Preview of whats coming in Freecad 26.3

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16 August 2026 at 20:21 #860982
Russell Eberhardt
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-xUFwzAt6A

Big improvements coming this Autumn.

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9 September 2026 at 21:38 #864337
blowlamp
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I’ve been learning this over the last week or so and I can see that it’s vast improvement compared to even v1.0. No crashes (as yet) and I can make fairly simple parts, so it’s worth persevering with in my opinion.

I bought a new(ish) HP workstation laptop from Amazon and everything is flying along nicely. 😉

FreeCAD v26.3 is well worth a try.

Martin.
10 September 2026 at 14:00 #864405
blowlamp
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It seems that I don’t need to learn FreeCad after all. 😉

Skip to 12:30 to see Claude AI and FreeCAD working together.

Martin.
11 September 2026 at 09:53 #864487
Russell Eberhardt
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Just be aware that the development versions are still under development and bug fixing. The final stable version is likely to be released in November. If you are using a pre-release version for anything important make frequent backups of your model files, just in case!

Russell
11 September 2026 at 10:31 #864489
blowlamp
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Hi Russell.

I’m quite new to FreeCAD, so I’m not making anything of importance with it yet. That said, it has been very stable and hasn’t crashed on me so far.

Pretty much all of the annoying error messages of previous versions have been absent, with the ones that do appear being more relevant and understandable.

I’m finding that the golden rule is to keep sketches as simple as possible and to build in the features one at a time. Keeping sketches small also allows you to fully constrain them much more easily.

Overall it seems to have improved so much over the last few months, that either I’ve had an epiphany or there has been some serious work done under the bonnet.

Martin.
11 September 2026 at 20:13 #864511
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2 October 2026 at 01:20 #867462
Robert Walker 8
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Thanks very much for posting this. Very helpful.
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