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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday 23 October 2024
This week in FreeCAD development: Part and PartDesign: the unsung hero this week was AIRCAP who single-handedly wrestled with a huge amount of bugs and came out on top: GUI/UX: various fixes arrived from Rexbas, NewStorm, and hyarion. Among other changes: As usual, more fixes arrived from wwmayer, yorikvanhavre, PaddleStroke, Roy-043,…
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Continue reading →: Tutorial: On View Parameters
One of the excellent new features in the upcoming version 1.0 release is the addition of “On View Parameters” for many of the tools in the sketcher workbench. These are parameter inputs boxes that appear automatically when you use sketcher tools mean to add dimensions and more as you create…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday 16 October 2024
This week in FreeCAD development: PartDesign: wwmayer and FlachyJoe fixed 4 issues including two release blockers. Part: wwmayer fixed the PropertyGeometryList::Save output to save XML attributes into one line. Assembly: PaddleSttoke and furgo16 fixed 12 bugs including 3 release blockers and 2 crashers. FEM: marioalexis84 fixed several bugs including one release…
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Continue reading →: New grants: CI hosting research, bugfixing, v1.0 teaser video
The FPA recently approved three more grants: Jackson Oursland will research various options for FreeCAD to get fast CI runners. Currently, we have free runners from GitHub, but they are relatively slow and concurrency-limited. So Jackson will look into three general options: paid runners on GitHub, self-hosted runners in the…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday 9 October 2024
This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher: PartDesign: FlachyJoe fixed several bugs including one in Helix (seems to be a popular minefield), and mwganson fixed “Allow Compound” to recompute features and not just the body. Assembly: Materials: FEM: marioalexis84 added an option in Preferences to use the old Netgen mesher implementation, because…
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Continue reading →: RIP Bradley “bgbsww” McLean
We are sad to announce that last week, Bradley McLean passed away due to unforeseen health complications. Brad joined the project a little less than a year ago. Like many contributors, he started with small patches here and there. Building on these early contributions, Brad worked his way up to…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday 2 October 2024
This week in FreeCAD development: Part and PartDesign: Measure: hlorus fixed 3 bugs including one release blocker where measurements wouldn’t disappear when reset was used in the task panel. Assembly: PaddleStroke fixed a lag that would occur when dragging parts in an assembly with a lot of fixed parts. FEM: marioalexis84 fixed…
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Continue reading →: Tutorial: Getting Started with the Assembly Workbench
With the Version 1.0 release candidates coming thick and fast it’s a good time to explore some of the new features that Version 1.0 will have to offer. One of the most eagerly anticipated new features is the Assembly workbench. Documentation and a great tutorial can be found for the…
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Continue reading →: Major FEM workbench improvements for FreeCAD 1.0
FreeCAD 1.0 brings a true revolution. But apart from the TNP mitigation, built-in Assembly workbench, material handling rework, and major Sketcher improvements, there’s a less common module that received many updates – FEM. In fact, it’s one of the workbenches that changed the most. Over 80 issues from the FEM…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday 25 September 2024
This week in FreeCAD development: Measurement: hlorus and AIRCAP fixed several issues including one release blocker, and PaddleStroke fixed Quick Measure to work on bodies in assemblies correctly. Draft: Roy_043 fixed a minor issue, and Syres916 improved the color activation and added an ability to change the size of the…
