FreeCAD News

This week in FreeCAD development:

Sketch­er: 

• theo-vt fix­es four bugs, includ­ing one release block­er, two crash­ers, and one regres­sion (the Scale tool would crash or cause exces­sive con­straints in the pres­ence of non-scal­able geometry).
• Pad­dle­Stroke and NewJok­er con­tributed two minor UI fixes.

Part:

• Pad­dle­Stroke fixed a release block­er where FreeCAD would change the col­or and trans­paren­cy of solids gen­er­at­ed based on sketches.
• maxwxyz patched the drag­ger to attach to the mid­point / axis for cir­cu­lar edges and faces.

Part Design: 

• kadet1090 rearranged UI ele­ments in the Hole task pan­el in a more log­i­cal manner.
• Pad­dle­Stroke fix­es two release block­ers and a regres­sion (a fea­ture couldn’t be added to an exist­ing Polar Pattern).

Tech­Draw: 

• Wan­der­erFan fixed a bug where the check for horizontal/vertical dimen­sions would give the wrong result in some cases.
• chennes fin­ished the removal of Link and Land­mark from GUI.

CAM:

• davidg­ilka­uf­man and tarman3 con­tributed var­i­ous new fea­tures and improve­ments to the LeadI­nOut func­tion­al­i­ty: cus­tomiz­ing line and arc angles, new entrance/exit styles, off­set­ting entrance/exit loca­tion, and more (see here for details).
• davidg­ilka­uf­man also fixed a release block­er where chang­ing TC with the same tool num­ber but dif­fer­ent spin­dle speed wouldn’t pro­duce cor­rect G‑code.
• tarman3 patched the Dog­bone dres­sup to be able to process more com­pli­cat­ed cas­es, such as mul­ti­ple pass­es and an exclud­ed inner path.
• Dimitrios2 fixed a G0 regres­sion in drilling (patch pre­pared by J‑Dunn).
• zophon fixed KineticNCBeamicon2 post­proces­sor to sep­a­rate M05 and M09 G‑code as beam­i­con2-basic does­n’t like hav­ing both M‑code on the same line.

BIM: 

• mar­cus­pol­lio updat­ed var­i­ous icons, includ­ing the Views Pan­el and Sta­tus Bar ones.
• furgo16 fixed sun ray cre­ation in Arch Site solar study.
• Roy-043 fixed a bug where the Arch_Reference object would not dis­play col­ors of a ref­er­enced object. He also fixed anoth­er bug where doors and win­dows would become trans­par­ent when mul­ti­ma­te­r­i­al was assigned to them.

FEM:

• NewJok­er:
  • Added ampli­tude sup­port to the Final Tem­per­a­ture field.
  • Added a new prop­er­ty, Dis­ablePastixMixed­Pre­ci­sion (true by default), that dis­ables the PaStiX mixed pre­ci­sion for the ccx solver.
  • Set bet­ter defaults for mesh export (see here for details).
• marioalexis84:
  • Added sup­port for 2D geome­tries to Cen­trif constraint.
  • Patched the code not to over­ride user-defined time incre­ment val­ues ​​when run­ning steady state ther­mo-mechan­i­cal analyses.
  • Sim­pli­fied mesh­ing with Net­gen by using Net­gen bind­ings entire­ly in an exter­nal program.
  • Added the Off­set prop­er­ty to the old ElementGeometry2D object.
  • Improved the code by allow­ing the refac­tored ccx solver to be added with the Analy­sis containers.

GUI:

• B0cho improved the expres­sion edi­tor’s input and resize behavior.
• kadet1090 fixed trans­par­ent pre­view ren­der­ing issues. He also updat­ed the appearence of planes to react to mouse-over and enlarge for a bet­ter visu­al clue of selection.
• maxwxyz changed hard­cod­ed pix­e­lat­ed bitmap nav­i­ga­tion cur­sors in the 3D view to DPR-aware SVG cursors.
• captain0xff add them­ing abil­i­ties to inter­ac­tive giz­mos merged last week.
• tetek­toza added a con­text menu to select obstruct­ed items; the code has been back­port­ed from RealThunder’s fork.

Oth­er changes:

• Roy-043 fixed sev­er­al bugs in Draft.
• schmidtw fixed a topon­am­ing bug hap­pen­ing on mod­els made with FreeCAD 0.7.
• drwho495 fixed anoth­er topon­am­ing bug that would cause FreeCAD to slow down with some files after a recent patch.
• 3x380V fixed two regres­sions (one of them also a release block­er) relat­ed to units.
• wwmay­er and 3x380V mod­ern­ized File­In­fo code.
• Pad­dle­Stroke added (back) an icon for the angu­lar motion in Assembly.

Addi­tion­al improve­ments and fix­es were con­tributed by NewJok­er, adri­an­in­saval, luz­paz, Pad­dle­Stroke, paullee0, z0r0, and kadet1090.

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

Trans­la­tors: your recent changes have been merged from Crowdin again.

PR stats: since the pre­vi­ous report, 75 pull requests have been merged, and 63 new pull requests have been opened.

Issue stats: over­all, there are 2972 open issues in the track­er, up by 27 from last week. 46 known release block­ers remain unfixed for v1.1.

The soft fea­ture freeze is now on, so start­ing next Wednes­day, week­ly updates will be a lot more bor­ing for the next few months. No fan­cy new fea­tures, just bugfixes.