FreeCAD News

This week in FreeCAD development:

FEM: marioalexis84 rewrote mesh­ing with Net­gen to use Net­gen’s Python bind­ings rather than a bro­ken plu­g­in in salomemesh. He also rewrote the way mesh­ing with Gmsh is exe­cut­ed, so it’s now pos­si­ble to can­cel the entire process thanks to run­ning it in a sep­a­rate thread.

BIM: Roy-043, pinkavaj, and hosheng­wei fixed sev­er­al bugs includ­ing two in UI, and yorik­van­havre updat­ed the work­bench to sup­port recent­ly released IfcOpen­Shell 0.8.

Tech­Draw: Wan­der­erFan fixed a bug where the ‘Save a copy…’ com­mand would be unavail­able with an opened page, and benj5378 sig­nif­i­cant­ly improved the cen­ter­ing of labels inside balloons.

GUI: pinkavaj, qewer33 and benj5378 fixed var­i­ous UI annoy­ances, and kadet1090 forced Qt6 to load OpenGL imme­di­ate­ly, oth­er­wise the first new doc­u­ment would be tem­porar­i­ly hid­den. Please note: we are not plan­ning to ship FreeCAD 1.0 built with Qt6, but we still need to fix these bugs.

Among oth­er contributions:

• bgb­sww and Cal­li­garoV fixed sev­er­al topon­am­ing-relat­ed issues in Sketcher.
• hlorus and benj5378 fixed sev­er­al issues in the new mea­sure­ment tool, includ­ing one where the tool would get incor­rect data from linked elements.
• bgb­sww fixed a block­er issue in Part Design where a new sketch in a link would not open at the cor­rect location.
• yorik­van­havre and Roy_043 fixed sev­er­al minor bugs and regres­sions in Draft.
• furgo16 patched the lega­cy DXF importer to sup­port import­ing dimensions.
• shaise improved the com­pat­i­bil­i­ty of the new mill sim­u­la­tor in CAM with less beefy GPUs.

PR stats: since the pre­vi­ous report, 52 pull requests have been merged, 38 new pull requests have been opened.

Issue stats: over­all, there are 2051 open issues in the track­er, up by 53 from last week. 11 of them are v1.0 release block­ers, up by 4 from last week.