Update

WIP Wednesday: 25 September 2024

2 min Aleksandr Prokudin
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This week in FreeCAD development:

Measurement: hlorus and AIRCAP fixed several issues including one release blocker, and PaddleStroke fixed Quick Measure to work on bodies in assemblies correctly.

Draft: Roy_043 fixed a minor issue, and Syres916 improved the color activation and added an ability to change the size of the snap text (in code).

Part Design:

  • FlachyJoe fixed several issues where the padding operation would fail in some scenarios when applied with Up to Face and Up to Shape options (that’s another release blocker down).

  • AIRCAP fixed additive loft for cases when the selected shape is not a vertex in the sketch.

  • theosib fixed Part Design to no longer allow part planes and axes as options for Sweep and Loft.

DXF: kpemartin fixed two regressions related to the importing of layers and layer names, and increased the importing speed.

Among other changes:

  • davesrocketshop fixed several issues in the new materials system, including one release blocker.

  • WandererFan fixed 6 issues in TechDraw, including 2 crashes.

  • Syres916, yorikvanhavre, and pinkavaj fixed several issues in BIM.

  • marioalexis84 contributed several improvements and fixes to FEM.

  • bgbsww fixed several toponaming issues including one blocker where FreeCAD would crash after accepting toponaming recompute dialog in a file with multiple links.

  • Rexbas fixed a blocker issue in the align to selection tool.

  • xtemp09 improved the Light Sources page of Preferences to move the zoom button to the left so that XYZ axes would be visible in the lower right corner.

  • shaise fixed a minor occlusion in the Ambient Occlusion code in the new CAM simulator.

PR stats: since the previous report, 61 pull requests have been merged, 18 new pull requests have been opened.

Issue stats: overall, there are 2088 open issues in the tracker, up by 37 from last week. 6 of them are v1.0 release blockers, down by 5 from last week.