Update

WIP Wednesday: 4 September 2024

2 min Aleksandr Prokudin
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This week in FreeCAD development:

Sketcher:

  • PaddleStroke fixed a bug with geometry copy-pasting and another bug where on-view parameters would use numeric input for the wrong constraint in certain scenarios.

  • AjinkyaDahale fixed another bug that would prevent users from escaping the autosnapping of circles with autoconstraint enabled.

TechDraw:

  • benj5378 fixed the centering of dimension labels and improved the UI of surface finish labels.

  • WandererFan submitted several fixes, including ones for sections snapping, project group detection, and PDF output with correct margins.

CAM: shaise fixed 5 bugs in the new milling simulator in one pull request.

Assembly: PaddleStroke fixed several bugs, including one where the workbench would fail to create a joint coordinate system for a linked object created with multiple “Elements” count.

Measure: hlorus fixed two bugs including one where unsaved measure was considered a document modification; the measurement tool now only add the measure object to the document when it is saved.

GUI: kadet1090 fixed a couple of UI issues in Sketcher and Preferences, and qewer33 added a random splashscreen selector.

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Among other changes:

  • bgbsww and CalligaroV fixed several bugs in the toponaming code, including correct element map support in Revolution.

  • marioalexis84 and NewJoker fixed several bugs in FEM.

  • Syres916 fixed a bug where the user directory for materials couldn’t be set in Preferences.

  • More fixes all around from wmayer as usual.

PR stats: since the previous report, 49 pull requests have been merged, 23 new pull requests have been opened.

Issue stats: overall, there are 1945 open issues in the tracker, up by 64 from last week. 9 of them are v1.0 release blockers, down by 5 from last week.