FreeCAD News

This week in FreeCAD development:

Sketch­er:

• AjinkyaDa­hale fixed a few bugs relat­ed to auto-con­strain­ing con­cen­tric circles.
• kadet1090 fixed a bug where the Sketch­er con­straints tool­bar icons would some­times disappear.

Part Design:

• FlachyJoe fixed three issues with sub­trac­tive helixes.
• alfrix made the Size com­bobox larg­er in the Hole task panel.
• bgb­sww fixed a bug where groove and rev­o­lu­tion couldn’t be cre­at­ed from Shape­Binder and Sub­Shape­Binder sketch.

Mate­ri­als: jbaehr did a fol­lowup to his pre­vi­ous con­tri­bu­tion (machin­ing data from metal­lic mate­ri­als) and added some wood card with a machin­ing mod­el. The infor­ma­tion was tak­en from the Ger­man text­book “Zerspanung von Holz und Holzw­erk­stof­fen” (pure infor­ma­tion and facts not copy­rightable by Ger­man law).

User inter­face:

• Mis­ter­Mak­erNL patched the pan­el over­lays to work bet­ter with the built-in light theme.
• kadet1090 made sure that over­lay pan­els are not dis­played in the Start page. He also patched the Pref­er­ences dia­log so that it would fit all pages prop­er­ly but would not take more than 80% of screen.
• xtemp09 reim­ple­ment­ed the Light Source page in the Pref­er­ences dia­log. It now actu­al­ly loads set­tings from the con­fig­u­ra­tion file when you open that page and pro­vides spin­box­es to adjust the light direc­tion using XYZ and ori­en­ta­tion quater­nion notations.

Arch/BIM:

• paullee0 fixed bug/regression in Arch­Wal­l/­Draft-Off­setWires ellipse support. 
• azuk fixed a crash when using box selec­tion with Arch Survey.

Among oth­er changes:

• bgb­sww and Cal­li­garoV fixed a cou­ple of issues and did some cleanup in the topon­am­ing code.
• Wan­der­erFan fixed a bug in Tech­Draw that would result in dis­tor­tion of curved geometry.
• marioalexis84 and mosfet80 fixed a cou­ple off minor issues in FEM.
• chennes updat­ed Addon Man­ag­er code again for Qt6 compatibility.

PR stats: since the pre­vi­ous report, 40 pull requests have been merged, 29 new pull requests have been opened.

Issue stats: over­all, there are 1881 open issues in the track­er, up by 16 from last week. 14 of them are v1.0 release block­ers, down by 4 from last week.