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New Feature Merged; Cosmetic Threads

We don't always write individual blog posts about single new features that have been merged into the weekly development versions of FreeCAD, but this one, deserves a special mention. Lot's of people have been eagerly and patiently waiting the arrival of cosmetic threads in fact the arrival of this closes an issue that was raised in July 2013! @Alfrix has worked hard to bring this feature to fruition and we look forward to people…

https://blog.freecad.org/2026/03/20/new-feature-merged-cosmetic-threads/

Good Morning! It's #FreeCADFriday once again! Show us what you are working on in #FreeCAD at the moment. #CAD #CAM

It's #FreeCADFriday already! What are you brilliant folk working on with #FreeCAD? #CAD #CAM #BIM

It's #FreeCADFriday ! What are a ll you wonderful people up to with #FreeCAD ?#CAD #CAM #fc3d

Yesterday we blogged about the upcoming deadline for this first quarter grant award period. We've made some changes to the system which we've detailed on this blog. Deadline for this round is March 10th! #opensource #freecad #developers
https://blog.freecad.org/2026/03/02/q1-2026-grant-program/

We've just posted with a review of the last year of the FPA grant program.

#FreeCAD #Grants #FPA #Community

https://blog.freecad.org/2026/03/01/fpa-grant-program-2025-year-in-review/

In case you hadn't seen we've released the last release candidate, RC3, for the 1.1 release. Some links in this blog, we'd love the community to give it a go and feedback. #FreeCAD #opensource #rc3 https://blog.freecad.org/2026/02/28/freecad-1-1rc3/

We blogged earlier today about MbDFEM, some amazing new functionalitly being built into the #FreeCAD ecostsytem. MbDFEm combined Multibody Dynamics with FEM for some amazing analytical capabilities. Read more here. #CAD #FEM #MbDFEM #Calculix #Opensource

https://blog.freecad.org/2026/02/27/amazing-multibody-dynamics-with-fem/

It's #FreeCADFriday and we are on a shiny new instance! Many thanks for bearing with us as we've made the changes. #FreeCAD #fc3d #CAD #CAM #BIM