This week in FreeCAD development:
- Roy-043 continued his work on the new ‘get_param’ function to help having all defaults in one place to avoid inconsistencies.
- kpemartin added initial support for reading colors from DXF files.
- Syres916 and WandererFan made small fixes and improvements in the TechDraw workbench. In particular, an underline can now be used instead of the small green squares to identify editable text in templates.
- FlachyJoe added the arc-to-arc/circle distance constraint in Sketcher, and abdullahtahiriyo extended it to arc/circle-to-arc/circle.
- paddle’s pull request to add combined rotate / polar pattern tool to Sketcher was merged.
- realthunder fixed the bug where the group visibility toggle wouldn’t work on pressing spacebar.
- FEA-eng added support for stress tensor components in FEM stress linearization.
PR stats: In the week from Wednesday, 13 Dec to Wednesday, 20 Dec there were 25 pull requests merged, with a total codebase change of +4,745 / -3,361 (not counting translation updates). We had an average merged PR size of +198 / ‑140. 17 new pull requests were opened.
Issue stats: we closed 24 issues, and 13 new issues were opened. Overall, 1,099 issues are currently open.