Update

WIP Wednesday: 25 December 2024

1 min Aleksandr Prokudin
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This week in FreeCAD development:

Assembly: PaddleStroke fixed a bug where an existing part would shift when inserting a new one.

FEM: marioalexis84 fixed mesh exporting to vtk formats and introduced a preference for Netgen log verbosity, and NewJoker fixed a typo in an error message.

TechDraw: WandererFan fixed several issues including Link Array objects in 3D producing wrong dimensions, and NewJoker fixed a user-visible typo.

Spreadsheet: mwganson fixed an alias validation regression he inadvertently introduced in an earlier patch.

Materials: davesrocketshop fixed an issue where too low values would be confusingly displayed as zero.

Addon Manager: chennes fixed a few issues.

GUI: hyarion, wwmayer, and marcuspollio fixed a few issues in the UI code, but most noticeably, Rexbas fixed navigation issues with the Shift key in Sketcher while using Blender or Revit navigation styles.

Add-ons: rostskadat improved the SweetHome 3D importer to import elements such as ‘pieceOfFurniture’, ’light’, ‘camera’, etc.

More fixes arrived from Roy_043, paullee0, yorikvanhavre, oursland, wwmayer, 3x380V, mosfet80, coldtobi, alfrix, luzpaz, mwganson, chennes, and coldtobi.

PR stats: since the previous report, 44 pull requests have been merged, and 21 new pull requests have been opened.

Issue stats: overall, there are 2434 open issues in the tracker, up by 26 from last week.