CADBase is an open-source data exchange platform designed to streamline collaboration among teams using different open-source design tools. Operating as a centralized infrastructure, it provides engineering-tailored version control and fills a gap for workflows utilizing both FreeCAD and Blender. Through native library add-ons, the platform lets users store, track, and share 3D models and manufacturing data across a project lifecycle, eliminating messy shared folders and untracked file iterations. ...

CAD Importer is an MIT-licensed Unity package for bringing CAD and BIM models into real-time robotics simulations and digital twins. Written in pure C# without native plugins, it supports editor imports for STL, PLY, OBJ, glTF and GLB as well as STEP, IGES, and IFC, with asynchronous runtime loading available for the mesh formats. ...

IFClite is now available to Python users through ifclite-geom, a native wheel that runs the project’s Rust geometry kernel in-process. It converts IFC data into per-entity triangle meshes without requiring Node.js, WebAssembly, a subprocess, or a local server. ...

Open CAD Studio is a GPL-3.0-licensed 2D drafting and 3D modelling application written in Rust. Its central goal is native reading and writing of DWG and DXF files from R13 through R2018, without depending on proprietary CAD libraries or a separate conversion workflow. ...

Blender 5.2 LTS has been released with long-term support until July 2028. Its largest addition is an experimental Geometry Nodes physics system for procedural hair and cloth simulation, alongside geometry bundles and lists, a Bevel node, audio sampling, and support for Geometry Nodes on Empty objects. ...

The FreeCAD Project Association has approved three grants for Q2 2026. João Matos will receive EUR 4,000 to develop BIM Plan Edit, a focused 2D editing context for working with walls, openings, spaces, and symbols on a selected building storey. ...

Magik has published LibreCAD in your browser, a WebAssembly port that runs the full GPL-licensed LibreCAD desktop application in a browser tab rather than a reduced viewer or JavaScript reimplementation. The demo loads the C++ and Qt application through Emscripten and Qt for WebAssembly, with the fork available as LibreCAD-Web. ...

Wassim Jabi has published an introduction to TGraph, describing it as a more explicit and efficient graph representation for TopologicPy. TopologicPy is an open source Python library for spatial modelling and analysis in architecture, engineering, and construction. Its graph-based representation is used to connect geometry, topology, information, graph databases, knowledge graphs, GraphRAG workflows, and graph machine learning. A clearer graph layer is therefore relevant for workflows that need to reason about spaces, adjacency, connectivity, and semantic relationships rather than only geometric shape. ...

IFClite merged PR #1182, a contribution from Mathias Sønderskov Schaltz that lets IFClite parse IFC inside the CAD process — as a plain DLL. The clean way to call a Rust engine from Grasshopper or Revit used to mean running a local server and talking to it over HTTP. But the moment something opens a port on a managed machine, enterprise IT lights up: firewall rules, security reviews, the whole dance. The FFI wires IFClite straight into the process instead. A new ifc-lite-ffi crate builds with crate-type = ["cdylib"] to ifc_lite_ffi.dll, and the host loads it like any other library. No server. No port. No network. Just a function call. ...

BIMvoice Academy has opened its practical openBIM training library for free. In an OSArch community post, Petru Conduraru says the free material includes courses on IFC schema in practice, IDS, Revit to IFC, native IFC building modelling, bridge modelling in IFC4x3, Bonsai, and drawing production directly from IFC. ...