FreeCAD News

This week in FreeCAD development:

Draft

• czarflix patched the Line/Wire tool to stop cre­at­ing dupli­cate points with the same coor­di­nates (PR#29372).
• Roy-043 fixed some task pan­els not auto-clos­ing on doc­u­ment close (PR#30894). He also added a new ‘Set Point as First’ option for wires and B‑splines when the wire or B‑spline is closed, and the point under the cur­sor is not the first point of the curve (PR#30830).

Sketcher

• jlewin intro­duced per-sketch geom­e­try cre­ation mode (PR#30761). Now when you use the con­struc­tion line mode and switch to a dif­fer­ent sketch or doc­u­ment, you only get that mode if you actu­al­ly last used it there.
• Pad­dle­Stroke fixed the updat­ed Poly­line tool so that it does not attempt to cre­ate an arc where an arc is impos­si­ble to make (PR#30497).
• Reqre­fu­sion iter­at­ed on his orig­i­nal patch to improve the length dimen­sion ren­der­ing of large arcs and made it han­dle neg­a­tive angles (PR#30503).

Part and PartDesign

• tri­tao fixed a regres­sion where select­ing a Part­De­sign Body could ren­der with highlight/preselection behav­ior instead of com­mit­ted selec­tion behav­ior (PR#30791).
• alfrix fixed cos­met­ic threads appear in sub­se­quent unthread­ed holes (PR#30005).
• maxwxyz added a cus­tom coor­di­nate sys­tem (CS) mode to view and adjust the trans­form in any picked coor­di­nate sys­tem + align­ment of the drag­ger to the select­ed CS (PR#30227).
• Pad­dle­Stroke fixed a few issues with selec­tion order in pat­terns (PR#30548).
• xorza added a uni­fied face mak­er that replaces the Bullseye+Cheese+BuildFace water­fall with a sin­gle algo­rithm han­dling all pla­nar and non-pla­nar cas­es (PR#28788).

TechDraw

• fatal­wir added Czech (cs) local­ized ISO 5457 draw­ing tem­plates (PR#30888).
• ayyaz20003 fixed the work­bench to stop chang­ing the DraftView/ArchView “Page” to “Cus­tom” after you save and reload the doc­u­ment (PR#30529).

CAM

• davidg­ilka­uf­man added sup­port for frac­tion­al per­cent­ages for adap­tive stepover and UI ele­ments for stepover dis­tance (PR#30846).
• tarman3 added line enu­mer­a­tion in the edi­tor in the Cus­tom oper­a­tion (PR#30566).
• dbtayl added H to the list of default-sup­port­ed para­me­ters, so tool-length off­sets get out­put if the box in the machine con­fig to uti­lize them is checked (PR#30640).

FEM

marioalexis84 added sup­port for 2D geome­tries to the Trans­form con­straint and Cylin­dri­cal trans­form sup­port for shell ele­ments (PR#30946). He also added an elec­tro­sta­t­ic spark gap exam­ple (PR#30928), set pipeline fil­ters as vis­i­ble by default (PR#30936), and intro­duced a few more quick improve­ments (PR#30665 and PR#30653).

Other changes

• maxwxyz addex sta­tus­bar input hints to BIM (PR#30511).
• tri­tao reduced unnec­es­sary repaint work while zoom­ing in the 3D view by throt­tling updates to the sta­tus bar dimen­sion pane (PR#30822) and improved the Nav­icube ren­der­ing and home nav­i­ga­tion (PR#30703).
• wmay­er imple­ment­ed an auto­mat­ic pre­s­e­lec­tion check to improve the ren­der­ing times (PR#29978), cher­ry-picked by maxwxyz) and improved anno­ta­tion label drag­ging (PR#29953, cher­ry-picked by maxwxyz).
• pieter­hi­j­ma intro­duced fine-grained recom­putes in FreeCAD (PR#25603). These are recom­putes based on depen­den­cies between prop­er­ties instead of based on objects, as is the case in FreeCAD currently.

Addi­tion­al improve­ments and fix­es were con­tributed by awgrover, chennes, ItSaul­Go­od­Man, maxwxyz, moench-teged­er, Roy_043, ryankem­brey, simon­frechette-dev, slip­ton­ic, tarman3, tri­tao, and xtemp09.

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

Activity stats

PR stats: since the pre­vi­ous report, 64 pull requests have been merged, and 37 new pull requests have been opened.

Issue stats: over­all, there are 3478 open issues in the track­er, down by 15 from last week.