This week in FreeCAD development:
Draft: Roy_043 fixed numerous issues and regressions, including ones where the Trimex command would change the visibility of an object or extend to the wrong face.
BIM: galou, mosfet80, furgo16, and paullee0 cleaned up the code and fixed several issues including ones where Shape2DCut would not cut and where the Door generator would punch holes in an adjacent wall segment.
Sketcher: Shkolik fixed two bugs, including one where creating external projection geometry would not work with datum objects
TechDraw:
WandererFan changed the scaling default for Draft & BIM views and fixed an issue with broken views not collapsing.
aurelienpascal fixed a bug where Draft’s hatching patterns would be displayed in a wrong way.
benj5378 continued his refactoring effort
FEM:
marioalexis84 added support for Elmer static current solver, improved current density boundary condition, changed the direction of the static current symbol, and fixed a crash in the Cut filter.
NewJoker added Joule heating to FEM Examples.
Start page:
furgo16 added a Preferences section for the Start page with the following options:
Displaying the contents of the examples folder
Displaying the contents of a custom folder
Closing the Start page after loading
alfrix fixed scrollbars in the Start page itself.
Addon Manager: thanks to chennes, the Update All report now displays previously installed version of the addon and the newly installed version.
Among other changes:
Various build system and CI improvements by schiele, tritao, mosfet80, maxmosk, and changes.
Tweaks in GUI code by Syres916, Roy_043, kadet1090, tritao, chennes, tringenbach, oursland.
Additional fixes and improvements were contributed by chennes, hyarion, kadet1090, tritao, PaddleStroke, mosfet80, and totake0224.
PR stats: since the previous report, 64 pull requests have been merged, and 37 new pull requests have been opened.
Issue stats: overall, there are 2657 open issues in the tracker, up by 23 from last week.