FreeCAD News

This week in FreeCAD development:

Sketcher

• chennes made it pos­si­ble to mark spe­cif­ic com­mands as Sta­ble, Exper­i­men­tal, or Devel­op­ment to con­trol their vis­i­bil­i­ty in the UI based on how mature the code is (PR#32740). Group con­straints are “Devel­op­ment”, Text geom­e­try is “Exper­i­men­tal”. UI for select­ing what’s vis­i­ble will follow.
• alfrix fixed a regres­sion where press­ing Tab before enter­ing a dimen­sion would cause focus to move after the first dig­it (PR#32709).

Part and PartDesign

• shubhrai23 fixed a bug where cre­ate a clone of a project would place the clone in the root of the project instead as a child object of the select dpart (PR#31978).
• Pad­dle­Stroke added point pat­terns as part of work on arrays in  (PR#32763).
• alfrix fixed a bug where the Hole Para­me­ter win­dow would not show the cus­tom head val­ue after project save and reopen (PR#32889).
• maxwxyz fixed a regres­sion where dres­sup pre­views would be ren­dered in the wrong col­or (PR#32748).
• greg­g­jask­iewicz patched the Part code to pre­serve seam edges dur­ing face refine­ment to main­tain closed wires (PR#32730).
• aw-engi­neer made it pos­si­ble to use Sub­Shape­Binders as Pro­file in Fea­turePipe (PR#31786).

Assembly

Pad­dle­Stroke added com­mands and the shared task pan­el for LinkAr­ray tools (PR#32688) and inte­grat­ed the tools into Assem­bly (PR#32762).

CAM

This work­bench con­tin­ues to be prob­a­bly the most active­ly devel­oped one these days. 19 pull requests were merged, includ­ing these patches:

• slip­ton­ic made the first step towards sup­port for tilt­ed work­planes and made it pos­si­ble to have shared work­planes held by the Job and man­age them (PR#32722). He also added a Machine-based post­proces­sor for Hei­den­hain (PR#32863), and fixed sev­er­al bugs (PR#32043, PR#32513, PR#32615, PR#32366).
• tarman3 added depth para­me­ters checks to Pock­et Shape (PR#32573), made LeadI­nOut skip zero length plunge moves (PR#32257), exposed a bunch of new prop­er­ties in the Helix task pan­el (PR#31620), and fixed the pro­cess­ing of ver­ti­cal faces in Pro­file in cer­tain sce­nar­ios (PR#31259).
• Dimitris75 fixed sev­er­al bugs in the pla­nar sur­faces code (PR#32766).
• Con­nor added the wire EDM tool­head type (PR#32485).
• davidg­ilka­uf­man fixed an flipped arc bug in Off­setWire (PR#32703) and fixed incor­rect cycle time esti­mates on long, shal­low hor­i­zon­tal-speed ramp entrances (PR#32170).

FEM

• marioalexis84 fixed the usabil­i­ty of the FEM unit scheme and added the momen­tum unit N⋅mm (PR#31013).
• ours­land fixed a crash (PR#32871).

BIM

Roy-043 pre­vent­ed the con­ver­sion of tem­po­rary Draft objects in Native IFC (PR#31592), fixed the flip­ping of the default struc­ture extru­sion direc­tion (PR#32244), sev­er­al IFC import issues (PR#31940, PR#31801), and a few more bugs. He also made it pos­si­ble for walls based on lines or sketch­es to han­dle expres­sions for the Length prop­er­ty (PR#32806).

TechDraw

• Wan­der­erFan fixed sec­tion cut shape posi­tion­ing (PR#31921) and PAT hatch­es and col­or changes not ren­der­ing on the page (PR#32791).
• mohamed-khairy-swe fixed cen­ter­ing in bal­loon rec­tan­gu­lar shape with sep­a­ra­tors (PR#31591).
• Morten­Va­jhoj added a Screen mode to help deal with sit­u­a­tions where you zoom in on com­plex mod­els, and bits of geom­e­try start obstruct­ing oth­er bits of geom­e­try (PR#32180). He also made it pos­si­ble to move view TD view cap­tions around (with snap­ping) and edit them direct­ly on the page (PR#32216):

Other changes

• For peo­ple who don’t use the tool­bar all that much, maxwxyz added a Cre­ate group under Tools with com­mands for cre­at­ing a new part, part datums, a new group, and oth­er items (PR#31435).
• pavli­ha added sup­port for the pinch ges­ture and two-fin­ger scroll pan­ning on Apple track­pads (PR#32030).
• Lgt2x start­ed prepar­ing the code for drop­ping Qt5 com­pat­i­bil­i­ty (PR#29470).

Addi­tion­al improve­ments and fix­es were con­tributed by 007stevendi­gar-lgtm, 3x380V, AjinkyaDa­hale, alfrix, awgrover, chennes, Con­nor, dav­es­rock­et­shop, davidg­ilka­uf­man, Ele­men­tW, jffmichi, Irv­in­wop, kadet1090, Kuzma30, Lgt2x, Loke­strom, maxwxyz, mne­sar­co, ours­land, Pad­dle­Stroke, shubhrai23, tri­tao, Wan­der­erFan, 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, 98 pull requests have been merged, and 53 new pull requests have been opened.

Issue stats: over­all, there are 3446 open issues in the track­er, down by 47 from last week.