The FreeCAD Grant Program Archive
The following is a reverse-chronological-order list of past projects funded by the FreeCAD Project Association:
2024
Bradley Mclean (@bgbsww): Toponaming issue mitigation
Funding approved 2 July 2024.
Bradley will continue to address bugs and missing code as discovered in TNP migration. He will also develop new code as required to address portions of subshapebinder and Sketcher that vary from both the code base at the time of the original TNP branch and from the current Linkstage3 branch. When no bugs are present, he will refactor code in Part and PartDesign based on discoveries during the toponaming project. Bradley was awarded a grant of USD 5,000.
Bradley Mclean (@bgbsww): Toponaming issue mitigation
Funding approved 7 April 2024.
Bradley will complete the toponaming project code transfer. He was awarded a grant of USD $5,000 for the work.
Bradley Mclean (@bgbsww): Toponaming issue mitigation
Funding approved 22 January 2024.
Bradley will be working for two months on integrating fixes for the toponaming issue from RealThunder’s branch to upstream FreeCAD. He was awarded a grant of 4800 USD.
Vincenzo Calligaro (@CalligaroV): Toponaming issue mitigation
Funding approved 22 January 2024.
Vincenzo will be working for two months on integrating fixes for the toponaming issue from RealThunder’s branch to upstream FreeCAD. He was awarded a grant of 3400 EUR.
2023
Ajinkya Dahale (@jnxd): Curve Geometry Improvements
Funding approved 26 November 2023.
Ajinkya will implement general tangency with B-splines and make it possible to preview B-splines when drawing them. He will also investigate the implementation of Bezier curves and improve support for joining curves. Ajinkya was awarded a grant of 5000 USD.
Benjamin Bræstrup Sayoc (@bensay): Fix Issue #5903
Funding approved 3 August 2023.
Bensay is implementing the autofilling of text fields in SVG page templates in TechDraw workbench. He was awarded a grant of 500 USD.
AgCaliva (@AgCaliva): Per-document Unit Selector
Funding approved 3 August 2023.
AgCaliva implemented a simple per-document unit selector in FreeCAD. He was awarded a grant of 600 USD.
Alexandre Prokoudine (@prokoudine): New grant program
Funding approved 19 July 2023.
Alexandre is revamping the grant program for FreeCAD Project association to make it more attractive to new contributors. He was awarded an overall grant of 3500 USD — 1500 for initial research and 2000 for designing the new program.
2022
Lei Zheng (@realthunder): Topological Naming Problem Mitigation
Funding approved 15 November 2022.
In recognition of the efforts he has put into FreeCAD, especially the very large time investment he has made in working with the FreeCAD Maintainers to integrate his work on the topological naming problem, Zheng is awarded a grant of 1000 USD.
Ajinkya Dahale (@jnxd): Spline Handling in Sketcher
Funding approved 26 September 2022.
Ajinkya proposed numerous improvements to the spline handling in the sketcher workbench. He raised funds from many members to do this work and has largely completed stage one. The FPA contributed to the second stage which focused on functionality to create more interesting curves not possible by knot position and slope alone. In recognition of his significant contribution to FreeCAD, Dahale is awarded a grant of 1000 USD.