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Continue reading →: Machine Optimised Flying Wing Design With FreeCADAs FreeCAD is completely open it often gets used for really interesting experiments and academic research. Recently we became aware of this excellent paper, “Machine-optimized parametric computer assisted design (CAD) of a stable flying wing UAV glider”. It’s a fascinating piece of work, a flying wing uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV)…
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Continue reading →: Announcing FreeCAD BIM meetupsAs the number of contributors to the FreeCAD BIM Workbench grows over time, a need for better coordination has arisen this year. Marcuspollio initiated a BIM meetup session, which has become a weekly occurrence. Developers and active users discuss the current development status, future development plans, and the roadmap. The…
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Continue reading →: FreeCAD 26.3 Release Candidate 1The FreeCAD team has just announced the first release candidate for FreeCAD 26.3. If you’ve been waiting to get your hands on new features and help by reporting bugs, this is a great time to start. What we need from you: The issue tracker on GitHub has a list of open blockers…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 7 October 2026
The FreeCAD team has switched to preparing for the release of FreeCAD 26.3, the first one under the new versioning scheme. They are now focused on polishing the release branch and preparing the first release candidate. There will be a separate announcement about that. Out of 93 pull requests merged in…
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Continue reading →: 2026 Q3 grant program: funded projects
The FPA members have voted to fund three projects in the third quarter. Morten Vajhøj will work on topological naming and feature identification in TechDraw. Morten will focus on four deliverables: HLR toponaming, attaching callouts to geometry rather the view location, automatic feature identification, and a dozen new features, such…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 30 September 2026
This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher Part and PartDesign Assembly PaddleStroke fixed a rack-and-pinion bug (PR#32922) and the inability to delete an orphaned group of joints after an assembly has been deleted (PR#32924). CAM 29 PRs merged this past week, ladies and gents. Here are some of the patches: BIM…
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Continue reading →: FreeCAD 1.1.4 released
The FreeCAD development team has just released v1.1.4 that fixes over 30 bugs in the stable v1.1 series. There are no new features in this release (expect those in v26.3 to be released later this year). The majority of patches fix issues in TechDraw, BIM, and the user interface. The most…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 23 September 2026
This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher Part and PartDesign Assembly PaddleStroke added commands and the shared task panel for LinkArray tools (PR#32688) and integrated the tools into Assembly (PR#32762). CAM This workbench continues to be probably the most actively developed one these days. 19 pull requests were merged, including these…
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Continue reading →: Tutorial: Lofting between Parts with FacebindersThe Draft Workbench has an interesting tool called Facebinder which can be used to perform actions like lofting or extruding from faces rather than from sketch geometry or wires. Whilst a somewhat niche tool, it can be incredibly useful when needed. As an example we have these two parts that…
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Continue reading →: Announcing Lens test serverThe FreeCAD Project Association is excited to announce the launch of lens.freecad.org, a test server for collaborating on FreeCAD projects. The underlying technology, Ondsel Lens, is a product data management (PDM) system developed in 2023–2024 by Ondsel, a US-based startup. It supports creating organizations, adding new members, versioning FreeCAD projects, sharing…