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The FPA mem­bers have vot­ed to fund three projects in the third quarter.

Morten Vajhøj will work on topo­log­i­cal nam­ing and fea­ture iden­ti­fi­ca­tion in Tech­Draw. Morten will focus on four deliv­er­ables: HLR topon­am­ing, attach­ing call­outs to geom­e­try rather the view loca­tion, auto­mat­ic fea­ture iden­ti­fi­ca­tion, and a dozen new fea­tures, such as auto­mat­ic BOM and bal­loons in assem­blies, and auto­mat­ic hole/thread call­outs. Morten joined the project in ear­ly 2026, his con­tri­bu­tions are all in/around Tech­Draw and the Mea­sure­ment tool. He is one of our GSoC stu­dents this year, work­ing on a post-selec­tion rewrite of Tech­Draw. Morten will be award­ed a grant of EUR 2,000 upon the suc­cess­ful com­ple­tion of the project.

João Matos will be improv­ing the visu­al appeal of ren­der­ing in the 3D view. Deliv­er­ables are: mul­ti-pass infra­struc­ture, lin­ear HDR ren­der­ing and cor­rect col­or han­dling, phys­i­cal­ly based mate­r­i­al shad­ing, image-based/en­vi­ron­ment light­ing, real-time ambi­ent occlu­sion, real-time direc­tion­al-light shad­ows, and more. João’s pre­vi­ous work involved mod­ern­iz­ing FreeCAD’s and Coin3D’s ren­der­ing archi­tec­ture. He will be award­ed a grant of EUR 4,000 once the project is completed.

Amrit­pal Singh will work on KiCad inte­gra­tion for Ond­sel Lens. Expect­ed deliv­er­ables include 3D board view­ing, dual ECAD/MCAD view­ers, and STEP export. This work is fund­ed from a sep­a­rate Ond­sel Onwards fund sub­mit­ted by a pri­vate spon­sor. Amrit­pal will be award­ed a grant of EUR 3,360 when he com­pletes the project.

The total funds allo­ca­tion is EUR 9,360 against the EUR 10,000 budget.