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Continue reading →: Tutorial: Getting Started With the SheetMetal Workbench
FreeCAD is excellent in that it can be used for design projects for all manner of fabrication approaches. A really interesting fabrication approach is cutting, bending and joining sheet metal. As such FreeCAD has a dedicated addon workbench that’s incredibly helpful in designing for flat sheet materials. Let’s run through…
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Continue reading →: Q2 2025 grants announced
The FreeCAD Project Association general assembly has voted for Q2 grants based on recommendations from the grant technical review committee. Here are the projects we are allocating available money for (in order of submission): Pattern tools refactor, unification, and additional functionality by Pierre-Louis Boyer. Pierre intends to refactor, unify, and…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 9 July 2025
This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher: BIM: CAM: GUI: maxwxyz removed outdated links from the Help menu and added a link to the Developers Handbook. Among other changes: Additional improvements and fixes were contributed by maxwxyz, Syres916, ryankembrey, kadet1090, chennes, luzpaz, and NewJoker. PR stats: since the previous report, 36…
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Continue reading →: The FreeCAD 2025 North American Meetup Returns to Illinois
Sign up now! The annual FreeCAD North American Meetup is taking place in Springfield, Illinois, on August 8–10, 2025. The meetup will again be hosted by Innovate Springfield, but the venue is changing from last year’s to the Horace Mann headquarters. We are still only a few blocks away from the…
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Continue reading →: WandererFan is retiring
WandererFan, AKA Chris has recently announced his retirement from two roles at FreeCAD: Maintainer of the TechDraw workbench and member of the FreeCAD Project Association (FPA) board, responsible for all accounting and budgeting work. Chris is a retired IT engineer in the transportation industry. He joined FreeCAD in 2013 to submit…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 2 July 2025
This week in FreeCAD development: Draft: Sketcher: karliss fixed an issue where the state of the “Esc can leave sketch edit mode” setting would not refresh after changes and required a restart for the change to take effect. PartDesign: mosfet80 removed some deprecated and unused functions. BIM: Roy-043 fixed an…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 25 June 2025
This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher: Part: Rexbas added support to align selection to curve normal direction. PartDesign: 3x380V cherry-picked several regression fixes from wmayer’s branch to fix the single-solid check for Pad, Pocket, Fillet, Chamfer, Groove, Revolution, and Loft. For some of these operations, the check didn’t even work…
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Continue reading →: Forged in FreeCAD: IO Rodeo’s Open Colorimeter
It’s always fabulous to see open hardware, even more wonderful when the tool chain to make the hardware is open, and lastly, great when people have used FreeCAD as part of their fascinating projects. The Open Colorimeter from IO Rodeo is a device allowing for the measurement of the intensity…
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Continue reading →: KiConnect at KiCon, New interoperability between FreeCAD and KiCad
What better way to round off the week than to take a little time to look at an interesting workbench that promotes interaction between FreeCAD and KiCad PCB’s. Presented at KiCon North America recently Morgan Allen has been working on KiConnect. In his fascinating talk Morgan looks at some of his…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 18 June 2025
This week in FreeCAD development: Draft: Roy-043 specified units of spinboxes in UI files for arrays and ShapeString and made minor improvements in the OrthoArray task panel. Sketcher: PartDesign: BIM: Roy-043, furgo16, Syres916, and tetektoza, and maxwxyz fixed several bugs. CAM: knipknap patched the workbench to show abbreviations on each label to…
