After an enormous amount of work and dedication from FreeCAD contributors we are delighted to announce that FreeCAD Version 1.1 is now released and available for download.
There are significant amounts of improvements and new features. These include; transparent Part Design previews, interactive draggers added to tools like Fillet and Chamfer, 3 point lighting, a Clarify Selection tool, Assembly and FEM improvements and animations, a totally new CAM tool library system and much much more.
For a full list of changes and new features check out the Release Notes and if you want to support the ongoing development of FreeCAD then do consider making a donation!
20 responses to “FreeCAD Version 1.1 Released”
What a brilliant show case of this tremendous work achieved by the community. From 1.0 to 1.1 does not sound like a big update. However, the features implemented are crucial and a big step forward. My highest appreciation for all the hard work! THANK YOU
Fantastic! Thank you to all of the contributors!
Absolutely incredible work. A huge thank you to the entire development team! I just made a donation, which is the only way I can think of to help.
Now, a request for version 1.2: please resume development of the GD&T workbench (https://github.com/juanvanyo/FreeCAD-GDT), which was a tool with incredible potential, as it allowed you to specify manufacturing requirements without having to generate a 2D drawing…
Had a quick play on latest release and its great thanks to all who have made this I love it
curves workbench is missing! I need curves for surfacing
I think you can add this via Addon Manager.
Great job on that video, C. Rogers! Very impressive.
Great job on FreeCAD as well, Dev Team. You guys are great!
What a wonderful job by a team of dedicated contributors.
perfect. devs are amaizing thx !!!
Agreed!
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Fantastic work — congratulations to the Devs and wider support team
This feels like terrible news … for Autodesk, Dassault, PTC, and so on. Been using the 1.1RC3 and the improvements are phenomenal. I’ve been using FreeCad for maybe 3 years now, starting I think with 0.18. More than 20 years of development had produced something functional-ish, very difficult and frustrating to use. 1.0 was a huge improvement, as the number suggested was really general-use-ready, ready to actually start displacing commercial CAD. I expected after that big years-in-the-making release, 1.1 would be some minor tweaks (huge improvements waiting for an eventual 2.0). But no, this is a major step up. Progress on FreeCad isn’t just moving; it’s accelerating. Has reached the critical point where it’s popularity, and hence investment in further development, is growing. Excited to see what is still to come!
Any update on the flathub version?
Excellent work by all volunteers. Thank you for all the hard, this has been long awaited release that puts FreeCAD another step closer to being an industry standard tool.
As someone who’s happily and usefully dabbled in FreeCAD for more than a decade, and who’s just local-built origin/backport-28796-to-releases/FreeCAD‑1–1 from GitHub (About says Version: 1.1.0.44822 (Git), Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) (KDE/plasma/xcb), Python 3.11.2, Qt 5.15.8, Coin 4.0.0, Vtk 9.1.0, boost 1_74, Eigen3 3.4.0, PySide 5.15.8, shiboken 5.15.8, SMESH 7.7.1.0, xerces‑c 3.2.4, OCC 7.6.3)…
…it’s with sadness that I have to report problems during my auditioning.
Attempted to customise toolbar icons. Nope. RHS panel absent.
Attempted to construct necessary sketch within Part-Design’s editor. Nope. Buggy weirdness. For example, but not limited to… construction-line end-points showing inconsistently, not routinely, only appearing when explicitly sub-selecting from the Task/Sketch-Edit/Elements panel, unselectable in the main view… constraints/solver bugginess too (default DogLeg, FWIW).
Don’t suggest filing bug-reports — I will not be signing up with American corporations like GitHub. And as for closed/proprietary trendy Discord, well, you go f… igure.
FWIW, I remember the FreeCAD forums as a vibrant place teeming with extremely talented, respected and friendly old engineers. Of course that was in the “Before Times.” Sure, all communities change over time, that’s life. As a bystander lurking on the periphery, the unforgivable tragedy was seeing the needless ugly fracture of an erstwhile jewel, such that the talented passionate expertise was driven away.
The believers-in-dollars may pronounce the operation a success, but I suspect the patient’s soul passed on.
So yeah, bugs mean my Sketcher and other bits aren’t working as they should.
Version 1.1 release? Umm, yeah. Thanks, but…
(FWIW, it’s no fun being the realist among these celebrations)
Warm congratulations, I have transferred the Liberapay donations over to GitHub.
Yep, after a short test of new flashiness it’s back to good old cussing.
Constantly dropping backward compatibility will get it nowhere in industry — in the part not yet committing suicide, that is. Doing it after 1.0 is even worse.
But, we’re living the Kali Yuga cycle, and it’s barely started. So make the best of it (and try with QT6 😉