Release notes 011

This is a summary of the most important changes and new features available in the 0.11 release of FreeCAD. The complete list can be found here.

General

 * The FreeCAD translation project has received huge help from many people around the world and now ships with no less than 13 languages: English, german, french, italian, swedish, spanish, portuguese, russian, ukrainian, norwegian, afrikaans, finnish and dutch

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Sketch and part design

 * The constraint solver of the Sketcher module has been totally rewritten and the Sketcher, even if still not complete, features already a good array of tools such as lines, rectangles, and constraints such as point coincidence, parallelism, fixed length or horizontal or vertical constraints.


 * In addition to the Sketcher, a new PartDesign workbench now allow you to quickly build solids on top of Sketches. As a rule now in FreeCAD, everything is parametric, you can go back anytime to change your sketch, and all geometry that depends on it will be adapted automatically.

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Robot simulation

 * The Robot module has been extended with many GUI tools and is now fairly functional and allows you to easily simulate industrial robot movements

2D drafting

 * Snapping has been greatly optimized and now works pretty fast, even on complex objects
 * The "Trim/Extend" tool can now be called "Trim/Extend/Extrude", since it allows you to quickly extrude single faces, offering a convenient shortcut to the standard Part Extrude tool.

- 0000168: [Feature] Support custom hatch patterns in the Draft module (yorikvanhavre) - closed. - 0000247: [Bug] Crash on Windows with attached minimal file (Jriegel) - closed. - 0000166: [Bug] edges highlight doesn't work anymore (Jriegel) - closed. - 0000246: [Bug] Selection of edges in concave areas not possible (wmayer) - closed. - 0000212: [Feature] Contextual menu "Move to group" in the object list (yorikvanhavre) - closed. - 0000242: [Bug] wiki2qhelp.py fails with different languages in Wiki (yorikvanhavre) - closed. - 0000142: [Feature] Show_tangency_lines in drawing view (Jriegel) - closed. - 0000239: [Bug] SelectionFilter doesn't check sub-element type (Jriegel) - closed. - 0000123: [Feature] New defaults (Jriegel) - closed. - 0000235: [Patch] [PATCH] rotate tool using keyboard input was broken (yorikvanhavre) - closed. - 0000013: [Feature] Replace group behavior by Property (Jriegel) - closed. - 0000037: [Feature] Change tree group behaviour (wmayer) - closed. - 0000135: [Feature] Artwork for 0.11 release (yorikvanhavre) - closed. - 0000021: [Feature] Reimplementation of Sketch solver (Jriegel) - closed. - 0000223: [Bug] Polyline in draft - unable to remove first 2 lines (yorikvanhavre) - closed. - 0000205: [Feature] Allow to move the text of a dimension (yorikvanhavre) - closed. - 0000171: [Bug] Unify Draft keyboard shortcuts (yorikvanhavre) - closed. - 0000206: [Feature] Make Draft module use python Drawing Views (yorikvanhavre) - closed. - 0000180: [Feature] Allow dxf export of a Drawing sheet (yorikvanhavre) - closed. - 0000209: [Feature] Add texture map property to Draft rectangles (yorikvanhavre) - closed. - 0000158: [Bug] Draft icons don't appear correctly on windows (yorikvanhavre) - closed. - 0000182: [Bug] Bug in Draft DXF export causes some exported faces to loose their last vertex (yorikvanhavre) - closed. - 0000186: [Feature] Dimension - edit Value (yorikvanhavre) - closed. - 0000172: [Bug] Edit->Preferences: missing big icon for Raytrcing (yorikvanhavre) - closed. - 0000181: [Bug] Draft-downgrading a face with a hole only delivers the outer wire, the inner wire(s) is/are lost (yorikvanhavre) - closed. - 0000167: [Feature] Add leader object to the Draft module (yorikvanhavre) - closed. - 0000170: [Feature] Add visual hint of the current Working Plane (yorikvanhavre) - closed. - 0000161: [Bug] Using draft upgrade tool on a wire + arc doesnt produce expected result (yorikvanhavre) - closed. - 0000146: [Feature] Add python view feature to the Drawing module (Jriegel) - closed. - 0000115: [Feature] Create mechanism to ease updating Drawing sheet from the Draft module (yorikvanhavre) - closed. - 0000140: [Feature] Dimensioning system in svg drawings (yorikvanhavre) - closed. - 0000147: [Feature] Keep Dimension tool active after completing instead of quitting (yorikvanhavre) - closed. - 0000139: [Feature] Add Polygon tool to the Draft module (yorikvanhavre) - closed. - 0000114: [Feature] Make Draft sendToDrawing command able to output hatch pattern fills and dotted or dashed lines (yorikvanhavre) - closed. - 0000125: [Bug] FreeCAD crashes when exploring the contents of a Mesh object with the python class browser (yorikvanhavre) - closed. - 0000126: [Feature] make text height and face color settings for the Draft module (yorikvanhavre) - closed. - 0000113: [Feature] Make Draft objects parametric (yorikvanhavre) - closed. - 0000128: [Feature] copy methode for the TopoShape objects in Part (wmayer) - closed. - 0000116: [Feature] make an API for the Draft module (yorikvanhavre) - closed. - 0000118: [Bug] make Draft transform tools work on groups (yorikvanhavre) - closed. - 0000117: [Bug] make Draft Upgrade support non-Draft shapes (yorikvanhavre) - closed. - 0000077: [Feature] Add a method to meshes for separating coplanar faces (yorikvanhavre) - closed. - 0000079: [Feature] add translation to the Draft module (yorikvanhavre) - closed.