glass panels in windows …
on Sep 12
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The first release candidate of FreeCAD 1.0 is out
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We’ve just published builds of the first release candidate for FreeCAD 1.0. You can download them here. So far, we’ve enjoyed the contributions of users who are happy to be living on the edge with …
on Sep 10
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North America FreeCAD Meetup August 2024.
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Between August the 15th and 18th Springfield Illinois played host to a North American FreeCAD meetup. This excellent event drew together a group of active FreeCAD contributors for a 4 day hackathon…
on Sep 9
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WIP Wednesday 4 September 2024
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This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher: PaddleStroke fixed a bug with geometry copy-pasting and another bug where on-view parameters would use numeric input for the wrong constraint in certain …
on Sep 4
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1.0RC1 is coming next week, let’s update addons
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Thanks to the work of contributors we have made really good progress fixing blockers, we are down to just 14. That’s why early next week we are planning to create a Git branch for the v1.0 release …
on Aug 30
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This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher: AjinkyaDahale fixed a few bugs related to auto-constraining concentric circles. kadet1090 fixed a bug where the Sketcher constraints toolbar icons would …
on Aug 28
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Mango Jelly Solutions Latest Playlist Helps Explore Version 1 Features
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With version 1 of FreeCAD approaching it’s excellent to see people picking up on the new and improved features and workflows via the weekly developmental 0.22 versions. It’s also particularly excel…
on Aug 27
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This week in FreeCAD development: Toponaming: mostly bugfixing and code refactoring. 8 pull requests from bgbsww and chennes fixed 9 reported issues including 3 release blockers. The toponaming PRs…
on Aug 14
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Shawn Hymel Discusses FreeCAD on the Amp Hour Podcast
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Shawn Hymel recently appeared on the excellent Amp Hour podcast discussing some changes in direction in his work. Shawn is currently moving from his role in developer relations at Edge Impulse back…
on Aug 13
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This week in FreeCAD development: Toponaming: bgbsww added more missing TNP code and fixed several bugs including one blocker. Assembly: PaddleStroke fixed the migration script to correctly load ol…
on Aug 8
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This week in FreeCAD development: Toponaming: bgbsww finished transferring the code to solve the save/restore errors with objects with element maps, this did away with 3 release blockers. BIM: hase…
on Jul 31
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Forged in FreeCAD: Avian Hang Gliders
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Hang gliders are mesmerising when you see them in the sky. Silently cutting through the sky smoothly, often spotted in fine weather and in beautiful locations there’s a lot to be said for them. Ove…
on Jul 30
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Quick intro to FreeCAD programming
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Ajinkya Dahale and Yorik van Havre recently did a live introduction to FreeCAD programming for participants of FOSS Hack 2024, an upcoming hackathon that aims to promote conribution to FOSS softwar…
on Jul 26
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This week in FreeCAD development: Toponaming: bgbsww fixed a blocker bug in the toponaming code, refactored all element name pairs into clearer struct names, and contributed several patches transfe…
on Jul 25
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Last week in FreeCAD development: Toponaming: bgbsww added more missing TNP code (this time, to PartDesign::Body) and fixed a couple of issues, shaise contributed a partial fix for long TNP names s…
on Jul 18
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Forged in FreeCAD: STEMFIE, 3D Printable Open Source Construction Kit
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STEMFIE is an amazing, unique project that feels a little like an imaginative 3D printed hybrid of LEGO Mindstorms and Meccano. All the part designs are freely shared and available. This means peop…
on Jul 13
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This week in FreeCAD development there has been more bugfixing in preparation for FreeCAD v1.0 release later this summer. Disclaimer: this report’s data is offset by 1 day due to traveling. Toponam…
on Jul 11
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Tutorial: Helping Translate FreeCAD using Crowdin
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In case you didn’t know FreeCAD is available in lots of different languages. If you want to check out the list, launch FreeCAD and click “edit – preferences” and you’ll see a language dropdown at t…
on Jul 4
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This week in FreeCAD development: Assembly got support for the new toponaming routines and per-limit checkboxes when setting joints. Moreover, when a checkbox for a limit is disabled, the value is …
on Jul 4
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New grants approved: further toponaming work, better API documentation
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The FreeCAD Project Association has just approved several more grants: Bradley McLean will continue his work on the TNP migration. He will develop new code to address portions of SubShapeBinder and…
on Jul 3
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This coming Monday, 1 July 2024, immediately following the regular PR Review meeting, we are going to meet to discuss the outstanding issues in the GitHub tracker, and decide which ones to prioriti…
on Jun 29
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The development of new features is pretty much done. Some larger changes, such as the BOM tool in Assembly last week, are still landing to the main development branch. But they are simply patches t…
on Jun 27
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Forged in FreeCAD: Boat Hull Hydrostatic and Stability Analysis
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Pretty much everyday someone somewhere is doing something spectacular with FreeCAD! Spotted last week over on the FreeCAD forum BlueHorizon posted about a proof of concept project to model a boat h…
on Jun 26
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Announcing the FreeCAD 2024 North American Meetup
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In case you don't read the forum, I'd like to announce FreeCAD's 2024 North American Meetup! In Springfield, Illinois, on August 15th - 18th, we will be hosted by Innovate Springfield, just south o…
on Jun 25