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Continue reading →: FreeCAD at FOSDEM 2025
Last weekend was FOSDEM where a huge cohort of the opensource community descend on Brussels and take over the Solbosch campus of the Université Libre de Bruxelles. It’s a fantastic event and, of course, FreeCAD had a stand alongside our friends and colleagues KiCad, as well a numerous FreeCAD related speakers…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 5 February 2025
This week in FreeCAD development: Draft: BIM: CAM: dubstar-04 contributed several quality-of-life improvements for using the Tool Bit Library. FEM: two fixes from marioalexis84 and NewJoker. TechDraw: WandererFan fixed a couple of bugs and added two small features: you can now show/hide units on individual dimensions rather than set it…
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Continue reading →: New grant: refactoring Sketcher, part 2
The FPA General Assembly approved another grant application. Ajinkya Dahale will continue refactoring Sketcher. The main deliverables are the same as the last time: more methods simplification, testing, and documentation. This will not direct affect features or usability, but it will help other developers contribute to the program. On top of that,…
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Continue reading →: FreeCAD Forum Performance Issues
You may have noticed that recently there have been intermittent issues with the FreeCAD forum. The main reason for this is that the forum is being repeatedly overwhelmed by AI scrapers. Obviously the FreeCAD forum is a valuable resource and we aim to make it as robust as possible. We…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday 29 January 2025
This week in FreeCAD development: Draft: Roy-043 fixed several bugs and changed the Draft_Layer icon to look different from the LayerContainer one. Sketcher: jffmichi fixed a segfault that occurred when loading sketches with redundant constraints. Jonezzzzz fixed a mapping error when creating a sketch inside a group. BIM/Arch: paullee0 fixed a regression…
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Continue reading →: Job openings at the FPA
The FreeCAD Project Association now has three open positions, each with a 1‑year long contract and a compensation of up to $500 a month: Each job assumes part-time remote involvement, a registration as independent worker in your country, and sending monthly invoices. For detailed job description and requirements, please see this…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday 22 January 2025
This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher: PartDesign: Draft: Roy_043 made move, rotate, and scale commands link-aware, made the DXF exporter preserve text alignment, improved some tooltips, and made Fillet remember the last used settings. BIM: Roy_043 and yorikvanhavre fixed several bugs. FEM: marioalexis84 patched the Reinforced material tool to use the…
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Continue reading →: Tutorial: Using the Measure tool in Version 1.0
Amongst the many changes you may have noticed in version 1, the Standard Measure tool icon has changed from an image of a tape measure to a set of Vernier Calipers. It’s not just the icon that’s changed though, the underlying measuring tools have been improved and expanded. Clicking the…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday 15 January 2025
This week in FreeCAD development: A major user-visible change is the introduction of the Transform task panel that simplifies precise translation and rotation of objects in 3D space: This patch is part of kadet1090’s grant project. There are a few more GUI changes: Part and Part Design: wwmayer improved several aspects…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday 8 January 2025
This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher: wwmayer introduced a new option to to always add external geometry as a reference so that the old workflow was still possible. Draft: Roy_043 fixed several bugs and made two changes worth mentioning separately. He improved the make_sketch command to use Sketcher methods for…
