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2D CAD Design Tool For GNOME Desktop Lands More Features

Written by Michael Larabel in GNOME on 4 April 2026 at 06:26 AM EDT. 5 Comments
In the past few days was the release of FreeCAD 1.1 and SolveSpace 3.2 for open-source computer aided design (CAD) while now joining the party is Design 50 Alpha as a GNOME-aligned 2D CAD design tool.

The new Design release brings polyline trim, polyline extend, chamfer command, fillet command, and a variety of other CAD commands now being supported. There is also better performance when panning and other enhancements. Design is written in part with JavaScript.

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Those interested in this Design 50 Alpha 1 release can find Flatpak builds available via Flathub or the sources over on GitHub.

The new release of Design was noted in This Week in GNOME as well as Serigy 2 as an updated GNOME-aligned clipboard manager and Fractal 14 Beta for the Matrix messaging app, among other improvements this week following the recent GNOME 50 stable debut.

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