FreeCAD is free and open-source, under the LGPL-2.0-or-later license, and available for Linux, macOS, and Windows operating systems. It is intended for mechanical engineering product design but also expands to a wider range of uses around engineering, such as architecture or electrical engineering. According to the only worldwide date standard I recognize: ISO8601, slashes are reserved for time intervals.Interior of 3D house Arduino board imported from Eagle PCB softwareįreeCAD is a general-purpose parametric 3D computer-aided design (CAD) modeler and a building information modeling (BIM) software application with finite element method (FEM) support. Only an extremely tiny bit annoying they use slashes instead of dashes.

Python 3.10.12, Qt 5.15.8, Coin 4.0.0, Vtk 9.2.5, OCC 7.6.3Īlthough, if you look in the GUI window, it does show the date. Now I got the new 0.21 and it shows: OS: Linux Mint 20.3 (XFCE/xfce) Locale: C/Default (C) įreeCAD does not show a build date in it’s version info.Ī quick check shows that the 32821 build I use at the moment has a date of attached to the file itself, and as it’s a weekly build, it was probably made in the week before it. Unfortunately I don’t see a date in the version info. The FreeCAD version below shows “Release”, but I think it’s one of the weekly builds. The things I was able to do with it back then were promising enough that I kept an eye on the project. The bugs, combined with missing features and not being able to get my head wrapped about how things were supposed to work caused my to put FreeCAD in some corner for years. But there are some GUI resets sometimes after an update, but most times my updates are from a weekly build to a newer weekly build of 0.21.Įven opening an old file, such as one of my first experiments back from 2012 “just works”.

Quite often I start using some random “weekly build” a few months after a release, and grab a newer one every few months. I have never seen incompatibilities with drawings in FreeCAD after upgrades.

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