2023
- December 14, 2023 - CAD users want interoperability. Autodesk fails to lead
- December 2, 2023 - Autodesk continues to enshittify Fusion 360 with a 27% price increase
- December 1, 2023 - Christmas comes early! A pre-release of the integrated assembly workbench
- November 15, 2023 - Open Source UX/UI is notoriously bad. How FreeCAD is breaking the curse
- November 6, 2023 - Ondsel added integrated assembly to the FreeCAD core finally solving the largest missing feature
- October 30, 2023 - FreeCAD sketcher getting a major upgrade with floating input widgets
- October 20, 2023 - Autodesk is teaching students hard life-lessons about vendor lock-in
- October 13, 2023 - How to build 3rd-party addons for FreeCAD that don’t suck
- September 29, 2023 - Ondsel made constraining sketches faster and easier
- September 19, 2023 - Live merge meetings: what we learned from merging 75 pull requests in 30 days
- September 5, 2023 - The road to FreeCAD 1.0 is shorter than you think
- September 1, 2023 - Don’t lose your (open-source) soul: why we founded Ondsel as a public benefit company
- August 27, 2023 - FreeCAD needs a first-run wizard, but nobody knows what it should do
- August 10, 2023 - Someday an archeologist will study the bones of your pull request
- August 2, 2023 - FreeCAD version 0.21 is a major milestone for the community
- July 24, 2023 - Milestone: Ondsel and FreeCAD team complete phase 2 of the toponaming fix
- July 11, 2023 - Software bounties are a dumb idea
- June 24, 2023 - Let’s Build a Core System for Custom Data Elements in FreeCAD
- June 9, 2023 - FreeCAD Needs A Better Materials System
- May 30, 2023 - What does it mean that my GitHub project has 900 open issues?
- May 18, 2023 - FreeCAD's unpredictable release schedule hurts users and developers
- May 2, 2023 - FreeCAD’s Approach to Software Development Needs to Change
- April 21, 2023 - In the metaverse nobody uses CAD for design
- April 14, 2023 - Ondsel at 100...Days
- April 10, 2023 - Assembly Workbench: What We Learned and What's Coming Next
- April 2, 2023 - Exploring BodyBuilder, Manipulator, and Part-o-magic
- March 28, 2023 - Exploring the Assembly 4 workbench
- March 23, 2023 - Exploring the Assembly 3 workbench
- March 21, 2023 - Exploring the A2plus workbench
- March 16, 2023 - Exploring the Assembly 2 workbench
- March 14, 2023 - FreeCAD needs a default assembly workbench - Introduction
- March 2, 2023 - I hire people to work on a FOSS project. Here's how I evaluate GitHub profiles
- February 18, 2023 - Don't hold your breath for FreeCAD's topological naming fix
- February 17, 2023 - ChatGPT acts demonic about open-source software
- February 9, 2023 - When your Definition of Done is a barrier to contributors (and other reasons working with first-timers is hard)
- February 1, 2023 - Autodesk has increased FreeCAD adoption by more than 30%
- January 26, 2023 - It’s Time to Dream Big … and Build: The future of FreeCAD + the first ever FreeCAD Day at FOSDEM
- January 3, 2023 - Hello world!
2024
- October 30, 2024 - We are shutting down Ondsel
- October 22, 2024 - Introducing reloadable STEP files in Ondsel ES
- October 11, 2024 - New in the Ondsel Lens addon: revamped UI, search, and more
- October 2, 2024 - Simulating multi-body dynamics in zero gravity with Ondsel Solver
- September 27, 2024 - Streamlining laser cutter workflows with Ondsel postprocessor
- September 16, 2024 - Let’s make GD&T support a core feature
- September 1, 2024 - How to back up and restore your Ondsel ES preferences with Lens
- August 23, 2024 - Introducing STEP support on Lens
- August 8, 2024 - How to share you first 3D CAD project on Lens
- July 8, 2024 - Ondsel 2024.2.2 released
- July 3, 2024 - BOM generation should be a core feature, so let's do it
- June 4, 2024 - FreeCAD bug hunt has begun! Crush silly bugs. Win awesome swag
- May 22, 2024 - FreeCAD's topological naming problem is (officially) history
- May 7, 2024 - Ondsel ES 2024.2 released: more assembly tools and UX/UI polish
- May 1, 2024 - Exploded Views: New tool enhances TechDraw and Assembly workbenches
- April 22, 2024 - CATIA suffers from the same problems that Ondsel / FreeCAD are solving. And it's expensive
- April 4, 2024 - Addons like SheetMetal need to be planned and developed like the rest of FreeCAD
- March 21, 2024 - Autodesk’s way of handling the IFC standard is helping nobody
- March 15, 2024 - Over 75% of FreeCAD users are willing to pay to see it improved
- March 11, 2024 - The Path workbench in FreeCAD is going away. That's good news
- March 8, 2024 - Some FreeCAD addon usage reflects core deficiencies
- February 26, 2024 - The typical user doesn't exist: FreeCAD user survey results (part 1)
- February 15, 2024 - FOSS projects like FreeCAD suffer without product owners
- January 20, 2024 - Introducing Ondsel ES, an engineering suite with an open-source heart
- January 8, 2024 - 365 days of Ondsel
- January 3, 2024 - Survey: do engineers dream of architecture tools?