FreeCAD News

This week in FreeCAD development:

Sketch­er: 

• Pad­dle­Stroke fixed one release block­er, two regres­sions, and a few more bugs. 
• theo-vt fixed a crash in the Scale tool; it should now bet­ter han­dle a dimen­sion of a sin­gle line.
• lon­grack­slabs patched all con­straint tools to pro­vide con­text-aware hints that remem­ber user selec­tions and guide them through the cor­rect workflow.
• kadet1090 fixed Sketch­er to not enforce vis­i­bil­i­ty of planes on edit.
• tetek­toza fixed a bug where on-view para­me­ters would dis­re­gard 0 as a valid input.

Part Design: 

• Pad­dle­Stroke fixed two block­ers and two regres­sions, includ­ing one that made some prop­er­ties in Pock­et uneditable.
• kadet1090 fixed a crash that would occur in rare cas­es where fea­tures were placed out­side the body con­tain­er. He also fixed the occa­sion­al incor­rect ren­der­ing of trans­par­ent pro­file previews.
• 3x380V fixed GCC warn­ing, and marioalexis84 fixed a bug where the Allow­Com­pound para­me­ter would not be enabled by default for indi­rect­ly cre­at­ed bod­ies despite the pref­er­ence being checked.

Assem­bly:

• Pad­dle­Stroke fixed a crash when acti­vat­ing flex­i­ble sub-assem­blies by imple­ment­ing sup­port for Link groups in sub-assem­blies. He also fixed a release block­er where adding the lim­its for the joints would break the joints.
• furgo16 fixed a bug that pre­vent­ed any joints from being cre­at­ed in cer­tain scenarios.

Tech­Draw: 

• Wan­der­erFan fixed sev­er­al bugs, includ­ing a release block­er where an area anno­ta­tion would cause a crash if mul­ti­ple faces were selected.
• ryankem­brey fixed a bug where the view frame would not reset with a click.

CAM:

• slip­ton­ic fixed the size of the direc­tion mark­er for high-res­o­lu­tion displays.
• Con­nor fixed the base tem­plate sub­sti­tu­tion and the style of the CAM San­i­ty Report. He also fixed chang­ing the spin­dle direc­tion or mate­r­i­al in the tool library edi­tor and con­vert­ed the tap­ping oper­a­tion to an exper­i­men­tal fea­ture (and applied sev­er­al fix­es and improve­ments to it).

BIM:

• furgo16 refac­tored parts of the Arch mod­ule and intro­duced quite a hand­ful of improve­ments to the sec­tion plane task pan­el (see PR#23826 for the full list).
• galou fixed a regres­sion in DAE import and restored sup­port for non-tri­an­gu­lar faces.
• Roy_043 fixed sev­er­al bugs.

GUI:

• mar­cus­pol­lio updat­ed group icons in Draft.
• furgo16 brought back visu­al feed­back on tool­bar but­ton press and hover.
• Tia­go-Almei­da007 slight­ly reor­ga­nized tree view preferences.

Oth­er changes:

• B0cho, NewJok­er, and marioalexis84 fix­es var­i­ous minor issues and a few mem­o­ry leaks in FEM.
• tetek­toza patched the core to allow delet­ing objects inside a group recursively.
• sliedes fixed dis­play­ing objects in the 3D view on Way­land with native and pro­pri­etary Nvidia dri­vers (see PR#23768 for details).

Addi­tion­al improve­ments and fix­es were con­tributed by Roy-043, chennes, marioalexis84, matt-tay­lor-git, ipatch, wwmay­er, 3x380V, Pad­dle­Stroke, kadet1090, mrpilot2, mne­sar­co, tetek­toza, luz­paz, Rexbas, captain0xff, Mikestriken, and FlachyJoe.

For trans­la­tors, some trans­lat­able text issues have been fixed, and trans­la­tion updates have been merged from Crowdin.

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

PR stats: since the pre­vi­ous report, 80 pull requests have been merged, and 38 new pull requests have been opened.

Issue stats: over­all, there are 2954 open issues in the track­er, down by 43 from last week. 30 known release block­ers remain unfixed for v1.1, down by 15 from last week.