The FreeCAD Project Association has launched its first community design contest, partnering with UK open science hardware company Labcrafter. The contest asks participants to design an open hardware pinch valve, with the full brief and entry process hosted on the FreeCAD forum. ...
Suffolk Technologies has announced an investment in Speckle, following Suffolk Construction’s enterprise-wide deployment of the platform as part of its data strategy. Speckle says the partnership supports the shift from siloed BIM files toward normalized, queryable design data that can feed data lakes, AI workflows, cost coding, change tracking, and cross-project intelligence. ...
Bonsai v0.8.5 has been released with 962 new features and fixes. The release is described as a “line in the sand”: a compatibility and consolidation checkpoint driven partly by Blender 5.1 support, the move to Python 3.13, and a lot of structural work preparing for larger changes ahead. ...
FreeCAD 1.1.1 has been released shortly after version 1.1.0. The FreeCAD announcement describes it as a maintenance release with a large number of small fixes, with the full release notes and changelog available from the GitHub release page. ...
That Open Platform’s Release 3.4.0, presented in the “Native 2D Drawings for BIM” event, targeted one of the harder gaps in web-based BIM: producing real technical documentation from models. The release introduced a 2D drawing system built on Fragments and That Open Engine, designed to generate plans, sections, elevations, annotations, and exports directly in the browser. ...
FreeCAD 1.1 has been released, bringing another substantial update after the 1.0 milestone. The release includes transparent Part Design previews, interactive draggers for tools such as Fillet and Chamfer, 3 point lighting, a Clarify Selection tool, Assembly and FEM improvements, animations, and a new CAM tool library system. ...
Olympus has been open sourced as a toolkit for building and prototyping 3D web applications for architecture, engineering, construction, and operations. The project combines a Three.js-based 3D editor, Monaco code editor, Chart.js dashboards, undo-redo, configurable UI, and an extensible addon system. ...
Blender 5.1 has been released, with the Blender Foundation describing it as a refinement-focused update for performance and stability across the production pipeline. Cycles receives faster GPU rendering on benchmark scenes, faster CPU rendering on Windows, and shading consistency fixes, while the wider release includes hundreds of bug fixes, cleanups, and refactors. ...
Louis Trümpler announced federated loading support in IFClite, a browser-native IFC viewer and toolkit built with WebGPU and Rust/WASM. For IFC4.3 and earlier workflows, federation means loading multiple IFC models side by side with collision-safe IDs, per-model visibility, unified spatial hierarchy handling, and selection across model boundaries. ...
That Open Platform’s Release 3.3.0, presented as “From BIM Data to BIM Insight”, focused on making model information easier to query, visualise, and act on. Instead of sending BIM data through generic dashboard tools and custom pipelines, the release introduced chart Web Components intended to work directly in BIM applications. ...