FreeCAD 1.0 release trailer

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[@danieldoyle974]

This is becoming the Blender of Cad/Cam. Thank you to all involved.

[@Z-add]

Not without the equivalent of blender foundation.

[@rano12321]

They need to focus on the branding and have a social media presence for people to notice and understand their impact to donate. People who do CAD makes more money than people who making animations mostly, they can donate if they knew FreeCAD had an identity like Blender. IMO the name is sort of a problem, if there's a FREE in the name, then why would anyone pay any money for it. Blender isn't called Free3D or FreePolygon or something, lol. I love FreeCAD and I hope it does to the CAD industry what Blender has done to the CGI industry, but the FC people need to make a lot of changes for that to happen.

[@syluxdev]

@@rano12321 I think FreedomCAD is a better name :)

[@xiaoshizi131]

Blender has cad and cam in it already.

[@uovo]

​@@rano12321They could argue it's meant to mean free as in freedom

[@FCBlounge]

Thank you to everybody who contributed to the 1.0 release!

[@rano12321]

Just like Blender, hopefully FreeCAD will have a massive impact in the CAD world. Making CAD accessible to everyone, creating more competition and innovation among CAD softwares. I really hope you guys will make a separate YT channel for FreeCAD because it doesn't cost any money and put more effort on the branding and social media presence like Blender to create an identity like Blender, because for FOSS, community is everything.

[@Jajaho2]

Yeah that would be important in my eyes too.

[@henriquemonnerat5199]

Right on!

[@khardian2823]

a dedicated channel would be nice, indeed

[@ntheory]

Who is the BlenderGuru of FreeCAD?

[@vaisakh_km]

​@@ntheory "Freecad donut dispenser part 34"

[@urshelfenstein1405]

This is one of the biggest Milestones in Software. Such a complex software available as open source...amazing🎉

[@dejatedejorobar2955]

Thank you all FreeCAD team, this is a wonderful cad software, free and open source, incredible!!! I've been using it for years and its evolution is amazing!! Love it

[@smooth-jamie]

Topological naming issue final fixed! Nice! That was my biggest frustration as a newcomer to FreeCAD.

[@hossamaldiny6768]

I think I am in love, I tried Freecad two years ago out of curiosity, then I came back for it about 3 weeks ago as a learner, and now booom, new cool update right in the time, I can't ask for more.

[@deltadoobyd1621]

It's absolutely glorious. I've used FreeCAD for a while now, and it's amazing to see the open source community thriving.

[@包子扛大麥]

Thank you to every contributor to this release. The best part of FreeCad is not only Free but it also supports 3 major platforms, Win, Mac, and Linux. Respects!

[@jorgegomes83]

I'm a complete outsider to the CAD world and at the same time very impressed by the existence of FreeCad. Last time I used a CAD software was in my teenage years, with AutoCAD, in the 90's.

[@thatguyalex2835]

Same here brother. This could mean the beginning of an era for both indie inventors and large companies to make products using open source CAD. This could mean lower development costs, and potentially less expensive products. :)

[@thelifeoffelix2509]

Been using FreeCAD for a while now. These new developments definitely make it worth to master it. Congratulations to everybody who contributed! It's brilliant!

[@Max-pi7ri]

You guys are doing great work Happy to see this project evolving

[@pavelperina7629]

I'm using it last months, including RC versions. It's useable, but in RC2, I could not model array of additive helix to make a thread for a PET bottle. In RC4 it worked. Then I run to the issue that I can't create shell with -3mm offset, but if i start with -1mm and gradually increase it, it works. For me it's not always obvious what is skill issue and what is a bug. Otherwise it's good enough for me so far so thanks for good but a bit awkard product. Actually summer nighly builds are already better than a stable release.

[@scottwatrous]

This program is starting to look pretty good. A 1.0 release is a big step, well done! I will have to check it out.

[@CGFun82]

Love this software! The people behind it gets all love/respect and thumbs up making CAD accessible for smaller 3d print projects and much more.

[@Scrogan]

I find it funny that the toponaming problem was fixed years ago in the realthunder branch, but the code was undocumented spaghetti to the extent that it had to be rewritten from scratch.

[@BeefIngot]

My understanding is it's still not fixed, but like the 90% fixed

[@CircuitHawk]

Awesome, thanks for the video. Sharing with all my friends who tried FreeCAD years ago and dismissed it. It's come a long ways.

[@epedja]

Very important milestone! Respect!

[@hatimmoxs]

I'm expecting a lot from this ambitious project. Kudos to the devs.

[@dr20231may]

much needed help to make a FREE CAD softwere , by all freecad community . thanks very much freecad dev community especially.🎉

[@kmod_one]

open source will change the world, not a greevie President or Politician! Thanks 4 anyone participating in this AWESOME Project! Greetings from a Open Science Punk

[@kozko-xe1xl]

Congratulations to the team and thank you so much!!!

[@dwylhq874]

Awesome work everyone! 😍 So stoked for 1.0! This will be game-changing for adoption/usage! 🚀 The _psychological_ effect of *1.0* instead of 0.21 ("beta") is _huge_ for people switching from other _closed_ CAD programs! Thank you. 🙏

[@JakobDam]

WOW that's a GREAT release! Way more than I'd hoped for! Thanks to all of you - I've donated, and everyone should do that, to support the best open source CAD offer!

[@goldstein47]

Thank you team for this update. I would like to suggest, like others said, do market this like the blender software. Connect with KZbinrs, specially in 3d printing ones, who are fed up with the rug pull from Fusion 360. There is a massive audience waiting for this. I have introduced few of my colleagues, specially oldies who are almost reaching retirement and trying to get into 3d printing hobby, to give FreeCAD a go.

[@lgccrick3850]

Thank you all the guys who made FreeCAD !!!

[@ethansmith8813]

One of the best arma vids ive seen. Keep making them

[@SLRNT]

Holy moly. This is they day i've been waiting for! Great job to everyone involved!

[@ComputerizedEngineering]

This is the beginning of something incredible. I recently migrated to FreeCAD and honestly I am loving it so far.

[@jeucedahn]

Freecad is just awesome, thanks a lot to all people involve on this project.

[@DiamondSaberYT]

I’m actually really hyped and happy for this :D Will try it out soon! ^^

[@SlasherSeven]

The music goes hard, but the software goes harder. Thank you for helping out the little guys out here!

[@Anxienator1]

I was here! I'm so excited for the future of open-source CAD modeling. Let's go!

[@TheRealPowerDoge]

Congratulations! To the v1.0 and many more to come!🎉

[@segment932]

This is amazing. Huge thank you for all who collaborated to make this real.

[@hashdankhog8578]

Congrats! This is a huge step towards an open source cad program that can rival the likes of fusion and solidworks. I plan to start using freecad as my daily driver after this update.

[@louiel8711]

Thank you FreeCAD team for all the hard work

[@berkle]

Freecad is amazing for every level of design. Looking forward to this

[@mohammadtorikh]

Must protect! Thank you FreeCAD and the Team!

[@rtv1196]

Дякую всім розробникам за вашу працю!

[@originalspaceman]

Congratulations FreeCAD team to release 1.0 and many thanks to all your hard work !!!

[@FinixFilms]

Wow, this is huge!!

[@ironsm4sh]

The topo-naming problem has been solved?! thats HUGE. Its the main reason why I considered Freecad unusable and resorted to OpenSCAD. Going to give Freecad another spin.

[@avibank]

Amazing leap forward. Can't wait to update! Well done and thank you.

[@onthimartificialintelligence]

This is a holy grail of free CAD software, remarkably powerful and performant even on low end system

[@wisefix9256]

Congrats to everybody involved in reaching this milestone.

[@nakfx134]

Really hoping for the best!!! The CAD world needs something like this.

[@Minecraft-3699]

Thank all of you for making this amazing software, it only keeps getting better.

[@christianlewis7055]

I was just about to ask about the topology naming issue and it addressed that right as I thought of it. Good stuff!

[@hanshima_]

Such a relief to read this comment. Going to download an try FreeCad once more.

[@atomikxray]

Free the homie Cad 😤 he did nothing wrong. He’s a pillar of the community. 💯

[@psyskip6709]

Awesome to see it finally get here after all this time. Here's to a thriving future~

[@user-11Il10I1]

As a former user of CATIA v5, thank you for this! 🙌

[@CraigsWorkshop]

So very happy about this release. Great trailer :)

[@stoobidthing]

Amazing software, 1.0 is such an amazing upgrade from 0.2x

[@TheLomsor]

Nice! An vetted assembly Workbench was really missing and I am glad it's here now. All the best with squashing further bugs

[@anik7748]

This is fire! Making FOSS competitor of such scale is just incredible!

[@jimtekkit]

My experience of CAD software as an engineer is that all of them are painful to use. I've used Solidworks, NX, Creo, Inventor and can't say I actually "like" any of them. You're always having to experiment and modify your workflow to work around crashes, inefficient UI designs, bugs and other quirks. Haven't used FreeCAD much, the UI is still very confusing to navigate but it's fairly easy to start exporting STEP and STL files without frustrations. I like the dark scheme and Blender navigation style where it's easy to pan and spin parts. I just hope they eventually overhaul and simplify the toolbar interface so that users don't have to sift through 30 indistinguishable icons for the function they want to use. But even now I'd rather use FreeCAD than the cloud-based Autodesk Fusion 360.

[@ahmedkj9923]

I am not engineer (yet) and i want start explore and start learning about cad software, I heard Autodesk Fusion 360 is the industrial standard and every company requires you to be experienced in it, Should I start with FreeCAD or pay for Autodesk Fusion 360? (sorry for my bad english).

[@LuukDomhof]

​@@ahmedkj9923If you're going to try out Fusion, start with the free license and only upgrade if you need the extra functionality.

[@seancollins9745]

@@ahmedkj9923 fusion360 has a more commercial type of workflow.

[@MinePossu]

​@@ahmedkj9923You could start with the free version of fusion360 for home/hobby use to learn. Or embrace the opensource and join the makers and tinkerers with freecad.

[@FlamingToaster]

@@ahmedkj9923 iirc Fusion is free for personal use (but some more advanced options are disabled) I'd say it's easier to get into CAD with Fusion, but later on when you'll have your footing, learn FreeCAD, especially if you think of doing freelancer work etc. Besides that, companys tend to use other software such as AutoCAD, Inventor, Solidwork, NX, Catia... Every industry that require modelling has its own software preference, really.

[@hugoreyes509]

Se ve excelente. Los felicito, debe de haber sido un arduo trabajo. Se ve súper

[@djsnackcakes2795]

I'll admit. Freecad does have it's quirks and minor issues. But overall, it's a pretty solid program. The big thing I can think of in terms of quality of life improvements is hardware accelaration and custom hotkeys. Other than that, it's a pretty solid but of CAD software. Assemblies function well enough for most applications, the benches while confusing at first, became a feature I miss with other CAD software. Keep up the good work to the freecad team and let's have many more years to come

[@simple_classic]

Biggest milestone in the open engineering community. Kudos to everyone, I hope I can help the cause one day!

[@julias-shed]

Excellent video I hope that will bring many more into the fold. Well done everyone involved.😀

[@Grosingenieur]

That’s a really big milestone! Thanks to everyone involved

[@uzixCode]

I started learn freecad few days ago,as person who come from blender,at first it really pain in the ass,but now it starting to make sense,I hope freecad evolving like a worm that become a butterfly

[@djskate9183]

Amazing!!!! I will donate as a thank you for this great milestone. Let's all send them some thank$ This is huge for the CAD world , finally freedom from punitive licensing by the profit first crew.

[@viktoregorov]

Отличное решение. С должной поддержкой и большим комьюнити это станет великой программой!

[@aerocreative]

Amazing project. Really excited about this release!

[@MietoK]

Oh man, looking great! Time to download it and craft something for my 3d printer!

[@Soundpost-f2l]

Looks super cool! I probably won't use it personally because my job pays for me to have a license to Inventor and I use that all day at work, but it definitely makes CAD much easier for people learning who don't have thousands of dollars a year to pay for it.

[@Klaster_1]

RIP Ondsel.

[@neoqueto]

Their contribution must not be understated.

[@Gaston12345]

I also feel sorry for the end of the Ondsel endeavour. I think it was just a bit too early. Thanks a lot to the developers for giving us this great piece of software! I think FreeCAD is one of the most underrated pieces of FOSS

[@dvdvideo1234]

This program is amazing ! Used it to 3D print parts for my car :D Thank you! Thank you!

[@jonathanluce9130]

Awesome work all those involved.

[@mr.miguardi5683]

Just tried it, congratulation for the big update! the interface is now much cleaner and easy to use. Looks like it's time for me to start using this software more seriously.

[@hanswurst9866]

Wohooo! I hope you can create a few tutorials to showcase all new additions and methods. Also a theme guide since would be nice.

[@Toxa_Kartoha]

Выглядит конечно круто, молодцы

[@danielkuhn9230]

Well done!

[@jsu-oz1fo]

Excellent work!

[@reinhardt0731]

Thank you so much for bringing this a areality, it means very much to people who are passionate of making their imaginations come into reality FOR FREE. I wish i have the money to donate and If I do I will.

[@asklapios]

thank you so much to group of all creators to this program

[@stevesmith-sb2df]

Thank you freecad team!

[@tomazcunha7767]

Muito bom. Parabéns a todos do projeto.

[@djsolstice8964]

Great to see 1.0 😊 I found the editing in this video a tad fast. I couldn't comprehend what I was looking at before the next cut in image or text. Maybe slow it all down about 20% next time? Just a thought. Have a great day.

[@GreasyTrout]

F.y.i You can slowdown in the player itself

[@Linuxdirk]

… and all of this as free open source software! ❤

[@michas4740]

Thank you for releasing freecad!

[@orange_district]

22 years from the first release. What a journey!

[@dynamicreality4243]

Thank you very much for all efforts!

[@sergey8692]

Поздравляю с релизом! Желаю всяческих успехов!

[@captainpumpkinhead1512]

That's way more impressive than I realized the program could be. When I use FreeCAD, it's always shitting itself because I needed to change a length on a previous sketch.

[@K_Shea]

Now is the time for the many thousands of users to kick in a little $ and see how far they can take it from here.

[@aa-km1nk]

TY for all of your work! :D

[@andre-7423]

Congratulations !

[@noanyobiseniss7462]

Thank you RealThunder.

[@MarioMadrona]

Amazing job, love the latest improvements.

[@cheesedoff-with4410]

I like what you've done here very much.

[@andreyansimov_diy]

This is great. I just learning it slowly . Previous version. I always ready to pay some donation for project.

[@vask92]

Freecad is pretty great, thank you guys

[@cekuhnen]

Wonderful! the TNP was a real pain to deal with.

[@didfall7041]

Great work to all involved. Much respect

[@squa_81]

That blueprint mode, i'm going to use a lot! After all, it can't be worse than Fusion's blueprint mode x)

[@Gspohu]

Nice !!!! Thank you for your great work, and the great vidéeo !

[@henryfleischer404]

Looks interesting, I may end up using this for the FPS I'm working on.