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WIP Wednesday, 30 July 2025 This week in FreeCAD development: Draft: Roy_043 added a dotted line tracker in Trimex extrude mode. This tracker connects the center of mass of the face with the picked point. He also fixed a bug …

A lot of bugfixes this week in FreeCAD. There are also a lot of new features in the pipeline.
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Satisfying to be able to make quick geometry changes (internal diameter of a barbed fitting) using VarSets like this in FreeCAD assemblies, and nothing breaks:

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blue digital stylus with a green cap next to 4 more green caps representing previous designs

screenshot of freecad sketcher showing constraints used to create the profile

Took 5 tries but finally got a workable cap for my Staedtler Mars Lumograph digital jumbo.

Turns out the profile is build entirely out of circles.

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How quickly a week slips by! Once again it's #FreeCADFriday show us what you're working on with #FreeCAD!

Tutorial: Getting Started With the SheetMetal Workbench FreeCAD is excellent in that it can be used for design projects for all manner of fabrication approaches. A really interesting fabrication approach is cutting, bending and joining sheet metal. As s…

This intro to the SheetMetal workbench gets you up to speed for working with parametric sheet metal objects in FreeCAD
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It's #FreeCADFriday once again! Have a great weekend when you get there. In the meantime, what are you working on with #FreeCAD?

What projects are you working on this #FreeCADFriday?

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It's #FreeCADFriday! What are you currently working on?

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WIP Wednesday, 18 June 2025 This week in FreeCAD development: Draft: Roy-043 specified units of spinboxes in UI files for arrays and ShapeString and made minor improvements in the OrthoArray task panel. Sketcher:  theo-v…

Follow this week's development in FreeCAD.
And there are a lot of great PRs ready to be reviewed in the merge queue!

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It is still time to show what you are doing this #FreeCADFriday

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WIP Wednesday, 11 June 2025 This week in FreeCAD development: Draft: tetektoza implemented a 1-axis mode in Ortho Array to modify only one axis at a time. Sketcher:  tetektoza made it possible to reset an on-view paramet…

The new #WIPWednesday is here
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What are you working on this #FreeCADFriday?

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WIP Wednesday, 4 June 2025 This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher:  tetektoza fixed the UX issue where moving the mouse while entering in the on-view parameter widget would close that widget. matthiasdanner fixed th…

Find out what has happened this week in FreeCAD development

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Fused Filament Design Addon A short while ago we posted here about an excellent article by Rahix describing some really interesting and useful design approaches for fused filament style 3D printing. If you haven't checked out…

In case you've missed it, check out the blog post about the fused filament design addon.

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WIP assembly simulation: crank shaft to be paired with a piston.

It's FreeCAD Friday again!
Show us your current projects, ideas or WIPs and tag your post with #FreeCADFriday or @freecad.org

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FreeCAD 1.0.1 released We've just released FreeCAD 1.0.1. There are no new features in this version. The 176 commits that we backported from the main development branch are fixes for various issues identified in the stab…

FreeCAD 1.0.1 is out now - get the bugfix release blog.freecad.org/2025/05/16/f...

Forum and Wiki Performance; Anubis Deployed For some time the FreeCAD Forum and the FreeCAD Wiki have had performance issues resulting in some frustration as they have been periodically hard to access. The root cause of this stemming from au…

#FreeCAD forum and wiki should now be safe from outages caused by #AI scrappers.

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RC F1 HPD Evo 5 by Kent Asplund | Download free STL model | Printables.com 2025 version of the Competition F1 rc car

It is #freecadfriday and today is the release of my #freecad project HPD F1 Evo 5.

Available on printables:
www.printables.com/model/127236...
and cults3d:
cults3d.com/en/3d-model/...

#3dprint, build and go #racing!

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YouTube video by HPD F1 Evo 5

#Freecad, #Freecadfriday. Chassis assembly is feature complete. This is what will be released in May.

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In the miniseries finale, I put everything together in @freecad.bsky.social Assembly workbench and make a cool animation.
youtu.be/dRZWikqWxvg

Q1 2025 grants announced The FPA General Assembly has finalized the list of approved grant applications for the first quarter of 2025. Ajinkya Dahale (AjinkyaDahale) will develop two new types of curves in Sketcher: restri…

The FPA grants for Q1 were announced!

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FreeCAD Telemetry addon is now available Chris Hennes developed an opt-in Telemetry addon to help the development team make good decisions and help answer questions like: How many people are affected by a given bug? How many people are ru…

Help the #FreeCAD development team make good decisions for the future development by manually installing the opt-in telemetry add-on!

Read more in the latest blog post:
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WIP Wednesday, 26 March 2025 This week in FreeCAD development: Draft: Roy_043 contributed several improvements and bugfixes including one for the bug where Near Snap would not obey the Always Snap setting. Sketcher: PaddleStro…

See what's new this week in FreeCAD development.
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Picture of a 3D printable F1 racing car. Partly exploded view.

#FreeCADFriday and I am creating images of the new HPD F1 car that is to be released soon-ish. This image is on page 72 of the, not yet released, manual.

It's #FreeCADFriday again - post the projects you are working on!

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