On October 14, 2025, Microsoft officially ended support for Windows 10 — terminating security patches for an operating system still running on roughly 62% of all Windows PCs worldwide at the time of ...

Solidworks and Inventor receive a lot of attention, and so we tend to forget the surprising number of other MCAD programs that exist. They are not fly-by-nighters – many have been around for more than ...

A list of the best free CAD software was just asking to be compiled seeing that so many novice designers are always on the lookout for such tools. There is no doubt that a computer-aided design tool ...

It’s happened to all of us: you find the perfect model for your needs — a bracket, a box, a cable clip, but it only comes in STL, and doesn’t quite fit. That problem will never happen if you’re using ...

Engineers and designers use computer-aided design (CAD) software to create, analyze, model, and modify 2D and 3D designs that may be used in a range of systems and products, such as structures, ...

OpenBoltRF is an open-source workflow to analyse the load transfer for geometrically imperfect bolted ring-flanges in offshore wind turbine support structures. It is intended as a lightweight, ...

This script imports FreeCAD .FCStd files into Blender. This is a work in progress, so not all geometry elements of FreeCAD might be supported at this point. And the update option will make some mess ...