FreeCAD News

This week in FreeCAD development:

Sketcher

• wwmay­er added two com­mands, Delete All Con­straints and Delete Fil­tered Con­straints (PR#29993, cher­ry-picked by maxwxyz).
• maxwxyz grouped Poly­line and Line tools by default (PR#30347). He also brought back the orig­i­nal G,M short­cut for the Poly­line tool (PR#30395) and re-added hints for that tool (PR#30344).
• xorza patched the code so that when you long-press an edge shared by two inter­nal faces, the clar­i­fy selec­tion menu will now list both adja­cent faces instead of only one (PR#29159).
• Pad­dle­Stroke fixed tool short­cuts (PR#30348).
• Reqre­fu­sion patched the Arc tool so you can give an arc an angle by click­ing while the angle tool is select­ed. (PR#29679).

CAM

• tarman3 fixed regres­sions in Dres­sup­Tag (PR#30267) and the freeze tog­gle (PR#30240), added checks for tol­er­ance error and edges length (PR#29593), and patched Pro­file so you can add mod­els as Base with­out sub­s­e­lec­tion (PR#24194).
• Connor9220 added the link­ing gen­er­a­tor to the Engrave and Deburr oper­a­tions so that the safe height is used for link­ing moves instead of the clear­ance height (PR#29959).

Other changes

• Roy_043 fixed a BSpline regres­sion in Draft (PR#29858).
• maxwxyz made it pos­si­ble to use the Cen­ter of mass / Cen­troid mode for Links and Part con­tain­ers in the Trans­form tool (PR#30208).
• Pad­dle­Stroke fixed the extra ground­ed joint in Assem­bly appear­ing after reopen­ing a file (PR#30314).
• Wan­der­erFan improved Tech­Draw to allow horizontal/vertical dimen­sions between cir­cle edges (PR#30379).
• drwho495 reim­ple­ment­ed a few changes from the RealThun­der’s fork to improve topon­am­ing sup­port for addons, such as Sheet­Met­al (PR#24632).

Addi­tion­al improve­ments and fix­es were con­tributed by ander­shol, awgrover, Lgt2x, maxwxyz, Pad­dle­Stroke, rehan-ahmed-aix, Roy_043, and semhustej.

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

Activity stats

PR stats: since the pre­vi­ous report, 31 pull requests have been merged, and 47 new pull requests have been opened.

Issue stats: over­all, there are 3464 open issues in the track­er, up by 22 from last week.