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Continue reading →: FreeCAD Day Europe 2026.
On the 30th January 2026 we once again held our pre FOSDEM fringe meet up event FreeCAD Day. Once again we met at the fabulous Les Ateliers des Tanneurs venue, where, fuelled with plenty of coffee and tea, we had an excellent day of talks and discussions. We kicked of…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 4 February 2026
Maintainers have been backporting some of the fixes to the v1.1 branch where possible — 19 backports in the past 7 days. The list of changes in this recap applies to the main development branch (future v1.2). This week in FreeCAD development: Draft: Sketcher: Part and PartDesign: Assembly: PaddleStroke contributed…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 28 January 2026
Maintainers have been backporting some of the fixes to the v1.1 branch where possible — 14 backports in the past 7 days. The list of changes in this recap applies to the main development branch (future v1.2). This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher: Part and PartDesign: captain0xff added an interactive…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 21 January 2026
Maintainers have been backporting some of the fixes to the v1.1 branch where possible — 18 backports in the past 7 days. The list of changes in this recap applies to the main development branch (future v1.2). This week in FreeCAD development: Draft: Roy-043 fixed snapping to geometry when the…
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Continue reading →: FreeCAD Friday! Get involved!
On a Friday, in a range of FreeCAD community platforms, you might see the hashtag #FreeCADFriday. The author of this post looks after this on the FreeCAD Fosstodon account but it also often happens on X and Bluesky. Indeed it may well happen on other social media platforms that we…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 14 January 2026
Maintainers have been backporting some of the fixes to the v1.1 branch where possible — 31 backports in the past 7 days. The list of changes in this recap applies to the main development branch (future v1.2). This week in FreeCAD development: Draft: Roy-043 fixed the setting of the AutoColor…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 7 January 2026
Maintainers have been backporting some of the fixes to the v1.1 branch where possible — 27 backports in the past 7 days. The list of changes in this recap applies to the main development branch (future v1.2). This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher: PartDesign: TechDraw: CAM: FEM: GUI: Other changes:…
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Continue reading →: Mini Documentary on Dr Adrian Bowyer, with bonus FreeCAD appearances!
Spotted in the wild is this excellent mini documentary with Dr Adrian Bowyer. If the name is unfamiliar, Dr Adrian Bowyer founded the opensource RepRap project with the idea of self replicating 3D printers. The RepRap project has a very real claim that it was the catalyst and driver that…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 31 December 2025
Maintainers have been backporting some of the fixes to the v1.1 branch where possible — 21 backports in the past 7 days. The list of changes in this recap applies to the main development branch (future v1.2). This week in FreeCAD development: PartDesign: CAM: BIM: Roy-043 fixed a warning that…
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Continue reading →: Q4 2025 grants selected
The FPA members have voted for Q4 2025 grants. tetektoza will revamp and enhance the selection system around specific bug reports listed in the grant application. He will be awarded a grant of 3,000 EUR. Pierre-Louis Boyer aka PaddleStroke received two grants, for maintaining and improving the Assembly and Sketcher workbenches,…