This week in FreeCAD development:
@davesrocketshop pushed an update to the new materials system adding new data types (in particular, for the Render workbench), a new appearance preview UI based on the Coin library, and changes in the array data types.
@edi271, @Syres916, and @WandererFan pushed numerous fixes and improvements to the TechDraw workbench, including the collection of document info for filling template fields.
@Roy-043 introduced the
DefaultAnnoScaleMultiplierparameter to replaceDraftAnnotationScale, and a newget_paramfunction to help having all defaults in one place to avoid inconsistencies.@abdullahtahiriyo improved the notification area behavior by grouping the same error messages and appending the instance count next to it.
@oursland added support for macOS builds and Windows C++ unit tests on Conda; package dependency builds for Ubuntu 22.04 and Windows are now Conda-based as well.
PR stats: In the week from Wednesday, 6 Dec to Wednesday, 13 Dec there were 30 pull requests merged, with a total codebase change of +8,464 / ‑2,707 lines (not counting translation updates). We had an average merged PR size of +285 / ‑93. 10 new pull requests were opened.
Issue stats: we closed 13 issues, and 22 new issues were opened. Overall, 1,095 issues are currently open.
The FreeCAD project association’s general assembly approved several new grants in November:
Amulya Paritosh and Harshita Saraswat will continue this year’s GSoC project to create the component library, both the server-side and client-side functionality.
Kurt Kremitzki will improve FreeCAD’s infrastructure performance and maintenance.
Ajinkya Dahale will improve curve geometry: general tangency with B-splines, B-splines preview, Bezier curves, curvature constraint etc.'
For more information, please see the Development Fund page.