FreeCAD News

In the topon­am­ing project, bgb­sww and chennes are get­ting real­ly close to final­iz­ing the port of RealThun­der’s patch­es to upstream FreeCAD. There is prob­a­bly a week more of work, then the planned per­for­mance eval­u­a­tion and improve­ments can begin.

Tech­Draw:

• Wan­der­erFan fixed sev­er­al issues, such as bro­ken zigzag lines ori­en­ta­tion with rotat­ed 3D view, as well as incor­rect dimen­sions in the new Bro­ken View feature.
• wwmay­er fixed hatch clip­ping in SVG export­ing code.
• dplanel­la orga­nized Tech­Draw tem­plate trans­la­tions into locale fold­ers so that they would­n’t mix up with orig­i­nal Eng­lish templates.

Arch:

• Roy-043 fixed sev­er­al issues with Arch_Panel, Arch_Structure, and Arch_Wall.
• mar­cus­pol­lio updat­ed the tooltip of Arch­Space Text to men­tion recent­ly imple­ment­ed $long­name and $descrip­tion support.

There are three more notable changes that are user-visible:

• pskowron­skiT­Dx con­tributed code to bet­ter sup­port 3Dconnexion devices such as Space­Mouse on Win­dows using Navlib.
• Pad­dle­Stroke updat­ed the Trim tool in Sketch­er to sup­port con­tin­u­ous mode. Now you can select the tool, press and hold the mouse but­ton and then drag the point­er over seg­ments you want to delete. The tool will delete all seg­ments you hover.
• dav­es­rock­et­shop imple­ment­ed sup­port for old­er FCMat files in the new mate­ri­als sys­tem (and wwmay­er fixed some issue in that system).

Addi­tion­al fix­es, new tests, and minor improve­ments came from wwmay­er, luz­paz, cjmayo, bgb­sww, ours­land, and Roy-043.

PR stats: In the week from Wednes­day, 10 April to Wednes­day, 17 April there were 40 pull requests merged, with a total code­base change of +16,750 / ‑1,535, the vast major­i­ty of changes com­ing in the new 3DConnexion sup­port code. 24 new pull requests were opened.

Issue stats: we closed 21 issues, and 49 new issues were opened. Over­all, 1,480 issues are cur­rent­ly open.