FreeCAD News

This week in FreeCAD development:

Sketch­er:

• FlachyJoe made axes scale depen­dent on the view­port size so that they always appear infinite.
• Pad­dle­Stroke enhanced the off­set tool and the trans­form tools to use exter­nal geome­tries as input.

GUI:

• wwmay­er imple­ment­ed sup­port for Freedesktop’s Thumb­nail Man­age­ment Stan­dard v0.8.0 in the Start page. 
• Var­i­ous minor tweaks arrived from 3x380V, ein-shved, wwmay­er, bdi­eterm, luz­paz, and pieterhijma.

FEM: marioalexis84 added local refine­ment and sec­ond-order lin­ear for Net­gen mesh­ing, as well as oth­er improve­ments and fix­es in the FEM workbench.

BIM: Roy-043 and cjmayo fixed a few issues in the work­bench, and yorik­van­havre added sup­port for for additions/subtractions in NativeIFC.

Mate­ri­als: dav­es­rock­et­ship added phys­i­cal prop­er­ties that are auto­mat­i­cal­ly recal­cu­lat­ed when the shape or mate­r­i­al changes. These val­ues are acces­si­ble from the part data dis­play and as attrib­ut­es with­in Python.

Core: PaddleStroke’s patch­es for a bet­ter datums imple­men­ta­tion start­ed land­ing on the main branch. So far, it’s just cos­met­ic work. Larg­er patch­es with refac­tor­ing are still in review. The orig­i­nal PR lists UX/UI issues it’s fixing.

Among oth­er changes:

• Syres916, mwgan­son, and wwmay­er fixed some issues in Part and Part Design.
• paullee0 and Roy_043 fixed sev­er­al issues in Draft.
• Pad­dle­Stroke, kadet1090, and H. Tsub­o­ta fixed sev­er­al fix­es to Assembly. 

PR stats: since the pre­vi­ous report, 72 pull requests have been merged, and 32 new pull requests have been opened.

Issue stats: over­all, there are 2327 open issues in the track­er, up by 25 from last week.

The lager-than-usu­al num­ber of merged pull requests is the result of more fre­quent PR merge meet­ings. Until the num­ber of open PRs goes back to nor­mal, the team will be meet­ing twice a week. The next meet­ing will take place this Fri­day. Some fix­es have been port­ed to the v1.0 branch and will become avail­able in the first bug­fix update for 1.0.