#FreeCadFriday This has been my first full week using FreeCAD. I've made so many mistakes, so many retries, but also some progress!

I'm working on a model of the Zeppelin-like airship from one of my novels - I hope eventually to import it into a program that will let me walk through it.

Having some trouble getting rotation joints to stick, but here's a screenshot of one of the engine nacelles.

#FreeCad #CAD #CAM

Here's my constraint model of a 1D pantograph that I think I can make with 3D printed flexure joints for the #RepRapMicron. Basically it lets me do incredibly precise linear movement reduction without using any bearings.

My first actual success at doing anything with #FreeCAD, by the way. Only crashed it once and its file recovery recovered.

Description of WTF? at http://blog.reprap.org/2025/08/the-parallel-pantograph-axis-driver.html

#OnThisDay, 5 Aug 1888, Bertha Benz drove from Mannheim to Pforzheim: the first journey of 100+km in a car by *anyone*.

She'd got tired of her husband tinkering with his prototype so took it on the road with her sons. And without him.

Along the way, she made running repairs to the engine and realised there would need to be refueling stations.

#WomenInSTEM #EuropeanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

A little WIP for Wednesday

#art #drawing #raven

FreeCAD 1.0.2 released
We’ve just released a new update with over 30 bugfixes and small improvements, go get it here. As a reminder, these 1.0.X releases bring added stability to version 1.0 of FreeCAD, whereas new features in development will be released in version 1.1.
#opensource #CAD #FreeCAD

https://blog.freecad.org/2025/08/06/freecad-1-0-2-released/
#Releases

The scissors have arrived!

There are many things one can do with functional 25" long scissors, but we're only going to do one of them.

Grand opening is this Saturday!