FreeCAD News

This week in FreeCAD development:

Sketch­er: 

• matthi­as­dan­ner removed the Edit Val­ue option from the right-click menu of non-dimen­sion­al con­straints, as it only works for dimen­sion­al con­straints like length or angle.
• valir fixed a crash that would hap­pen when mod­i­fy­ing a datum line right after mod­i­fy­ing a sketch.

Part:

• hyari­on fixed Wire­Join­er error han­dling (the rem­nant of a patch back­port from RT’s fork).
• kadet1090 fixed a crash that would occur because of an uncaught excep­tion in Cross Sec­tions computation.

Part Design: 

• maxwxyz enabled the sup­port for mul­ti­ple bod­ies by default. This was con­sid­ered an exper­i­men­tal option earlier.
• hyari­on con­tin­ued work­ing on sup­port for sketch­es as neu­tral planes in PD’s Draft.
• theo-vt fixed a regres­sion where it would be impos­si­ble to cre­ate a hole from a Sub­Shape­Binder. He also removed the trans­form tool option from the Hole’s con­text menu to align it with oth­er Part­De­sign features.

Tech­Draw: 

• theo-vt fixed bal­loon anno­ta­tion unlink­ing after undo-redo. He also added the miss­ing trans­ac­tion code to the remain­ing TD com­mands that were miss­ing it, so now all com­mands in Tech­Draw should sup­port undo-redo.
• ryankem­brey patched the cos­met­ic cir­cles code to bring all the com­mands into one uni­fied drop­down in the tool­bar and the same sub­menu. Here is a quick video:

FEM:

• NewJok­er added sup­port for Cal­culiX mem­brane ele­ments. He also added Ampli­tude sup­port for rigid body constraints.
• marioalexis84:
  • Changed the pri­or­i­ty of the Elmer equa­tions to be set based on the order of def­i­n­i­tion, start­ing with a suf­fi­cient­ly high num­ber (255 is max) and decreas­ing the val­ues as the equa­tions are defined. 
  • Fixed a regres­sion where Cal­culiX out­put wouldn’t be cre­at­ed from .dat files after a recent refac­tor­ing effort.
  • Added a new boolean Glue option to cre­ate con­for­mal mesh­es from Netgen.
• ick­by con­tributed sev­er­al bug fix­es, includ­ing one that makes the Branch fil­ter Python object work well with the data extrac­tion code.

GUI:

• tetek­toza fixed a small UI bug in Preferences.
• captain0xff fixed the crop­ping of some Sketch­er icons on HiD­PI displays.

Oth­er changes:

• Roy_043 fixed sev­er­al issues with the mouse delay in Draft.
• drwho495 fixed sev­er­al topon­am­ing issues in part (PR#23151, PR#22785).
• Wan­der­erFan fixed mea­sure­ment vis­i­bil­i­ty after a reload.
• wwmay­er fixed a crash in Sheet (patch cher­ry-picked by hyarion).

Addi­tion­al improve­ments and fix­es were con­tributed by marioalexis84, Roy_043, kadet1090, NewJok­er, chennes, luz­paz, and corpix. 

If you are inter­est­ed in test­ing the lat­est week­ly build, you can grab it here. Please note that week­ly builds are now only avail­able from the main git repository’s Tags sec­tion. You can find ear­li­er builds there as well, e.g., if you need to bisect a bug. FreeCAD-Bun­dle is not used for week­ly builds anymore.

PR stats: since the pre­vi­ous report, 50 pull requests have been merged, and 57 new pull requests have been opened.

Issue stats: over­all, there are 2958 open issues in the track­er, up by 15 from last week.