FreeCAD Version 1.0 Released - FreeCAD News

After more than twen­ty years of intense and sus­tained devel­op­ment, the FreeCAD com­mu­ni­ty is proud to announce the release of ver­sion 1.0. FreeCAD 1.0 is now avail­able for down­load on all plat­forms.

In soft­ware devel­op­ment, ver­sion 1 usu­al­ly means: our soft­ware is now sta­ble and ready for “real work”. If you are a FreeCAD user, you know that FreeCAD has been ready for real work for years, and is used in pro­duc­tive, pro­fes­sion­al activ­i­ty all over the world already. We in fact were tempt­ed many times in the past to cut to the chase, and call the next ver­sion 1.0 already!

But we did­n’t. Since the very begin­nings, the FreeCAD com­mu­ni­ty had a clear view of what 1.0 rep­re­sent­ed for us. What we want­ed in it. FreeCAD matured over the years, and that list nar­rowed down to just two major remain­ing pieces: fix­ing the topon­am­ing prob­lem, and hav­ing a built-in assem­bly module.

Well, I’m very proud to say those two issues are now solved. Not fin­ished, mind you, not the per­fect, bug-free, fault­less fea­tures we all want, but reach­ing that lev­el takes time and effort. That will be our job from now on. What we have now is a sol­id, work­ing, reli­able topon­am­ing solu­tion, that is already in action in the Sketch­er and Part­De­sign, and is being pro­gres­sive­ly extend­ed to every­thing else. And we have a good and fair­ly com­plete assem­bly work­bench that has a shiny new solver that comes, if you can believe it, from “the oth­er FreeCAD”. Read the full release notes to learn more about all this.

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