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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 22 April 2026
This week in FreeCAD development: Draft ItSaulGoodMan fixed several issues: Sketcher Part and PartDesign TechDraw ayyaz20003 fixed incorrect B‑spline/spline rendering in the ArchView (PR#28853) and another bug where DraftView and ArchView would not respect the Scale property on newly created views (PR#28818). CAM FEM BIM Measurement Other changes Additional improvements…
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Continue reading →: New WIP Design for Manufacture WorkbenchOne of the most fantastic things about FreeCAD is the constant flow of people making brilliant add on collections of tools. One work in progress that has caught our eye is the FreeCAD DFM Workbench. The Design For Manufacture (DFM) workbench aims to perform analysis of your FreeCAD models against…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 15 April 2026
This week in FreeCAD development: Draft Sketcher Part and PartDesign TechDraw CAM BIM FEM Other changes Additional improvements and fixes were contributed by Bojan9597, ElementW, FEA-eng, Lgt2x, PaddleStroke, Roy-043, Syres916, WandererFan, YashSuthar983, adrianinsaval, alfrix, andershol, asukiaaa, awgrover, ayushishuklaME, caio-venancio, chennes, czarflix, dependabot[bot], freecad-ci-runner, freecad-gh-actions-translation-bot, glsys, ickby, ipatch, jffmichi, jgenunez, marioalexis84,…
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Continue reading →: FreeCAD 1.1.1 releasedHot on the heals of version 1.1.0 we are pleased to announce the release of version 1.1.1. You can check out the release notes and the full change log on the repository, it’s fair to say that there are a LOT of small fixes to enhance your experiences with FreeCAD. …
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Continue reading →: Tutorial: Importing and Using Scaled Reference ImagesOften we might need to create geometry to fit real world objects that we don’t have a CAD model for. Whilst we might jump to complex 3D scanning methods and more, sometimes a simple reference image, or images, can really help the process. Even more so if we can accurately…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 8 April 2026
It looks like the original post didn’t show up on Wed/Thu here on the blog, but was posted on the forum. Not sure what the glitch was, but here is the post in its entirety on the blog as well, backdated for accuracy. Now that FreeCAD 1.1 is out, maintainers…
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Continue reading →: Q1 2026 grants announced
The FPA members have voted for Q1 2026 grants. The following work will be paid for once completed: The total non-Ondsel allocated funding is EUR 10,721 against a budget of EUR 10,000. However, the “CAM/BIM: 2D Nesting Tool for FreeCAD” grant has been recently cancelled due to the developer’s inactivity,…
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Continue reading →: FreeCAD: It IS Rocket Science!
In full disclosure the author of this post is involved in model, amateur and high power rocketry so forgive their over excitement! The National Association of Rocketry in the USA has run NARCON a rocketry themed convention for many years and recently has moved to vNARCON moving the majority of…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 1 April 2026
Now that FreeCAD 1.1 is out, maintainers will keep backporting some changes from the main development branch to the 1.1 branch for future bugfix releases. There have been 37 such backports these last 7 days. We’ve also accumulated a backlog of 400+ open pull requests, and we keep getting new ones,…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 25 March 2026
FreeCAD 1.1 is now out, maintainers will keep backporting some changes from the main development branch to the 1.1 branch for future bugfix releases. This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher: Part and PartDesign: Assembly: PaddleStroke fixed a bug where double-clicking would be broken when a linked assembly is in an…