FreeCAD News

This week in FreeCAD development:

Sketcher

• ipatch added face high­light­ing when using the exter­nal pro­jec­tion tool (PR#29826).
• Pad­dle­Stroke fixed the per­pen­dic­u­lar auto­con­straint (PR#30568) and on-view para­me­ter focus issues (PR#30414).
• FlachyJoe fixed two topon­am­ing-relat­ed issues (PR#30467).
• tri­tao restored can­cel­la­tion behav­ior when Esc is pressed inside an active on-view para­me­ter (PR#30445) and improved Sketch­er pre­s­e­lec­tion when con­straints, points, and edges over­lap in the sketch edit mode (PR#30412).

Part and PartDesign 

• tri­tao improved face high­light­ing for cas­es where one log­i­cal ele­ment can span mul­ti­ple faces (PR#29197).
• wmay­er fixed copy­ing face, edge, and ver­tex col­ors in the Mir­ror­ing dia­log (PR#30435, cher­ry-picked by maxwxyz).
• slen­didev fixed a mir­ror­ing crash (PR#29737).

CAM

•  pet­ter­rein­holdt­sen extend­ed the post-proces­sor test mock code so that the Tool and Tool­Con­troller behave more like the real thing, and the mock code can work with the extend­ed OpenS­BP post-proces­sor (PR#27515).
• awgrover fixed the anno­ta­tion build­ing (PR#30217) and added the Probe oper­a­tion’s file­name as an anno­ta­tion (PR#30141).
• tarman3 was on a roll with 14 out of 21 merged PRs, includ­ing these: but­tons to enable/disable and clear all tags in Dres­sup­Tags (PR#29849), new Off­set option in Dres­sup­Path­Bound­ary (PR#29638), select­ing inner edges of select­ed hor­i­zon­tal face in Select­Loop (PR#26786), a fix for step down not tak­en into con­sid­er­a­tion in Vcarve (PR#30489), new Points pat­tern type in the Array op (PR#23606).

BIM

• Roy_043 fixed numer­ous issues: Mul­ti-Mate­r­i­al Def­i­n­i­tion task pan­el not work­ing with the Build­ing US unit schema (PR#30518), Arch_RemoveShape not work­ing prop­er­ly (PR#28929), TechDraw_ArchView not respect­ing Clip for the hid­den geom­e­try (PR#29819), and more.
• Bojan9597 fixed ArchView fill col­or not show­ing for Mul­ti­Ma­te­r­i­al objects (PR#30131).

Other changes

• Roy_043 decou­pled Con­tin­ue and Chain modes in Dimen­sion so that non-lin­ear dimen­sions work as expect­ed (PR#29744).
• tri­tao made recov­ery snap­shot writes less fre­quent, which helps with large doc­u­ments (PR#29693).
• matthi­as­dan­ner fixed cached label names not delet­ed on rename in the object tree, so that label names no longer in actu­al use could be used for some­thing else (PR#29915).
• wmay­er fixed the recur­sive removal of objects (PR#30434, cher­ry-picked by maxwxyz).
• Pad­dle­Stroke improved the nav­icube: the menu is now a shape that looks like a menu, there’s a home but­ton now, and ‘rotate back to forth’ is arrow-shaped now rather than a non­de­script dot (PR#29338).

Addi­tion­al improve­ments and fix­es were con­tributed by alopes0905, chennes, eold­er, greg19, ipatch, Lgt2x, Loke­strom, maxwxyz, and pieterhijma.

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

Activity stats

PR stats: since the pre­vi­ous report, 56 pull requests have been merged, and 40 new pull requests have been opened.

Issue stats: over­all, there are 3470 open issues in the track­er, up by 6 from last week.