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Hello everybody,

Finally, after two years of intense work, the FreeCAD community is happy and proud to announce the release 0.17 of FreeCAD. You can grab it at the usual places, either via the Downloads page or directly via the github release page. There are installers for Windows and Mac, and an AppImage for Linux. Our Ubuntu Stable PPA is also updated with the new version.

The list of changes and new features is big. Check the Release notes for a full dose. I will resume things a bit here, and, for once, I won't talk about BIM or Arch but about other workbenches. There is also a video showing the main highlights on the forum.

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Interesting. I wonder how it compares to MOI3D (already own MOI3D).

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On 4/18/2018 at 4:21 AM, kenmo said:

Interesting. I wonder how it compares to MOI3D (already own MOI3D).

FreeCAD is BREP modeling, MOI is NURBS modeling. The two are related but different.

 

If you were going to design a car's aerodynamic body, you'd use NURBS modeling.

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If you were going to design a car's brake system or engine, you'd use BREP.

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You can do some pretty fine work in MoI...

 

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