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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…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 16 September 2026
This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher Part and PartDesign Assembly CAM FEM BIM Measurement Other changes Additional improvements and fixes were contributed by 007stevendigar-lgtm, 3x380V, andershol, awgrover, bcherrington, chennes, faecorrigan, greg19, ipatch, j‑hewett, kadet1090, Lgt2x, maxwxyz, PaddleStroke, pyro9, robertmassaioli, TheBhowmik, and YashSuthar983. If you are interested in testing the latest…
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Continue reading →: FreeCAD Swag Shop Now Open!We are super pleased to announce that the FreeCAD official swag store is now open! All the designs in there are made in FreeCAD and we have tee, hoodies, mugs, water bottles and more. Feel free to take a look. If you do make a purchase know that a small donation…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 9 September 2026
This week in FreeCAD development: Draft Roy-043 fixed an issue where SVG faces were transformed into B‑Spline faces rather than planar faces when imported (PR#32410 and PR#32410). He fixed another bug where Shape2View would generate extra lines (PR#28354) and a midpoint snap bug in hyperbola (PR#32499). Sketcher Part and PartDesign…