This week in FreeCAD development:

• Roy-043 fixed a few bugs in the Arch workbench, improved layer functions and made further improvements in Draft.

• WandererFan fixed several bugs in TechDraw.

• Paddle added copy/cut/paste commands for geometry, as well as arc angle render improvements and distance arc helpers to Sketcher. He also added a ‘Properties’ action to the contextual menu to open the property dialog. Moreover, he introduced customization for edges pattern and width by type; this allows to render dashed lines for construction curves.

• kadet1090 introduced styling to elements and constraints lists in Sketcher.

• AjinkyaDahale implemented B-Spline visualization in edit mode.

• maxwxyz continued his work on making the contextual (right-click) menu in Sketcher more useful and added BSpline-specific commands.

• bdieterm added explicit transparency specification in several parts of the user interface.

• bgbsww improved tests for new toponaming code.

• chennes committed more toponaming changes - the comparison method for mapped elements. This is original code by RealThunder with some modifications. Further changes come from bgbsww.

• sliptonic fixed a bug with the split output option in Path.

• marioalexis84 improved the self-weight constraint in FEM and made further small improvements. He also began contributing to the new materials system by Dave Carter.

• 3x380V improved the code quality in base classes.

• hasecilu fixed a bug that would prevent offset property in Part Design linear patterns from being updated.

• CalligaroV modernized some of the Preferences dialog code.

PR stats: In the week from Wednesday, 17 Jan to Wednesday, 24 Jan there were 47 pull requests merged, with a total codebase change of +6,747 / ‑3,894. We had an average merged PR size of +144 / ‑83. 19 new pull requests were opened.

Issue stats: we closed 20 issues, and 24 new issues were opened. Overall, 1,164 issues are currently open.