News
OAuth authentication now available
Amritpal Singh has just merged new code that adds OAuth authentication.
January 25, 2026
Documentation update (Q4 2025 FPA grant)
The documentation has just been updated to match recent development in both the web app and the FreeCAD addon.
December 28, 2025
Lens now available as a TrueNAS app
Amritpal Singh made the Lens app available on the TrueNAS Apps Market. Now users can install Lens directly from the TrueNAS Apps dashboard.
December 9, 2025
Lens addon v2025.11.21.01 released
Pieter Hijma released the new version of the Lens addon with two major changes.
November 21, 2025
New NLnet grant for the Lens addon
Pieter Hijma got an NLnet grant to improve the Lens addon.
October 17, 2025
FC-Worker updated to v1.0.2
Amritpal Singh has updated the containerized version of FreeCAD used by Ondsel Lens to v1.0.2.
October 13, 2025
Documentation moved
The original documentation written in Docusaurus has been moved to Hugo and a Git repository that belongs to the FreeCAD organization.
August 16, 2025
Lens now supports on-prem deployment
Amritpal Singh has finished the work on an FPA grant to make Ondsel Lens self-deployable.
July 12, 2025
Ondsel Lens has been moved to FreeCAD
Following the shutdown of Ondsel, all the code required to running Ondsel Lens has been transferred to the FreeCAD organization on GitHub and released under free licenses:
February 2, 2025