FreeCAD News

This week in FreeCAD development:

Draft

maxwxyz added input hints to the sta­tus­bar for the Edit tool and mod­i­fi­ca­tion tools (PR#30436 and PR#30437).

Sketcher

• wmay­er fixed sev­er­al mem­o­ry leaks (PR#29986, cher­ry-picked by maxwxyz), added input hints to the Dimen­sion tool (PR#30630) and the B‑Spline tool (PR#30628). 
• Pad­dle­Stroke fixed a bug where the new poly­line undo with R would keep undone seg­ments as real geom­e­try (PR#30630) and anoth­er bug where it was impos­si­ble to start a poly­line at the bot­tom of a cir­cle (PR#30666).
• Reqre­fu­sion patched the auto­con­straint to make point-on-line con­straints applic­a­ble along lines, not just above lines (PR#30332).
• Loke­strom added on-view para­me­ters to arcs of ellipse, hyper­bo­la, and parabo­la (PR#29318).
• ItSaul­Go­od­Man patched the Trim tool to pre­serve ellipses’ inter­nal geom­e­try (PR#30138).
• matthi­as­dan­ner fixed a bug where the sketch could­n’t be exit­ed with Escape when the bot­tom over­lay is hid­den (PR#29873).

Part and PartDesign 

• ItSaul­Go­od­Man fixed the com­pound dele­tion to pre­vent orphan objects from being left behind (PR#29856).
• Pad­dle­Stroke moved the lin­ear and polar pat­tern log­ic out of Part­De­sign to make it reusable across the appli­ca­tion (PR#30417). This is part of his grant work to refac­tor pat­tern tools.
• maxwxyz fixed a topon­am­ing occur­ring upon delet­ing a fea­ture (PR#30403).
• depthof­fo­cus fixed Uni­code file­name issues in Loft and Sweep (PR#29728).
• tri­tao port­ed the remain­ing Gui and Part­Gui overlay/highlight nodes off direct lega­cy OpenGL calls into Coin scene­graph geometry/state (PR#29030). This is part of his grant work.

Assembly

Pad­dle­Stroke made the Insert Part com­mand respect the active selec­tion (PR#30041). He also fixed sev­er­al bugs:

• where sub­assem­bly flex­i­ble joints would be ignored when apply­ing a joint to a rigid sub­assem­bly, and then turn­ing it flex­i­ble (PR#30679).
• where a joint would become vis­i­ble again after selec­tion by a user and then hide again (PR#30598).
• where Insert New Part would­n’t cre­ate the spec­i­fied joints (PR#30600).
• where FreeCAD would crash on dou­ble-click­ing an assem­bly link (PR#30037).

CAM

The big news here is the patch by slip­ton­ic to add work­plane-dri­ven 3+2 (indexed) tool­path gen­er­a­tion across most CAM ops: Pro­file, Pocket/PocketShape, Mill­Fac­ing, Drilling, Cir­cu­lar­Hole, Engrave, Vcarve, Adap­tive, and Deburr (PR#30106).

Addi­tion­al changes:

• tarman3 fixed wire checks when the start/target posi­tions touch the mod­el (PR#30385).
• Dimitris75 improved the Step Over con­sis­ten­cy across oper­a­tions (PR#27038).

BIM:

• tri­tao fixed a regres­sion in sketch-based walls where some left-aligned wall traces could lose large parts of their shape dur­ing base face gen­er­a­tion (PR#29703).
• maxwxyz improved the BIM Views Man­ag­er user inter­face and opti­mized the new lev­el cre­ation work­flow (PR#30420).
• Roy_043 fixed import issues that occurred when using the Strict IFC mode (PR#30001) and the fills of shaft-like objects in Draft_Shape2DView (PR#29539). 

Other changes

• wmay­er fixed B‑spline curve fit­ting in Reverse Engi­neer­ing (PR#29985, cher­ry-picked by maxwxyz).
• Wan­der­erFan fixed a bug in Tech­Draw where a shal­low curve would be depict­ed as a line (PR#30388).
• marioalexis84 improved the error mes­sage in FEM for cas­es when solvers run from the task pan­el with­out a mesh or with more than one mesh (PR#29186).
• pieter­hi­j­ma a con­text menu item in the Prop­er­ty View that allows you to report in which expres­sions these prop­er­ties are used (PR#23989). 
• Dan-Crane fixed UTF‑8 encod­ing for non-ASCII names in the Expres­sion Edi­tor and prop­er­ty links (PR#29875).
• tri­ta­to added nav­i­ga­tion con­trols for locked view ori­en­ta­tions (PR#29200).

Addi­tion­al improve­ments and fix­es were con­tributed by chennes, Ele­men­tW, ItSaul­Go­od­Man, Lgt2x, luz­paz, maxwxyz, mne­sar­co, Pad­dle­Stroke, and ypsvlq.

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

Activity stats

PR stats: since the pre­vi­ous report, 62 pull requests have been merged, and 35 new pull requests have been opened.

Issue stats: over­all, there are 3470 open issues in the track­er, same as last week.