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The FPA has vot­ed to approve three grants in the 2026 Q2 wave of the program.

1. BIM Plan Edit and Sup­port­ing BIM Work­flow Improve­ments in FreeCAD by @tritao. João Matos will imple­ment a new BIM author­ing work­flow for FreeCAD that will let users work direct­ly in a build­ing lev­el’s floor plan, sim­i­lar in intent to the plan-based work­flows in Revit and Archi­cad. Plan Edit will pro­vide a focused 2D edit­ing con­text for a select­ed storey: walls, open­ings, spaces, and sym­bols. João will be award­ed a grant of EUR 4,000 for the project.
2. Para­met­ric Snap­ping Sys­tem for the Mea­sure Tool by @Krrish777. Krish Shar­ma will deal with some of the cur­rent Mea­sure­ment tool lim­i­ta­tions by intro­duc­ing six per-ele­ment snap modes (Auto, None, Ver­tex, Cen­ter, Axis, Mid­point) and a hov­er pre­view show­ing which point will be used. Exist­ing files will open iden­ti­cal­ly because the Auto mode will be the default one and will pre­serve the cur­rent behav­ior. Krish will be award­ed a grant of EUR 500 for the project. He will be award­ed a grant of EUR 1,750 for the project.
3. Imple­ment Fea­ture Thread by @caio-venancio. Caio Venân­cio do Rosário will imple­ment a para­met­ric thread­ing fea­ture. It will use OCCT to detect cylin­dri­cal and con­i­cal faces, extract para­me­ters, and gen­er­ate stan­dard-com­pli­ant threads on exist­ing geom­e­try, with sup­port for both inter­nal and exter­nal thread­ing, while allow­ing both cos­met­ic and mod­eled threads. You can track the draft PR. Caio will be award­ed a grant of EUR 2,000 for the project.

The total spend­ing, once all three projects are com­plet­ed, will be EUR 7,750, well with­in the quar­ter­ly EUR 10,000 bud­get for the grant program.

All three peo­ple behind the approved grant appli­ca­tions have con­tributed to FreeCAD before.