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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 12 August July 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…
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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.…