This week in FreeCAD development:

Draft:

• Roy_043 added some initial code to track documents so that the task panel could be closed when a document is closed. Expect further work to get this to work in BIM as well.

• tetektoza renamed the Continue mode to Chained, but retained the original mode for the Dimension command.

Sketcher:

• AjinkyaDahale fixed more trimming issues.

• tetektoza added the auto-scrolling of geometry elements when a user selects a geometry element in the sketch.

• leuriato added a check for constraint names to ensure that they can be referenced in expressions.

PartDesign: theo-vt updated the Hole tool to center holes on sketch points as well as circles and arcs.

FEM: marioalexis82 refactored the SolverCalculiX object. User-visible changes are:

• The task panel of the new solver object now behaves like the task panel for meshers.

• Two properties have been added to solver objects: a temporary WorkingDirectory to track the working directory used by solvers to write models, and Results to reference the pipelines (and other objects) generated from the simulation.

• The VectorMode view property has been renamed to Component, and it is now possible to load symmetrical six-component tensors as a single field, not just scalars and vectors.

TechDraw: furgo16 fixed the issues where BIM views were added with too big a scale of 1.

GUI:

• semhustej patched the width of the BIM Setup dialog so that it always shows all UI elements.

• xtemp09 fixed the left side of the macro panel (icons) being too small.

CAM:

• tarman3 patched the new simulator so that it could zoom out more to show the entire larger object. He also added a combined Dressup menu to the workbench’s toolbar.

• dbtayl added adaptive roughing/overhang detection and one-click “adaptive roughing” of the entire model.

Additional improvements and fixes were contributed by kadet1090, FlachyJoe, alfrix, oursland, 3x380V, luzpaz, tetektoza, hyarion, pieterhijma, captain0xff, maxwxyz, bofdahof, step-security-bot, dependabot, chennes, Syres916, mnesarco, and Abdelhadi-Wael.

PR stats: since the previous report, 50 pull requests have been merged, and 30 new pull requests have been opened.

Issue stats: overall, there are 2823 open issues in the tracker, up by 22 from last week.