FreeCAD News

This week in FreeCAD development:

Draft: Roy_043 sim­pli­fied using an actu­al font file from the OS as the default for ShapeString objects.

Sketch­er: jacques­beau­rain improved the sit­u­a­tion with font size on HiD­PI dis­plays across Lin­ux and macOS sys­tems, and hyari­on fixed an issue.

Part­De­sign: Beep6581 fixed an issue where find­ing the clos­est match­ing thread size would not take the thread pitch into account.

Arch / BIM:

• Roy_043, mar­cus­pol­lio, tetek­toza, furgo16, and Syres916 fixed var­i­ous issues.
• furgo16 also grouped some items in BIM tool­bars to reduce the cog­ni­tive load.

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After:

FEM:

• Ick­by enabled Python imple­ment­ed post-pro­cess­ing fil­ters and exposed the VTK data object of post-pro­cess­ing filters.
• marioalexis84 fixed an issue where Elmer elec­tric charge den­si­ty would con­vert very low val­ues to zero.

CAM:

• tarman3 and shaise fixed a cou­ple of issues in the new simulator.
• Lar­ry­Woest­man fixed tool changes not cor­rect­ly out­put in G‑Code.
• jalapenop­uz­zle added ini­tial sup­port for all of the Snap­mak­er machines and their vari­ants and modifications.
• knip­knap fixed some post­proces­sor errors.

Tech­Draw: Wan­der­erFan fixed a hid­den line regres­sion and a com­plex sec­tion crash.

Mate­ri­als: dav­es­rock­et­shop improved the han­dling and assign­ment of default units in mate­ri­als.

Among oth­er changes: pieter­hi­j­ma con­tin­ued improv­ing source code doc­u­men­ta­tion (one of his grant projects). 

Addi­tion­al improve­ments and fix­es were con­tributed by tetek­toza, ours­land, 3x380V, hyari­on, maxwxyz, Pad­dle­Stroke, mar­cus­pol­lio, and davesrocketshop.

PR stats: since the pre­vi­ous report, 52 pull requests have been merged, and 20 new pull requests have been opened.

Issue stats: over­all, there are 2840 open issues in the track­er, up by 26 from last week.