This week in FreeCAD development:

Topon­am­ing: most work port­ing RT’s patch­es is now done except just one piece of code that was mys­te­ri­ous­ly over­looked. Both Cal­li­garoV, chennes, and bgb­sww con­tributed to the TNP effort last week. bgb­sww also start­ed look­ing into per­for­mance regres­sions due to topon­am­ing changes and found sur­pris­ing­ly few issues.

Draft: Roy-043 revert­ed some of the recent mate­r­i­al sys­tem changes relat­ed to Draft for a bet­ter imple­men­ta­tion in the future, and cjmayo fixed a bug relat­ed to QIm­age objects.

FEM: marioalexis84 added radi­a­tion heat trans­fer for Cal­culiX, and then he, Syres916, FlachyJoe, and wwmay­er fixed sev­er­al bugs in oth­er parts of the FEM workbench.

UI:

• The uni­fied mea­sure­ment tool by hlorus (GSoC2023 stu­dent) was final­ly merged. There is more work to be done in the future: 20 bug reports and fea­tures requests have already been sub­mit­ted against the new tool.
• chennes con­tin­ued work­ing on the new Start page: he imple­ment­ed a first start sec­tion and fixed card size calculation.
• maxwxyz updat­ed the con­text menu with a tog­gle for sup­press and updat­ed the icon for assem­bly’s recom­pute command.
• Pad­dle­Stroke did a small reor­ga­ni­za­tion of tool­bars in Sketch­er, fixed an issue with the Tab­Bar work­space switch­er, and removed “Project Shape”” from Tech­Draw’s toolbar.
• Mis­ter­Mak­erNL con­tributed an over­lay fix for default win­dows style and var­i­ous light themes.
• kadet1090 fixed issues with wrong col­or for pref­er­ence page tooltips.

DXF sup­port: Roy-043 fixed a bug with poly­lines import­ing in the new­er importer, as well as a cou­ple of bugs in the lega­cy DXF importer.

Some of the oth­er changes:

• Nexus­nui fixed a scal­ing para­me­ter bug in importC­SG (Open­SCAD).
• wwmay­er made the Val­i­date Sketch fea­ture script­able and fixed sev­er­al bugs in var­i­ous parts of FreeCAD’s code.
• 0penBrain and ours­land fixed bugs in the build sys­tem and CI.

PR stats: In the week from Wednes­day, 24 April to Wednes­day, 1 May there were 51 pull requests merged. 29 new pull requests were opened.

Issue stats: we closed 28 issues, and 62 new issues were opened. Over­all, 1,566 issues are cur­rent­ly open.