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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday 11 September 2024
This week in FreeCAD development: BIM: furgo16 and Roy_043 fixed several bugs including incorrect profile creation, color issues in ArchFence, and incorrect transparency of glass panels in windows and doors. Assembly: PaddleStroke replaced Offset and Rotation properties in several joint types with Offset1 and Offset2 placement properties internally. This will provide…
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Continue reading →: The first release candidate of FreeCAD 1.0 is out
We’ve just published builds of the first release candidate for FreeCAD 1.0. You can download them here. So far, we’ve enjoyed the contributions of users who are happy to be living on the edge with our weekly builds and reporting whatever bugs they run into. That really helped us make…
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Continue reading →: North America FreeCAD Meetup August 2024.
Between August the 15th and 18th Springfield Illinois played host to a North American FreeCAD meetup. This excellent event drew together a group of active FreeCAD contributors for a 4 day hackathon, incorporating various meetings, presentations and, of course, social activities. The event drew representatives from all 4 coasts of…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday 4 September 2024
This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher: TechDraw: CAM: shaise fixed 5 bugs in the new milling simulator in one pull request. Assembly: PaddleStroke fixed several bugs, including one where the workbench would fail to create a joint coordinate system for a linked object created with multiple “Elements” count. Measure: hlorus…
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Continue reading →: 1.0RC1 is coming next week, let’s update addons
Thanks to the work of contributors we have made really good progress fixing blockers, we are down to just 14. That’s why early next week we are planning to create a Git branch for the v1.0 release and issue the first release candidate. Right now, we expect that there will…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday 28 August 2024
This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher: Part Design: Materials: jbaehr did a followup to his previous contribution (machining data from metallic materials) and added some wood card with a machining model. The information was taken from the German textbook “Zerspanung von Holz und Holzwerkstoffen” (pure information and facts not copyrightable…
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Continue reading →: Mango Jelly Solutions Latest Playlist Helps Explore Version 1 Features
With version 1 of FreeCAD approaching it’s excellent to see people picking up on the new and improved features and workflows via the weekly developmental 0.22 versions. It’s also particularly excellent to see those who produce tutorial content beginning to use version 0.22 so that those who pick up FreeCAD…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday 21 August 2024
This week in FreeCAD development: CAM: Materials: jbaehr extended initial work by sliptonic on machining properties in materials and added complete machining model data for various classes of metals. The information comes from the German standard work “Tabellenbuch Zerspantechnik” and is not subject to copyright as per German law. Among other…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday 14 August 2024
This week in FreeCAD development: Toponaming: mostly bugfixing and code refactoring. 8 pull requests from bgbsww and chennes fixed 9 reported issues including 3 release blockers. The toponaming PRs queue has been largely cleaned up. Currently, there are just 3 PRs from bgbsww and CalligaroV left in draft, that could…
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Continue reading →: Shawn Hymel Discusses FreeCAD on the Amp Hour Podcast
Shawn Hymel recently appeared on the excellent Amp Hour podcast discussing some changes in direction in his work. Shawn is currently moving from his role in developer relations at Edge Impulse back towards creating training and educative content and course. We’ve spotted recently over on the fediverse that Shawn has…
