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The FreeCAD Project Asso­ci­a­tion has award­ed a grant of EUR 5,000 to the CAD Work­ing Group (CWG) for allo­ca­tion towards boun­ty projects.

Most of the deliv­er­ables are Tech­Draw improve­ments, such as adding sup­port for label­ing sym­bols from ISO 129–1:2022 and work­piece edge sym­bols from ISO 13715, adding bro­ken-out sec­tion views to the Com­plex Sec­tion tool, etc. You can find the full list of deliv­er­ables in the grant appli­ca­tion.

The CWG formed itself last year to com­ple­ment the Design Work­ing Group. It’s com­posed of vol­un­teers from the FreeCAD com­mu­ni­ty who are pro­fes­sion­al CAD users. The role of the work­ing group is to pro­vide input from pro­fes­sion­al CAD users with both mechan­i­cal engi­neer­ing and archi­tec­tur­al backgrounds.

The work­ing group’s goal mov­ing for­ward is to pro­pose new fea­tures to fol­low indus­tri­al prac­tice, find issues with exist­ing fea­tures, and give advice to con­trib­u­tors want­i­ng to solve issues or imple­ment new features.