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Continue reading →: Tutorial: Using the Turntable Function
It’s fair to say FreeCAD has a lot of tools and features and it’s common to focus on learning the tools that help you realise your designs. As such it’s also common to miss features that have been available in FreeCAD for quite some time. It’s noticeable online sometimes that…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday 1 January 2025
This week not much has been happening in FreeCAD development due to the winter holiday season. Nevertheless: Core: PaddleStroke improved the new LCS style to address concerns raised by users who rely on the weekly builds. Draft: Roy_043 removed unnecessary CamelCase in the names of some functions. PR stats: since…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday 25 December 2024
This week in FreeCAD development: Assembly: PaddleStroke fixed a bug where an existing part would shift when inserting a new one. FEM: marioalexis84 fixed mesh exporting to vtk formats and introduced a preference for Netgen log verbosity, and NewJoker fixed a typo in an error message. TechDraw: WandererFan fixed several issues…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday 18 December 2024
This week in FreeCAD development: FEM: marioalexis84 added an electrostatic constraint symbol to the 3D view. He also made it possible to run CalculiX on one core and added an optional Laplacian smoothing filter to the contour filter to get a smoother result when the generated isosurfaces are too coarse.…
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Continue reading →: Tutorial: Festive Tree Decoration, Using the Revolution Tool!
The FreeCAD community is a wonderful diverse place and certainly not everyone in the community will be involved in traditions of bringing trees into their homes and then decorating them! However a festive tree decoration, in the shape of a tree, can be a good mini project for playing with…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday 11 December 2024
This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher: Draft: Roy_043 improved the Trimex tool and fixed a couple of bugs. BIM: yorikvanhavre implemented support for 2D objects in NativeIFC: linework, texts, dimensions, hatches, section planes, axes. The BIM views dialog got a second panel that includes 2D views, and BIM annotation tools got…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday 4 December 2024
This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher: Assembly: Part Design: FlachyJoe fixed a design issue where switching the Refine property would trigger a recompute of the shape, this is going to be useful for e.g. helix. BIM: Various other fixes and improvements arrived from Roy_043, wwmayer, WandererFan, maxxyz, VincidaB, effere79, Roy_043 and…
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Continue reading →: Tutorial: Themes and Workbench Layout
With the arrival of version 1.0 it’s a good time to take a look at some of the basic appearance options available to adjust to our preferences. So let’s look at the basics of switching themes and changing the listing and appearance of workbenches in FreeCAD. If we launch FreeCAD…
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Continue reading →: New grants: transparent preview in Part Design, interactive Sketcher tutorials
The FPA General Assembly approved two new grant applications. Kacper Donat aka kadet will work on a new feature preview system that can be used in Part and Part Design. Whenever you need to apply Pad or Loft or any other command, you will get a transparent preview of what you are…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday 27 November 2024
This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher: GUI: FEM: marioalexis84 added local refinement and second-order linear for Netgen meshing, as well as other improvements and fixes in the FEM workbench. BIM: Roy-043 and cjmayo fixed a few issues in the workbench, and yorikvanhavre added support for for additions/subtractions in NativeIFC. Materials:…
