This week in FreeCAD development:

TechDraw:

• PaddleStroke unified Insert View tools (View, ProjGroup, Sheet, Arch, SVG, Image). He also made App::Links of views work in TechDraw, this also removes ‘Share Views’ from the toolbar.

• WandererFan fixed several bugs and added two new Python methods, for getting visible and hidden vertices.

• farleyrunkel refactored a minor part of TechDraw code.

Sketcher:

• Roy-043 made constraints and geometry menu texts more consistent and improved GUI texts in Sketcher settings.

• PaddleStroke joined Line and Polyline in a command group in the toolbar and fixed the midpoint autoconstraint to work with polylines.

FEM:

• NewJoker fixed several bugs.

• marioalexis84 extended the ABAQUS writer to select the element types available in CalculiX. He also fixed a bug where the size of the FEM feature symbols couldn’t be changed.

• chennes fixed the compilation of FEM on MSVC.

Materials:

• davesrocketshop brought major improvements to the material tree widget:

• Filters are now lsist and allow a variety of filtering options.

  • User preferences allow the inclusion/exclusion of favorites and recents.

  • Widget state such as expansion, tree expansions, etc. are saved and restored.

  • The current appearance material is now displayed whehn editing.

  • There’s now a Python interface.

• wwmayer added support for customizing all material colors and fixed further material issues.

Draft:

• Roy-043 fixed several bugs in the workbench.

• yorikvanhavre removed hardcoded axis colors (red, green, blue) and made the workbench use FreeCAD-wide axis colors.

Start:

• chennes recreated the Start workbench/page as a QtWidgets-based app.

• Several more people contributed further fixes and improvements: Rexbas fixed the migration script, wwmayer made the new Start page look more like the old one, and cjmayo made it possible to use Microsoft GSL on the Start page.

Some of the other changes are:

• wwmayer fixed several other bugs.

• mosfet80 removed more dead and unused code.

• dzid26 fixed a bug where a Save window would remain in the background if FreeCAD is closed by the operating system.

• tomate44 fixed shape projection of complex BSpline curves.

• jwueller fixed a bug in OpenSCAD where CSG computations would start too early.

• farleyrunkel fixed a bug where searching a model tree wouldn’t work for numbers.

• PaddleStroke moved the ‘+’ tab of the TabBar workbench selector to the left so that it wouldn’t be hidden by default with many workbenches enabled.

• realthunder fixed a problem with incorrect referencing of App::Part child object’s CopyOnChangeGroup.

• cjmayo fixed several bugs in the code.

PR stats: In the week from Wednesday, 17 April to Wednesday, 24 April there were 54 pull requests merged. 23 new pull requests were opened.

Issue stats: we closed 32 issues, and 60 new issues were opened. Overall, 1,517 issues are currently open.