FreeCAD News

This week in FreeCAD development:

Sketcher

• theo-vt pre­vent­ed self-tan­gency from hap­pen­ing at the com­mand lev­el (PR#31042).
• YashSuthar983 patched sketch visu­al­iza­tion to have two con­fig­urable para­me­ters: trans­paren­cy of the over­all axis and occlud­ed trans­paren­cy for the occlud­ed axis, so that an occlud­ed axis can be seen (PR#26594).
• theosib fixed auto-con­strain­ing to exter­nal geom­e­try in cer­tain sce­nar­ios (PR#30970).

Assembly

• LubuSeb changed Assem­bly acti­va­tion to use the same scoped recom­pute path used by the man­u­al Solve Assem­bly com­mand, instead of call­ing the solver direct­ly from edit-mode acti­va­tion (PR#30744). This fix­es a bug where acti­vat­ing an assem­bly would block auto­mat­ic recom­pu­ta­tion after chang­ing the VarSet parameters.
• Pad­dle­Stroke fixed incor­rect­ly placed new­ly cre­at­ed joints (PR#30669).
• Lgt2x switched the Assem­bly work­bench from OpenCV to PyAV to reduce the size of the builds with­out any func­tion­al­i­ty loss (PR#30333).

TechDraw

Thanks to pavl­tom, now you can attach any expres­sion sup­port­ed by the FreeCAD expres­sion edi­tor to any of the Tech­Draw tem­plate’s fields (PR#27117).

CAM

• tarman3 fixed mul­ti-tar­get drilling in Helix (PR#30611) and patched recom­putes in Select­Loop (PR#30908).
• jffmichi removed unneed­ed recom­putes that would hap­pen every time a sim­u­la­tion was start­ed (PR#30927).
• dbtayl fixed path gen­er­a­tion fail­ures in Adap­tive (PR#30623).
• davidg­ilka­uf­man fixed a bug where Adap­tive clear­ing would go around the work­piece perime­ter when “Fin­ish­ing pro­file” is select­ed (PR#30831).

FEM

• marioalexis84 set the default pres­sure val­ue to 1 MPa (PR#31036).
• wmay­er imple­ment­ed meth­ods to get ele­ment col­ors (PR#30726, cher­ry-picked by maxwxyz).

Other changes

• Roy_043 added sup­port for mul­ti­ple objects in hatch­es in Draft (PR#30578).
• tri­tao added view rota­tion by drag­ging the Nav­iCube (PR#30727).
• vsergeev added sup­port for ver­ti­cal con­fig­u­ra­tion tables in Spread­sheet (PR#29656).

Addi­tion­al improve­ments and fix­es were con­tributed by Amine0x0, awgrover, chennes, eesh­sax­e­na, greg19, Lgt2x, Roy-043, tarman3, theosib, tri­tao, and wmayer.

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

Activity stats

PR stats: since the pre­vi­ous report, 41 pull requests have been merged, and 49 new pull requests have been opened.

Issue stats: over­all, there are 3495 open issues in the track­er, up by 17 from last week.

Elsewhere in the community

Ephi Blan­shey recent­ly shared his progress work­ing on the His­to­ry work­bench that helps ver­sion-con­trol changes in FreeCAD projects native­ly and visu­al­ize dif­fer­ences between mod­el revisions.