FreeCAD News

Main­tain­ers have been back­port­ing some of the fix­es to the v1.1 branch where pos­si­ble — 26 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 ghost pre­views of Arch_SectionPlane and Draft_WorkingPlaneProxy (PR#27605) and fixed depen­den­cy of pathar­ray nor­mal on view direc­tion (PR#27538).

Sketch­er:

• Loke­strom fixed the issue where arcs of ellipses would be cen­tered incor­rect­ly due to the 2^nd point hav­ing the same X coor­di­nate as the 1^st one (PR#27327).
• mar­bocub added a fourth way to spec­i­fy the sym­me­try con­straint: an ele­ment (line, arc, or open B‑spline) and a sym­me­try line (PR#25525).
• theo-vt fixed a crash when scal­ing splines (PR#27188).
• Pad­dle­Stroke added tooltips for Off­set options (PR#26114), fixed an issue where Tab would not work after you move the mouse (PR#27638), fixed the loss of expres­sion when trim­ming a shape (PR#27505), and fixed an error in SketchObject::getHigherElements (PR#27560).

Part and Part­De­sign: 

• chennes returned inver­sion sta­tus by ref­er­ence (PR#27435) and improved error han­dling for RevolMethod::ToFirst (PR#27457).
• ipatch fixed a release block­er in Part where Mir­ror would place a copy at the wrong loca­tion (PR#27370).

Assem­bly: Pad­dle­Stroke fixed a regres­sion in the BOM gen­er­a­tor that stopped group­ing items (PR#27522), fixed link objects becom­ing per­ma­nent­ly non-selec­table (PR#27567), and fixed an issue with iso­la­tion of ground­ed joints (PR#24952).

BIM/Arch:

• Roy-043 fixed a Place­ment task pan­el issue for Arch_SectionPlane and Draft_WorkingPlaneProxy (PR#27101) and ArchRef­er­ence issues with Build­ing­Part (PR#27133).
• furgo16 fixed coor­di­nate nor­mal­iza­tion and area cal­cu­la­tion for gener­ic Arch­Com­po­nents (PR#27322), pre­vent­ed child objects from mov­ing dur­ing Arch Wall debas­ing (PR#27290), and added a Win­dow options task box (PR#27381).
• paullee0 fixed a regres­sion in Arch­Wall (PR#27676).

Mea­sure­ment:

• Anakin100100 added on-the-fly mea­sure­ment unit change (PR#27462).
• Loke­strom fixed a bug that was caus­ing build fail­ures (PR#27580).
• YashSuthar983 fixed angle mea­sure­ment for face and edge selec­tion (PR#27432).

Oth­er changes:

• marioalexis84 removed unnec­es­sary code from the Pref­er­ences page of FEM (PR#25538).
• mne­sar­co fixed a regres­sion intro­duced dur­ing the TNP Inte­gra­tion (PR#27491).
• 3x380V cher­ry-picked mul­ti­ple fix­es from wwmay­er (PR#27363).

Syres916, ipatch, chennes, hyari­on, Roy-043, bdi­eterm, greg19, Lgt2x, xtemp09, Wan­der­erFan, and pyro9 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, 76 pull requests have been merged (includ­ing back­ports to the v1.1 branch), and 52 new pull requests have been opened.

Issue stats: over­all, there are 3266 open issues in the track­er, up by 30 from last week. There are 2 release block­ers for v1.1 cur­rent­ly, down by 3 from last week.