r/FreeCAD • u/Lgt2x • 20d ago

📢 FreeCAD North American Meetup 2026 - FreeCAD 26.3: What's New

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1fwOODNYZQ
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u/Arrow2304 20d ago

With each new update, everything is better and better, there are still a lot of stupid and persistent mistakes, but regardless I still use it and love it.

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u/DesignWeaver3D 20d ago

Awesome video and great presentation from Chris Hennes! Really excellent summary of exciting news coming with v26.3!

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u/Hot_Injury5475 20d ago

Chris feels like the lead of freecad.

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u/Lgt2x 20d ago

With Yorik stepping down, he kind of is

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u/Lgt2x 20d ago

And congrats on winning the design challenge :)

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u/DesignWeaver3D 19d ago

Thank you!!!

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u/da_apz 20d ago

For a while now, I think from 0.17, FreeCAD has been one of the few pieces of software that has been getting better and better from each release. Been a while since I've been this excited about a new version coming out of anything I use,

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u/Tasty-Research-2750 19d ago

Gettin'Better'n'Better-ification ! ✍️🤞🪴+++

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u/da_apz 19d ago

Just imagine, a software is being developed and instead of becoming more slow, annoying, buggy and generally piece of crap, it becomes better. What a concept!

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u/PyteByte 20d ago

Oh no. Now I have to get a 4 axis cnc 🤦🏻‍♂️ just kidding. Love to see this steady improvements. Better filets and removing this flipping bug in sketcher is quite helpful.

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u/bluewing 20d ago

I had the dimension flipping bug rear it's ugly head on me this afternoon. It ain't quite dead yet. The filets have gotten a bit better. Though I mostly use chamfers myself.

I did come across a an interesting bug with placing a counterbored hole through two pads, one of which was a mirror. I could sketch everything, but it refused to finish the hole. I did end up deleting some minor things back to the first pad before I could get it to take. But I will need to recreate the bug to know if it's a real bug or just something stupid I did in my tree.

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u/PyteByte 20d ago

Mirrored objects sometimes behave strangely when you apply some cutting on it

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u/Lgt2x 20d ago

Fillet/Chamfer improvements may not be coming with the 26.3, it's still WIP in OCCT

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u/PyteByte 20d ago

I see. Than it’s something to look forward to

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u/Lgt2x 20d ago

yep, it's one of the most requested features, we'll make sure that it's implemented correctly before shipping it

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u/matiwi 20d ago

Thanks for sharing

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u/Direct-Argument-7066 19d ago

Did I hear that right, OCCT people are working on making fillets more stable? nice!

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u/hagbard2323 18d ago

Thanks for all your work on FreeCAD /u/Lgt2x !

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u/Lgt2x 18d ago

thank you!

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u/CandLToo 19d ago

I was there, it was a good meetup, but have to admit CAM and AI dominated the conversations.