FreeCAD News

This week in FreeCAD development:

• bgb­sww, Cal­li­garoV, and chennes made fur­ther progress towards mit­i­gat­ing the topon­am­ing issue.
• pieter­hi­j­ma con­tributed the first code towards a new cus­tom data ele­ments (cus­tom prop­er­ties) sys­tem, see here for tech­ni­cal details.
• maxwxyz adjust­ed the default mate­r­i­al appear­ance to bet­ter dis­play the objects shape (sur­faces and con­tours) with spec­u­lar high­lights and a low ambi­ent col­or. He also added the recent­ly merged com­mands for trans­lat­ing and scal­ing geome­tries to the con­text menu in Sketcher.
• czine­hu­ba updat­ed icons for the com­mand that tog­gles con­truc­tion lines mode in Sketcher.
• Rexbas fixed dis­ap­pear­ing ele­ment han­dles in Sketcher.
• Roy-043 made sev­er­al improve­ments in Draft.
• yorik­van­havre fixed an old sub­op­ti­mal design solu­tion relat­ed to IFC.
• Wan­der­erFan fixed a few issues in TechDraw.
• marioalexis84 fixed sev­er­al bugs in FEM.
• FEA-eng added new matrix solver types (PaStiX and Par­diso) to FEM.
• mosfet80 did some refac­tor­ing in the UI code
• 3x380V cleaned up Python­Wrap­per (more like­ly to follow).
• Andrei-Pozolotin fixed a bug in the expres­sion engine.
• Lemon­Boy fixed a bug that pre­vent­ed FreeCAD from pre­serv­ing objects order when mov­ing them in the project tree.

PR stats: In the week from Wednes­day, 14 Feb­ru­ary to Wednes­day, 21 Feb there were 57 pull requests merged, with a total code­base change of +24,587 / ‑4,685 (not count­ing trans­la­tion updates). We had an aver­age merged PR size of +431 / ‑82. 28 new pull requests were opened.

Issue stats: we closed 34 issues, and 59 new issues were opened. Over­all, 1,247 issues are cur­rent­ly open.