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Continue reading →: FreeCAD at JdLL 2026 in LyonTwo active FreeCAD contributors, Louis Gombert (Lgt2x) and Thomas Duchesne (pierreporte), recently attended the Journées du Logiciel Libre conference in Lyon to give a talk about FreeCAD. This is their report. On May 30th and 31st, the Journées du Logiciel Libre (Free Software Days) or JdLL, one of France’s longest-running…
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Continue reading →: Exploring the FoamCut WorkbenchThe author of this blog is quite interested in designing and building open source machines and tools. Recently a, designed in FreeCAD, 4 axis CNC hot wire foam cutter has been a great project. It’s fabulous that not only can we design such a machine in FreeCAD, but also FreeCAD,…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 17 June 2026
This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher TechDraw CAM BIM Other changes Additional improvements and fixes were contributed by Bojan9597, Lokestrom, PaddleStroke, tritao, ypsvlq, and zhyifei. If you are interested in testing the latest weekly build, you can grab it here. Activity stats PR stats: since the previous report, 41 pull…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 10 June 2026
This week in FreeCAD development: Draft maxwxyz added input hints to the statusbar for the Edit tool and modification tools (PR#30436 and PR#30437). Sketcher Part and PartDesign Assembly PaddleStroke made the Insert Part command respect the active selection (PR#30041). He also fixed several bugs: CAM The big news here is the…
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Continue reading →: Register for North America FreeCAD Meetup!We are excited to announce that the 2026 North American FreeCAD Meetup will be happening August the 7th through 9th in Knoxville Tennessee. Hosted by Knox Makers™ this informal gathering will include ad hoc presentations, discussion, tutorials and more. We hope to see a range of the FreeCAD community there,…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 3 June 2026
This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher Part and PartDesign CAM BIM Other changes Additional improvements and fixes were contributed by alopes0905, chennes, eolder, greg19, ipatch, Lgt2x, Lokestrom, maxwxyz, and pieterhijma. If you are interested in testing the latest weekly build, you can grab it here. Activity stats PR stats: since…
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Continue reading →: Tutorial: Using the Clipping View functionThere are lots of ways to adjust the view of objects in the preview window but a simple one, that is often overlooked, is the Clipping View tool. We’ve just made a simple object, a fusion of two cylinders and a cube on the part workbench, to explore the clipping view…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 27 May 2026
This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher CAM Other changes Additional improvements and fixes were contributed by andershol, awgrover, Lgt2x, maxwxyz, PaddleStroke, rehan-ahmed-aix, Roy_043, and semhustej. If you are interested in testing the latest weekly build, you can grab it here. Activity stats PR stats: since the previous report, 31 pull…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 20 May 2026
This week in FreeCAD development: Draft Sketcher Part and PartDesign Assembly TechDraw CAM BIM Other changes Additional improvements and fixes were contributed by alecGraves, andershol, awgrover, Bojan9597, chennes, davidosterberg, drwho495, ElementW, ItSaulGoodMan, kadet1090, Lgt2x, maxwxyz, mosfet80, pjcreath, tarman3, and tritao. If you are interested in testing the latest weekly build,…
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Continue reading →: Tutorial: Tips for the Measuring ToolSince version 1.0 FreeCAD has had the Measure tool, a persistent tool available across all workbenches. Let’s take a quick look through it in use using version 1.1.1. We’ve got a project that is a small flat part with fillets in the corners and a collection of holes and slots,…