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Continue reading →: Q4 2025 grants selected
The FPA members have voted for Q4 2025 grants. tetektoza will revamp and enhance the selection system around specific bug reports listed in the grant application. He will be awarded a grant of 3,000 EUR. Pierre-Louis Boyer aka PaddleStroke received two grants, for maintaining and improving the Assembly and Sketcher workbenches,…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 24 December 2025
Maintainers have been backporting some of the fixes to the v1.1 branch where possible — 45 backports in the past 7 days. The list of changes in this recap applies to the main development branch (future v1.2). This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher: Part: PartDesign: CAM: BIM: TechDraw: GUI: Other…
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Continue reading →: Tutorial: Festive Star Decoration using a Macro
Around this time last year we created a small tutorial to make a festive tree decoration, shamelessly using the winter holidays to actually write a tutorial that, whilst pretending to be festive, really explained the use of the revolve tool! This year we are aiming for similar, we are going…
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Continue reading →: Dec 2025 bug bounty update
We are currently at 17 release blockers for FreeCAD 1.1, so the FPA members have raised the price per fixed release blocker from $50 to $100. Meanwhile, two more people have collected bugfix rewards: For more information on the bugfix rewards program, please see our earlier blog post.
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Continue reading →: Guest Post, Turan at the Google Summer of Code SummitThe following text is a guest post from Turan Furkan Topak reporting on their trip to the GSOC Summit. Many thanks for taking the time to write this report. /Jo When I applied to be a mentor for GSoC, my intention was actually just to mentor in my own area…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 17 December 2025
Maintainers have been backporting some of the fixes to the v1.1 branch where possible — 22 backports in the past 7 days. The list of changes in this recap applies to the main development branch (future v1.2). This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher: Part and PartDesign: Assembly: CAM: BIM: GUI:…
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Continue reading →: FOSDEM 2026, Open Hardware CAD/CAM room update
We recently posted about the planned FreeCAD activities around FOSDEM 2026. These include the FreeCAD Day on the 30th January and the joint KiCad/FreeCAD booth at FOSDEM itself on the 31st and 1st. We also mentioned that Chris Hennes (@chennes) and Jo Hinchliffe (@concretedog) are co-ordinating the Open Hardware CAD/CAM…
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Continue reading →: Rockets, windblades, and 3D-printing food, with Matt Thomas aka LT72884
People have been using FreeCAD in academia and research for many years, and the range of these research projects is surprisingly broad. Today, we are talking to Matt Thomas aka LT72884, who has a great YouTube channel where he explains how to use free and open-source engineering software for rocket design,…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 10 December 2025
Maintainers have been backporting some of the fixes to the v1.1 branch where possible — 14 backports in the past 7 days. The list of changes in this recap applies to the main development branch (future v1.2). This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher: PaddleStroke fixed incorrect creation of an offset…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 3 December 2025
Maintainers have been backporting some of the fixes to the v1.1 branch where possible — 33 backports in the past 7 days. The list of changes in this recap applies to the main development branch (future v1.2). This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher: PartDesign: Assembly: PaddleStroke fixed error messages that…
