FreeCAD News

This week in FreeCAD development:

Draft

• czarflix fixed SVG export­ing for faces with islands and cir­cu­lar edges (PR#29347) and patched the code to hon­or over­shoot set­tings in angu­lar dimen­sions (PR#29298).
• Syres916 fixed the import­ing of SVG field with UTF-16 encod­ed text (PR#29244).
• Bojan9597 fixed a crash when delet­ing an object while in edit mode (PR#29040).

Sketcher

• theo-vt removed super­flu­ous solves to cut down the CPU use (PR#28652).
• wwmay­er fixed round­ing errors in the code that recom­putes FreeCAD 1.0.x files (PR#28650, cher­ry-picked by maxwxyz).
• xorza fixed inter­nal faces for self-inter­sect­ing BSplines and dan­gling edges (PR#28964).
  • tri­tao fixed depth lay­er­ing for face-attached sketch­es in the edit mode (PR#29280).

Part and PartDesign

• Pad­dle­Stroke fixed a bug where the “XY Par­al­lel to Plane” attach­ment mode wouldn’t work when direct­ly select­ing ori­gin planes rather than the ori­gin object (PR#28958).
• Bojan9597 fixed a bug where new­er ver­sions of FreeCAD would swap Length and Length2 prop­er­ties of Pads on old­er files (PR#29247) and anoth­er bug where Part_EditAttachment couldn’t han­dle Std_Group in Std_Part prop­er­ly (PR#29218).

TechDraw

• Roy-043 fixed the pro­jec­tion direc­tion of hid­den geom­e­try in TechDraw_ArchView (PR#28801).
• Syres916 restored the cor­rect col­or of sym­bols in dark themes/stylesheets (PR#29217).
• ryankem­brey pol­ished the Bal­loon task pan­el user inter­face (PR#28101).

CAM

• tarman3 added approx­i­ma­tion of Ellipse, Hyper­bo­la, Parabo­la, Bezier­Curve, and BSplineCurve edges to arcs and lines for SVG import­ing (PR#29142), re-added the extend fea­ture to the LeadI­nOut dres­sup (PR#29061), and fixed sev­er­al bugs relat­ed to open wires (PR#27203).
• slip­ton­ic refac­tored the machine edi­tor tem­plate selec­tor to use addon meta­da­ta (PR#29150) and fixed two bugs in mill­fac­ing (PR#29231, PR#29189).
• jffmichi fixed a bug where oper­a­tions would use the wrong par­ent as job and mod­el (PR#28100).
• glsys fixed a bug where some cir­cu­lar faces and edges would not be selec­table for drilling or tap­ping (PR#29051).

BIM

• Roy-043 fixed the dou­ble-click vis­i­bil­i­ty behav­ior of views in the Views Man­ag­er (PR#28749).
• Bojan9597 fixed Mul­ti­Ma­te­r­i­al thick­ness input ignor­ing user unit sys­tem (PR#29295) and the base­less wall ignor­ing Off­set prop­er­ty (PR#29264). He also fixed a bug where using Std_Part and BIM mate­ri­als would pull mate­ri­als inside the Part in the Tree View (PR#29262).
• caio-venan­cio fixed the han­dling of the miss­ing iden­ti­fi­ca­tion attribute for IFC2X3 com­pat­i­bil­i­ty (PR#29152).
• tri­tao added the grace­ful han­dling of miss­ing IfcOpen­Shell (PR#29192).
• jge­nunez fixed the bug where Arch_Stairs handrail vis­i­bil­i­ty does not respect the vis­i­bil­i­ty of the par­ent object (PR#29173).

FEM

• ick­by added advanced mesh­ing fea­tures to Gmsh: bound­ary lay­er fix, switched to use gmsh size fields for stan­dard mesh refine­ments, added size field-based refine­ments like dis­tance thresh­old and ball/box fields, man­u­al trans­fi­nite mesh­ing tools, and the switch to vtk files for mesh trans­fer to allow the use of 3D struc­tured mesh­es (PR#24792).
• NewJok­er added gen­er­al sup­port for CalculiX’s reduced inte­gra­tion ele­ments (PR#29223) and field para­me­ters to CalculiX’s solver con­trols (PR#29227).
• marioalexis84 fixed pres­sure for Z88 plane stress (PR#29377), made it pos­si­ble to assign dif­fer­ent cross sec­tions to truss ele­ments (PR#29379), added Z88 sec­tion print sup­port (PR#29188), and patched the code to use mate­r­i­al and ele­ments with­out ref­er­ences as the default val­ue for Z88 (PR#29185).

Other changes

• alfrix fixed text input in the on-view para­me­ters in Sketch­er (PR#29287).
• YashSuthar983 improved label drag­ging for the Mea­sure tool (PR#29228).
• Pad­dle­Stroke fixed a bug in Assem­bly where drag­ging would work incor­rect­ly with mod­i­fied assem­bly place­ment (PR#28093).
• czarflix added miss­ing Impe­ri­al­Build­ing den­si­ty (lb/ft^3) and pres­sure (psi) schema entries (PR#29278).
• Ele­men­tW made FCStd info & thumb­nail fetch­ing async to speed up the pro­gram start­up (PR#29175). She also improved the per­for­mance of read­ing doc­u­ment meta­da­ta (PR#29178).
• ander­shol fixed start­up win­dow place­ment to han­dle mul­ti­ple mon­i­tors and pro­vide a nicer first run (PR#28807).

Addi­tion­al improve­ments and fix­es were con­tributed by Bojan9597, Ele­men­tW, FEA-eng, Lgt2x, Pad­dle­Stroke, Roy-043, Syres916, Wan­der­erFan, YashSuthar983, adri­an­in­saval, alfrix, ander­shol, asuki­aaa, awgrover, ayushishuk­laME, caio-venan­cio, chennes, czarflix, dependabot[bot], freecad-ci-run­ner, freecad-gh-actions-trans­la­tion-bot, glsys, ick­by, ipatch, jffmichi, jge­nunez, marioalexis84, maxwxyz, pieter­hi­j­ma, pre-commit-ci[bot], ryankem­brey, slip­ton­ic, tarman3, theo-vt, tri­tao, xorza.

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Activity stats

PR stats: since the pre­vi­ous report, 89 pull requests have been merged, and 71 new pull requests have been opened.
Issue stats: over­all, there are 3384 open issues in the track­er, up by 14 from last week.