This week in FreeCAD development:
Sketcher: refactoring by AjinkyaDahale, fixes by chennes and ElementW.
PartDesign: alfrix moved the selector for Hole base profiles to the top of the Task panel.
TechDraw:
- PaddleStroke fixed a bug where a hatch would not be claimed by a view, then another bug in the decorate line code, and removed a limitation where the Lock/Unlock commands would only work on a single view.
- benj5378 fixed a bug where the face color for view would not work.
CAM:
- LarryWoestman added command line arguments for coolant, machine-specific commands, and end-of-line characters.
- tarman3 added a button to reset the camera view to the new Simulator. He also added a possibility to create PathShape object inside Job with Tool Controller; this allows using some modifiers, array and path simulator.
- jffmichi fixed a couple of bugs.
BIM:
- tetektoza fixed the mapping to weight during the IFC Quantities assignment.
- furgo16 fixed a bug and added the Offset input to the Wall creation task panel.
FEM:
- NewJoker added several new VTK glyph types for the new Glyph filter: Cone, Cylinder, Line, and Sphere.
- marioalexis84 added support for VTK < 9.1 in the calculator filter.
GUI:
- alfix fixed a couple of issues.
- The big new feature coming from kadet1090 are the new interaction hints in the statusbar, similar to what you get in Blender and Dune3D:
Among other changes:
- Various fixes in Draft by Roy_043.
- hlorus fixed a couple of bugs in the Measure tool.
- tritao and kadet1090 fixed a couple in the Materials code.
Additional improvements and fixes were contributed by chennes, sasobadovinac, luzpaz, pieterhijma, Flast, adrianinsaval, jffmichi, 3x380V, xtemp09, mosfet80, trita0, hyarion, and davesrocketshop.
PR stats: since the previous report, 52 pull requests have been merged, and 37 new pull requests have been opened.
Issue stats: overall, there are 2896 open issues in the tracker, up by 44 from last week.
4 responses to “WIP Wednesday, 21 May 2025”
Hello Aleksandr,
if not already done, it would be good to provide a link to the issue tracker (list) so that motivated programmers can check out where they can contribute. In addition, the list should be prioritized.
What do you think?
Stefan (FreeCAD Forum aka MTronic)
Motivated programmers should have no difficulty finding that list. Hint: github
Hello
Have the refactoring by AjinkyaDahale and the fixes by chennes and ElementW been merged yet?
The development version released on 26 May 2025 has several issues with the Trim edge tool in the Sketcher Workbench.
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All the changes you see mentioned here are merged pull requests. I barely ever cover WIP patches in the queue.
The general location of interim builds is about to change. We haven’t yet announced it, but please see if this works better for you: https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/releases/tag/weekly-2025.05.26