FreeCAD News

This week in FreeCAD development:

Tech­Draw:

• Pad­dle­Stroke uni­fied Insert View tools (View, Pro­j­Group, Sheet, Arch, SVG, Image). He also made App::Links of views work in Tech­Draw, this also removes ‘Share Views’ from the toolbar.
• Wan­der­erFan fixed sev­er­al bugs and added two new Python meth­ods, for get­ting vis­i­ble and hid­den vertices.
• far­leyrunk­el refac­tored a minor part of Tech­Draw code.

Sketch­er:

• Roy-043 made con­straints and geom­e­try menu texts more con­sis­tent and improved GUI texts in Sketch­er settings.
• Pad­dle­Stroke joined Line and Poly­line in a com­mand group in the tool­bar and fixed the mid­point auto­con­straint to work with polylines.

FEM:

• NewJok­er fixed sev­er­al bugs.
• marioalexis84 extend­ed the ABAQUS writer to select the ele­ment types avail­able in Cal­culiX. He also fixed a bug where the size of the FEM fea­ture sym­bols could­n’t be changed.
• chennes fixed the com­pi­la­tion of FEM on MSVC.

Mate­ri­als:

• dav­es­rock­et­shop brought major improve­ments to the mate­r­i­al tree widget: 
  • Fil­ters are now lsist and allow a vari­ety of fil­ter­ing options.
  • User pref­er­ences allow the inclusion/exclusion of favorites and recents.
  • Wid­get state such as expan­sion, tree expan­sions, etc. are saved and restored.
  • The cur­rent appear­ance mate­r­i­al is now dis­played whehn editing.
  • There’s now a Python interface.
• wwmay­er added sup­port for cus­tomiz­ing all mate­r­i­al col­ors and fixed fur­ther mate­r­i­al issues.

Draft:

• Roy-043 fixed sev­er­al bugs in the workbench.
• yorik­van­havre removed hard­cod­ed axis col­ors (red, green, blue) and made the work­bench use FreeCAD-wide axis colors.

Start:

• chennes recre­at­ed the Start workbench/page as a QtWid­gets-based app.
• Sev­er­al more peo­ple con­tributed fur­ther fix­es and improve­ments: Rexbas fixed the migra­tion script, wwmay­er made the new Start page look more like the old one, and cjmayo made it pos­si­ble to use Microsoft GSL on the Start page.

Some of the oth­er changes are:

• wwmay­er fixed sev­er­al oth­er bugs.
• mosfet80 removed more dead and unused code.
• dzid26 fixed a bug where a Save win­dow would remain in the back­ground if FreeCAD is closed by the oper­at­ing system.
• tomate44 fixed shape pro­jec­tion of com­plex BSpline curves.
• jwueller fixed a bug in Open­SCAD where CSG com­pu­ta­tions would start too early.
• far­leyrunk­el fixed a bug where search­ing a mod­el tree would­n’t work for numbers.
• Pad­dle­Stroke moved the ‘+” tab of the Tab­Bar work­bench selec­tor to the left so that it would­n’t be hid­den by default with many work­bench­es enabled.
• realthun­der fixed a prob­lem with incor­rect ref­er­enc­ing of App::Part child objec­t’s CopyOnChangeGroup.
• cjmayo fixed sev­er­al bugs in the code.

PR stats: In the week from Wednes­day, 17 April to Wednes­day, 24 April there were 54 pull requests merged. 23 new pull requests were opened.

Issue stats: we closed 32 issues, and 60 new issues were opened. Over­all, 1,517 issues are cur­rent­ly open.