FreeCAD News

This week in FreeCAD development:

Draft: Roy-043 added hints for the tools in the Draft Cre­ation tool­bar. He also added sup­port for rel­a­tive paths for hatch pat­terns and fixed a cou­ple of issues.

Sketch­er: 

• Pad­dle­Stroke back­port­ed a patch from RT’s fork that adds a “MakeIn­ter­nals” prop­er­ty so that you can select and pad faces in sketch­es. He also fixed an issue with the con­straint icon size.
• tetek­toza fixed con­struc­tion lines becom­ing sol­id after box selection.
• matthi­as­dan­ner made it pos­si­ble to select a con­straint when it was ren­dered in a group with oth­er con­straints because the cal­cu­la­tion of the cur­sor posi­tion was wrong inside the con­straint group.
• pier­re­porte fixed the posi­tion of the cir­cle diam­e­ter con­straint. It is now set where the on-view para­me­ter has been validated.

Part:

• kadet1090 fixed 2D off­sets of faces and relaxed boolean require­ments so that even small, unre­lat­ed mod­el issues would not pre­vent the boolean from being computed.
• maxwxyz and tetek­toza fixed sev­er­al issues.

Part Design: 

• kadet1090 con­tributed sev­er­al fix­es and improvements: 
  • Fixed a regres­sion where the Trans­for­ma­tion tool wouldn’t show the grab­ber for PD Clones.
  • Uni­fied dele­tion behav­ior for all Part­De­sign features.
  • Added a new check that pre­vents a hole from claim­ing oth­er fea­tures as children.
  • Fixed an issue where visu­als would be copied from ShapeBinder.
• Pad­dle­Stroke added a two-sided extru­sion and enhanced the Lin­ear Pat­tern tool. You can now cre­ate two-dimen­sion­al arrays and mul­ti­ple spac­ings in one go. Here is a video from the developer:

Assem­bly:

• Pad­dleSroke improved the behav­ior of select­ing a ground­ed joint object and fixed a cou­ple of cos­met­ic issues.
• tetek­toza allowed edit­ing joint ref­er­ences and fixed a crash that occurred when clos­ing a doc­u­ment while hav­ing the Task pan­el opened.
• ours­land fixed a bug in Ond­sel Solver.

Tech­Draw: 

• Wan­der­erfan fixed two issues: the inabil­i­ty to remove old cos­met­ic lines in clip groups and a crash that occurred when select­ing mul­ti­ple ver­tices and edges.
• theo-vt added undo-redo sup­port for view dragging.
• ryankem­brey fixed view frames resiz­ing on select/hover.

CAM:

• slip­ton­ic and davidg­ilka­uf­man updat­ed the CAM devel­op­ment roadmap to add epics for cir­cu­lar hole improve­ments, core dres­sup improve­ments, and fix­ing user pain points.
• tarman3 fixed a bug where the tool­bit would show up in job dialogs (Cre­ate, Edit, and Stock). He also fixed anoth­er bug where hid­den bod­ies of tools would remain in the doc­u­ment tree after remov­ing a job.
• cor­pix tweaked the UI in the Task pan­el for some of the con­tent to become vis­i­ble (see PR#23067).

BIM:

• Roy-043 fixed the direc­tion of pan­el waves and fixed con­flict­ing default short­cuts for Draft_Split and Arch_Space commands.
• paullee0 fixed a regres­sion in Slab/Structure Face Mak­er set­tings and patched Clone and Link to sup­port Sill change.
• furgo16 added inter­ac­tive sun posi­tion and ray visu­al­iza­tion to Arch Site (see PR#22516 for more info).

FEM:

• NewJok­er fixed xdmf export­ing of sec­ond-order mesh­es. He also added writ­ing of result dis­place­ments from REF NODE and ROT NODE of rigid body con­straint to ccx_dat_file, which is use­ful when sim­u­lat­ing tor­sion (to check the angle of twist).
• wwmay­er fixed a crash when writ­ing mesh to z88 files.
• ick­by patched the code to extract post­pro­cess­ing data only when it’s available.
• marioalexis84 patched the code to acquire the Glob­al Inter­preter Lock before run­ning Python code.

GUI:

• Mis­ter­Mak­er replaced the Pref­er­ences page icon for Part/ PartDesign.
• Rexbas fixed zoom­ing at a new rota­tion cen­ter in the Revit preset.
• maxwxyz deac­ti­vat­ed Inspec­tion, Open­SCAD, Robot, Test Frame­work, and <none> WB options by default.
• kadet1090 removed unused blank space in the Doc­u­ment Recov­ery dialog.

Oth­er changes:

• wwmay­er improved the OBJ importer to allow load­ing files cre­at­ed with Blender (patch cher­ry-picked by maxwxyz). He also fixed a cou­ple of Mea­sure-relat­ed issues (cher­ry-picked by 3x380V).
• drwho495 fixed anoth­er topon­am­ing issue (#23249).
• tetek­toza improved the per­for­mance of load­ing thumb­nails on the Start page.
• maxwxyz and chennes fixed var­i­ous Crowdin-relat­ed issues that affect­ed translators.
• thyssen­tish­man fixed two issues when edit­ing materials.
• z0r0 added more miss­ing Python bind­ings (in Assem­bly and CAM).
• mne­sar­co changed Expres­sion Gram­mar to sup­port direct expres­sions as ternary oper­a­tor conditions.

Addi­tion­al improve­ments and fix­es were con­tributed by NewJok­er, pieter­hi­j­ma, luz­paz, tetek­toza, maxwxyz, Mis­ter­Mak­er, kadet1090, Roy-043, pinkavaj, mosfet80, xtemp09, and adrianinsaval. 

If you are inter­est­ed in test­ing the lat­est week­ly build, you can grab it here.

PR stats: since the pre­vi­ous report, 89 pull requests have been merged, and 44 new pull requests have been opened.

Issue stats: over­all, there are 2932 open issues in the track­er, down by 26 from last week.