FreeCAD 1.1 Ready for Primetime?
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Alan Timm
Aug 21, 2026, 9:08:45 PMAug 21
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https://www.freecad.org/downloads.php?lang=en
https://wiki.freecad.org/Release_notes_1.1
Man oh man did Onsdel light a fire on FreeCAD development. Onsdel may be gone, but FreeCAD has been seeing improvements ever since thanks to the attention.
The quick video linked above touches on one of many long time gripes I had with FreeCAD. Now for the first time you can use a single parent sketch to drive profiles for multiple parts extrusions and bodies.
What's funny is that I'm hesitating a bit on switching over because I've gotten so used to cloud-native in fusion360 and onshape...
Jordan Irgang
Aug 21, 2026, 9:38:07 PMAug 21
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10/10 agree 
I’ve designed everything in this picture with freecad and have now fully dropped fusion(mostly because Linux). The workflow feels a lot like solidworks mixed with the gimmicks of fusion assembly and hybrid design.
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Alan Timm
Aug 21, 2026, 9:39:14 PMAug 21
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Nice!
Out of curiosity, have you figured out anything for backups? Git? Google Drive? Onedrive? Dropbox? etc.
Jordan Irgang
Aug 22, 2026, 12:03:39 AMAug 22
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Not yet right now I just keep everything on one laptop. I’ve been considering subversion, perforce, and for a solidworks projects I used rclone with Google Drive. The Google Drive one I used for a solid works project I was working on with some one so that is probably the best collaborative method. But back up and branches don’t work. I want to try a local server with perforce at some point because that seems to work with developers and artists using unreal.
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Chris Albertson
Aug 22, 2026, 12:11:35 AMAug 22
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Every release, I keep hoping that FreeCAD is finally good enough that I can move from Fusion360. It is looking good. I will have to try a project. The trouble is that in the past, it always took about twice as many mouse clicks in FreeCAD.
As for managing versions, I think Git is the way to go. Especially if you are also developing software for the robot. Git is a no-brainer for software, and it would be nice to keep hardware and software in the same version control system. There seems to be a Git Workbench now. I will have to look at it.
Backup is different from version control. Git is used for change management, especially when multiple people are making changes to the same system at the same time. Backup is so that you do not lose data if your storage system breaks. Just back up the whole filesystem to a second disk and to Backblaze, and make it automatic so you can’t forget.
As for managing versions, I think Git is the way to go. Especially if you are also developing software for the robot. Git is a no-brainer for software, and it would be nice to keep hardware and software in the same version control system. There seems to be a Git Workbench now. I will have to look at it.
Backup is different from version control. Git is used for change management, especially when multiple people are making changes to the same system at the same time. Backup is so that you do not lose data if your storage system breaks. Just back up the whole filesystem to a second disk and to Backblaze, and make it automatic so you can’t forget.
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