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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 8 October 2025
This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher: PaddleStroke fixed two regressions, including one where Symmetry didn’t work on arcs with constrained centers. Assembly: PaddleStroke fixed 5 issues and added visual isolation of joint components when creating or editing a joint. CAM: GUI: Other changes: Additional improvements and fixes were contributed by marcuspollio,…
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Continue reading →: Q3 2025 grants announced
The FPA members have voted on grant proposals based on feedback from the Technical Grant Review Committee. Here are the confirmed grants: Jo Hinchliffe (concretedog) will write FreeCAD tutorials developing resources that target the promotion of FreeCAD in educational environments. Jo is a regular contributor to the FreeCAD blog and…
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Continue reading →: First bugfix program payouts done
We’ve just done the first payouts in the pilot bugfix rewards program launched in August. Two contributors have claimed the reward so far: tetektoza fixed 15 confirmed issues, and matthiasdanner fixed another five. Congrats! We have more money to spend on this, so if you already qualify for a reward…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 1 October 2025
This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher: Part Design: Assembly: TechDraw: CAM: BIM: GUI: Other changes: Additional improvements and fixes were contributed by Roy-043, chennes, marioalexis84, matt-taylor-git, ipatch, wwmayer, 3x380V, PaddleStroke, kadet1090, mrpilot2, mnesarco, tetektoza, luzpaz, Rexbas, captain0xff, Mikestriken, and FlachyJoe. For translators, some translatable text issues have been fixed, and…
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Continue reading →: Jo Hinchliffe at OSHWA Show and Tell
Last week, our very own regular blog contributor Jo Hinchliffe, AKA Concretedog, was spotted on the Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA) monthly ‘show and tell’ livestream. If you don’t know, the show hosts interview projects that have achieved Open Source Hardware Certification in the previous month. Jo’s project is a small…
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Continue reading →: Forged in FreeCAD: XYZ Micro Manipulator for Sub Micron Motion ControlIt’s a wonderful thing when you see a very cool opensource hardware project and then a further delight when you see that the toolchain to build the device is also completely open. Using FreeCAD, KiCad and other opensource projects like Python and GRBL this XYZ micro manipulator is fascinating in multiple…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 24 September 2025
This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher: Part Design: TechDraw: CAM: GUI: Other changes: Additional improvements and fixes were contributed by furgo16, PaddleStroke, luzpaz, chennes, matt-taylor-git, and MisterMakerNL. If you are interested in testing the latest weekly build, you can grab it here. PR stats: since the previous report, 74 pull…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 17 September 2025
The main development branch of FreeCAD entered the hard feature freeze on Monday, so we are now pretty much in bugfix mode until the release of v1.1. There is no schedule for the release other than “we do it when we hit zero release blockers”. For v1.0, we entered the…
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Continue reading →: Getting started with FEMFEM is a highly specialized workbench used to simulate various physical phenomena with the finite element method. The workbench is very actively developed, and thus it’s recommended to always use the newest available FreeCAD version (possibly up-to-date weekly builds). The FEM workbench supports two main solvers: CalculiX is provided with…
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Continue reading →: Forged in FreeCAD (and KiCad): Community Bike Sound System Solutions!It feels fitting to write a KiCad related story this week as KiCon Europe is currently underway in Bochum Germany. We send best wishes to our KiCad friends and colleagues and hope they are having a wonderful time. Meanwhile, in Liverpool UK, there’s a great Friday night social bike ride community…
