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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 13 August 2025
This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher: Part Design: kadet1090 contributed long-anticipated transparent previews for Pad, Additive and Subtractive Loft/Pipe/Helix, Pocket, Fillet, Chamfer, and Thickness commands. A separate pull request added the transparent preview to the Draft feature. Colors, transparency levels, and other properties for the transparent previews are all configurable.…
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Continue reading →: Forged in FreeCAD: CERN CMS Detector Cable Clamps
In case it passed you by, over on our mastodon account and on the X platform we have run the hashtag #FreeCADFriday for a long time. It’s a straightforward “show everyone what you are up to with FreeCAD” type affair and every week so many amazing projects show up as…
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Continue reading →: The Q3 2025 grant applications deadline is near
We will soon wrap up accepting grant applications for the third quarter of 2025. If you are interested in participating, please submit your application by September 1. Any applications submitted after the deadline will be reviewed in the fourth wave in November/December. For general information about the grant program, please…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 6 August 2025
This week in FreeCAD development: Draft: Roy_043 fixed an issue where splitting a line would move that line. He also fixed the file button size in the Hatch task panel and the display of the cross-shaped cursor. Sketcher: Part Design: FEM: NewJoker added support for amplitudes with CalculiX, as well…
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Continue reading →: FreeCAD 1.0.2 released
We’ve just released an update with over 30 bugfixes and small improvements, go get it here. As a reminder, these 1.0.X releases bring added stability to version 1.0 of FreeCAD, whereas new features in development will be released in version 1.1. Here are the main changes in v1.0.2: Draft: Roy_043…
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Continue reading →: Tutorial: Using the Additive Pipe Tool
The additive pipe tool is an excellent tool that allows a sketch or sketches to be swept along a series of edges to create a solid pipe with the profile of the original sketch. It can also be used to create more complex geometric pipes that flow through a variety…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 30 July 2025
This week in FreeCAD development: Draft: Sketcher: Assembly: BIM: CAM: Various fixes and improvements by adrianinsaval, Syres916, knipknap, z0r0, chennes, and tarman3. I/O: furgo16 redesigned the DXF import UI to streamline the options, added a Part primitives import mode as a middle ground between performance and import fidelity, and added…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 23 July 2025
This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher: Part: Assembly: BIM: FEM: NewJoker added two new properties to FEM heat flux load to support an advanced type of radiation interaction: cavity (surface-to-surface) radiation and cavity name (required to specify which heat flux loads form the cavity). He also added a new Hard…
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Continue reading →: FreeCAD at FAB25
Between July 4th and 11th split between Brno and Prague, FAB25, the latest iteration of the annual Fab Lab travelling conference, took place. Excellently we had representation from the FreeCAD community speaking at the event. Both speakers spoke in the Open Engineering section with the first to speak being Chris Hennes.…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 16 July 2025
This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher: PartDesign: theo-vt patched the code to allow open wires for profile normal detection. This fixes a bug where holes from arcs would have the wrong orientation. TechDraw: FEM: NewJoker added two new properties to FEM Constraint contact: one to enable thermal contact and one…
