FreeCAD 1.1
Extremely powerful, completely free 3D CAD modeling
Details
- External ID
- 1110994
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- FreeCAD 1.1
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- March 30, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 218
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33879781420765026
- Tags
- Design Tools, Open Source, 3D Modeling
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 1:22 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 1:22 a.m.
Description
FreeCAD 1.1 is a massive update to the highly capable, free, and open-source 3D CAD/CAM/FEA modeler. It introduces major quality-of-life improvements including transparent previews, interactive draggers, new CAM tools, and enhanced assembly features.
Enrichment
- Theme
- creative coding and visual experiments
- Vertical
- Manufacturing
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- free 3d cad modeling software
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No FreeCAD is a massive, decades-old parametric 3D CAD/CAM/FEA modeling suite requiring deep expertise in computational geometry, boundary representation (B-Rep), and finite element mathematics.
What it would actually take: Building a full parametric 3D CAD engine requires integrating complex geometric kernels like Open CASCADE (OCCT), writing C++ and Python bindings for topological modeling, constraint solvers (e.g. geometric constraint satisfaction algorithms), mesh generation, and hardware-accelerated OpenGL/Vulkan rendering engines, backed by teams of specialized computational geometry and mechanical engineers.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 66 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #36 of 67 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 145 days after the earliest competitor.
- taiga-s1 · github · 2026-09-26 · 59 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- freecad-mcp · github · 2026-09-10 · 67 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- DiffCAD, a FreeCAD workbench to review model changes like code · hn · 2026-05-07 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- We made Arcad, a parametric CAD in the browser, free and no signup · hn · 2026-08-02 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- FluidCAD · hn · 2026-04-10 · 160 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- freecad-openskp · github · 2026-09-12 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- ChaordCAD · ph · 2026-09-25 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- LuaCAD · hn · 2026-08-14 · 106 upvotes · similarity 0.46
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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