FreeCAD News

The FreeCAD team has switched to prepar­ing for the release of FreeCAD 26.3, the first one under the new ver­sion­ing scheme. They are now focused on pol­ish­ing the release branch and prepar­ing the first release can­di­date. There will be a sep­a­rate announce­ment about that.

Out of 123 pull requests merged in the last 7 days, 59 have been back­ports from the main devel­op­ment branch to the ded­i­cat­ed 26.3 release branch. This overview focus­es on the work in the main branch only.

Draft

• DesignWeaver3D fix undo not restor­ing the shape after Trimex (PR#33458).
• Roy-043 fixed numer­ous buglets in Draft.

Sketcher

• alfrix fixed a bug where a poly­line would lose the last point after fil­let trimmed its seg­ments (PR#32430).
• UnK­abaraQuiDev fixed a bug where cham­fer would faik in Sketch­er (PR#33402).

Part and PartDesign

• maxwxyz removed redun­dant fea­ture nest­ing when select­ing a sketch as attach­ment sup­port with­in a body (PR#33315). He also fixed a regres­sion where dress-up bases would be out of sync when insert­ing new fea­tures (PR#33376) and patched Part­De­sign to pre­serve exter­nal body ref­er­ences when cre­at­ing sketch­es (PR#33222).
• UnK­abaraQuiDev fixed a bug where the first instance of a cir­cu­lar link pat­tern would always be miss­ing (PR#33537) and a warn­ing when try­ing to remove the first (iden­ti­ty) trans­for­ma­tion in point and cir­cu­lar pat­terns (PR#33444).
• novalis increased box selec­tion speed (PR#32963).
• Pad­dle­Stroke fixed a bug where Loft Sec­tion selec­tion would not dis­play updat­ed names (PR#33023).

TechDraw

• rble­nis fixed a bug where the doc­u­ment was unnec­es­sar­i­ly marked as mod­i­fied and required sav­ing (PR#33150).
• Wan­der­erFan fixed a bug where Dimen­sion Repair would fail when when a dimen­sion ref­er­ence would not point to valid geom­e­try after a mod­el update (PR#32151) and fixed the posi­tion­ing of locked view on load­ing (PR#32552).

CAM

• davi­doster­berg patched the Mach3_Mach4 post­proces­sor to work with the new machine-based archi­tec­ture (PR#33406).
• Dimitris75 con­tin­ued work­ing on Pla­nar Sur­face: added inner holes preser­va­tion in bound­ary masks, cleaned up API, and fixed error mes­sages (PR#33165).
• slip­ton­ic added pre­lim­i­nary sup­port for tilt­ed work­planes to the Lin­ux­C­NC post­proces­sor (PR#33254). He also moved Pla­nar Sur­face and Rotary Sur­face out of the list of exper­i­men­tal fea­tures and fixed a hand­ful of bugs all around (PR#33264).
• faecor­ri­g­an fixed the tem­plate fea­ture of the machine edi­tor not pop­u­lat­ing the machine info cor­rect­ly (PR#33255).
• jffmichi fixed a bug in the new sim­u­la­tor that would com­plain when links to dress-ups are used (PR#33106). He also fixed unin­tend­ed diag­o­nal moves in ramp method 4 (PR#33109).
• tarman3 fixed the ZigZag start point in OpArea (PR#33087).
• Con­nor fixed oper­a­tions’ start points not fol­low­ing WCS or mod­el changes (PR#33319).

Other changes

• chennes fixed two dis­tinc­tive bugs relat­ed to show­ing and hid­ing linked objects in the project tree (PR#33289).
• pieter­hi­j­ma fixed fine-grained recom­putes in spread­sheets (PR#33515).
• marioalexis84 fixed the mag­ne­to­dy­nam­ic writer for cur­rent den­si­ty body force (PR#33159).
• Morten­Va­jhoj fixed a den­si­ty error in mass prop­er­ties in the Mea­sure tool (PR#33380).
• maxwxyz added sup­port for group links and link arrays to Trans­form and Place­ment (PR#33353).
• GeeBee2 fixed rota­tion order in Assem­bly (PR#33290).
• Ayushjo group Extrude and Extrude Face on the tool­bar in BIM (PR#33512).

Addi­tion­al improve­ments and fix­es were con­tributed by 3x380V, adri­an­in­saval, Ads9115, chennes, Con­nor, flav­i­ut, ipatch, kkchem­boli, Lgt2x, maxwxyz, mne­sar­co, ours­land, Reqre­fu­sion, Roy-043, tarman3, and WandererFan.

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

Activity stats

PR stats: since the pre­vi­ous report, 123 pull requests have been merged, and 48 new pull requests have been opened.

Issue stats: over­all, there are 3478 open issues in the track­er, up by 36 from last week (nor­mal when release can­di­dates start get­ting tested).