My keyboard replaced half my CAD clicks.

It’s a common ritual: whipping out those calipers or similar measuring devices to measure part of a physical object that we’re trying to transfer into a digital model in an application like FreeCAD.

When it comes to electronics projects and 3D printing, one of the subtle struggles is "modeling battery boxes (battery holders)." If you make them exactly to JIS standards, they might not fit due to ...

On October 14, 2025, Microsoft officially ended support for Windows 10 — terminating security patches for an operating system still running on roughly 62% of all Windows PCs worldwide at the time of ...

FreeCAD has been updated to version 1.1. The open-source 3D CAD tool has become increasingly popular in recent times, likely due to a combination of increasing use of desktop 3D printers and rising ...

In our software overview you will find a range of different programs that are necessary for 3D printing. Here we summarize the most important CAD-programs for 3D models. 3D CAD software enables the ...

Solidworks and Inventor receive a lot of attention, and so we tend to forget the surprising number of other MCAD programs that exist. They are not fly-by-nighters – many have been around for more than ...

CAD programs let you design everything from tiny pieces of electronic equipment to large buildings, dams, 3D designs, and more. Naturally, CAD programs are expensive as most professionals use them to ...

It’s happened to all of us: you find the perfect model for your needs — a bracket, a box, a cable clip, but it only comes in STL, and doesn’t quite fit. That problem will never happen if you’re using ...

I am leaving this blog to spend more time making things in the workshop and, hopefully, finally mastering FreeCad – amongst other mountains to climb (both intellectual and physical). So this is a ...