FreeCAD News

Last week in FreeCAD development:

Topon­am­ing: bgb­sww added more miss­ing TNP code (this time, to PartDesign::Body) and fixed a cou­ple of issues, shaise con­tributed a par­tial fix for long TNP names still vis­i­ble in the ‘Subele­ment’ col­umn of the Prop­er­ties panel.

BIM: yorik­van­havre and Roy_043 fixed sev­er­al bugs, includ­ing a v1.0 blocker.

Sketch­er: Pad­dle­Stroke and chennes fixed sev­er­al bugs (includ­ing a crash) and made a few qual­i­ty-of-life improve­ments such as undo now work­ing prop­er­ly for exter­nal geom­e­try creation.

Assem­bly: Pad­dle­Stroke fixed sev­er­al issues, includ­ing the one where the trans­form drag­ger would not show up for the assem­bly object. He also updat­ed the exam­ple assem­bly project shipped with FreeCAD to work with the lat­est assem­bly code.

FEM: hyx0329 fixed a regres­sion when search­ing for 3^rd-par­ty bina­ries in sys­tem path, NewJok­er improved the Fre­quen­cy Analy­sis and Erase Ele­ments icons, and fixed a block­er bug relat­ed to cus­tom mate­r­i­al cards.

Tech­Draw: Reqre­fu­sion improved new dec­i­mal icons, Wan­der­erFan fixed i18n for line style preferences.

Mea­sur­ing: hlorus added back the abil­i­ty to dis­play the X, and Z com­po­nents of a mea­sured dis­tance in the new Mea­sure tool, wwmay­er fixed a mem­o­ry leak in Mea­sure­Dis­tan­ce­In­fo, and Pad­dle­Stroke dis­abled the Quick Mea­sure fea­ture for sketch­es in edit mode (sketch edges do not get updat­ed until you leave the edit mode, so the wrong infor­ma­tion would be dis­played anyway).

GUI: var­i­ous small­er fix­es to dif­fer­ent parts of the user inter­face arrived from Syres916, kadet1090, chennes, pieter­hi­j­ma, Roy-043. In par­tic­u­lar, kadet1090 fixed a bug where sys­tem icons would be invis­i­ble with some Qt themes, and made the on-view trans­form wid­get small­er (and con­fig­urable, though in code only).

Addon Man­ag­er: chennes addressed the issue the team has with hit­ting GitHub’s requests lim­its by reduc­ing fetch­es from the Addon Man­ag­er and using a remote cache stored on FreeCAD’s servers instead. He also fixed a cou­ple of bugs in the manager’s code.

Among oth­er changes:

• Pad­dle­Stroke fixed Sketch­er and Tech­Draw to reset dimen­sion tool set­tings correctly.
• wwmay­er fixed the Delete key not work­ing on macOS in var­i­ous parts of the program.
• dav­es­rock­et­shop fixed sev­er­al minor issues in the new mate­ri­als system.

PR stats: 78 PRs have been merged and 19 pull requests have been opened since last report.

Issue stats: 1809 issues are cur­rent­ly open, that’s 7 issues down from last week. Of those, 33 issues still block the v1.0 release — 8 down from last week, but we expect the num­ber to regrow to some extent when we start mak­ing beta releas­es and release candidates.