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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…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 26 November 2025
Maintainers have been backporting some of the fixes to the v1.1 branch where possible — 49 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: CAM: BIM: FEM: GUI: Other…
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Continue reading →: The first release candidate of FreeCAD 1.1 is out
The team has just published builds of the first candidate of FreeCAD 1.1, you can download them on GitHub. Here is what it means and what’s going to happen next. The release candidates are basically preliminary builds of the final version. They are aimed at a particular demographic: people who want…
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Continue reading →: Forged In FreeCAD: The Modulathe V2
In an amusing twist, this Forged in FreeCAD story will contain similar words to the last Forged In FreeCAD story, most notably, “concrete” and “lathe”!The last “Forged in FreeCAD” story was the SL-24 Opensource Record Lathe, and indeed this story is a lathe story that includes concrete in the construction. …
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 19 November 2025
Quick disclaimer: maintainers have created a branch for the upcoming v1.1 release and started reviewing and merging patches for v1.2. They have also been backporting some of the fixes to the v1.1 branch where possible — 36 backports in the past 7 days. The list of changes in this recap…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 12 November 2025
This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher: TechDraw: BIM/Draft: FEM: CAM: Other changes: Additional improvements and fixes were contributed by FlachyJoe, kadet1090, PaddleSgtroke, marbocub, ipatch, pyro9, chennes, marioalexis84, and NewJoker. If you are interested in testing the latest weekly build, you can grab it here. PR stats: since the previous report,…
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Continue reading →: Forged in FreeCAD: SL-24, An Open Source Record Lathe
It’s a given that the FreeCAD community is awesome and make amazing things. Every now and again though a project really stops us in our tracks. None more so than this, the SL-24, an open source record lathe. Part CNC and part high end DIY record deck this project allows…
