FreeCAD News

The team accel­er­at­ed after the win­ter hol­i­days and did a seri­ous PR queue cleanup:

• @Roy-043 merged some improve­ments to Draft and fixed sev­er­al bugs in Arch.
• @Berberic2 con­tributed Ger­man ISO 7200 tem­plates for TechDraw.
• @kadet1090 added an option­al hor­i­zon­tal scroll­bar to the Pref­er­ences dia­log so that the min­i­mum width could be small­er to make it fit on small­er displays.
• @maxwxyz improved the auto-dimen­sion tool in Sketch­er to dimen­sion dis­tances between arc-point, arc-cir­cle, arc-arc. He also changed the respec­tive tool descrip­tions of the rotate and the poly­gon tool to hint users to mod­i­fy with U and J keys.
• @PaddleStroke fixed a bug in Sketch­er, that made the auto-con­straint oper­a­tion crash when inter­rupt­ed by undo. He also hid the use­less head­ers of the prop­er­ty view panel.
• @FlachyJoe added a fix to Sketch­er for #11826.
• @Rexbas fixed sev­er­al right-click con­text menu issues in the Open­SCAD work­bench, and @maxwxyz added a con­text-sen­si­tive right-click menu to Sketch­er (select­ing a geo­met­ric object and right-click­ing now dis­plays a list of applic­a­ble constraints).
• @davesrocketshop con­tributed fur­ther Mate­r­i­al edi­tor enhance­ments: sup­port for embed­ded SVG files, abil­i­ty to fil­ter mate­ri­als in the edi­tor when called from code, new mod­els and mate­ri­als sup­port­ing pat­terns such as used by the Tech­Draw workbench.
• @bgbsww added sup­port for OCCT 7.8.0 (which is the lat­est release) and con­tributed tests for new topon­am­ing code.
• @leviathanch added a miss­ing Qt ver­sion check to make the pro­gram com­pile with Qt6.

PR stats: In the week from Wednes­day, 3 Jan to Wednes­day, 10 Jan there were 48 pull requests merged, with a total code­base change of +8,461 / ‑3,054. We had an aver­age merged PR size of +176 / ‑64. 14 new pull requests were opened. 

Issue stats: we closed 23 issues, and 23 new issues were opened. Over­all, 1,143 issues are cur­rent­ly open.