FreeCAD News

This week in FreeCAD development:

Sketch­er:

• Pad­dle­Stroke added an option to com­bine line and poly­line tools and fixed a cou­ple of bugs.
• Shko­lik imple­ment­ed a new con­fig­urable col­or for exter­nal defin­ing geometry.

CAM:

• clser­gent added a post­proces­sor for the Snap­mak­er machines with CNC capabilities.
• phaseloop change the default V‑bit tip diam­e­ter to 0.1mm and added oth­er pop­u­lar v‑bits: 30°, 45°, and 90°.
• Lar­ry­Woest­man added three com­mand line options to the refac­tored post­proces­sors code base.

Among oth­er changes: 

• Pad­dle­Stroke fixed the bug where select­ing a datum object would show dragger.
• captain0xff fixed sev­er­al issues, and benj5378 start­ed anoth­er minor refac­tor­ing effort in TechDraw.
• fur­go 16, semhus­tej, and yorik­van­havre fixed sev­er­al bugs in BIM.
• tri­tao added ini­tial sup­port for frame pro­fil­ing via the Tra­cy pro­fil­er to look into ren­der­ing performance.

Addi­tion­al fix­es were con­tributed by chennes, pmjde­brui­jn, mosfet80, jbaehr, bof­da­hof, tri­tao, thomasgi1, adri­an­in­saval, kpe­martin (mea­sure­ments), xtemp09, ljo, yomgui1, thyssen­tish­man, hase­cilu, luz­paz, wwmay­er, alfrix, benj5378, hyari­on, and karliss.

PR stats: since the pre­vi­ous report, 54 pull requests have been merged, and 38 new pull requests have been opened.

Issue stats: over­all, there are 2715 open issues in the track­er, up by 45 from last week.