FreeCAD News

This week in FreeCAD development:

Topon­am­ing: the main phas­es of the project have now been offi­cial­ly com­plet­ed. The patch­set was enabled in the main devel­op­ment branch by default this Mon­day, week­ly builds now ship with the fix­es. For more infor­ma­tion, please see this forum post. Kudos to every­one involved: RealThun­der, chennes, Pesc0, bgb­sww, Cal­li­garoV, JohnAD.

Part Design: kadet1090 added an exper­i­men­tal option to dis­able the sin­gle-sol­id checks and allow com­pound shapes as val­ue of the body. For details, please see here. Here is a quick exam­ple, cour­tesy by Mis­ter­Mak­erNL, note mul­ti­ple solids inside one body:

CAM: Shai Seger con­tributed a new Mill sim­u­la­tor that is faster and more pre­cise than the exist­ing solu­tion. Because it’s imple­ment­ed with low-lev­el OpenGL func­tions, it isn’t inte­grat­ed into the main win­dow and opens in a new win­dow instead. You can read this forum thread for more info.

Arch: Yorik van Havre start­ed merg­ing Arch, BIM, and NativeIFC work­bench­es into one work­bench called BIM. This is an ongo­ing project, expect fur­ther changes.

Draft: Roy-043 fixed sev­er­al bugs, and furgo16 updat­ed Draft pref­er­ences for clear­er terminology.

FEM:

• marioalexis84 added sup­port for load and bound­ary con­di­tions, he also imple­ment­ed high­light­ing of active analy­sis accord­ing to user defined color.
• NewJok­er updat­ed sta­t­ic analy­sis check for bound­ary con­di­tions, fur­ther improved the mis­lead­ing con­straint descrip­tions regard­ing the geom­e­try selec­tion, and improved the task pan­el for the new­ly imple­ment­ed rigid body constraint.

Tech­Draw:

• HowThat­Works added the aut­ofill attrib­ut­es to the ISO tem­plate series.
• Wan­der­erfan improved exist­ing work­bench pref­er­ences and added pref­er­ence for default sym­bol direc­to­ry and one for dis­play­ing the sec­tion cut line.
• Hlorus made the new smart dimen­sion tool by Pad­dle the default one, all cur­rent tools are grouped under it.

New mea­sure­ment tool: hlorus added mea­sure­ment icons to the labels in the 3D view, the ele­ments in the tree view, and the mea­sure­ment group in the tree view.

UI/UX:

• Mis­ter­Mak­erNL fixed the issue in the menu that occured when a menu was select­ed but not active.
• maxwxyz update some icons for leg­i­bil­i­ty and con­sis­ten­cy. He also updat­ed tool­bars in Part Design. So now there a new com­mand group for datums in the tool­bar and a new com­mand group for sketch based actions. Addi­tion­al­ly, Shape­Binder has been removed from the tool­bar (issue #13044), Part_CheckGeometry has been added to the tool­bar and menu to val­i­date the body, and tool­bars have been split into small­er ones (Helpers, Fea­tures, Dres­sup, Pat­terns) so that they could be eas­i­ly rearranged.
• Reqre­fu­sion start­ed improv­ing Tech­Draw icons.
• mar­cus­pol­lio updat­ed Spread­sheet icons.

Some of the oth­er changes are:

• wwmay­er fixed var­i­ous bugs.
• dav­es­rock­et­shop cor­rect­ed an issue in the new mate­ri­als API where a new mate­r­i­al may not have a UUID.
• Pad­dle­Stroke fixed sev­er­al issues in Sketch­er (includ­ing Sym­me­try tool seg­fault) and improved sup­port for cones sur­faces when doing JCS selec­tion in Assembly.
• chennes added pri­va­cy pol­i­cy to the About box

PR stats: In the week from Wednes­day, 15 May to Wednes­day, 22 May there were 84 pull requests merged. 39 new pull requests were opened.

Issue stats: we closed 63 issues, and 57 new issues were opened. Over­all, 1,630 issues are cur­rent­ly open.