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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…
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Continue reading →: The second release candidate of FreeCAD 1.0 is out
We’ve just released FreeCAD 1.0rc2, builds are already available for downloading on GitHub. The update is coming with just bugfixes. The number of issues blocking the final release has been circling around 6–8 for the past few weeks and only went as high as 13 after we released rc1. We…
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Continue reading →: New grants approved: variant parts, debugging with CLion and VSCode, homebrew build update
The FPA general assembly approved the funding of three more grants. Pieter Hijma will be working on research for variant parts. There’s a number of FreeCAD features that require inserting copy-on-change links, such as referencing external geometry in a body for which SubShapeBinders are used in Part Design. The architecture…
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Continue reading →: Tutorial: Multiple Operations from a Single Sketch
With the release candidates for version 1 appearing it’s a nice time to explore some of the new features and functionality that FreeCAD now offers. You can read a long detailed list of new features here, and it’s fair to note that many areas and workbenches of FreeCAD have received…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday 18 September 2024
This week in FreeCAD development: FEM: marioalexis84 rewrote meshing with Netgen to use Netgen’s Python bindings rather than a broken plugin in salomemesh. He also rewrote the way meshing with Gmsh is executed, so it’s now possible to cancel the entire process thanks to running it in a separate thread.…
