This week in FreeCAD development:
Measurement: hlorus and AIRCAP fixed several issues including one release blocker, and PaddleStroke fixed Quick Measure to work on bodies in assemblies correctly.
Draft: Roy_043 fixed a minor issue, and Syres916 improved the color activation and added an ability to change the size of the snap text (in code).
Part Design:
- FlachyJoe fixed several issues where the padding operation would fail in some scenarios when applied with
Up to FaceandUp to Shapeoptions (that’s another release blocker down). - AIRCAP fixed additive loft for cases when the selected shape is not a vertex in the sketch.
- theosib fixed Part Design to no longer allow part planes and axes as options for Sweep and Loft.
DXF: kpemartin fixed two regressions related to the importing of layers and layer names, and increased the importing speed.
Among other changes:
- davesrocketshop fixed several issues in the new materials system, including one release blocker.
- WandererFan fixed 6 issues in TechDraw, including 2 crashes.
- Syres916, yorikvanhavre, and pinkavaj fixed several issues in BIM.
- marioalexis84 contributed several improvements and fixes to FEM.
- bgbsww fixed several toponaming issues including one blocker where FreeCAD would crash after accepting toponaming recompute dialog in a file with multiple links.
- Rexbas fixed a blocker issue in the align to selection tool.
- xtemp09 improved the Light Sources page of Preferences to move the zoom button to the left so that XYZ axes would be visible in the lower right corner.
- shaise fixed a minor occlusion in the Ambient Occlusion code in the new CAM simulator.
PR stats: since the previous report, 61 pull requests have been merged, 18 new pull requests have been opened.
Issue stats: overall, there are 2088 open issues in the tracker, up by 37 from last week. 6 of them are v1.0 release blockers, down by 5 from last week.