FreeCAD News

Main­tain­ers have been back­port­ing some of the fix­es to the v1.1 branch where pos­si­ble — 18 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 snap­ping to geom­e­try when the object under the cur­sor is not snap­pable, e.g., an image (PR#26966). He also fixed incor­rect geom­e­try sav­ing when export­ing DXF (PR#26953).

Sketch­er:

• wmay­er fixed a bug where try­ing to trans­form a sketch acti­vates sketch edit mode instead of the trans­form dia­log (cher­ry-picked by Pad­dle­Stroke, PR#27063).
• Pad­dle­Stroke fixed a box selec­tion regres­sion (PR#26869)
• Syres916 fixed objects not ren­dered in the 3D view­port (PR#27004) and the set­ting of ver­tex size for new sketch­es (PR#26908).
• YashSuthar983 fixed a bug where exter­nal geom­e­try couldn’t be cre­at­ed from local coor­di­nate sys­tems (PR#26946).
• PR#27033 

Part and PartDesign:

• kadet1090 fixed a regres­sion so that the visu­als wouldn’t be recom­put­ed when shapes don’t change (PR#26992) and a release block­er where FreeCAD would pro­duce invalid geom­e­try from a file that works in v1.0.2 (PR#27016).
• Pad­dle­Stroke enabled LCS in Move Fea­ture After (PR#27022).

CAM:

• Con­nor fixed the instal­la­tion and pack­ag­ing of the new­ly added machine edi­tor (PR#26940) and added a tapered ball nose toolbit/shape asset (PR#26988 and PR#26989).
• tarman3 fixed a regres­sion in the Drilling oper­a­tion (PR#26827).

BIM/Arch:

• Roy-043 fixed a crash that occurred when choos­ing the Array tools com­mand (PR#27060), an incor­rect place­ment of exter­nal ref­er­enced objects (PR#26984), and anoth­er place­ment issue in BIM_View (PR#27015).
• furgo16 added unit tests for ver­ti­cal area cal­cu­la­tion in Arch Com­po­nent objects (PR#26874).

Oth­er changes:

• Pad­dle­Stroke fixed a crash in Assem­bly (PR#26949).
• Lgt2x added com­pat­i­bil­i­ty with VTK 9.6, which is about to be released (PR#25825).
• grae­lo added Quick­Look exten­sions for FCStd files on macOS, so that users can pre­view these files direct­ly in Find­er (PR#25239).
• Wan­der­erFan fixed frame and ver­tex behav­iour in Tech­Draw (PR#27009).

YashSuthar983, maxwxyz, pet­ter­rein­holdt­sen, Pad­dle­Stroke, ipatch, and mne­sar­co 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, 50 pull requests have been merged (includ­ing back­ports to the v1.1 branch), and 36 new pull requests have been opened.

Issue stats: over­all, there are 3178 open issues in the track­er, up by 14 from last week. There are 10 release block­ers for v1.1 cur­rent­ly, up by 4 from last week.