FreeCAD 1.0 released

[Posted November 19, 2024 by corbet]

It took more than 20 years, but the FreeCAD computer-aided design project has just made its 1.0 release.

Since the very beginnings, the FreeCAD community had a clear view of what 1.0 represented for us. What we wanted in it. FreeCAD matured over the years, and that list narrowed down to just two major remaining pieces: fixing the toponaming problem, and having a built-in assembly module.
Well, I'm very proud to say those two issues are now solved.

:)

Posted Nov 21, 2024 10:29 UTC (Thu) by LtWorf (subscriber, #124958) [Link]

I'm a noob at CAD, but I've enjoyed using freecad, at least the few features that I've used.

It can be cheaper to design and print a board game than to buy it, and it's always a satisfaction when someone asks for the files to print them as well.

One gotcha

Posted Nov 24, 2024 7:44 UTC (Sun) by ttonino (guest, #4073) [Link] (1 responses)

Clearing out old user preferences gives a much better experience. Seems old prefs can override some of the UI improvements, such as created by the Ondsel team,, that make it much easier to get started.

One gotcha

Posted Nov 24, 2024 8:53 UTC (Sun) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

> Seems old prefs can override some of the UI improvements, such as created by the Ondsel team,, that make it much easier to get started.

Isn't that a contradiction? How many new users trying to get started, will have old user preferences messing them over? Zero?

I would seriously hope, at a minimum, the installer would ask before trampling over existing preferences.

Cheers,
Wol