This week in FreeCAD development:

Part and PartDesign

• podzolelements fixed PartDesign so that linked objects are now visible when opening the sketch from the tree view (PR#30004).
• maxwxyz followed up on an earlier patch for Pad and Pocket and added start controls for Hole, including numeric input and on-view draggers (PR#31852). He also made it possible to use Sketcher internal faces as offset reference (PR#31870).
• PaddleStroke added two-sided mode to Revolution (PR#31044).

CAM

There have been almost 20 PRs for this workbench this past week. Here are the most interesting ones:

• tarman3 added a No-Engagement Feed property that replaces G0 with G1 when short fast moves at the working depth look unsafe, or CNC machines don’t like them (PR#31691). He also added new properties to PathShape (PR#23843) and patched Engrave to allow selecting shapes outside the job (PR#31371).
• jsk1004ha fixed an issue where coolant was not honored for tapping cycles (PR#32072).
• Dimitris75 contributed improved planar surface operation code (PR#31923), but this patch contains no operation code or GUI, just the generators, accelerator, and tests.
• Connor contributed numerous improvements to the job task panel user interface (PR#30421). He also added a new Flute CAM operation: a ramping slot/groove cut that follows the centerline of a selected face (or a flat 2D wire), shallow at one end and deeper at the other. (PR#31968).
• sliptonic reduced machining prototypes to 6 generic starters with reasonable but conservative machinability data (PR#30070).

TechDraw

ryankembrey improved hovering and selection of balloons (PR#30829) and added context-aware right-click menus (PR#30892). He also fixed the view frame visibility not persisting on view selection (PR#29602).

Other changes

• eldar158 patched the UI to restore the active view after the link dialog closes (PR#31017).

Additional improvements and fixes were contributed by awgrover, ILoveBuns, kadet1090, marioalexis84, maxwxyz, Roy-043, tarman3, 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, 47 pull requests have been merged, and 51 new pull requests have been opened.

Issue stats: overall, there are 3540 open issues in the tracker, up by 23 from last week.