This week in FreeCAD development:
bgbsww, CalligaroV, and chennes made more progress with mitigating the toponaming issue.
The latest work by paddle on integrated assembly workbench has been merged: linking and grounding parts, functional joints (Fixed, Revolute, Cylindrical, Slider, Ball, Distance), dragging support for Slider and Revolute joints.
paddle patched the parallel constraint code to ignore points and non-line geometries. He also added Translate tool that also works as a replacement for Rectangular Array / Move / Copy / Clone.
AjinkyaDahale implemented general tangency with B-splines in Sketcher.
Rexbas contributed a patch fixing rotation for some navigation styles in Sketcher.
maxwxyz further improved contextual right-click menu in Sketcher: preselection and external geometry are now taken into consideration, Fillet and Trim commands have been removed (they can’t work with a selection), Cut/Copy/Paste commands have been added.
FlachyJoe added a “Passthrough” boolean property in PartDesign so that it would be possible to disable a feature without removing it. He also made it possible to use equal radii in Part and PartDesign cones and implemented 1D intersection for attachments.
LemonBoy added an option to dim the navigation cube when it’s not in the focus. He also fixed the extrusion behavior when the height is zero.
Zolko-123 improved the LCS representation in the window to make it easier to select the point/vertex on which the LCS is attached.
marioalexis84 made further improvements in the FEM workbench: added support for cyclic symmetry and fixed several issues.
chennes and rostskadat made various improvements in the Addon Manager code.
Roy-043 made several fixes and small improvements in Draft and Arch, he also fixed the path for off-line documentation.
mark-dev added subvolume property for roofs based on a solid shape in Arch.
pavltom implemented adding “Owner” property to all Symbols in TechDraw.
kadet1090 made axis label color configurable for better theming capabilities.
wwmayer fixed 3MF exporting with clones, contributed to the Python 3.12 port, improved the port to OpenCascade 7.8.0, and contributed more fixes.
PR stats: In the week from Wednesday, 7 February to Wednesday, 14 Feb there were 66 pull requests merged, with a total codebase change of +15,543 / ‑3,626 (not counting translation updates). We had an average merged PR size of +235 / ‑55. 36 new pull requests were opened.
Issue stats: we closed 52 issues, and 47 new issues were opened. Overall, 1,216 issues are currently open.