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New Addon; Banana For Scale!

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Jo Hinchliffe

on

July 12, 2026

Take a seat, mark the time and remem­ber where you were for this announce­ment of our most impor­tant new fea­ture to date. Indeed, whilst mak­ing excel­lent tech­ni­cal draw­ings on the Tech­Draw work­bench, or hav­ing the instant auto­mat­ed Mea­sure tool fea­tures at our fin­ger­tips, we have been miss­ing a key part of high end metrol­o­gy with­in FreeCAD, until now. It’s there­fore with great delight we announce the addi­tion of Banana For Scale to the Addon Manager!

From any­where in FreeCAD click “Tools -> Addon Man­ag­er”, wait for the list to refresh and then search “Banana” and install. After a swift reboot FreeCAD won’t have a new work­bench in the drop down menu, but you will have a Banana icon and a Soda can icon. Click either or both to add a Banana or Can for scale!

Whilst pre­dom­i­nate­ly this is a fun fea­ture, it’s actu­al­ly quite handy for pub­lish­ing a quick screen­shot or indeed to insert into a FreeCAD file that you aren’t famil­iar with. Whilst we could prob­a­bly have guessed the scale, the above image is of the recent FreeCAD Com­mu­ni­ty Com­pe­ti­tion win­ning pinch valve entry.

As said, install from the Addon Man­ag­er, or feel free to check out the github repos­i­to­ry here. Many thanks to Fabio­Tav­erni­ni for author­ing this bril­liant fun feature.

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