FreeCAD News

This week in FreeCAD development:

Sketch­er:

• Pad­dle­Stroke fixed the bug where dou­ble-click­ing to select con­nect­ed wires wouldn’t work.
• Benj5378 fixed the auto­mat­ic con­straint tool to do dis­tance to ori­gin when ori­gin is selected.
• AjinkyaDa­hale fixed a bug where it would be impos­si­ble to cre­ate an ellipse by cen­ter if a point meets an axis.

Part­De­sign: FlachyJoe fixed sev­er­al bugs includ­ing one in Helix (seems to be a pop­u­lar mine­field), and mwgan­son fixed “Allow Com­pound” to recom­pute fea­tures and not just the body.

Assem­bly:

• Pad­dle­Stroke fixed the script for migra­tion of old­er files with assem­bly objects.
• furgo16 fixed to bugs in the BOM generator.
• bgb­sww fixed a TNP issue where adding a cham­fer to the sketch of one of the bod­ies con­nect­ed with a joint would break the assembly.

Mate­ri­als:

• shaise improved the load­ing of mate­ri­als (now takes a frac­tion of a sec­ond rather than a cou­ple of seconds).
• dav­es­rock­et­shop fixed a bug where dif­fuse col­or would ignore transparency.

FEM: marioalexis84 added an option in Pref­er­ences to use the old Net­gen mesh­er imple­men­ta­tion, because the new imple­men­ta­tion has depen­den­cies that are hard to resolve on some old­er sys­tems, He also fixed a bug where quan­ti­ty spin box­es in the mesh­er set­tings in the task pan­el are cropped.

GUI:

• Rexbas fixed a regres­sion where enter­ing edit mode for a sketch with Touch­Pad nav­i­ga­tion style enabled would result in cam­era rota­tion when the Shift but­ton is pressed.
• Benj5378 fixed font size scal­ing in the Pythion con­sole by using Ctrl + mouse scrolling.

Among oth­er changes:

• Var­i­ous core fix­es from wmay­er, bgb­sww, pieter­hi­j­ma, and PaddleStroke.
• Wan­der­erFan fixed a bug where adding mea­sure­ments would not work between lines and cir­cle cen­ter line anymore.
• Roy_043 fixed sev­er­al bugs includ­ing one crash­er in BIM and Draft.
• AIRCAP, Pad­dle­Stroke, and hyari­on fixed a cou­ple of bugs in Quick Measurement.
• Var­i­ous oth­er com­mits by maxwxyz, Unl0gic, kriswilk, chennes, NomAnor, pinkavaj.

There are still nine unmerged pull requests from Bradley “bgb­sww” McLean who unfor­tu­nate­ly passed away last week. Five of them are open and anoth­er four are in draft. All nine are sched­uled for review after v1.0 is released. Brad’s fam­i­ly also gave access to Brad’s lap­top to one of his friends who is try­ing to fig­ure out if there’s any code he has not pushed to any pub­lic or pri­vate git repos­i­to­ry online. We will do our very best to make sure that his lega­cy will be pre­served and put to a good use.

PR stats: since the pre­vi­ous report, 46 pull requests have been merged, 42 new pull requests have been opened.

Issue stats: over­all, there are 2157 open issues in the track­er, up by 21 from last week. 20 of them are v1.0 release block­ers, up by 8 from last week.