Over 20 years in the making -- FreeCAD 1.0 is finally here!

It’s possibly one of the longest gestation periods in computing history, but after more than two decades of development, FreeCAD 1.0 finally gets its first official, stable release. The open-source tool for product designers and mechanical engineers has long been used in production despite its lack of official release status, but the resolution of two outstanding issues cleared the way for it to officially reach the 1.0 milestone, complete with brand new logo. FreeCAD 1.0 opens with a new built-in Assembly Workbench, which utilizes the open-source Ondsel solver and was ported across from what the developers describe as 'the other… [Continue Reading]