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Continue reading →: GSoC2026 projects announced
Google announced the projects that will be part of the Summer of Code 2026 project. Here is what our GSoC students will be working on this year. Aymi will be adding support for animated multibody dynamics visualizations. The project will be built on top of the 3rd-party Motion workbench (by Jose…
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Continue reading →: Q2 2026 Grant Program
The FreeCAD Project Association is beginning to accept applications for the second grant review wave in 2026. If you are interested in improving FreeCAD and its ecosystem, please read more about the program and apply. In 2026, we introduced several changes to the grant program, including these: Please see here for…
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Continue reading →: FreeCAD Community Design Contest 2026: Open Science
The FreeCAD Project Association (FPA) are really pleased to share our first community design competition. We really want to see how people are using FreeCAD and thought a competition might be the way, furthermore, we thought a competition might produce something of use. As such we’ve chatted and partnered with…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 29 April 2026
This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher Part and PartDesign Assembly PaddleStroke fixed two issues in the Simulation tool (PR#29428 and PR#29433) and another bug where the Distance joint wouldn’t be solved properly depending on the selection order (PR#29461). CAM FEM BIM Other changes Additional improvements and fixes were contributed by…
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Continue reading →: 2025 annual report and plans for 2026
The FreeCAD Project Association (FPA) has just published the 2025 annual report and plans for 2026. Here are the report’s highlights: 2026 plans:
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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…