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Continue reading →: Explainer: Appearance Properties in FreeCADFreeCAD 1.0 introduced a new, refactored material system, which includes updated appearance properties of FreeCAD objects. What was previously one property ‘Shape color’ is now six new properties in the ‘Shape Appearance’ group of properties. This article explains how to set up these properties to achieve the desired surface look. There…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 5 November 2025
This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher: BIM/Draft: FEM: GUI: Other changes: Additional improvements and fixes were contributed by chennes, tritao, oursland, leoheck, mosfet80, adrianinsaval, and kpemartin. If you are interested in testing the latest weekly build, you can grab it here. Builds for macOS are temporarily unavailable. PR stats: since…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 29 October 2025
This week in FreeCAD development: BIM: CAM: TechDraw: GUI: Other changes: Additional improvements and fixes were contributed by chennes and pyro9. If you are interested in testing the latest weekly build, you can grab it here (currently broken due to CI issues). PR stats: since the previous report, 31 pull requests…
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Continue reading →: FOSDEM 2026, FreeCAD Day and the Open Hardware and CAD/CAM Devroom Cfp
Every year there’s lot’s of FreeCAD activity centred around the fantastic FOSDEM event in Brussels. This year as well as the usual FreeCAD Day, Chris Hennes (@chennes) and Jo Hinchliffe (@concretedog) are coordinating the Open Hardware and CAD/CAM devroom. Chris has just posted the text below on the FreeCAD Forum,…
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Continue reading →: FreeCAD Running on New Arduino UNO Q at #SFK25
The author of this post has been out representing FreeCAD and other open source projects at the fantastic SFK25 Conference. Arranged by the dedicated Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova (FLOSSK) team this has been a vibrant international conference with a great array of talks and workshops over 2 days. I…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 22 October 2025
This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher: Part and PartDesign: CAM: Other changes: Additional improvements and fixes were contributed by Syres916, LarryWoestman, captain0xff, marcuspollio, chennes, ipatch, ebswift, paullee0, OPGL, pyro9, Roy-043, kpemartin, petterreinholdtsen, and tetektoza. If you are interested in testing the latest weekly build, you can grab it here. PR…
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Continue reading →: Google Summer of Code 2025 recap
This year, we had three students working on FreeCAD. All projects have been successful. Here is a quick recap. chiragsingh1711 implemented 3D PDF exporting in the TechDraw workbench and added an exporter to the general list of exporting options. The code is mostly complete and requires some fixes to bring it…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 15 October 2025
This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher: Part and PartDesign: TechDraw: GUI: Other changes: Additional improvements and fixes were contributed by marcuspollio, PhoneDroid, chennes, FlachyJoe, Roy_043, adrianinsaval, and schmidtw. If you are interested in testing the latest weekly build, you can grab it here. PR stats: since the previous report, 45…
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Continue reading →: Job Offer: Competition Co-ordinator
The FreeCAD Project Association (FPA) are keen to develop a recurring CAD challenge/competition and are looking for a project co-ordinator. Inspired by CAD challenges such as the “Too Tall Toby” program the co-ordinator will lead on designing and delivering a pilot activity, leading to a sustained event. Duties will include…
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Continue reading →: Tutorial: Getting Started with TechDrawSometimes we might need to share a 3D design in the form of a 2D technical drawing. FreeCAD has an entire workbench, TechDraw, with a collection of tools to help you do this. To explore TechDraw we need to have an object that we want to make a technical drawing of.…
