FreeCAD News

This week in FreeCAD development:

Part and Part­De­sign: the unsung hero this week was AIRCAP who sin­gle-hand­ed­ly wres­tled with a huge amount of bugs and came out on top:

• Fixed 7 bugs and regres­sions in the boolean oper­a­tions code, alle­vi­at­ed anoth­er regres­sion, and pro­vid­ed a workaround for yet anoth­er issue oper­a­tions — all that in just one pull request.
• Added fea­tures to inves­ti­gate and debug the effect of Tol­er­ance on FreeCAD fea­tures — and the effect of FreeCAD fea­tures on tolerance.
• Dis­abled the tes­se­la­tion lim­it in Part to pre­vent large parts from freez­ing FreeCAD.

GUI/UX: var­i­ous fix­es arrived from Rexbas, New­Storm, and hyarion.

Among oth­er changes:

• Roy-043 fur­ther improved the fix for drag­ging and drop­ping lay­ers in Draft.
• yorik­van­havre and Roy-043 fixed a cou­ple of bugs in BIM. 
• Pad­dle­Stroke fixed two regres­sions in the Assem­bly workbench.
• Wan­der­erFan fixed a bug in Tech­Draw to restore leader line style han­dling, i.e. set­ting the leader line to dash, dot, dash and dot.
• marioalexis84 con­tributed two fix­es and improve­ments to mesh­ing in FEM.
• dav­es­rock­et­shop fixed a bug where inher­it­ing the mate­r­i­al from the par­ent object would fail in cer­tain scenarios.

As usu­al, more fix­es arrived from wwmay­er, yorik­van­havre, Pad­dle­Stroke, Roy-043, and FlachyJoe. Addi­tion­al fix­es arrived from mwgan­son, cjmayo, adri­an­in­saval, and pieterhijma.

Last but not least, yorik­van­havre added a ded­i­ca­tion of FreeCAD 1.0 to the late Brad “bgb­sww” McLean to the About screen.

PR stats: since the pre­vi­ous report, 39 pull requests have been merged, 34 new pull requests have been opened.

Issue stats: over­all, there are 2180 open issues in the track­er, down by 2 from last week. 7 of them are v1.0 release block­ers, down by 8 from last week.