This week in FreeCAD development:
FEM: marioalexis84 rewrote meshing with Netgen to use Netgen’s Python bindings rather than a broken plugin in salomemesh. He also rewrote the way meshing with Gmsh is executed, so it’s now possible to cancel the entire process thanks to running it in a separate thread.
BIM: Roy-043, pinkavaj, and hoshengwei fixed several bugs including two in UI, and yorikvanhavre updated the workbench to support recently released IfcOpenShell 0.8.
TechDraw: WandererFan fixed a bug where the ‘Save a copy…’ command would be unavailable with an opened page, and benj5378 significantly improved the centering of labels inside balloons.
GUI: pinkavaj, qewer33 and benj5378 fixed various UI annoyances, and kadet1090 forced Qt6 to load OpenGL immediately, otherwise the first new document would be temporarily hidden. Please note: we are not planning to ship FreeCAD 1.0 built with Qt6, but we still need to fix these bugs.
Among other contributions:
bgbsww and CalligaroV fixed several toponaming-related issues in Sketcher.
hlorus and benj5378 fixed several issues in the new measurement tool, including one where the tool would get incorrect data from linked elements.
bgbsww fixed a blocker issue in Part Design where a new sketch in a link would not open at the correct location.
yorikvanhavre and Roy_043 fixed several minor bugs and regressions in Draft.
furgo16 patched the legacy DXF importer to support importing dimensions.
shaise improved the compatibility of the new mill simulator in CAM with less beefy GPUs.
PR stats: since the previous report, 52 pull requests have been merged, 38 new pull requests have been opened.
Issue stats: overall, there are 2051 open issues in the tracker, up by 53 from last week. 11 of them are v1.0 release blockers, up by 4 from last week.