This week in FreeCAD development:

Sketcher

• theo-vt prevented self-tangency from happening at the command level (PR#31042).
• YashSuthar983 patched sketch visualization to have two configurable parameters: transparency of the overall axis and occluded transparency for the occluded axis, so that an occluded axis can be seen (PR#26594).
• theosib fixed auto-constraining to external geometry in certain scenarios (PR#30970).

Assembly

• LubuSeb changed Assembly activation to use the same scoped recompute path used by the manual Solve Assembly command, instead of calling the solver directly from edit-mode activation (PR#30744). This fixes a bug where activating an assembly would block automatic recomputation after changing the VarSet parameters.
• PaddleStroke fixed incorrectly placed newly created joints (PR#30669).
• Lgt2x switched the Assembly workbench from OpenCV to PyAV to reduce the size of the builds without any functionality loss (PR#30333).

TechDraw

Thanks to pavltom, now you can attach any expression supported by the FreeCAD expression editor to any of the TechDraw template’s fields (PR#27117).

CAM

• tarman3 fixed multi-target drilling in Helix (PR#30611) and patched recomputes in SelectLoop (PR#30908).
• jffmichi removed unneeded recomputes that would happen every time a simulation was started (PR#30927).
• dbtayl fixed path generation failures in Adaptive (PR#30623).
• davidgilkaufman fixed a bug where Adaptive clearing would go around the workpiece perimeter when “Finishing profile” is selected (PR#30831).

FEM

• marioalexis84 set the default pressure value to 1 MPa (PR#31036).
• wmayer implemented methods to get element colors (PR#30726, cherry-picked by maxwxyz).

Other changes

• Roy_043 added support for multiple objects in hatches in Draft (PR#30578).
• tritao added view rotation by dragging the NaviCube (PR#30727).
• vsergeev added support for vertical configuration tables in Spreadsheet (PR#29656).

Additional improvements and fixes were contributed by Amine0x0, awgrover, chennes, eeshsaxena, greg19, Lgt2x, Roy-043, tarman3, theosib, tritao, and wmayer.

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

Activity stats

PR stats: since the previous report, 41 pull requests have been merged, and 49 new pull requests have been opened.

Issue stats: overall, there are 3495 open issues in the tracker, up by 17 from last week.

Elsewhere in the community

Ephi Blanshey recently shared his progress working on the History workbench that helps version-control changes in FreeCAD projects natively and visualize differences between model revisions.