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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 29 July 2026
This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher Part and PartDesign TechDraw ryankembrey improved the selection of leader lines (PR#30986) and made it possible to open the task panel by double-clicking on a view or a projection group in the page (PR#30797). BIM Other changes Additional improvements and fixes were contributed by…
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Continue reading →: FreeCAD E‑Sport Speed Run Challenge at EMF camp 2026EMF Camp has recently taken place in the UK. This, every two year, festival/hacker camp sees around 4000 people descend on the grounds of Eastnor Castle UK. It’s an amazing event with all manner of talks, art installations, workshops and indeed partying in Null Sector. Amongst all this the fabulous…
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Continue reading →: FreeCAD 1.1.3 released
Hot on the heels of v1.1.2, FreeCAD 1.1.3 is out to include a patch we forgot backporting. The new version includes a fix for repeated version update warnings when saving files. There are no security risks or crashes involved, but the warnings are annoying, so you will likely want to…
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Continue reading →: FreeCAD 1.1.2 releasedWe are pleased to announce the release of version 1.1.2. This release pulls important fixes from the current development branch without adding any new features. 32% of the backported patches fix issues in BIM/Arch and the core. Another 12% are security fixes, so we do recommend downloading and installing the…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 22 July 2026
This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher Part and PartDesign CAM tarman3 patched Probe to use the bounding box rather than the volume of the selected shape to define probe area (PR#30609), fixed cycle time for dress-ups (PR#31110). He also contributed the first step towards making helix ramp an option in…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 15 July 2026
This week in FreeCAD development: Draft Sketcher CAM TechDraw Other changes Additional improvements and fixes were contributed by AngelGalindo7, Bojan9597, chennes, Connor, ElementW, greg19, j‑hewett, Krrish777, Lgt2x, matthiasdanner, maxwxyz, Roy-043, tarman3, theo-vt, tritao, and wmayer. If you are interested in testing the latest weekly build, you can grab it here.…
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Continue reading →: New Addon; Banana For Scale!Take a seat, mark the time and remember where you were for this announcement of our most important new feature to date. Indeed, whilst making excellent technical drawings on the TechDraw workbench, or having the instant automated Measure tool features at our fingertips, we have been missing a key part…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 8 July 2026
This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher Part and PartDesign Assembly PaddleStroke added snapshots that allow saving multiple versions of the current state of an assembly (visible parts, positions, etc.) and switching between them in the project tree (PR#25384). CAM FEM NewJoker added two new example files: one with cavity (surface-to-surface)…
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Continue reading →: FreeCAD Community Design Competition 2026: The Results!Recently we ran our first FreeCAD Community Design competition. Our idea was to challenge people to use FreeCAD to design something useful for another open source community. We chose the theme of Open Science and partnered with LabCrafter who identified that numerous open science/open hardware projects would benefit from a…
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Continue reading →: Q2 2026 grants announced
The FPA has voted to approve three grants in the 2026 Q2 wave of the program. The total spending, once all three projects are completed, will be EUR 7,750, well within the quarterly EUR 10,000 budget for the grant program. All three people behind the approved grant applications have contributed…