FreeCAD News

It looks like the orig­i­nal post didn’t show up on Wed/Thu here on the blog, but was post­ed on the forum. Not sure what the glitch was, but here is the post in its entire­ty on the blog as well, back­dat­ed for accuracy.

Now that FreeCAD 1.1 is out, main­tain­ers will keep back­port­ing some changes from the main devel­op­ment branch to the 1.1 branch for future bug­fix releas­es. There have been 12 such back­ports these last 7 days.

This week in FreeCAD development:

Sketcher

• Bojan9597 fixed a block­er bug where adding exter­nal geom­e­try would break sketch edit­ing (PR#29046).
• theo-vt fixed a regres­sion where a tan­gent con­straint between circle/arc and line would always resolve to the same place­ment and ignore ini­tial place­ment (PR#29015).
• Pad­dle­Stroke fixed a bug where ungrouped dimen­sions would move in the oppo­site direc­tion of the mouse point­er move­ment (PR#28294).
• drwho495 fixed a topon­am­ing regres­sion where sketch inter­nal faces would have unsta­ble names (PR#29043).

Part & PartDesign

• Bojan9597 fixed a bug where the attach­ment edi­tor list item selec­tion would get stuck on the wrong item (PR#29010).
• ipatch fixed an UX issue where press­ing Esc on a Fil­let pop­up would close the task pan­el, and the user would lose the selec­tion (PR#28131).
• flav­i­ut sped up text sketch extru­sion by ~37% (PR#28344).
• wwmay­er moved the com­mon code of Rev­o­lu­tion and Groove to a base class (PR#25607, cher­ry-picked by 3x380V).
• rehan-ahmed-aix fixed Polar Pat­tern task pan­el labels (PR#28960).
• YashSuthar983 fixed a regres­sion where Part Design boolean oper­a­tions on two bod­ies inside a part con­tain­er would fail (PR#28955).

TechDraw

• maxwxyz added a Tog­gle Grid com­mand to the right-click menu of the active TD page (PR#29083).
• ryankem­brey patched the way vert­ci­ces work: they now nev­er show on “off”, always show on “on”, and respect tool­bar com­mand Tog­gle View Frames (PR#28733).
• gha­toleaakru­ti patched pref­er­ences to allow neg­a­tive val­ues for Line­Spacing­Fac­torISO, which can now go as low as ‑10.0 (PR#28711).

Assembly

Pad­dle­Stroke added MP4 video export­ing to the sim­u­la­tion fea­ture, cur­rent­ly with the active view­port; there may be a PNG sequence with trans­par­ent back­ground option fur­ther down the road (PR#25307). He also fixed a regres­sion in the migra­tion script that would result in fixed joints made in v1.1 hav­ing dif­fer­ent results in v1.2 (PR#29141).

CAM

• slip­ton­ic fixed a bug where the new post-pro­cess­ing dia­log would show for lega­cy post-proces­sors as well (PR#29065. He also added a guard against invalid or dep­re­cat­ed post-proces­sor names in job tem­plates (PR#28870).
• tarman3 added a Rest­Ma­chin­ing prop­er­ty to the Bound­ary dres­sup to allow skip­ping areas exclud­ed by the bound­ary path (PR#22994). He also refac­tored the con­text menu for geom­e­try, jobs, and pro­files in the project tree to show more rel­e­vant options depend­ing on what is select­ed (PR#26492).
• davidg­ilka­uf­man made the pock­et off­set stepover adap­tive as need­ed to ensure it ful­ly clears the region (PR#28707).

BIM

• czarflix fixed a bug where native IFC objects would have a lim­it­ed list of avail­able Ifc­Class options (PR#28994).
• Roy-043 fixed invalid gen­er­a­tion of Bim­Li­brary URLs on Win­dows (PR#28875 and renamed Out­Di­am­e­ter to Out­side­Di­am­e­ter and the Draft prop­er­ty group to Pro­file in Arch­Pro­file (PR#27856).
• furgo16 con­tributed sev­er­al changes: 
  • Migrat­ed Arch­Struc­ture API func­tions to the Arch mod­ule for con­sis­ten­cy with the rest of objects (PR#28893).
  • Fixed Beam task pan­el crash when chang­ing cat­e­go­ry after the first point (PR#29050). ‑Fixed Make­Blocks not work­ing for base­less walls (PR#28720).
  • Improved the Site task pan­el’s UX (PR#28504).
  • Decou­ple Beam and Col­umn para­me­ters (PR#28896).

FEM

marioalexis84 con­tributed sev­er­al changes:

• Upda­teed Solver­Cal­culiX object cre­at­ed with an old FreeCAD ver­sion (PR#29102).
• Refac­tored the Z88 solver object, which now sup­ports almost all ele­ments, con­straints, and loads avail­able in the open source ver­sion of Z88 (PR#28944).
• Fixed the Cal­culiX con­straint for plane and truss ele­ments (PR#28986).

Other changes

• slen­didev added con­fig­urable snap­ping for giz­mos (PR#28384).
• czarflix restored live size updates in Image Plane set­tings (PR#28820).
• tri­tao recent­ly resumed his work on the ren­der­ing sys­tem; some of the results are: the Nav­iCube now works cor­rect­ly on fac­tion­al scal­ing (PR#29128 and is now iso­lat­ed and exclud­ed from scene cap­tures such as thumb­nail gen­er­a­tion (PR#28943.
• Ele­men­tW fixed the file type fil­ters in Open/Save dia­log being too long (PR#23209).
• ander­shol patched the task pan­el to drop back­ground trans­paren­cy (PR#29018).

Addi­tion­al improve­ments and fix­es were con­tributed by 3x380V, Bojan9597, Ele­men­tW, Maik-0000FF, Pad­dle­Stroke, Roy-043, YashSuthar983, adri­an­in­saval, ander­shol, ayyaz20003, chennes, cold­to­bi, czarflix, davidg­ilka­uf­man, dependabot[bot], drwho495, fil­ip­por, flav­i­ut, freecad-ci-run­ner, furgo16, gha­toleaakru­ti, greg­g­jask­iewicz, ipatch, kadet1090, marioalexis84, maxwxyz, rehan-ahmed-aix, ryankem­brey, slen­didev, slip­ton­ic, tarman3, theo-vt, tri­tao, wuhkuh.

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

Activity stats

PR stats: since the pre­vi­ous report, 84 pull requests have been merged, and 113 new pull requests have been opened.

Issue stats: over­all, there are 3370 open issues in the track­er, up by 19 from last week.