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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…
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Continue reading →: Spotted: A new Microwave WorkbenchOver on our FreeCAD Mastodon account, under our regular #FreeCADFriday hashtag we get to spot all manner of things. Often people post that weeks little 3D printing project, or a small technical drawing, or an update on a longer FreeCAD project they are undertaking. Sometimes though people pop in with…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 2 September 2026
This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher Part and PartDesign Assembly TechDraw CAM Other changes Additional improvements and fixes were contributed by awgrover, chennes, codeotaku, Connor, davesrocketshop, davidgilkaufman, flaviut, FreeCAD-Nut, jffmichi, ILoveBuns, kadet1090, Lgt2x, maxwxyz, mnesarco, pieterhijma, Roy-043, shubham-pawar, sliptonic, tarman3, TD-4242, TheBhowmik, tritao, waynepiekarski and wmayer. If you are interested…
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Continue reading →: History Workbench brings Git powered File Versioning to FreeCAD
We recently posted Chris Hennes excellent talk at the FreeCAD North American meetup 2026 which is well worth checking out to see a snapshot of upcoming developments at FreeCAD. The above video is another talk from that day from Ephi who has developed the excellent History Workbench. This workbench is…