https://osarch.org/tags/freecad/Recent content in FreeCAD on OSArchHugoen-usExcept where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under CC BY 4.0.Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://osarch.org/2026/05/15/linescad-announced/Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://osarch.org/2026/05/15/linescad-announced/Yorik van Havre has announced LinesCAD, an early Python-based free software BIM and 2D CAD project built around IFC, IfcOpenShell, Qt, and Coin/Pivy.https://osarch.org/2026/05/03/google-summer-of-code-2026-freecad-brl-cad/Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://osarch.org/2026/05/03/google-summer-of-code-2026-freecad-brl-cad/FreeCAD and BRL-CAD are participating in Google Summer of Code 2026, with BRL-CAD acting as an umbrella organisation for CAx projects including IfcOpenShell.https://osarch.org/2026/05/01/freecad-q2-2026-grant-program/Fri, 01 May 2026 12:00:00 +0100https://osarch.org/2026/05/01/freecad-q2-2026-grant-program/The FreeCAD Project Association has opened the second 2026 grant review wave, with a quarterly budget and a focus on documentation, testing, release cycle improvements, and ecosystem work.https://osarch.org/2026/05/01/freecad-open-science-design-contest-2026/Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://osarch.org/2026/05/01/freecad-open-science-design-contest-2026/The FreeCAD Project Association has launched its first community design contest, asking participants to design an open hardware pinch valve for open science projects.https://osarch.org/2026/04/15/freecad-1-1-1-released/Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://osarch.org/2026/04/15/freecad-1-1-1-released/FreeCAD 1.1.1 has been released shortly after 1.1.0, collecting a large number of fixes and updated packages.https://osarch.org/2026/03/25/freecad-1-1-released/Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://osarch.org/2026/03/25/freecad-1-1-released/FreeCAD 1.1 has been released with Part Design previews, interactive draggers, 3 point lighting, Clarify Selection, Assembly and FEM improvements, animations, and a new CAM tool library system.https://osarch.org/2025/03/16/castle-game-engine-now-supports-ifc/Sun, 16 Mar 2025 23:41:50 +0000https://osarch.org/2025/03/16/castle-game-engine-now-supports-ifc/The Castle Game Engine is a free, open source, cross-platform (desktop, mobile, console, web) 3D and 2D game engine. It comes with a powerful visual editor and support for open standards like glTF, X3D, ... and now IFC - a key open standardhttps://osarch.org/2023/08/13/freecad-0-21-released/Sun, 13 Aug 2023 12:20:37 +0100https://osarch.org/2023/08/13/freecad-0-21-released/Last week, a new stable release of FreeCAD has been published, tagged 0.21. This release is mostly there to provide a stable point before implementing Toponaming resolution functionality. Toponaming is how we call the problem of unstable rehttps://osarch.org/2023/03/27/funding-for-a-git-ifc-interface-in-blenderbim/Mon, 27 Mar 2023 17:46:58 +0100https://osarch.org/2023/03/27/funding-for-a-git-ifc-interface-in-blenderbim/Imagine GIT for IFC files. That is, imagine a tool that keeps track of changes to an IFC file over the duration of a design project--a tool that allows branching or forking of different design options from a distributed team, and tool thathttps://osarch.org/2023/03/09/google-summer-of-code-2023-starting-soon/Thu, 09 Mar 2023 09:38:53 +0000https://osarch.org/2023/03/09/google-summer-of-code-2023-starting-soon/Google Summer of Code is an annual programme that helps students and those new to open source software make their first steps into contributing code to software projects. GSoC Contributors work with an open source organization on a 12+ weekhttps://osarch.org/2022/10/09/open-source-ecology-seed-eco-home-2-product-release/Sun, 09 Oct 2022 01:26:19 +0100https://osarch.org/2022/10/09/open-source-ecology-seed-eco-home-2-product-release/The Seed Eco-Home 2 is a highly sustainable open source design for anybody to build their own modular 1,000sf home for 50k in a week.https://osarch.org/2022/08/09/a-banner-for-using-blenderbim-in-production/Tue, 09 Aug 2022 21:37:50 +0100https://osarch.org/2022/08/09/a-banner-for-using-blenderbim-in-production/OSArch has a new banner image! The BlenderBIM image is courtesy of a collaboration between Ioannis Christovasilis of Aether Engineering and Ryan Schultz of OpeningDesign. Read more about the project ...https://osarch.org/2022/06/26/freecad-0-20-released/Sun, 26 Jun 2022 10:00:37 +0100https://osarch.org/2022/06/26/freecad-0-20-released/FreeCAD 0.20 has been released with tree view improvements, multiple edit modes, section tool, documentation, new add-ons, and improved 2D BIM support.https://osarch.org/2021/06/09/google-summer-of-code-students-announced-for-opencax/Wed, 09 Jun 2021 16:57:54 +0100https://osarch.org/2021/06/09/google-summer-of-code-students-announced-for-opencax/Google Summer of Code 2021 students have been announced for OpenCAx projects, including BRL-CAD, FreeCAD, IfcOpenShell, and OpenSCAD.https://osarch.org/2021/03/26/freecad-0-19-has-been-released/Fri, 26 Mar 2021 13:36:07 +0000https://osarch.org/2021/03/26/freecad-0-19-has-been-released/One of the most expected releases if finally here. FreeCAD 0.19 has been released with a lot of improvements and new features in all workbenches.https://osarch.org/2021/02/22/foss-development-for-the-aec-industry-highlights-from-the-fosdem-2021/Mon, 22 Feb 2021 12:41:17 +0000https://osarch.org/2021/02/22/foss-development-for-the-aec-industry-highlights-from-the-fosdem-2021/In the last February 6th and 7th, took place the FOSDEM 2021, an event organized to promote the use of free and open source software.https://osarch.org/2020/11/17/freecad-bim-development-news-update-for-october-2020/Tue, 17 Nov 2020 06:34:00 +0000https://osarch.org/2020/11/17/freecad-bim-development-news-update-for-october-2020/FreeCAD BIM features Oct 2020 monthly summary of improvements include new TechDraw patterns, Draft styling, and BIM image plane tool.