FreeCAD v1.1

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Post by sho_hn » Wed, Mar 25, 2026, 7:19 PM UTC

FreeCAD v1.1
blog.freecad.org

Re: FreeCAD v1.1

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Post by sho_hn » Wed, Mar 25, 2026, 7:20 PM UTC

Highlights reel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9biWv_M8p8

Release Notes: https://wiki.freecad.org/Release_notes_1.1

Re: FreeCAD v1.1

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Post by GaggiX » Wed, Mar 25, 2026, 8:12 PM UTC

I was not expecting so many improvements in this version alone, I'm impressed. I was already using it for 3d printing but now it seems it's getting actually good, makes me wonder how I was able to use the previous version.

Re: FreeCAD v1.1

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Post by jepj57 » Wed, Mar 25, 2026, 8:34 PM UTC

This is awesome! Kudos to the developers, they really went above and beyond for this release.

Re: FreeCAD v1.1

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Post by bartvk » Wed, Mar 25, 2026, 8:40 PM UTC

sho_hn wrote: post #2

Highlights reel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9biWv_M8p8 Release Notes: https://wiki.freecad.org/Release_notes_1.1

To add to this. MangoJelly offers very good tutorials, as well as a full course on Udemy. He released a 4 minute overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSwvnZ1jsXg

DeltaHedra, another great YouTube channel, also released a good video that shows the previous and this version next to each other: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYdobpjTypg

Re: FreeCAD v1.1

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Post by vjvjvjvjghv » Wed, Mar 25, 2026, 8:43 PM UTC

GaggiX wrote: post #3

I was not expecting so many improvements in this version alone, I'm impressed. I was already using it for 3d printing but now it seems it's getting actually good, makes me wonder how I was able to use the previous version.

I am also impressed by how much they are improving things. It just sucks that they are stuck with the OpenCasacade kernel so making stability improvements are hard to make in areas like fillets and others.

Re: FreeCAD v1.1

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Post by sho_hn » Wed, Mar 25, 2026, 9:09 PM UTC

vjvjvjvjghv wrote: post #6

GaggiX wrote: post #3

I was not expecting so many improvements in this version alone, I'm impressed. I was already using it for 3d printing but now it seems it's getting actually good, makes me wonder how I was able to use the previous version.

I am also impressed by how much they are improving things. It just sucks that they are stuck with the OpenCasacade kernel so making stability improvements are hard to make in areas like fillets and others.

I don't follow Open CASCADE very closely, but it looks like they're on the verge of a new major release (v8.0) themselves that looks like a lot of refactoring and cleanup.

I don't know hat version FreeCAD is actually bundling, but from GitHub it looks like a fork of 7.8.1?

Re: FreeCAD v1.1

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Post by _whiteCaps_ » Wed, Mar 25, 2026, 9:16 PM UTC

I post this in every FreeCAD thread: If you're going to start designing something with it, use the spreadsheet tool to make everything parametric. You'll save yourself a ton of time as your designs get more complicated.

Maybe this isn't anything new to experience CAD users. I don't know if other CAD tools do this as I started using FreeCAD after playing with 3D printing.

Re: FreeCAD v1.1

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Post by sho_hn » Wed, Mar 25, 2026, 9:18 PM UTC

_whiteCaps_ wrote: post #8

I post this in every FreeCAD thread: If you're going to start designing something with it, use the spreadsheet tool to make everything parametric. You'll save yourself a ton of time as your designs get more complicated. Maybe this isn't anything new to experience CAD users. I don't know if other CAD tools do this as I started using FreeCAD after playing with 3D printing.

It's very common (Fusion calls it User Parameters, etc.) and indeed nice practice. FreeCAD has a few ways to do it, Spreadsheets but also free-form properties on objects. It's very flexible in this regard.

Re: FreeCAD v1.1

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Post by ChristianJacobs » Wed, Mar 25, 2026, 9:21 PM UTC

bartvk wrote: post #5

sho_hn wrote: post #2

Highlights reel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9biWv_M8p8 Release Notes: https://wiki.freecad.org/Release_notes_1.1

To add to this. MangoJelly offers very good tutorials, as well as a full course on Udemy. He released a 4 minute overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSwvnZ1jsXg DeltaHedra, another great YouTube channel, also released a good video that shows the previous and this version next to each other: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYdobpjTypg

Thumbs up for both of them, but I must say that DeltaHedra has become my new favourite FreeCAD content creator. Especially after he started using his own voice. His old content was good, but his current his magnifique! The quality of the content he pushes is above and beyond.