FreeCAD News

This week in FreeCAD development:

Sketch­er: 

• Pad­dle­Stroke cre­at­ed a Con­straint­LineByAn­gle helper.
• FlachyJoe cleaned up planegcs/Geo code.
• theo-vt patched the work­bench to update mul­ti­ple geom­e­try IDs at a time rather than just one when scal­ing is applied.

Part­De­sign: theo-vt patched the code to allow open wires for pro­file nor­mal detec­tion. This fix­es a bug where holes from arcs would have the wrong orientation.

Tech­Draw:

• Wan­der­erFan fixed a regres­sion that caused v1.1 files to become unread­able in v1.0.
• Syres916 fixed the auto­mat­ic siz­ing of the TaskFillTemplate’s dia­log and a regres­sion where equal tol­er­ances would dis­play an addi­tion­al incor­rect symbol.

FEM: NewJok­er added two new prop­er­ties to FEM Con­straint con­tact: one to enable ther­mal con­tact and one to define its properties—a list of gap con­duc­tance val­ues option­al­ly paired with con­tact pres­sure and tem­per­a­ture. He also added a unit­less Off­set prop­er­ty to shell sections.

GUI: 

• Rexbas increased the focal dis­tance in the ortho­graph­ic view as a workaround for the miss­ing clip­ping off­set in the Coin library (he also con­tributed the real fix to Coin, review is pending).
• kadet1090 and Mis­ter­Mak­erNL con­tributed numer­ous fix­es to the default stylesheet.

I/O:

• baidakovil con­tributed a patch that allows users to cus­tomize WebGL exports with their own templates.
• furgo16 updat­ed the DXF C++ importer to sup­port nest­ed block def­i­n­i­tions and allow users to choose para­met­ric or flat­tened import­ing of blocks and assemblies.

Among oth­er changes:

• Roy-043 and paullee0 con­tributed sev­er­al fix­es to BIM and Draft.
• theo-vt fixed a regres­sion in Part code that affect­ed Assem­bly and TechDraw.
• captain0xff refac­tored SoRo­ta­tion­Drag­ger as part of his GSoC work on imple­ment­ing inter­ac­tive con­trols in the 3D View.
• z0r0 fixed the Fanuc post-proces­sor (in CAM), which will now search for tool attrib­ut­es that actu­al­ly exist.

Addi­tion­al improve­ments and fix­es were con­tributed by chennes, ours­land, mosfet80, Syres916, hyari­on, and theo-vt. 

PR stats: since the pre­vi­ous report, 31 pull requests have been merged, and 39 new pull requests have been opened.

Issue stats: over­all, there are 2906 open issues in the track­er, down by 2 from last week.

Else­where in the com­mu­ni­ty, Fed­eri­co Rosa began work­ing on a new work­bench called Solar, which uses Lady­Bug tools for solar posi­tion­ing and ani­mat­ing it over a spec­i­fied period.

Alex Sad­ows­ki will be rep­re­sent­ing FreeCAD at FrOSCon in Sankt Augustin (Ger­many) this August, with a talk and a stand.