This week in FreeCAD development:

Draft:

• redonwhite added several new path array features: a setting to reverse path, an align mode that uses rotations instead of tangent vectors, a “Fixed spacing” mode, and an ability to use spacing patterns.

• Roy_043 added improvements to groups handling and fixed several bugs.

BIM:

• furgo16 patched the BIM Schedule command to detect and expand array elements, so that they can be further processed (these elements used to be ignored prior to that) and fixed a couple of bugs.

• Tritao improved the checking for IfcOpenShell installation.

• je-cook upgraded the bundled copy of Three.js to its latest release.

CAM: dubstar-04 contributed several quality-of-life improvements for using the Tool Bit Library.

FEM: two fixes from marioalexis84 and NewJoker.

TechDraw: WandererFan fixed a couple of bugs and added two small features: you can now show/hide units on individual dimensions rather than set it at the Preferences level; similarly, you can now control legacy scaling in symbols, spreadsheets, and draft views at the view level.

Among other changes:

• benj5378 made axis colors user-definable.

• panintended fixed Quick Measure to display the angle between edges in correct units.

• chennes contributed a few improvements to the Addon Manager.

• pmjdebruijn patched the PDF exporter to write proper PDF creator metadata.

• hyarion updated the Ondsel Solver submodule to get the latest community-contributed fixes.

Additional fixes arrived from paullee0, alfrix, pskowronskiTDx, totake0224, mwganson, Roy-043, xtemp09, Syres916, furgo16, Rexbas, tritao.

PR stats: since the previous report, 38 pull requests have been merged, and 28 new pull requests have been opened.

Issue stats: overall, there are 2553 open issues in the tracker, up by 26 from last week.