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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 11 June 2025
This week in FreeCAD development: Draft: tetektoza implemented a 1‑axis mode in Ortho Array to modify only one axis at a time. Sketcher: PartDesign: maxwxyz improved the new Transform task panel to allow limiting the transform to translation only, rotation only, or specifying a combination of all individual components. This allows…
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Continue reading →: Forged in FreeCAD: Bjørn’s Vacuum Cleaner Repair
There’s all kinds of reasons to learn and use FreeCAD and we probably should never get into saying that one use case is better than any other. That said, it’s always awesome to see FreeCAD combined with 3D printing for repair. Spotted over in the FreeCAD Facebook community it’s great…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 4 June 2025
This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher: CAM: GUI: Among other changes: Additional improvements and fixes were contributed by wwmayer, Roy-043, luzpaz, alfrix, godiard, tarman3, oursland, 3x380V, sasobadovinac, Reqrefusion, samrg472, julian1, behollister, theo-vt, hyarion, kadet1090, and maxwxyz. PR stats: since the previous report, 72 pull requests have been merged, and 36…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 28 May 2025
This week in FreeCAD development: Draft: Sketcher: jffmichi fixed a bug where FreeCAD would show the “Wire is not closed” error message when external edges are used in the sketch. PartDesign: alfrix fixed a few issues in the Hole tool, including one where ISO metric regular standardized head cuts were…
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Continue reading →: Fused Filament Design Addon
A short while ago we posted here about an excellent article by Rahix describing some really interesting and useful design approaches for fused filament style 3D printing. If you haven’t checked out that article it’s really worth a read. Brilliantly Rahix has worked on some macros which make it trivial to…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 21 May 2025
This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher: refactoring by AjinkyaDahale, fixes by chennes and ElementW. PartDesign: alfrix moved the selector for Hole base profiles to the top of the Task panel. TechDraw: CAM: BIM: FEM: GUI: Among other changes: Additional improvements and fixes were contributed by chennes, sasobadovinac, luzpaz, pieterhijma, Flast, adrianinsaval,…
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Continue reading →: Lens Platform Now Available, Collaborate With FreeCAD Online
Earlier this year the FreeCAD Project Association (FPA) awarded a grant that sought to make the Ondsel Lens platform available to all. If you don’t know the Lens platform it enables vault style storage of projects with a heap of online collaborative tools. You can use it as a platform…
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Continue reading →: FreeCAD 1.0.1 releasedWe’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…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 14 May 2025
This week in FreeCAD development: Draft: CAM: BIM: FEM: TechDraw: Materials: triato and chennes fixed a couple of issues. Additional improvements and fixes were contributed by theo-vt, RaynoJiang, sasobadovinac, Syres916, chennes, oursland, tritao, filippor, 3x380V, pieterhijma, xtemp09, kadet1090, benj5378, and mosfet80. PR stats: since the previous report, 71 pull requests…
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Continue reading →: KiCon, Look out for FreeCAD content!
We have a great relationship with many opensource projects non more so than KiCad. As such we’d like to take this opportunity to highlight that this years KiCon North America is taking place in a little over 14 days. This time it’s in San Diego CA in the Qualcomm institute. …
