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The FreeCAD project got three stu­dents in this year’s Google Sum­mer of Code program.

Here are the projects:

1. chiragsingh1711 will enhance the Tech­Draw work­bench to enable 3D PDF export­ing. Users will be able to cre­ate stan­dard tech­ni­cal draw­ings with tra­di­tion­al ortho­graph­ic views and dimen­sions, plus an inter­ac­tive 3D view that appears as a reg­u­lar iso­met­ric view in print but becomes ful­ly inter­ac­tive when viewed digitally.

Men­tors: Pieter Hij­ma, reqre­fu­sion, CADialog.

2. Sayan­tan Deb will add inter­ac­tive con­trols to the 3D view, most­ly for the Part­De­sign work­bench. Think on-view para­me­ters in Sketch­er or trans­for­ma­tion giz­mos. This will allow users to per­form the oper­a­tions more eas­i­ly with increased visu­al feed­back. The con­trols will be con­fig­urable and won’t inter­fere with the exist­ing experience.

Men­tors: Chris Hennes, reqre­fu­sion, Kacper Donat.

3. theo-vt will work on mul­ti­ple files’ par­al­lel edit­ing. This project aims to remove the lim­i­ta­tion where one doc­u­ment can­not be edit­ed until an oper­a­tion on anoth­er doc­u­ment is com­plet­ed. This will make FreeCAD more pow­er­ful for advanced users, but also friend­lier for beginners.

Men­tors: reqre­fu­sion, Kacper Donat.

All three projects will con­tribute to mak­ing FreeCAD more capa­ble and user-friendly.