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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday 20 November 2024
This week in FreeCAD development: BIM: yorikvanhavre fixed several issues and added a new ArchDetail example file compatible with modern FreeCAD and tools. Draft: Roy_043 and fra589 fixed several issues, cjmayo made Draft and BIM mutually independent build options, and yorikvanhavre implemented SVG text rotation (this fixes vertical text when placing…
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Continue reading →: FreeCAD Version 1.0 Released
After more than twenty years of intense and sustained development, the FreeCAD community is proud to announce the release of version 1.0. FreeCAD 1.0 is now available for download on all platforms. In software development, version 1 usually means: our software is now stable and ready for “real work”. If…
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Continue reading →: New grants: VarSets, Mediawiki, artwork guidelines and icons
The FPA General Assembly approved three new grant applications. Pieter Hijma will work on improving the user experience of VarSets. The work will include guiding the discussion on the more complicated topics, adding new features that are requested from users, and improving on various small issues. The work is scheduled…
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Continue reading →: FreeCAD 1.0 Release Candidate 4 is out
We’ve just released the fourth v1.0 release candidate, you can download it on GitHub. There was no official announcement of RC3 yesterday because we discovered a regression immediately after releasing the builds. Currently, we are down to just one release blocker that is a macOS-specific UI issue. We’ll wait another…
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Continue reading →: Tutorial: Sketcher Offset Geometry Tool
In the version 1.0 release candidates and the upcoming version 1.0 a new “Offset Geometry” tool can be spotted on the sketcher workbench. Let’s have a look at how this tool can be used to help create sketch geometry more efficiently. In a new sketch we used the Polyline tool…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday 13 November 2024
This week in FreeCAD development: Assembly: PaddleStroke fixed a handful of Exploded View bugs, improved the offset UI for joints, and fixed a few more bugs. Another fix to the workbench was contributed by wwmayer. FEM: for material panels, marioalexis84 replaced the combo box with the material tree widget; this…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday 6 November 2024
This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher: mwganson defractalized the workbench by disallowing a sketch to be attached to itself. Assembly: paddlestroke fixed two bugs including one release blocker. He also fixed the task panel to allow using expressions for joints. BIM: TechDraw: WandererFan fixed two bugs related to displaying SVG…
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Continue reading →: FOSDEM and KiCAD + FreeCAD day 2025
It’s happening again! FOSDEM 2025 has been announced and, like the previous years, the FPA are thrilled to organise once again our world-famous FreeCAD events. These will take place in Brussels, from January 28th to February the 2nd 2025, together with FOSDEM. Be ready for several days full of coding,…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday 30 October 2024
This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher: PaddleStroke fixed several bugs, including one release blocker, all related to constraints and transformations / arrays. PartDesign: Assembly: PaddleStroke fixed a bug where Insert Component would show items hidden in the Tree view. He also added support for flexible subassemblies that create links to…
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Continue reading →: Tutorial: Editing the Light Source
We’ve written numerous tutorials recently looking at some of the larger changes and developments in the upcoming FreeCAD version 1.0 which can already be found in the current release candidate and the weekly developer versions of FreeCAD. The recent tutorials include the On View Parameter features in the Sketcher workbench…
