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It is September 2026 and FCB Lounge channel has released another of its world renowned FreeCAD BIM courses . This time the course covers creation of a small interior design project, a modern bedroom.  The course provides more than 3 hours of content. Attendees will learn how to create a 3D model of a room, create custom furniture from scratch and use furniture from the FreeCAD BIM Library . A big part of the course is dedicated to creation of 2D deliverables - sheets with a floor plan and elevations, which include all the necessary annotation. Attendees will learn how to export sheets to PDF for print and also how to export the 3D model to IFC file format for data exchange. The course is divided into 11 lessons: 1. Introduction to the course 2. Setup of FreeCAD for working on a BIM project 3. Modelling the room including walls, floor, ceiling, french window and doors 4. Creation of custom furniture from scratch 5. Using furniture from the FreeCAD BIM Library to equip the room 6. C...

You may have heard that Yorik van Havre, the maintainer and creator of the FreeCAD BIM Workbench , has stepped down from maintaining FreeCAD. This is huge news as Yorik has been part of the FreeCAD development team since 2008. You may read the reasons behind his departure in his statement , the main reason being the new AI policies of the FreeCAD project. Even though Yorik is not burning bridges behind him and stated that he will still be active in the community, it is clear that this marks a milestone in FreeCAD BIM development. So what will FreeCAD BIM future look like after the departure of the founder? First, let's take a look at the history. Yorik is an architect, so he mostly worked on features that enable using FreeCAD in the AEC industry. This included the creation of the Draft Workbench , which is mostly used as a drafting tool. He later started with the development of the Arch Workbench, which aimed to be a solution for creating 3D architectural models. During the release...

As Open CAD Studio is slowly maturing, the release schedule will change to one release per week, with Sunday as the designated release date. Version numbering is changing too, now it starts with year and is followed by the week number, so this week's version has 2026.36 number. Users are informed about the release of a new version by popup in the application. New releases can be downloaded from Open CAD Studio GitHub release page . As you can see from the release schedule, the application is still under heavy development, but the schedule means new releases will not rain down on users unexpectedly. New Open CAD Studio logo Open CAD Studio also got updated branding featuring a new logo (depicted above). The logo was selected from over ten community proposals in the new logo competition. This is accompanied by new landing page . Additionally, a  Reddit group has been established to provide Open CAD Studio users with a place for discussions. A very positive development is regis...