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Continue reading →: Q2 2025 grant program deadline
This year, we are running the grant program in four waves. The deadline for submissions in the second wave is quickly approaching. We will wrap up on June 1, so if you are considering participation and you have a great project in mind, please submit your application before that. Otherwise,…
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Continue reading →: Google Summer of Code 2025 projects announced
The FreeCAD project got three students in this year’s Google Summer of Code program. Here are the projects: 1. chiragsingh1711 will enhance the TechDraw workbench to enable 3D PDF exporting. Users will be able to create standard technical drawings with traditional orthographic views and dimensions, plus an interactive 3D view…
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Continue reading →: Design for 3D Printing, An Excellent Article
It’s wonderful when people take the time to share the expertise they’ve developed. Even more so when the resulting article is filled with FreeCAD screenshots. Fabulous FreeCAD user Rahix has put together this impressive long read (80 mins) over on their blog. It’s a collection of knowledge relating to various…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 7 May 2025
This week in FreeCAD development: Draft: Roy_043 simplified using an actual font file from the OS as the default for ShapeString objects. Sketcher: jacquesbeaurain improved the situation with font size on HiDPI displays across Linux and macOS systems, and hyarion fixed an issue. PartDesign: Beep6581 fixed an issue where finding the…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 30 April 2025
This week in FreeCAD development: Draft: Roy_043 added a global mode to the ShapeString task panel so that coordinates could be relative to the global coordinate system. Sketcher: AjinkyaDahale pushed another fix for the Trim tool, this time—to avoid an unnecessary geometry update when trimming. Assembly: furgo16 patched the BOM…
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Continue reading →: Forum and Wiki Performance; Anubis Deployed
For some time the FreeCAD Forum and the FreeCAD Wiki have had performance issues resulting in some frustration as they have been periodically hard to access. The root cause of this stemming from automated AI Scrapers. A while back we asked if anyone had any suggestions for mitigiating these issues…
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Continue reading →: New grant: fixes and improvements in TechDraw and PartDesign
The FreeCAD Project Association has awarded a grant of EUR 5,000 to the CAD Working Group (CWG) for allocation towards bounty projects. Most of the deliverables are TechDraw improvements, such as adding support for labeling symbols from ISO 129–1:2022 and workpiece edge symbols from ISO 13715, adding broken-out section views…
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Continue reading →: Tutorial: Installing CfdOF WB to begin exploring Computational Fluid Dynamics
FreeCAD does many amazing things, allows us to create all kinds of geometries and assemblies, but we can also use FreeCAD for analysis of the things we make. One fascinating approach is Computational Fluid Dynamics or CFD. CFD is essentially a tool to show how fluids interact with objects. You could…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 23 April 2025
This week in FreeCAD development: Draft: Sketcher: PartDesign: theo-vt updated the Hole tool to center holes on sketch points as well as circles and arcs. FEM: marioalexis82 refactored the SolverCalculiX object. User-visible changes are: TechDraw: furgo16 fixed the issues where BIM views were added with too big a scale of 1. GUI:…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 16 April 2025
This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher: PaddleStroke and AjinkyaDahale refactored some parts of the code. Additionally, Ajinkya fixed half a dozen trimming issues. TechDraw: hyarion contributed two potential fixes for Snap builds (Linux) and fixed a bug where the click position would be wrong for right-aligned text in templates. CAM:…
