FreeCAD News

Main­tain­ers have been back­port­ing some of the fix­es to the v1.1 branch where pos­si­ble — 14 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:

Sketch­er:

• Lgt2x sped up the solv­ing for the Move/Array oper­a­tion (PR#26977).
• theo-vt changed the way dri­ven con­straints are han­dled in the PlaneGCS mod­ule so that drag­ging geom­e­try would look less odd when the sketch is under-con­strained (PR#26632).

Part and Part­De­sign: 

• parag­for­work added miss­ing tooltips to the Loca­tion task pan­el (PR#27748), and ipatch added tooltips for Part prim­i­tives (PR#27732).
• Pad­dle­Stroke fixed a bug where a plane from an LCS could not be picked as a lim­it for an “Up to face” Extrude oper­a­tion (PR#27637).
• alfrix fixed a bug where a tapered hole wouldn’t always ful­ly cut faces (PR#27127).

BIM/Arch:

• Roy-043 fixed a crash that occurred when switch­ing work­ing planes (PR#27373).
• furgo16 renamed the obso­lete Mesh prop­er­ty to HiRes (PR#27783), set the default val­ue of ‘Move­With­Host’ prop­er­ty to True (PR#27685), and added an ini­tial imple­men­ta­tion of the slid­ing door pre­set (PR#27375).

FEM:

• marioalexis84 added a new Dis­placeMesh option to the Cal­culiX solver to deform the mesh by the dis­place­ment field (PR#27786), fixed a regres­sion where the refac­tored Elmer solver wouldn’t pro­vide text out­put (PR#27775), fixed var­i­ous issues in Elmer exam­ples (PR#27749), and switched to using vtk­mod­ules rather than import­ing from VTK direct­ly (PR#27810). 
• pieter­hi­j­ma reen­abled vis­i­bil­i­ty icons for Analy­sis and Solver (PR#27577).

Tech­Draw:

• Wan­der­erFan fixed the incor­rect dis­play of the “SCALE” auto­mat­ic field (PR#27616).
• Pad­dle­Stroke reworked anno­ta­tion tools (PR#24624). This was an FPA grant:

CAM:

• The usu­al batch of changes from tarman3: 
  • Fixed errors when open­ing a wire with two equal edges (PR#26109).
  • Rotary axis inver­sion in the Axis Map dres­sup (PR#26131).
  • Fixed a regres­sion in the task pan­el of Engrave (PR#26818).
  • Fixed the cal­cu­la­tion of arc length and time milling (PR#27389).
  • Replaced G00 and G01 by G0 and G1 in LeadI­nOut (PR#27704).
  • Patched the Pro­file oper­a­tion to allow set­ting the start­ing point when pro­cess­ing mul­ti­ple shapes (PR#24958).
• captain0xff fixed the trans­form tool for CAM objects (PR#27757).
• pet­ter­rein­holdt­sen adjust­ed the Fanuc post-proces­sor to always use required drill para­me­ters (PR#27788).
• slip­ton­ic added a more acces­si­ble CONSTANTS file to the root of the CAM work­bench (PR#27861).

Mea­sure­ment:

• Loke­strom added radius, diam­e­ter, and area mea­sure­ments for discs / cir­cu­lar faces (PR#27415).
• YashSuthar983 fixed a bug where mea­sure­ments would be saved if you exit­ed the tool by ini­ti­at­ing anoth­er task, such as open­ing a sketch (PR#27805). They also fixed a crash that would occur when you drag the label of an unsaved mea­sure­ment (PR#27707).
• Morten­Va­jhoj moved the Reset / Close / Save but­tons to the top of the task pan­el (PR#27774).

Oth­er changes:

• Roy-043 fixed a regres­sion in Draft where it was impos­si­ble to assign an anno­ta­tion style to objects such as Draft Dimen­sion or Draft Label when the style was the sec­ond one cre­at­ed in the file (PR#27831).
• Pad­dle­Stroke fixed a bug in Assem­bly where mir­rored links would snap back to their orig­i­nal posi­tions when you tried to move them (PR#26090).
• mar­cus­pol­lio added entire line selec­tion in the text edi­tor by click­ing on the line num­ber (PR#27677).
• APEb­bers patched the search func­tion in Pref­er­ences to ask the user if they want to start from the begin­ning when they reach the end (PR#24772).

Phone­Droid, 3x380V, wwmay­er, ipatch, chennes, xtemp09, nmschulte, and kadet1090 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, 66 pull requests have been merged (includ­ing back­ports to the v1.1 branch), and 46 new pull requests have been opened.

Issue stats: over­all, there are 3285 open issues in the track­er, up by 19 from last week. There are 3 release block­ers for v1.1 cur­rent­ly, up by 1 from last week.