FreeCAD News

Main­tain­ers have been back­port­ing some of the fix­es to the v1.1 branch where pos­si­ble — 31 back­ports in the past 7 days. The list of changes in this recap applies to the main devel­op­ment branch (future v1.2).

This week in FreeCAD development:

Draft: Roy-043 fixed the set­ting of the Auto­Col­or prop­er­ty of sketch­es to False before apply­ing col­ors (PR#25781) and an error on con­strained move­ment in the edit mode (PR#26868).

Sketch­er:

• AjinkyaDa­hale fixed a minor regres­sion intro­duced by recent refac­tor­ing (PR#26886). 
• Pad­dle­Stroke fixed a bug where the equal con­straint couldn’t be applied to mir­rored slot arcs (PR#26604).
• tetek­toza fixed a crash when apply­ing con­straints dur­ing selec­tion batch­ing (PR#26741).
• sak­sham-mal­ho­tra-27 fixed a sketch redun­dan­cy warn­ing (PR#26064).

Part­De­sign:

• tetek­toza fixed a release block­er where the extru­sion taper angle of inter­nal faces was reversed (PR#26781). He also fixed Refine not work­ing with Boolean oper­a­tions (PR#26745).
• Pad­dle­Stroke fixed a release block­er where extrud­ing up to shape would not recom­pute the doc­u­ment cor­rect­ly (PR#26696).
• kadet1090 fixed recom­put­ing the pre­views when recom­putes are dis­abled (PR#26805), added the begin­nings of sched­ul­ing the true recom­pute of the pre­view (PR#26812), and took anoth­er stab at fix­ing pat­tern trans­form pre­views (PR#26697).
• Lgt2x removed pre­view updates on prop­er­ty changes (PR#26803).
• wwmay­er fixed a bug where Polar Pat­tern would not accept a datum line or a sketch line as a ref­er­ence (PR#26722, cher­ry-picked by maxwxyz).

Assem­bly:

• Pad­dle­Stroke fixed a release block­er where open­ing a doc­u­ment in the Insert tool would result in an error (PR#26896). He also fixed a bug in radi­al explo­sion (PR#26724) and updat­ed the ground joint tooltip (PR#25852). 
• wwmay­er refac­tored a small part of the drag mode code (PR#25678, cher­ry-picked by 3x380V).

CAM:

• davidg­ilka­uf­man added adap­tive auto­mat­ic pick­ing of the helix entrance diam­e­ter (PR#23980).
• Slip­ton­ic added retract anno­ta­tion to drilling com­mands (PR#26584).
• Dimitris75 fixed the exper­i­men­tal water­line algo­rithm (PR#26658) and fixed the 3D sur­face rota­tion­al scan (PR#26553).
• tarman3 deliv­ered the usu­al slew of changes: 
  • Removed the dupli­cat­ed move­ment to the clear­ance height at the end of the Slot oper­a­tion (PR#25842).
  • Used the Job.GeometryTolerance prop­er­ty to set the pre­ci­sion of seg­men­ta­tion com­plex shapes while cre­at­ing a path in the Tag, Engrave, and Deburr oper­a­tions (PR#26127).
  • Fixed an error that showed up when chang­ing the Radius prop­er­ty in Dres­su­pAx­isMap (PR#26321)
  • Improved the Ramp Entry dres­sup (PR#26695).
• pet­ter­rein­holdt­sen patched the Fanuc post-proces­sor (PR#26617 and PR#26436).
• Con­nor added a thresh­old for treat­ing large-radius arcs as lin­ear in the sim­u­la­tor (PR#26860). He added a machine library and edi­tor to the CAM pref­er­ences pan­el (PR#26533).

BIM/Arch:

• paullee0 patched the code to pro­vide bet­ter infor­ma­tion for users when Arch_Wall has 0 width or height (PR#25878) and when a face’s hor­i­zon­tal­i­ty or ver­ti­cal­i­ty can­not be deter­mined (PR#26231). He also imple­ment­ed base­less (with­out a base object) wall cre­ation (PR#24595).
• furgo16 fixed Arch­Wall­Gui tests (PR#26904).
• YashSuthar983 fixed a bug in BIM Report where the col­umn and line width and height are is reset every time the report result is recal­cu­lat­ed (PR#26736).
• Roy-043 fixed an edge case where the area was cal­cu­lat­ed incor­rect­ly (PR#26779), updat­ed BIM exam­ple files (PR#26820), and removed unused Arch­Stairs Land­ings code (PR#25357).

Oth­er changes:

• wwmay­er fixed the ori­en­ta­tion of inter­nal shells of a sol­id in Part (PR#26717, cher­ry-picked by maxwxyz).
• pieter­hi­j­ma added a pre­s­e­lec­tion of com­mon­ly used types to the Add Prop­er­ty dia­log (PR#26765).
• ipatch fixed a bug where the work­bench selec­tor docked to the menubar would become unus­able (PR#26307).
• tri­tao removed Boost-based sig­nals and switched to FastSig­nals, which should make the same code faster (PR#19132).
• tim­pieces fixed short­cuts in the macro edi­tor (PR#26834).
• Mr-Rahul-Paul added a “Copy” but­ton to the Unit Test dia­log, allow­ing users to copy the details of fail­ing tests direct­ly to the clip­board (PR#25979).
• galou patched the pixi builds to run native­ly under Way­land on Lin­ux x86_64 by adding a qt6-way­land depen­den­cy (PR#26753).

Con­nor, Roy-043, Pad­dle­Stroke, efferre79, ipatch, furgo16, adri­an­in­saval, kadet1090, maxwxyz, and luz­paz con­tributed addi­tion­al improve­ments and fixes.

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

PR stats: since the pre­vi­ous report, 95 pull requests have been merged (includ­ing back­ports to the v1.1 branch), and 38 new pull requests have been opened.

Issue stats: over­all, there are 3164 open issues in the track­er, up by 18 from last week. There are 6 release block­ers for v1.1 cur­rent­ly, up by 2 from last week.