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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…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 1 July 2026
This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher Assembly TechDraw Thanks to pavltom, now you can attach any expression supported by the FreeCAD expression editor to any of the TechDraw template’s fields (PR#27117). CAM FEM Other changes Additional improvements and fixes were contributed by Amine0x0, awgrover, chennes, eeshsaxena, greg19, Lgt2x, Roy-043, tarman3,…
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Continue reading →: AI policy update
The FreeCAD developers team recently enhanced the initial AI policy introduced a few months back. The updated policy is now a separate document. It puts people first, covers the concerns over the use of AI, and sets the expectations for code submissions created with the help of LLMs. In particular, the…
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Continue reading →: New FreeCAD versioning scheme and development cycle
FreeCAD is switching to the CalVer scheme for versioning releases and a new development cycle that introduces time-based releases. Here is a quick explainer on why the team is doing that and how this will affect users. Why the switch? There are multiple issues with the current development cycle, such…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 24 June 2026
This week in FreeCAD development: Draft Sketcher Part and PartDesign TechDraw CAM FEM marioalexis84 added support for 2D geometries to the Transform constraint and Cylindrical transform support for shell elements (PR#30946). He also added an electrostatic spark gap example (PR#30928), set pipeline filters as visible by default (PR#30936), and introduced…
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Continue reading →: FreeCAD at JdLL 2026 in LyonTwo active FreeCAD contributors, Louis Gombert (Lgt2x) and Thomas Duchesne (pierreporte), recently attended the Journées du Logiciel Libre conference in Lyon to give a talk about FreeCAD. This is their report. On May 30th and 31st, the Journées du Logiciel Libre (Free Software Days) or JdLL, one of France’s longest-running…
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Continue reading →: Exploring the FoamCut WorkbenchThe author of this blog is quite interested in designing and building open source machines and tools. Recently a, designed in FreeCAD, 4 axis CNC hot wire foam cutter has been a great project. It’s fabulous that not only can we design such a machine in FreeCAD, but also FreeCAD,…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 17 June 2026
This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher TechDraw CAM BIM Other changes Additional improvements and fixes were contributed by Bojan9597, Lokestrom, PaddleStroke, tritao, ypsvlq, and zhyifei. If you are interested in testing the latest weekly build, you can grab it here. Activity stats PR stats: since the previous report, 41 pull…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 10 June 2026
This week in FreeCAD development: Draft maxwxyz added input hints to the statusbar for the Edit tool and modification tools (PR#30436 and PR#30437). Sketcher Part and PartDesign Assembly PaddleStroke made the Insert Part command respect the active selection (PR#30041). He also fixed several bugs: CAM The big news here is the…