We’ve just released FreeCAD 1.0.1. There are no new features in this version. The 176 commits that we backported from the main development branch are fixes for various issues identified in the stable release. We encourage everyone using v1.0 to upgrade!
There will be more minor releases with just the bugfixes this year. We’d like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has or continues to contribute to FreeCAD!
12 responses to “FreeCAD 1.0.1 released”
Great news! Thanks!
Thank you very much for all your hard work! Are there any plans to release an extended version of the feature? I don’t mean the main version.
I am thankful for the work of the developers and testers!
What would be an extended version?
Some stable, new features from the weekly releases?
Great news, great work — thank you so much!
Nice!
Thank you, to all the people involved. The effort you put into this fantastic software is awesome.
Any particular reason the update hasn’t reached Flathub yet? Whatever the reason, I think it would’ve been good to mention it so as not to make people think that perhaps this distribution channel has been abandoned…
Great work.
Greetings from Brazil.
Grazie!
Well more bugfixes are certainly desperately needed! Every few years I come back to FreeCAD hoping that’s it’s OK now cause I really, really, want a good open-source CAD package. It looks great, lots of new features, I start working, all seems to be going well. I’m 10, 15, 20 hours into a new design and loving how it’s all coming together, then I see it and my blood runs cold.
There’s an error in the model, an edge isn’t connecting properly, a face is linked to the wrong edges, I try to apply a pad and the shape twists in odd ways and folds up.…. and I know it’s over, something’s happened to the model and it’s over, all my work is gone. I can try deleting operations, removing fillets, deleting features on the model but it doesn’t recover, reverting to my last save doesn’t work as the problem is somewhere deeper, backing out of this mess isn’t possible because the model won’t go back to being valid again, not until almost all the work I’ve done has been undone and only a few primitives remain.
AutoCAD doesn’t do this, tinkercad doesn’t do this, solidworks doesn’t do this, only in FreeCAD do models seem to break and that break propagates backwards in time and ruins the entire model. Oh don’t get me wrong, you can do stupid things in all of them but they’ll try to warn you, try to stop you, and you can just back up and the model is recalculated and recovers when it happens.
I sigh and give up on FreeCAD again, uninstall it and go back to using commercial software, I know they’re assholes, I know that one of these days they’re going to screw me over. I also know that when they do I’ll just have to pay them to get access to my designs again while I need them. The work will never just vanish in a storm of broken geometry. So I go back, reminding myself to recommend friends away from FreeCAD till it’s fixed, and a few years later I come back, hopeful and optimistic again, for a while.….
I feel your pain, and I’m not going to blame you (the user) for what are clearly limitations of the software in its existing state. That said, as a former developer, I would recommend some adaptations in your workflow, that may allow you to keep your sanity while using FreeCad — (or any other software that is still in active development for that matter).
Save often. I mean, OFTEN like at least once after each change.
Rename your file ften too, and create a naming convention that acts as history log.
Alternatively, use a journaling file system or some cloud drive that stores older versions. This way you’ll be able to resume your work back where you want.
As I said — this is not intended as a critic of your work, but as a recognition that unstable software requires some care. And this is useful (for other reasons) for commercial software too. The commercial CAD may not crash, but the model can still require some rethinking and often it’s easier to resume working on a former version than trying to “undo” everything you’ve done.