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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 5 March 2025
This week in FreeCAD development: Draft: Roy_043 fixed numerous issues and regressions, including ones where the Trimex command would change the visibility of an object or extend to the wrong face. BIM: galou, mosfet80, furgo16, and paullee0 cleaned up the code and fixed several issues including ones where Shape2DCut would not…
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Continue reading →: New contracts at FPA
The FreeCAD project association has filled three previously announced developer-support roles: All three roles come with a 1‑year long contract and a grant of up to $500 a month to support their efforts.
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Continue reading →: FPA’s 2024 Annual Report
The FreeCAD Project Association (FPA) has just published the 2024 annual report. Here are some of the report’s highlights: The report also announces 2025 plans, such as increasing the spending and improving various aspects of the FPA’s operation. We are also looking into better collaboration with educators around the world,…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 26 February 2025
This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher: Shkolik fixed a bug in Sketcher where it wouldn’t be able to project a BSpline from another sketch. TechDraw: FEM: UI changes: Among other changes: Additional fixes were contributed by tritao, PhoneDroid, mosfet80, Shkolik, adrianinsaval, benj5378, chennes, furgo16, Syres916, kpemartin, looooo, serkonda7, kadet1090, bofdahof,…
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Continue reading →: FPA Grant Program 2025
The FreeCAD Project Association collects corporate and personal donations and distributes the funds to contributors who improve FreeCAD and its ecosystem. In 2025, we are switching to quarterly waves of grant application reviews. Here are the submission deadlines: If you want to apply for a grant for the next round…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 19 February 2025
This week in FreeCAD development: Part Design: BIM: FEM: CAM: Toponaming: Among other changes: Additional fixes were contributed by tritao, hyarion, alfrix, xtemp09, mosfet80, bofdahof, benj5378, PhoneDroid, hasecilu, bofdahof. PR stats: since the previous report, 44 pull requests have been merged, and 36 new pull requests have been opened. Issue…
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Continue reading →: FreeCAD Day 2025
Each year on the Friday before the FOSDEM event, FreeCAD held a “FreeCAD Day” where, after working for a few days directly on FreeCAD in a hackathon style, the day is set up as an Un-conference meaning any presentation or activity can be attached to the agenda. It’s a lovely…
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Continue reading →: The Ondsel Onwards Fund
Ondsel was a great project which brought huge benefits and development into the wider FreeCAD project. One of the main projects at Ondsel was the creation of Ondsel Lens, a cloud-based platform for sharing and collaborating with CAD files. With the closing of Ondsel there has been some interest in…
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Continue reading →: 2024 grant program recap
Since its inception in late 2021, the FreeCAD Project Association (FPA) has been collecting the community’s donations with the intention of spending them on improving FreeCAD and its ecosystem. In 2024, the FPA launched its first annual grant program. Here is a recap of how this went. Program and out-of-program participation…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 12 February 2025
This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher: PartDesign: Draft: Roy_043 introduced a uniform scaling option for Clone scaling, made arrays explodable, implemented an “Add to layer” command (and grouped all three “Add” commands in the menu), and fixed a couple of bugs. BIM: TechDraw: benj5378 implemented a new feature that allows users…
