Hi everyone I'm Abhishek, hunting Oscar for FreeCAD, which launched today.
Oscar is an AI copilot that lives inside FreeCAD, the free and open-source CAD app. You describe a part in plain words:
"An 80 mm flange, 8 mm thick, with six M6 holes on a 60 mm circle."
Oscar plans it, sketches it, builds it as real FreeCAD features and checks it. Every dimension goes into a parameter spreadsheet, so changing the thickness from 8 to 12 mm updates the part. You don't start over.
Physical parts in. Editable CAD out. Oscar, a patent pending AI co-pilot that reverse-engineers parts like an experienced design engineer, in a fraction of the time and cost. It creates a parametric CAD from the scan data that you can open, edit, and send to manufacturing.
Hey everyone! Big update just shipped v0.4.0, our largest release yet. Six new AI features, and every one of them runs locally. Your footage still never leaves your machine. What's new - AI dubbing, fully local a new NLLB-200 translation service batch-translates transcripts on-device (Whisper translate voice clone render). Optional Sarvam fallback only for Indian language pairs, if you configure it. - Video background removal per-frame matting with the result dropped in as a non-destructive alpha layer above your clip. Original stays untouched. - Auto B-roll from your own footage on-device CLIP search matches each transcript segment to clips you already have and inserts the best match. No stock libraries, no uploads. - Multilingual captions one-click translation into multiple languages with per-track SRT/VTT export. - Edit by speaker diarization labels who spoke when; remove, tighten, or isolate a single speaker's segments like text. - Automatic multicam sync client-side audio cross-correlation aligns camera angles without timecode. Preview offsets with confidence scores, apply in one undoable step. Also in this release - Visual footage search powered by local CLIP embeddings (shipped earlier this spring) - Thumbnail A/B testing and YouTube virality scoring - New model support: Sarvam AI, Smallest AI, Kimi K2, Google Gemma - Hardened upload endpoints, stabilized VPS deployment, and a repaired build/CI pipeline community contributions from @MikyJ05 and @interfluve-wav landed in this release. Open source works. Why it matters Every other "AI video editor" asks you to upload raw footage to the cloud. For unreleased material, client work, or anything sensitive, that's a non-starter. We keep wrapping more intelligence around the editor while keeping the architecture boring and private: Docker services on your own hardware, no telemetry, no account required. Full changelog: /changelog/0.4.0 on the site. What should we build next and what would you dub first?
