Release notes 0.16

FreeCAD 0.16 was released on XXXXX, 2015. This is a summary of the most interesting changes. The complete list of changes can be found in the Mantis changelog. Older versions at: 0.15 - 0.14 - 0.13 - 0.12 - 0.11



Spark Plug Plane by r-frank

General

 * Gesture Navigation (with touchscreen support on Windows)
 * Workbench customization
 * Support for expressions/formulas

Part Workbench
New tools for joining walled objects (e.g., pipes): Connect, Embed and Cutout

Part Design & Sketcher Workbench

 * Sketcher New Feature: Toggle Mode for Reference/Driving constraints
 * Sketcher: New Feature: Continuous creation mode
 * Sketcher new Feature: Non-driving constraints (aka Driven constraints)
 * Sketcher: major speedup
 * Sketcher: advanced solver control
 * Sketcher & PartDesign: Support for expressions/formulas in constraints and properties

Spreadsheet Workbench

 * Added functions: round, trunc, ceil, and floor.

Drawing Workbench

 * Drawing: Added SVG pattern generation module

Arch Workbench

 * Arch: Added materials support
 * Arch: added more properties needed for green buildings: this is in preparatory work for gbXML export
 * Arch: Cut plane/Section view, featuring real-time cutting the view of everything.
 * Arch: Improvements to IFC importer for treating large IFC files

FEM Workbench

 * FEM: new constraint pressure
 * FEM: better material handling
 * FEM: new materials where added
 * FEM: add Support for loads and supports on edges to CalculiX file
 * FEM: Add preferences dialog
 * FEM: multiple constraints in one analysis
 * FEM: use shape functions for node load calculation of constraint force
 * FEM: drag & drop of analysis member
 * FEM: keyboard short cuts for commands
 * FEM: FreeCAD build-in editor including syntax highligting for CalculiX input files
 * FEM: ViewProvider for shell and beam FEM-Meshes
 * FEM: lots of new Python Methods for working with FEM-Meshes

There is a macro which uses gmsh for meshing. Very usefull for all not able to compile FreeCAD with netgen.

Additional Modules

 * Animation workbench
 * Exporter to Kerkythea (Macro)
 * Pie Menu