FreeCAD

FreeCAD, 1 day ago to random

WIP Wednesday 15 May 2024
This week in FreeCAD development:

Toponaming: bgsbww spent some time adding missing bits of toponaming code to core, Part Design, and Sketcher.

Measure tools got some really useful updates. hlorus made some improvements to the new unified measurement facility and added measurement values to labels in the project tree. Meanwhile wwmayer rewrote parts of the new Quick Measure
https://blog.freecad.org/2024/05/15/wip-wednesday-15-may-2024/
#DevelopmentUpdates

FreeCAD, 1 day ago to random

Upcoming feature freeze and UI freeze for FreeCAD 1.0
During the planned online developers meeting today, we agreed on the following plan towards FreeCAD 1.0.

The development branch will enter feature freeze on June 3, at the PR merge meeting. Here is what it means to contributors:

Are you working on patches that add new features or improvements? Are you shooting for inclusion of y
https://blog.freecad.org/2024/05/15/upcoming-feature-freeze-and-ui-freeze-for-freecad-1-0/
#Roadmap

FreeCAD, 2 days ago to announcement

Forged In FreeCAD: 4Axis for CNC Ring Engraving
We’ve featured a few projects under the “Forged In FreeCAD” title but what caught our eye with this one is that FreeCAD was used to not only create an innovative solution, but also was used to then help operate the created machine.

Project creator Jordan Poles had a burgeoning interest in lathes and wanted to make an engraved brass ring. T
https://blog.freecad.org/2024/05/14/forged-in-freecad-4axis-for-cnc-ring-engraving/
#Announcement

FreeCAD, 7 days ago to announcement

WIP Wednesday 8 May 2024
This week in FreeCAD development:

Toponaming: bgbsww added some missing code (there will be more to add, it seems) and started performance testing. So far, things don't look bad at all performance-wise.

Sketcher:

PaddleStroke: added arc length to the Dimension tool and fixed the placing of the on-view parameter inputs.

maxwxyz updated the Sketcher toolbar to list and group a
https://blog.freecad.org/2024/05/08/wip-wednesday-8-may-2024/
#Announcement

FreeCAD, 14 days ago to random

Fantastic news that FreeCAD has been allocated two slots in the Google Summer of Code program for 2024. The work packages are focussed on implementation of semi-analytical finite element in FreeCAD and command line preferences manipulation. More details here in this forum post. https://forum.freecad.org/viewtopic.php?p=756812#p756812

#GSOC

FreeCAD, 15 days ago to random

WIP Wednesday 1 May 2024
This week in FreeCAD development:

Toponaming: most work porting RT's patches is now done except just one piece of code that was mysteriously overlooked. Both CalligaroV, chennes, and bgbsww contributed to the TNP effort last week. bgbsww also started looking into performance regressions due to toponaming changes and found surprisingly few issues.

Draft: Roy-043 reverted some
https://blog.freecad.org/2024/05/01/wip-wednesday-1-may-2024/
#DevelopmentUpdates

FreeCAD, 17 days ago to announcement

Vote for a new FreeCAD logo
There have been 46 submissions to the new FreeCAD logo contest. The user poll is closing on May 1 (this Wednesday). You can still pick your top 5 entries. The 5 winning submissions will then be submitted to the maintainers team for the final voting.
https://blog.freecad.org/2024/04/29/vote-for-a-new-freecad-logo/
#Announcement

FreeCAD, 20 days ago to random

It's Friday once again! Hope everyone has an excellent weekend. Feel free to show us what you are working on using #FreeCADFriday to tag! #freecad #fc3d

FreeCAD, 22 days ago to announcement

WIP Wednesday 24 April 2024
This week in FreeCAD development:

TechDraw:

PaddleStroke unified Insert View tools (View, ProjGroup, Sheet, Arch, SVG, Image). He also made App::Links of views work in TechDraw, this also removes 'Share Views' from the toolbar.

WondererFan fixed several bugs and added two new Python methods, for getting visible and hidden vertices.

farleyrunkel refactored a minor part
https://blog.freecad.org/2024/04/24/wip-wednesday-24-april-2024/
#Announcement

chrishuck, 25 days ago to 3DPrinting

Continuing my #3dprinting of the logos of my favorite teams, the next installment is the #Akron Rubber Ducks minor league baseball team. When I bought the hat last year, I knew I needed to do something with the logo because it really pops.

I fired up #inkscape to make a SVG and #freecad to make the model from that SVG. It took a little planning on the heights for the different colors since I only have one extruder. Turned out great!

#quackron #akronrubberducks

3D printed version of the Akron Rubber Ducks team logo next to a baseball cap with the same logo.
3D printed version of the Akron Rubber Ducks team logo viewed from the back side to show the stand.
3D printed version of the Akron Rubber Ducks team logo still on the printer.

FreeCAD, 29 days ago to random

WIP Wednesday 17 April 2024
In the toponaming project, bgbsww and chennes are getting really close to finalizing the port of RealThunder's patches to upstream FreeCAD. There is probably a week more of work, then the planned performance evaluation and improvements can begin.

TechDraw:

WandererFan fixed several issues, such as broken zigzag lines orientation with rotated 3D view, as well as incorre
https://blog.freecad.org/2024/04/17/wip-wednesday-17-april-2024/
#DevelopmentUpdates

FreeCAD, 1 month ago to announcement

Forged in FreeCAD: LumenPnP, An Open Source Pick and Place Machine
It’s an amazing age for making things, and an even greater age for making things using open source solutions. At our recent FOSDEM stand we shared the booth with KiCad, the open source electronics environment. It was fabulous at the event to see items and machines made using KiCad and FreeCAD in combination
https://blog.freecad.org/2024/04/12/forged-in-freecad-lumenpnp-an-open-source-pick-and-place-machine/
#Announcement

FreeCAD, 1 month ago to random

WIP Wednesday 10 April 2024
In the toponaming project, bgbsww added more tests and updated existing ones, and CalligaroV fixed two bugs.

In Arch, yorikvanhavre upgraded the reference tool, so that it could work with DXF and IFC files (NativeIFC is required for the latter), and paullee0 fixed a regression that occured when making a block from a DraftWire.

In Sketcher, PaddleStroke changed the rende
https://blog.freecad.org/2024/04/10/wip-wednesday-10-april-2024/
#DevelopmentUpdates

FreeCAD, 1 month ago to random

WIP Wednesday 3 April 2024
This week in FreeCAD development, the most actively worked-on parts of FreeCAD have been the toponaming project, Sketcher, FEM, and UI/UX.

Toponaming:

CalligaroV imported and improved the WireJoiner class.

bgbsww fixed a few issues, made minor improvements, and added Python implementations for CompSolid, Face, Shell, Solid, as well as missing entries in TopoShape.

https://blog.freecad.org/2024/04/03/wip-wednesday-3-april-2024/
#DevelopmentUpdates

FreeCAD, 1 month ago to announcement

FreeCAD 1.0 Logo Refresh Contest
With FreeCAD 1.0 on the horizon, it's time to refresh the official FreeCAD logo. At the request of the project maintainers, the intent here is to follow a similar approach to corporate logos and evolve/iterate the current FreeCAD symbol instead of completely reinventing the symbology of it.

Voting details will be reiterated upon start of a community poll, but a ‘ranked
https://blog.freecad.org/2024/03/28/freecad-1-0-logo-refresh-contest/
#Announcement

FreeCAD, 1 month ago to random

WIP Wednesday 27 March 2024
This week in FreeCAD development, the four most actively worked-on parts of FreeCAD have been the toponaming project, TechDraw, Sketcher, and FEM.

Toponaming: bgbsww and chennes are now actively adding history support. Think extrusion, feature mirroring and offset. And tests — that's really important too.

TechDraw:

pavltom contributed an initial implementation of au
https://blog.freecad.org/2024/03/27/wip-wednesday-27-march-2024/
#DevelopmentUpdates

FreeCAD, 1 month ago to announcement

Meet Max: Working on Bug Triage
Based in Germany Max is a mechanical engineer in the automotive industry working on electric drive systems for vehicles. In his work life Catia seats are more the norm but Max was interested in alternatives he could use at home to fuel his passion for 3D printing. Of course this led him to FreeCAD. Max has some lovely personal projects he has created using FreeCAD which you
https://blog.freecad.org/2024/03/22/meet-max-working-on-bug-triage/
#Announcement

FreeCAD, 1 month ago to random

WIP Wednesday 20 March 2024
This week in FreeCAD development:

bgbsww and chennes made further progress towards mitigating the toponaming issue. More RealThunder’s code has been ported and improved. A C++ testing framework was added for PartDesign and ShapeBinder.

marioalexis84 committed fixes to the FEM workbench.

NewJoker fixed bugs in FEM and updated FEM examples on the Start page.

lyphro
https://blog.freecad.org/2024/03/20/wip-wednesday-20-march-2024/
#DevelopmentUpdates

FreeCAD, 2 months ago to random

WIP Wednesday 13 March 2024
This week in FreeCAD development:

bgbsww and chennes made further progress towards mitigating the toponaming issue.

wwmayer fixed MinGW builds, added a class for reading metadata from project files and a test function to write to file stream, and fixed the context menu for the expression editing input box.

pavltom reimplemented parent linking for weld symbols in Te
https://blog.freecad.org/2024/03/13/wip-wednesday-13-march-2024/
#DevelopmentUpdates

kkremitzki, 2 months ago to debian

A graph of #FreeCAD's build dependency tree in #Debian

FreeCAD, 2 months ago to announcement

Forged in FreeCAD: Thor, An Opensource Robotic Arm
We imagine most visitors to this blog will already know that amazing things can be achieved or designed using opensource tools like FreeCAD. The Thor opensource robotic arm is a great example of a complex opensource project built using a totally opensource tool chain.

It’s a primarily 3D printed 6 degrees of freedom robotic arm which l
https://blog.freecad.org/2024/03/05/forged-in-freecad-thor-an-opensource-robotic-arm/
#Announcement

FreeCAD, 2 months ago to announcement

Good bye GSoC 2023, hello GSoC 2024
FreeCAD is a already long-term participant to the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program, which is Google's program to fund students to work on Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS) projects. Each year, students submit proposals to work on their favorite FOSS project during the school holidays, and Google awards them a grant.

FreeCAD has been participating since 2016
https://blog.freecad.org/2024/02/29/good-bye-gsoc-2023-hello-gsoc-2024/
#Announcement

FreeCAD, 2 months ago to random

WIP Wednesday 28 February 2024
This week in FreeCAD development:

bgbsww, CalligaroV, and chennes made a lot more progress towards mitigating the toponaming issue.

chennes contributed more changes to the addon manager: fixes and support for sorting addons by several criteria (alphabetical, last update time, creation date, GitHub stars), as well as support for custom scores for addons.

pavlt
https://blog.freecad.org/2024/02/28/wip-wednesday-28-february-2024/
#DevelopmentUpdates

FreeCAD, 2 months ago to random

Hey! It's #FreeCADFriday ! Show us what you are working on today and over the weekend. Happy Friday everyone.

FreeCAD, 2 months ago to random

WIP Wednesday 21 February 2024
This week in FreeCAD development:

bgbsww, CalligaroV, and chennes made further progress towards mitigating the toponaming issue.

pieterhijma contributed the first code towards a new custom data elements (custom properties) system, see here for technical details.

maxwxyz adjusted the default material appearance to better display the objects shape (surfaces and
https://blog.freecad.org/2024/02/21/wip-wednesday-21-february-2024/
#DevelopmentUpdates