FreeCAD News

This week in FreeCAD development:

Sketcher

• Pad­dle­Stroke fixed doc­u­ment recom­putes not hon­or­ing a con­fig­ured default solver (PR#32461).
• tri­tao fixed a bug where the solver would fail to con­verge when coin­ci­dent con­straints are used (PR#30683).

Part and PartDesign

• codeo­taku fixed two issues where loft would break in cer­tain sce­nar­ios (PR#32303).
• pyro9 re-wrote the log­ic to bet­ter select viable pro­files to build lofts (PR#31488).
• ander­shol reduced recom­pute time (PR#32409).
• tarman3 patched Sub­Shape­Binder to avoid adding binders to sin­gle, not acti­vat­ed bod­ies (PR#30931).

Assembly

• ours­land fixed sev­er­al crash­es, a solver recur­sion, and tran­sient state leak­ing into saved files (PR#32008).
• Pad­dle­Stroke removed the need to cre­ate a ground joint where it’s overkill (PR#30998) and con­tributed array tools to Assem­bly in 19 PRs so far (at least one more is in review). Here is a video explain­er from the developer:

CAM

• Con­nor fixed a regres­sion where peck drilling no longer had access to retract depth (PR#32281).
• tarman3 added the abil­i­ty to do chain-drilling as a strat­e­gy for pro­fil­ing and pock­et­ing to Dres­sup­PlungeMilling (PR#30188) and patched Helix to set default cone angle where pos­si­ble (PR#30985).
• davidg­ilka­uf­man imple­ment­ed z‑checks on arc paths for rest machin­ing (PR#32562) and replaced the process for Clip­per curve dis­cretiza­tion and fit­ting (PR#30169), which is part of his Clip­per 1 to Clip­per 2 migra­tion project.
• Dimitris75 and slip­ton­ic added a pla­nar sur­fac­ing oper­a­tion (PR#31924).

FEM

• marioalexis84 fixed con­straint sym­bol paths (PR#32176)
• chennes addressed the Zip­Slip vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty (PR#31878).
• maxwxyz fixed a crash when you select “von Mieses” in the pipeline field (PR#32676).

BIM

• furgo16 replaced the default 10×10cm grid with a 10×10m one to make it work for AEC projects (PR#32597).
• Roy-043 con­tributed sev­er­al patch­es, includ­ing one where the “No sup­port­ed edges” warn­ing is no longer dis­played for wall bases with faces (PR#32056).

Measurement

• Krrish777 fixed mea­sure­ments tak­en on geom­e­try that sits inside a link or a com­pound with its own inter­nal loca­tion (PR#31904).
• Morten­Va­jhoj patched the Mass Prop­er­ties tool to avoid mea­sur­ing invis­i­ble items (PR#32594).
• Loke­strom added delta mea­sure­ments to the task pan­el (PR#30641).

Other changes

• Roy-043 fixed sev­er­al issues in Draft and BIM (PR#32168, PR#32481, PR#31845).
• xtemp09 added dither­ing to sup­press col­or band­ing in gradinets in the 3D view (PR#32661).
• maxwxyz fixed LCS attach­ment across sev­er­al work­bench­es (PR#32401).
• tri­tao fixed a bug where the dec­i­mal point was han­dled incor­rect­ly in the numer­ic input in some locales (PR#30139).
• parag­for­work improved visu­al feed­back in the alias dia­log in Spread­sheet (PR#27584).
• kadet1090 made project thumb­nails trans­par­ent and uni­form to improve their leg­i­bil­i­ty (PR#32489).

Addi­tion­al improve­ments and fix­es were con­tributed by 007stevendi­gar-lgtm, 3x380V, ander­shol, awgrover, bcher­ring­ton, chennes, faecor­ri­g­an, greg19, ipatch, j‑hewett, kadet1090, Lgt2x, maxwxyz, Pad­dle­Stroke, pyro9, robert­mas­saioli, TheB­howmik, and YashSuthar983.

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

Activity stats

PR stats: since the pre­vi­ous report, 98 pull requests have been merged, and 63 new pull requests have been opened.

Issue stats: over­all, there are 3493 open issues in the track­er, down by 18 from last week.