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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…
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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…
