FreeCAD News

This week in FreeCAD development:

Draft

ItSaul­Go­od­Man fixed sev­er­al issues: 

• Not being able to change a base object in Draft_Array if this object is used in anoth­er array (PR#29507),
• Draft_SubelementHighlight giv­ing error mes­sages (PR#29425),
• Anoth­er issue where the anno­ta­tion style edi­tor would over­ride val­ues when too large units are used (PR#29455).

Sketcher

• Roy-043 renamed Change Val­ue to Edit Val­ue in the task pan­el (PR#29556).
• Bojan9597 fixed the autoscal­ing fail­ing when the dimen­sion val­ue is zero (PR#29097).
• Pad­dle­Stroke added a Can­cel but­ton so that all mod­i­fi­ca­tions in an open sketch can be can­celed (PR#29337).

Part and PartDesign

• ipatch fixed a bug where mir­ror­ing an App::Link with Part::Mirror would get the place­ment of the link ignored (PR#28151) and anoth­er bug where items that have been marked as sup­pressed wouldn’t show up with strikethrough text (PR#27808).
• Bojan9597 fixed the Cham­fer tool not start­ing in the selec­tion mode (PR#29313).
• maxwxyz added a Show Place­ment helper to core datums (PR#29176).

TechDraw

ayyaz20003 fixed incor­rect B‑spline/spline ren­der­ing in the ArchView (PR#28853) and anoth­er bug where DraftView and ArchView would not respect the Scale prop­er­ty on new­ly cre­at­ed views (PR#28818).

CAM

• tarman3 improved defaults in Engrave (PR#26543), added pro­cess­ing hor­i­zon­tal edges in Pocket_Shape (PR#27750), added opti­miza­tions to decrease the time spent on pro­cess­ing a lot of edges in Select_Loop (PR#26644), fixed issues with Deburr paths (PR#28898), and removed a use­less move to Safe height at the end of Slot in G‑Code (PR#28898).
• davidg­ilka­uf­man added the sort­ing of wires when approx­i­mat­ing edges in Deburr (PR#29467) and improved adap­tive test speeds (PR#29462).
• Con­nor fixed HiD­PI sup­port and font scal­ing in CAM tool wid­gets (PR#29361).
• slip­ton­ic fixed var­i­ous machine-based post-pro­cess­ing bugs (PR#29226) and restored some of the lega­cy post-proces­sors (PR#29443).
• jffmichi fixed a default job tem­plate bug (PR#27712) and improved the new CAM sim­u­la­tor to bet­ter align with the main 3D view for nav­i­ga­tion and cam­era set­tings (PR#23073).

FEM

• ipatch fixed high­light selec­tion for the comp­sol­id pop-up tool (PR#29045).
• marioalexis84 patched the code to use the glob­al place­ment of the ref­er­ence geom­e­try for the force direc­tion (PR#29513).

BIM

• Roy-043 fixed dupli­cate pro­cess­ing in the IFC export­ing code (PR#28786).
• czarflix fixed the Mul­ti­Ma­te­r­i­al thick­ness edi­tor UI (PR#29459).

Measurement

• Bojan9597 allowed curved faces (sphere, cone, torus, etc.) to be mea­sured in the Dis­tance mode (PR#29367).
• Morten­Va­jhoj added sup­port for mea­sur­ing spheres and torus­es just like cylin­dri­cal faces (PR#29369).

Other changes

• tri­tao added option­al asyn­chro­nous recom­pu­ta­tion of doc­u­ments and fea­tures to keep the UI respon­sive dur­ing heavy oper­a­tions (PR#21292). This work was spon­sored as a grant by the FreeCAD Project Association.
• tri­tao also patched the code to log resolved dupli­cate ele­ment map­pings as trace diag­nos­tics instead of show­ing warn­ings to users (PR#29506).
• maxwxyz added mul­ti-selec­tion sup­port to the Align To Selec­tion com­mand in the 3D view (PR#29182).
• Con­nor added a warn­ing dia­log for sav­ing files cre­at­ed with old­er FreeCAD ver­sions and a pref­er­ence to dis­able this warn­ing (PR#28389).

Addi­tion­al improve­ments and fix­es were con­tributed by marioalexis84, NewJok­er, theo-vt, tarman3, JonasVgt, nitzan-treg, rehan-ahmed-aix, ipatch, chennes, 3x380V, fil­ip­por, FlachyJoe, Ele­men­tW, Con­nor, zeel2104, and coldtobi.

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

Activity stats

PR stats: since the pre­vi­ous report, 73 pull requests have been merged, and 59 new pull requests have been opened.

Issue stats: over­all, there are 3389 open issues in the track­er, up by 5 from last week.