WIP Wednesday, 17 June 2026

This week in FreeCAD development:

Sketcher

wwmayer posted the first part of a fix for a crash that occurs when copying constraints (PR#30749, cherry-picked by maxwxyz).
Reqrefusion implemented autoconstraints that apply when you drag points of lines or centers of circles/ellipses (PR#29771).
matthiasdanner made it possible to rename constraints (PR#29894).
PaddleStroke fixed a reintroduced misbehavior where pressing Esc would cancel the sketch edit (PR#30745).

ryankembrey rearranged the UI of the New Detail View task panel to group related features together (PR#29362). He also patched the user interface for seven more task panels (PR#29807).
ItSaulGoodMan fixed a bug that prevented cosmetic elements from being deleted in the safe mode (PR#30046).

tarman3 added an option to reverse the order of the array in the Array op (PR#30378), added automatic sorting in Engrave to select the optimal starting point from an open wire (PR#23489, based on code by PaxTux), a G-Code source selector in the Custom op (PR#30562), selection of multiple objects in SelectLoop (PR#30547), removed a limitation that bottom wires should be closed in DressupTags (PR#30289), and fixed a few more bugs.
awgrover added probe handling to the OpenSBP post-processor (PR#30673).
Connor a C++ based TSP Solver for pairs that takes a list of pairs and reorders them to create an efficient route for the router (PR#30214).

czarflix fixed a bug where levels would lose Height, Elevation, and Placement data when switching to strict IFC (PR#29492).
maxwxyz implemented fields locking on manual input in Draft/BIM tasks (PR#30448).
Roy_043 fixed several bugs, including one where Techdraw_Archview wouldn’t render space labels (PR#30722).

ipatch fixed a bug in the Measurement tool where measuring a 0° angle would result in an error message (PR#29718), while Lokestrom fixed a division-by-zero bug in the same tool (PR#30331).
PaddleStroke fixed a bug in Part where selected bodies and parts would not be moved to a newly created part (PR#30040).
maxwxyz added edge snapping to start and end points in the Transform tool (PR#30213).
andershol reduced compile times by removing unnecessary includes in source files (PR#29108).

Additional improvements and fixes were contributed by Bojan9597, Lokestrom, PaddleStroke, tritao, ypsvlq, and zhyifei.

If you are interested in testing the latest weekly build, you can grab it here.

PR stats: since the previous report, 41 pull requests have been merged, and 58 new pull requests have been opened.

Issue stats: overall, there are 3493 open issues in the tracker, up by 23 from last week.