TechDraw Roadmap



The TechDraw Workbench was introduced officially as part of FreeCAD in version 0.17.

Here is a rough roadmap of areas to be addressed in the future (in no particular order).

Current Activity

 * TBD

Upcoming

 * TBD

Recent Changes

 * TBD

Navigation Models
TechDraw does not support the various navigation model used in the rest of FreeCAD (CAD, Blender, etc).

HLR vs Face Occlusion
TechDraw PartViews use the OCC Hidden Line Removal algorithms to project the Shape. HLR is computation intensive, and some (many? most?) views do not require hidden lines to be displayed. A new method of generating views is required. This may require getting the image directly from the 3D display.

Draft/Arch coexistence
There are inconsistencies between the way the Draft/Arch and TechDraw modules represent shapes. This limits the suitability of TechDraw for Draft/Arch users. One notable short-coming is that TechDraw is unable to apply Dimensions to the Svg images it receives from Draft/Arch.

Templates
Making a template with editable text fields requires significant expertise with SVG and an SVG editor like Inkscape. Making the template creation process simpler will be a priority in the v0.18 development cycle.

Bug Fixes/Feature Requests
See the bug tracker for up to date information.