This week in FreeCAD development:
Draft: Roy-043 specified units of spinboxes in UI files for arrays and ShapeString and made minor improvements in the OrthoArray task panel.
Sketcher:
- theo-vt and tetektoza fixed a couple of issues.
- tetektoza also patched the code to show geometry lines above constraints.
- longrackslabs continued adding contextual input hints to edit tools.
- maxwxyz patched Sketcher to show the dimensional name by default.
PartDesign:
- PaddleStroke brought over a feature from RealThunder’s fork, that adds faces to closed wires of sketches and thus lets the user select the faces they want to extrude.
- davetanana added 1 3/16 16 threaded drill hole diameter to the Hole tool.
BIM: Roy-043, furgo16, Syres916, and tetektoza, and maxwxyz fixed several bugs.
CAM: knipknap patched the workbench to show abbreviations on each label to match the input value to the shape image on the UI.
TechDraw: ryankembrey added spacing preview, so now each time a value is adjusted, the view is updated on the page instantly.
**I/O: **furgo16 renamed “Group layers into blocks” into “Merge layer and contents into blocks” in the DXF loader options and fixed the handling of non-standard 8859_1 encodings.
Additional improvements and fixes were contributed by wmayer, hyarion, chennes, furgo16, tetektoza, Syres916, Roy-043, benj5378, alfrix, kadet1090, captain0xff, and 3x380V.
PR stats: since the previous report, 39 pull requests have been merged, and 42 new pull requests have been opened.
Issue stats: overall, there are 2921 open issues in the tracker, down by 7 from last week.
Elsewhere in the community, SargoDevel released a new version of their Cables workbench.
Some of the interesting changes are:
- WireFlex can now take different shapes based on the same points: polyline or bspline.
- Introduced colored markings of attached vertices in WireFlex.
- Added CompoundPath and CableConduit objects that enable the creation of complex bundles.
- Undo/redo support.
- Keyboard shortcuts.