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Continue reading →: Q1 2026 Grant Program
The FreeCAD Project Association is now accepting grant applications for the first quarter of 2026. If you are interested in participating, please submit your application by March 10. We will announce the results by March 31. Please note that we’ve changed the program rules in several ways: The rest of the program…
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Continue reading →: FPA Grant Program 2025 year-in-review
Let’s talk about the 2025 FPA grant program: what projects were voted for, what projects weren’t, and what we think needs to change for this year’s program. 2025 grants Last year, we got 46 grant applications. We voted ‘yes’ on 31 of them and ‘no’ on 15. Here is a…
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Continue reading →: FreeCAD 1.1rc3
Earlier this week, we published the third release candidate of FreeCAD 1.1. With just two outstanding release blockers (fingers crossed), this should be the last release candidate before we call it a day and release the final v1.1. If you are interested in helping us test the release candidate, please…
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Continue reading →: Amazing Multibody Dynamics with FEM
It’s incredible that we have free and open source CAD, then even more amazing we have the capability to create complex assemblies. On top of this, tools like Finite Element Methods and analysis make FreeCAD hugely capable. Therefore the sight of the above video from MbDFEM where they are combining…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 25 February 2026
Maintainers have been backporting some of the fixes to the v1.1 branch where possible — 14 backports in the past 7 days. The list of changes in this recap applies to the main development branch (future v1.2). This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher: Part and PartDesign: BIM/Arch: FEM: TechDraw: CAM:…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 18 February 2026
Maintainers have been backporting some of the fixes to the v1.1 branch where possible — 26 backports in the past 7 days. The list of changes in this recap applies to the main development branch (future v1.2). This week in FreeCAD development: Draft: Roy-043 fixed ghost previews of Arch_SectionPlane and…
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Continue reading →: FreeCAD at FOSDEM 2026
FOSDEM fell on the 31st January and the 1st of February this year and, as ever, FreeCAD had a presence at the excellent event in numerous ways. Once again our main visible presence was on the joint FreeCAD and KiCad booth in the AW building which, as ever, saw great footfall.…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 11 February 2026
Maintainers have been backporting some of the fixes to the v1.1 branch where possible — 12 backports in the past 7 days. The list of changes in this recap applies to the main development branch (future v1.2). This week in FreeCAD development: Draft: Sketcher: Part and PartDesign: Assembly: CAM: BIM/Arch:…
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Continue reading →: FreeCAD Day Europe 2026.
On the 30th January 2026 we once again held our pre FOSDEM fringe meet up event FreeCAD Day. Once again we met at the fabulous Les Ateliers des Tanneurs venue, where, fuelled with plenty of coffee and tea, we had an excellent day of talks and discussions. We kicked of…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 4 February 2026
Maintainers have been backporting some of the fixes to the v1.1 branch where possible — 19 backports in the past 7 days. The list of changes in this recap applies to the main development branch (future v1.2). This week in FreeCAD development: Draft: Sketcher: Part and PartDesign: Assembly: PaddleStroke contributed…