FreeCAD News

This week in FreeCAD development:

• @yorik con­tin­ues to work on the NativeIFC new doc­u­ment sys­tem (one FreeCAD doc­u­ment = one IFC doc­u­ment), which is almost ready.
• @obelisk79 has com­plet­ed and is pub­lish­ing his pref­er­ence pack “Open­Dark” to the addon man­ag­er. He’ll then be resum­ing work on his icon theme “Flat Dark” for dark styles to expand beyond Part/PartDesign and Sketch­er WB’s.
• @paddle is work­ing most­ly on the assem­bly solv­ing sys­tem. He’s also work­ing on some side projects. 
  • Remove stop but­ton of macro tool­bar : https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/pull/10836
  • Trans­paren­cy tog­gle : https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/pull/10805
  • Dis­cussing tool set­tings : viewtopic.php?t=81212
• I (@chennes) con­tin­ued work on the Topon­am­ing mit­i­ga­tion merge and the new Win­dows LibPack.

PR stats: In the week from Wednes­day, 20 Sept to Wednes­day, 27 Sept there were 48 pull requests merged, with a total code­base change of +33,938 / ‑24,934 lines — how­ev­er, +20,100/−15,934 of that was an auto for­mat change of the Mesh Work­bench. Not count­ing that for­mat change we had an aver­age merged PR size of +294 / ‑191. We closed 35 Issues, and 22 new Issues were opened.