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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 26 August 2026
This week in FreeCAD development: Part and PartDesign CAM There have been almost 20 PRs for this workbench this past week. Here are the most interesting ones: TechDraw ryankembrey improved hovering and selection of balloons (PR#30829) and added context-aware right-click menus (PR#30892). He also fixed the view frame visibility not persisting…
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Continue reading →: FreeCAD and KiCad: CAD showdown at OSHOP 2026After the success of the E‑sport style FreeCAD and KiCad speed run competitions recently held at EMF camp, we are delighted to spot that the team behind this event are hosting another! If you are around OSHOP, the open source hardware conference running in the Just Transition Centre, Halle (Saale),…
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Continue reading →: Q3 2026 grant program deadline approaching
This is a quick reminder that the submission deadline for Q3 2026 grant applications is September 1. If you are interested in improving FreeCAD and its ecosystem, please read more about the program and apply. Please keep in mind that typically there are multiple grant requests every time, and the quarterly budget for…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 19 August 2026
This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher Part and PartDesign CAM Other changes Additional improvements and fixes were contributed by awgrover, chennes, dkleszyk, Gaurang-2005, jlewin, krissrex, Lgt2x, marioalexis84, maxwxyz, PaddleStroke, Roy-043, tmendes13, tritao, and xtemp09. The latest weekly build was broken for Linux and macOS. The bug has been fixed, and…
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Continue reading →: FreeCAD 26.3: Top 20 New Features talk
The FreeCAD North America Meetup event happened last weekend and was kindly hosted in the fantastic Knox Makers in Knoxville Tennessee. Over on the FreeCAD Project Association youtube account you can find talks from the event that went out on the livestream. This includes the excellent talk (embedded above) by…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 12 August 2026
This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher Part and PartDesign Assembly TechDraw CAM Numerous patches by tarman3, including but not limited to these: BIM FEM marioalexis84 added boundary conditions to magnetic 2D examples (PR#31690) and a magnetization 3D example for Elmer (PR#31856). He also made it possible to save Elmer eigen analysis…
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Continue reading →: Save the date: FreeCAD Hackathon August 29th 2026The FreeCAD team is organizing an online Hackathon on August 29th starting at 12PM UTC.This event is open to everyone. It’s a great opportunity for anyone interested to start contributing to the project. There’ll help from experienced developers, you can learn how to open bug reports, discuss feature requests and…
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Continue reading →: Manyfold: Now with FreeCAD Thumbnails
Manyfold is an open source self hosted web application which you can use to organise and share your CAD files. There’s a public server over at 3Dprint.social and it’s well worth taking a look there to get an idea of how the platform looks and operates. It’s pretty straightforward in…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 5 August July 2026
(The post has been backdated due to traveling.) This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher Part and PartDesign TechDraw WandererFan fixed an issue with missing views in PDF exports (PR#31650) and another bug where some documents would fail to load (PR#31689). CAM BIM FEM marioalexis84 fixed the Heat flux task panel…
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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…