FreeCAD News

This week in FreeCAD development:

Draft: Roy-043 spec­i­fied units of spin­box­es in UI files for arrays and ShapeString and made minor improve­ments in the OrthoAr­ray task panel.

Sketch­er: 

• theo-vt and tetek­toza fixed a cou­ple of issues.
• tetek­toza also patched the code to show geom­e­try lines above constraints.
• lon­grack­slabs con­tin­ued adding con­tex­tu­al input hints to edit tools.
• maxwxyz patched Sketch­er to show the dimen­sion­al name by default.

Part­De­sign: 

• Pad­dle­Stroke brought over a fea­ture from RealThun­der’s fork, that adds faces to closed wires of sketch­es and thus lets the user select the faces they want to extrude.
• dav­e­tanana added 1 3/16 16 thread­ed drill hole diam­e­ter to the Hole tool.

BIM: Roy-043, furgo16, Syres916, and tetek­toza, and maxwxyz fixed sev­er­al bugs.

CAM: knip­knap patched the work­bench to show abbre­vi­a­tions on each label to match the input val­ue to the shape image on the UI.

Tech­Draw: ryankem­brey added spac­ing pre­view, so now each time a val­ue is adjust­ed, the view is updat­ed on the page instantly.

I/O: furgo16 renamed “Group lay­ers into blocks” into “Merge lay­er and con­tents into blocks” in the DXF loader options and fixed the han­dling of non-stan­dard 8859_1 encodings.

Addi­tion­al improve­ments and fix­es were con­tributed by wmay­er, hyari­on, chennes, furgo16, tetek­toza, Syres916, Roy-043, benj5378, alfrix, kadet1090, captain0xff, and 3x380V. 

PR stats: since the pre­vi­ous report, 39 pull requests have been merged, and 42 new pull requests have been opened.

Issue stats: over­all, there are 2921 open issues in the track­er, down by 7 from last week.

Else­where in the com­mu­ni­ty, Sar­goDe­v­el released a new ver­sion of their Cables workbench. 

Some of the inter­est­ing changes are:

• Wire­Flex can now take dif­fer­ent shapes based on the same points: poly­line or bspline.
• Intro­duced col­ored mark­ings of attached ver­tices in WireFlex.
• Added Com­pound­Path and Cable­Con­duit objects that enable the cre­ation of com­plex bundles.
• Undo/redo sup­port.
• Key­board shortcuts.