This week in FreeCAD development:

Draft

ItSaulGoodMan fixed several issues:

• Not being able to change a base object in Draft_Array if this object is used in another array (PR#29507),
• Draft_SubelementHighlight giving error messages (PR#29425),
• Another issue where the annotation style editor would override values when too large units are used (PR#29455).

Sketcher

• Roy-043 renamed Change Value to Edit Value in the task panel (PR#29556).
• Bojan9597 fixed the autoscaling failing when the dimension value is zero (PR#29097).
• PaddleStroke added a Cancel button so that all modifications in an open sketch can be canceled (PR#29337).

Part and PartDesign

• ipatch fixed a bug where mirroring an App::Link with Part::Mirror would get the placement of the link ignored (PR#28151) and another bug where items that have been marked as suppressed wouldn’t show up with strikethrough text (PR#27808).
• Bojan9597 fixed the Chamfer tool not starting in the selection mode (PR#29313).
• maxwxyz added a Show Placement helper to core datums (PR#29176).

TechDraw

ayyaz20003 fixed incorrect B-spline/spline rendering in the ArchView (PR#28853) and another bug where DraftView and ArchView would not respect the Scale property on newly created views (PR#28818).

CAM

• tarman3 improved defaults in Engrave (PR#26543), added processing horizontal edges in Pocket_Shape (PR#27750), added optimizations to decrease the time spent on processing a lot of edges in Select_Loop (PR#26644), fixed issues with Deburr paths (PR#28898), and removed a useless move to Safe height at the end of Slot in G-Code (PR#28898).
• davidgilkaufman added the sorting of wires when approximating edges in Deburr (PR#29467) and improved adaptive test speeds (PR#29462).
• Connor fixed HiDPI support and font scaling in CAM tool widgets (PR#29361).
• sliptonic fixed various machine-based post-processing bugs (PR#29226) and restored some of the legacy post-processors (PR#29443).
• jffmichi fixed a default job template bug (PR#27712) and improved the new CAM simulator to better align with the main 3D view for navigation and camera settings (PR#23073).

FEM

• ipatch fixed highlight selection for the compsolid pop-up tool (PR#29045).
• marioalexis84 patched the code to use the global placement of the reference geometry for the force direction (PR#29513).

BIM

• Roy-043 fixed duplicate processing in the IFC exporting code (PR#28786).
• czarflix fixed the MultiMaterial thickness editor UI (PR#29459).

Measurement

• Bojan9597 allowed curved faces (sphere, cone, torus, etc.) to be measured in the Distance mode (PR#29367).
• MortenVajhoj added support for measuring spheres and toruses just like cylindrical faces (PR#29369).

Other changes

• tritao added optional asynchronous recomputation of documents and features to keep the UI responsive during heavy operations (PR#21292). This work was sponsored as a grant by the FreeCAD Project Association.
• tritao also patched the code to log resolved duplicate element mappings as trace diagnostics instead of showing warnings to users (PR#29506).
• maxwxyz added multi-selection support to the Align To Selection command in the 3D view (PR#29182).
• Connor added a warning dialog for saving files created with older FreeCAD versions and a preference to disable this warning (PR#28389).

Additional improvements and fixes were contributed by marioalexis84, NewJoker, theo-vt, tarman3, JonasVgt, nitzan-treg, rehan-ahmed-aix, ipatch, chennes, 3x380V, filippor, FlachyJoe, ElementW, Connor, zeel2104, and coldtobi.

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

Activity stats

PR stats: since the previous report, 73 pull requests have been merged, and 59 new pull requests have been opened.

Issue stats: overall, there are 3389 open issues in the tracker, up by 5 from last week.