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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 9 April 2025
This week in FreeCAD development: CAM: TechDraw: benj5378 fixed a bug where edges would have the wrong color, and jonzirk76 contributed minor code refactoring. Surface: Shkolik changed the behavior of the Fill Boundary Curves and Sections surface tools: after activating either of the tools, there’s no need to click on…
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Continue reading →: Tutorial:Getting Started with Spreadsheets and Parametric Design
Amongst the built in collection of FreeCAD workbenches, you may have noticed one for creating and working with spreadsheets. Whilst you could use this to track your expenses, let’s look at an example project where a spreadsheet is really useful! As a quick reminder, when we write tutorials we call…
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Continue reading →: Q1 2025 grants announced
The FPA General Assembly has finalized the list of approved grant applications for the first quarter of 2025. Ajinkya Dahale (AjinkyaDahale) will develop two new types of curves in Sketcher: restricted and offset curves. Restricted curves are useful when we only need a portion of an external curve that can change.…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 2 April 2025
This week in FreeCAD development: Draft: paullee0 and Roy_043 fixed several issues. Additionally, Roy_043 added a font name dropdown list to Preferences. Sketcher: rpronto fixed an issue that occured when renaming a constraint, and ashimabu fixed a bug where sketch color would still appear as constrained after deleting the constraint.…
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Continue reading →: FreeCAD Telemetry addon is now available
Chris Hennes developed an opt-in Telemetry addon to help the development team make good decisions and help answer questions like: To assist with that, the addon transmits select information about your copy of FreeCAD back to a central server. The addon recently passed initial beta testing. If you are interested in…
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Continue reading →: Forged In FreeCAD: A Beginners Keyring and Candlestick
There’s a great phrase about education used in various communities “Each One Teach One”. Funnily enough I first noticed the phrase as it got used in the FreeCAD Twitter/X account as a hashtag. It’s rooted in African culture and initial usage was amongst enslaved people in America who, denied any…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 26 March 2025
This week in FreeCAD development: Draft: Roy_043 contributed several improvements and bugfixes including one for the bug where Near Snap would not obey the Always Snap setting. Sketcher: PaddleStroke improved the way length is enforced in Line and Slot tools when an angle is set. Part and PartDesign: Assembly: TechDraw: CAM:…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 19 March 2025
This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher: CAM: Among other changes: Additional fixes were contributed by chennes, pmjdebruijn, mosfet80, jbaehr, bofdahof, tritao, thomasgi1, adrianinsaval, kpemartin (measurements), xtemp09, ljo, yomgui1, thyssentishman, hasecilu, luzpaz, wwmayer, alfrix, benj5378, hyarion, and karliss. PR stats: since the previous report, 54 pull requests have been merged, and…
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Continue reading →: Tutorial: Custom Toolbars
When you use any tool for a while you often build a more personal connection to it. Perhaps you have that old screwdriver in a drawer that’s become polished with years of use and fits your hand perfectly. We’ve looked previously at changing the appearance of FreeCAD using themes and…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 12 March 2025
This week in FreeCAD development: Draft: Roy_043 fixed several bugs, including Draft’s fillet not working the first time you try it, as well as incorrect snapping behavior. He also implemented a new Dim Auto Flip Text option to disable automatic text orientation based on where you click first. BIM: Sketcher: Shkolik…
