FreeCAD News

This week in FreeCAD development:

Sketch­er: wwmay­er intro­duced a new option to to always add exter­nal geom­e­try as a ref­er­ence so that the old work­flow was still possible.

Draft: Roy_043 fixed sev­er­al bugs and made two changes worth men­tion­ing sep­a­rate­ly. He improved the make_sketch com­mand to use Sketch­er meth­ods for adding con­straints when con­vert­ing Draft objects to sketch­es. He also intro­duced base class­es for Draft tests.

Tech­Draw: Syres916 fixed a bug in import­ing SVG files con­tain­ing text in UTF‑8, and Wan­der­erFan fixed a cou­ple of oth­er bugs.

BIM:

• Thanks to yorik, you can now add and edit clas­si­fi­ca­tions for IFC and non-IFC objects. Anoth­er new fea­ture by yorik is explic­it quan­ti­ties — quan­ti­ty val­ues, such as length or area, that are attached to objects and can be read by appli­ca­tions with­out the need to process the geometry.
• je-cook con­tributed improve­ments to the WebGL exporter to make it faster for more com­plex scenes.
• Addi­tion­al fix­es arrived from Sura­j­Dadral, Roy_043, paullee0 

FEM: 

• NewJok­er added an accu­ra­cy para­me­ter for Cal­culiX buck­ling analy­sis and removed the check for elec­tro­sta­t­ic poten­tial con­straint in the Elmer mag­ne­to­dy­nam­ic 3D analyses.
• marioalexis84 added a sup­press­ible exten­sion to mesh regions, groups, and bound­ary lay­ers to tem­porar­i­ly defea­ture them (about a year ago, FlachyJoe did the same for FEM constraints).

Fur­ther improve­ments arrived from wwmay­er, dav­es­rock­et­shop, ros­t­ska­dat, Mis­ter­Mak­erNL, mosfet80, hyari­on, ein-shved, and looooo.

PR stats: since the pre­vi­ous report, 35 pull requests have been merged, and 32 new pull requests have been opened.

Issue stats: over­all, there are 2505 open issues in the track­er, up by 48 from last week.

In com­mu­ni­ty news, Hakan Sev­en recent­ly resumed his work on trans­porta­tion and geo­mat­ics engi­neer­ing in FreeCAD and cre­at­ed a new 3^rd-par­ty work­bench called Road (his pre­vi­ous project was Trails, made with Joel Graff).