FreeCAD News

This week in FreeCAD development:

• bgb­sww and chennes made fur­ther progress towards mit­i­gat­ing the topon­am­ing issue.
• wwmay­er fixed MinGW builds, added a class for read­ing meta­da­ta from project files and a test func­tion to write to file stream, and fixed the con­text menu for the expres­sion edit­ing input box. 
• pavl­tom reim­ple­ment­ed par­ent link­ing for weld sym­bols in TechDraw.
• edi271 fixed a scal­ing issue in TechDraw’s AxoLengthDimension.
• prrvchr fixed an issue with fill­ing tem­plate fields in Tech­Draw when import­ing an Arch sec­tion plan.
• yorik­van­havre intro­duced a new “Mouse delay” pref­er­ence in “Edit -> Pref­er­ences -> Draft -> Grid and Snap­ping” for sup­press­ing mouse events in numer­ic inputs for coor­di­nates in Draft and Arch.
• chennes fixed sev­er­al i18n bugs in Part­De­sign, Sketch­er, and the task pan­el. He also con­vert GTest to a git sub­mod­ule and made more improve­ments in the Addon Manager.
• FlachyJoe fixed the issue where dimen­sions in Sketch­er would have an uns­e­lec­table area.
• Roy-043 cor­rect­ed the posi­tion of Con­strain­Lock and Con­strain­Ra­di­am in Sketcher.
• slip­ton­ic renamed the Path work­bench to CAM (addi­tion­al fix­es for that from maxwxyz and chennes), for ratio­nale please see this post. He also fixed an edge case with miss­ing toolshapes.
• dav­es­rock­et­shop enhanced the new mate­ri­als sys­tem with data mod­els to sup­port elas­tic­i­ty. This will allow FEM to expand sup­port for more mate­r­i­al types.
• FEA-eng added a new Cal­culiX prop­er­ty Out­put­Fre­quen­cy that defines out­put fre­quen­cy for the whole step in num­bers of incre­ments. He also added sup­port for quad8 ele­ments in 2D analy­ses and fixed Elmer FEM 2D flow examples.
• marioalexis84 imple­ment­ed par­tial sup­port for hexa­he­dral ele­ments mesh­ing and sub­mit­ted a par­tial trans­paren­cy fix in Fem­Pos­tO­b­ject dis­play modes.
• NomAnor added an addi­tion­al vis­i­bil­i­ty icon for fea­tures in groups.
• Ovalelephant35 improved API documentation.
• mpfu­sion improved ISO 286 (geo­met­ri­cal prod­uct spec­i­fi­ca­tions) conformance.
• xtemp09 fixed two crashes.

PR stats: In the week from Wednes­day, 6 March to Wednes­day, 13 March there were 55 pull requests merged, with a total code­base change of +6,554 / ‑3,909 (addi­tion­al loss of 108K+ lines of code is due to GTest deven­dor­ing in favor of a git sub­mod­ule). We had an aver­age merged PR size of +119 / ‑71. 24 new pull requests were opened.

Issue stats: we closed 37 issues, and 66 new issues were opened. Over­all, 1,354 issues are cur­rent­ly open.