FreeCAD News

This week in FreeCAD development:

Topon­am­ing: bgs­b­ww added miss­ing bits of topon­am­ing code to core, Part Design, and Sketcher.

Mea­sure tools got some real­ly use­ful updates. hlorus made some improve­ments to the new uni­fied mea­sure­ment facil­i­ty and added mea­sure­ment val­ues to labels in the project tree. Mean­while wwmay­er rewrote parts of the new Quick Mea­sure fea­ture and fixed errors typ­i­cal­ly pop­ping up when select­ing geom­e­try in Sketcher.

Mate­ri­als got more atten­tion. dav­es­rock­et­shop updat­ed the mate­r­i­al pref­er­ences to allow select­ing a default mate­r­i­al. Roy-043 start­ed adapt­ing Draft for the new mate­ri­als sys­tem. The first patch adds new mate­r­i­al han­dling to set­ting style: the task pan­el now has a tabbed inter­face to accom­mo­date for new prop­er­ties, and the prop­er­ties on the Anno­ta­tion tab have been reordered to match the relat­ed Pref­er­ences page.

Tech­Draw now fea­tures a smart dimen­sion tool sim­i­lar to that of Sketch­er, thanks to Pad­dle­Stroke. You can use one tool to add dimen­sion to dif­fer­ent types of geom­e­try. You can also choose whether you want all dimen­sion tools grouped or next to each oth­er in the toolbar.

UI cleanup: mar­cus­pol­lio made slight adjust­ments to some Draft WB icons for bet­ter con­sis­ten­cy, maxwxyz updat­ed icons in the Addon Man­ag­er for leg­i­bil­i­ty on dark themes, Mis­ter­Mak­erNL recre­at­ed expand/collapse icons for the Tasks pan­el in SVG, and kadet1090 moved the ‘More’ but­ton to the end of the work­bench selec­tor TabBar.

Among oth­er changes:

• ours­land con­tributed improve­ments to Con­da builds.
• Roy-043 added a “Lega­cy importer only” option to DXF import­ing to fix a bug where the C++ importer would ignore the “Cre­ate as” import set­tings and always cre­ates sim­ple Part shapes
• Bug fix­es from wwmay­er, ron­ny­s­tandtke, FlachyJoe, ppphp, realthun­der, jwueller, pieter­hi­j­ma, NewJoker.

PR stats: In the week from Wednes­day, 8 May to Wednes­day, 15 May there were 39 pull requests merged. 34 new pull requests were opened.

Issue stats: we closed 29 issues, and 61 new issues were opened. Over­all, 1,605 issues are cur­rent­ly open.