FreeCAD News

Main­tain­ers have been back­port­ing some of the fix­es to the v1.1 branch where pos­si­ble — 19 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:

• YashSuthar983 added snap­ping to knots of BSplines (PR#26571).
• Roy-043 fixed the auto­group behav­ior when the active group is a lay­er (PR#27102).

Sketch­er:

• Pad­dle­Stroke fixed the issue where dimen­sion­al con­straints would visu­al­ly match the lines when using on-view para­me­ters (PR#25848). He also added a tooltip that dis­plays the entire expres­sion for con­straints with an expres­sion (PR#25954) and fixed dis­ap­pear­ing con­struc­tion lines dur­ing draw­ing (PR#27195).
• vcheckin fixed an inter­mit­tent crash on sketch exit (PR#27129).

Part and Part­De­sign: 

• kadet1090 fixed two regres­sions in the Mul­ti­Com­mon boolean oper­a­tion (PR#27012).
• theosib fixed mir­ror() regres­sion with non-iden­ti­ty Place­ment (PR#26963).

Assem­bly: Pad­dle­Stroke con­tributed mul­ti­ple fix­es and improvements:

• Fixed the slid­er joint of the sub-assem­bly not work­ing when insert­ed as a ground­ed part (PR#27206).
• Fixed iso­late not work­ing on sub-assem­bly com­po­nents (PR#27173).
• Fixed assem­bly acti­va­tion issues (PR#27194).
• Removed an extra solver mes­sage when the file is closed (PR#27210.
• Added sup­port for sin­gle click to open explod­ed views in read-only mode, with­out enter­ing the edit mode (PR#25456).

Tech­Draw:

• Lgt2x fixed Qt5 com­pat­i­bil­i­ty (PR#27253).
• Wan­der­erFan fixed the default cir­cle cen­ter­line line style (PR#27134) and fixed a release block­er where the pro­jec­tion group jumps to the ori­gin (PR#27094). 

CAM:

• Daniel-Khod­abakhsh fixed an error that would occur when Start depth equals to Final depth and Safe height (PR#27258).
• Luvtofish fixed and updat­ed the Dyna_4060 post­proces­sor (PR#27202).

BIM/Arch:

• Roy-043 had eight of his pull requests merged, includ­ing these: fix for Build­ing­Part area cal­cu­la­tion for indi­rect chil­dren (PR#24848), sup­port for rel­a­tive paths in hybrid IFC files (PR#24190), fix for sub­trac­tions not work­ing with spaces (PR#27239), a test for hor­i­zon­tal area of tilt­ed cylin­ders (PR#27108).
• Arusekk fixed a bug where an Arch­Build­ing­Part would not move the child object base and only move the child itself (PR#27237).
• furgo16 added a task pan­el for wall options so that you can edit, e.g., align­ment and width in one go (PR#26758). He also fixed a bug where a base­less wall with addi­tions would have a dif­fer­ent icon in the Tree View (PR#27277).

Oth­er changes:

• pieter­hi­j­ma con­tributed numer­ous improve­ments to the doc­u­men­ta­tion of C++ API, expres­sions, and ele­ment map­ping (PR#25194, PR#25195, PR#25196, PR#25197, PR#25198, PR#25199).
• kadet1090 added a Time­Track­er util­i­ty that can be used to orches­trate code with time mea­sure­ments in an easy way and detect per­for­mance issues (PR#26305).
• nishendra3 fixed angle mea­sure­ment in the Mea­sure tool (PR#27254).

Roy-043, grae­lo, ours­land, chennes, phaseloop, Krrish777, tim­pieces, YashSuthar983, cnaples79, leo­heck, kkocd­ko, greg19, mosfet80, furgo16, xtemp09, Pad­dle­Stroke, captain0xff, 3x380V, pyro9, and Lgt2x 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, 88 pull requests have been merged (includ­ing back­ports to the v1.1 branch), and 29 new pull requests have been opened.

Issue stats: over­all, there are 3199 open issues in the track­er, up by 4 from last week. There are 4 release block­ers for v1.1 cur­rent­ly, down by 3 from last week.