FreeCAD News

This week in FreeCAD development:

• bgb­sww, Cal­li­garoV, and chennes made more progress with mit­i­gat­ing the topon­am­ing issue.
• The lat­est work by pad­dle on inte­grat­ed assem­bly work­bench has been merged: link­ing and ground­ing parts, func­tion­al joints (Fixed, Rev­o­lute, Cylin­dri­cal, Slid­er, Ball, Dis­tance), drag­ging sup­port for Slid­er and Rev­o­lute joints.
• pad­dle patched the par­al­lel con­straint code to ignore points and non-line geome­tries. He also added Trans­late tool that also works as a replace­ment for Rec­tan­gu­lar Array / Move / Copy / Clone.
• AjinkyaDa­hale imple­ment­ed gen­er­al tan­gency with B‑splines in Sketcher.
• Rexbas con­tributed a patch fix­ing rota­tion for some nav­i­ga­tion styles in Sketcher.
• maxwxyz fur­ther improved con­tex­tu­al right-click menu in Sketch­er: pre­s­e­lec­tion and exter­nal geom­e­try are now tak­en into con­sid­er­a­tion, Fil­let and Trim com­mands have been removed (they can’t work with a selec­tion), Cut/Copy/Paste com­mands have been added.
• FlachyJoe added a “Passthrough” boolean prop­er­ty in Part­De­sign so that it would be pos­si­ble to dis­able a fea­ture with­out remov­ing it. He also made it pos­si­ble to use equal radii in Part and Part­De­sign cones and imple­ment­ed 1D inter­sec­tion for attachments.
• Lemon­Boy added an option to dim the nav­i­ga­tion cube when it’s not in the focus. He also fixed the extru­sion behav­ior when the height is zero.
• Zolko-123 improved the LCS rep­re­sen­ta­tion in the 3D win­dow to make it eas­i­er to select the point/vertex on which the LCS is attached.
• marioalexis84 made fur­ther improve­ments in the FEM work­bench: added sup­port for cyclic sym­me­try and fixed sev­er­al issues.
• chennes and ros­t­ska­dat made var­i­ous improve­ments in the Addon Man­ag­er code.
• Roy-043 made sev­er­al fix­es and small improve­ments in Draft and Arch, he also fixed the path for off-line documentation.
• mark-dev added sub­vol­ume prop­er­ty for roofs based on a sol­id shape in Arch.
• pavl­tom imple­ment­ed adding “Own­er” prop­er­ty to all Sym­bols in TechDraw.
• kadet1090 made axis label col­or con­fig­urable for bet­ter them­ing capabilities.
• wwmay­er fixed 3MF export­ing with clones, con­tributed to the Python 3.12 port, improved the port to Open­Cas­cade 7.8.0, and con­tributed more fixes.

PR stats: In the week from Wednes­day, 7 Feb­ru­ary to Wednes­day, 14 Feb there were 66 pull requests merged, with a total code­base change of +15,543 / ‑3,626 (not count­ing trans­la­tion updates). We had an aver­age merged PR size of +235 / ‑55. 36 new pull requests were opened. 

Issue stats: we closed 52 issues, and 47 new issues were opened. Over­all, 1,216 issues are cur­rent­ly open.