FreeCAD News

This year, we had three stu­dents work­ing on FreeCAD. All projects have been suc­cess­ful. Here is a quick recap.

chiragsingh1711 imple­ment­ed 3D PDF export­ing in the Tech­Draw work­bench and added an exporter to the gen­er­al list of export­ing options. The code is most­ly com­plete and requires some fix­es to bring it clos­er to our cod­ing stan­dards. The main­tain­ers team sched­uled this fea­ture for inclu­sion in v1.2.

theo-vt worked on mul­ti­ple files’ par­al­lel edit­ing. This project’s aim was to remove the lim­i­ta­tion where one doc­u­ment can­not be edit­ed until an oper­a­tion on anoth­er doc­u­ment is com­plet­ed. The patch is also most­ly com­plete. Because the project end­ed when the fea­ture freeze was already in effect, and the change affect­ed every aspect of FreeCAD, this fea­ture was post­poned to v1.2 to avoid delay­ing the release of v1.1.

Sayan­tan Deb (captain0xff) added inter­ac­tive con­trols to the 3D view in the Part­De­sign work­bench. You can now use var­i­ous drag­gers when you use Pad, Pock­et, Fil­let, Helix, and oth­er com­mands. This fea­ture will be part of the upcom­ing FreeCAD v1.1 release.

For peo­ple who don’t like this kind of UI, there’s a switch in Preferences.

Sayan­tan sub­mit­ted anoth­er patch to enhance this new fea­ture by adding on-view para­me­ters for inter­ac­tive giz­mos. The patch is cur­rent­ly in review and won’t be merged for v1.1 as we are well past the fea­ture freeze cut-off. If all goes well, expect it in v1.2.

We thank all stu­dents, men­tors, and admins for the great work!