FreeCAD News

This week in FreeCAD development:

Sketch­er: 

• Padle­Stroke imple­ment­ed group drag­ging of geometries.
• FlachyJoe improved the look of arc length for when the arc length is high­er than half diameter.

Draft: Roy_043 improved the Trimex tool and fixed a cou­ple of bugs.

BIM: yorik­van­havre imple­ment­ed sup­port for 2D objects in NativeIFC: linework, texts, dimen­sions, hatch­es, sec­tion planes, axes. The BIM views dia­log got a sec­ond pan­el that includes 2D views, and BIM anno­ta­tion tools got a “Cre­ate 2D Draw­ing” tool. He also added a Type prop­er­ty to all IFC objects and updat­ed NativeIFC unit tests.

Mea­sure­ments: Murmele imple­ment­ed the func­tion­al­i­ty to autosave the cur­rent mea­sure­ment and restart a new mea­sure­ment automatically.

Tech­Draw: Wan­der­erFan added a tool for sup­port and debug­ging to work around the hid­den line removal algorithm’s issues han­dling geom­e­try errors.

CAM: luvtofish imple­ment­ed sup­port for the G84/G74 Tap­ping Operation.

FEM: 

• marioalexis84 added box and ellip­ti­cal beam sec­tion types, imple­ment­ed a tool to delete all results objects includ­ing pipelines and fil­ters, added an option to save geom­e­try IDs in ElmerFEM, 
• NewJok­er fixed Cal­culiX ties con­straints to sup­port shell surfaces.

Topon­am­ing: Cal­li­garoV com­plet­ed anoth­er patch that was the lega­cy of Brad McLean who passed away ear­li­er this year. The patch adds a plane match­ing based heuris­tic to TNP mit­i­ga­tion. Accord­ing to Brad, this should address the com­mon remain­ing TNPs aris­ing from edge changes in a sketch.

Core: The main PR for the core datum by Pad­dle­Stroke has land­ed. No way to cre­ate the new LCS objects yet, the only vis­i­ble change is the ori­gin appear­ance. The lat­ter is being dis­cussed by the design work­ing group at the moment and will like­ly be improved.

Var­i­ous oth­er fix­es and improve­ments arrived from Roy_043, paullee0, wwmay­er, FlachyJoe, and others.

PR stats: since the pre­vi­ous report, 75 pull requests have been merged, and 21 new pull requests have been opened.

Issue stats: over­all, there are 2328 open issues in the track­er, down by 24 from last week.