Release notes 0.15/de

FreeCAD 0.15 wurde am 8. April 2015 veröffentlicht. Dies ist eine Zusammenfassung der interessantesten Entwicklungen. Eine komplette Liste der Änderungen kann unter Mantis changelog gefunden werden. Älter Versionen finden sich unter 0.14 - 0.13 - 0.12 - 0.11

Spark Plug Plane by r-frank

Suchfeld in der Selektionsansicht
Das Selektionsfenster erlaubt nun innerhalb der selektierten Objekte zu suchen. Desweiteren hat man nun die Möglichkeit, nur eine Entität zu selektieren oder deselektieren, auf eine Entität zu zoomen oder zu einer Entität in der Baumansicht zu springen.



Erweiterte Unterstützung des Einheitensystems
Das neue Einheitensystem von FreeCAD, das in Version 0.14 eingeführt wurde, wird nun von fast allen Modulen verwendet einschließlich den Modulen Sketcher, Draft oder Arch. Ein paar Bereiche nutzen es noch nicht, aber grundsätzlich kann man nun von einer soliden Unterstützung von Einheiten im gesamten Arbeitsablauf ausgehen.

Kleinere Verbesserungen

 * Import/Export hat nun einen Abschnitt unter Edit > Preferences. All Dateiformate sind nun ihrem eigenen Reiter gruppiert, was das Auffinden der richtigen Optionen für neue Benutzer vereinfacht.
 * Benutzerdefinierte Tastaturkürzel akzeptieren nun bis zu 4 Tasten.
 * FreeCAD unterstützt nun die VR Occulus Rift Brille.
 * Unterstützung von globalen Benutzertoolbars: Neben dem Hinzufügen eigener Toolbars mit eigenen Werkzeugen zu jedem Arbeitsbereich ist es nun auch möglich, Toolbars hinzuzufügen, die auf allen Arbeitbereichen sichtbar sind.
 * Neues Bibliothekspaket für Windows mit dem neuesten OCE 0.17.

Arbeitsbereich Bauteil

 * Einige neue geometrische Elemente wurden hinzugefügt: Parabel, Parabelbogen, Hyperbel und Hyperbelbogen.

Ellipsen
Der Skizzierererhielt eine solide Unterstützung für Ellipsen. Diese können auf unterschiedliche Arten konstruiert und für nachfolgende Operationen verwendet werden.



Enhanced selection tools
The Sketcher also gained a series of new tools to help you diagnose, optimize or fix problems in your sketches. You can now, for example, easily select the elements associated with a constraint, or select the constraint associated with an element, or find conflicting or redundant constraints.

The Sketcher UI also gained some new panels, and now shows you a selectable list of elements of your sketch.

Merging sketches
It is now possible to merge several sketches into one with the click of a button.

Enhanced sketch properties
The properties view of sketch objects has also been enhanced, and named Datum constraints (distance, horizontal distance, vertical distance) inside the sketch will now appear and be editable directly in the properties view of the sketch, without the need to enter edit mode.

Minor improvements

 * Added more regular polygons to sketcher
 * Added new constraint: Symmetry constraint perpendicular to axis of symmetry

Spreadsheet Workbench
The Spreadsheet Workbench has been completely recoded. FreeCAD now possesses a state-of-the-art, robust, feature-rich spreadsheet editor. A couple of functionalities found in the previous version of this workbench have been removed, such as the property controllers, but this is a complex issue requiring more time to design properly. At the present time, however, the new spreadsheet already offer far better possibilities to gather data from your model.



Allow sticky fonts in ShapeString
For the nostalgic of old CAD software, sticky fonts (in which letters are made of simple lines, not filled shapes) can now be used with the ShapeString tool.



Minor improvements

 * Lines can now be defined by their length and angle in the current working plane
 * Relative extension lines for dimensions
 * Support for sketcher ellipses
 * Array objects can now be fused

Export drawing pages to DXF
The system used to export Drawing pages to DXF until now used a very complicated hack to convert the SVG code to FreeCAD object then back to DXF with the Draft exporters. Now, the export is done internally inside the Drawing module, which gives much faster and reliable results. DXF export now uses a template system similar to SVG sheets. If your Drawing page uses a certain SVG template, and a DXF template with the same name is found at the same location, it is used to generate the DXF file.



In the DXF file, the different views are placed as scaled blocks. This allows to quickly restore the 1:1 scale.

Minor improvements

 * It is now possible to reuse projection settings from an existing view when creating new draft views.

Updated IFC importer/exporter
FreeCAD's IFC importer has received a lot of work and testing, and a massive upgrade. The old, python-based importer, has been disabled (it is still usable from the python console, though), and FreeCAD now uses exclusively and intensively the newest, bleeding-edge version 5 (read more about it) of IfcOpenShell that is now available on all main platforms (be sure to download the version that matches the python version used by your FreeCAD installation). We now benefit from a much faster and reliable import and export, a much simpler and cleaner code (read: easier to extend), and already a few additional goodies, such as better support for curve-based objects and IFC properties.

New feature: Cut object with plane
This new functionality, Arch CutPlane, makes it possible to cut an object according to a plane defined by the face of another object. It is possible to cut the object behind or in front of the selected plane.



New roof tool
The Roof tool was completely remade and now makes it possible to define slopes different for each sides from roof, moreover it is possible to define a thickness of roof, the length of the overflow.



Panels
A new Panel object has been added to the Arch Workbench. It allows to create all kinds of panel-like objects, and will be specially useful for panel constructions such as the wikihouse or popup house projects.



Furniture
The new Arch Equipment object is designed to add all kinds of non-structural standalone objects to your architectural projects, such as lighting appliances, sanitary equipments or furniture.

Minor enhancements

 * The Basepoint of Arch Frame object can now be set to a specific vertex of the profile.

External modules
There has also been some very interesting work on new workbenches and macros, that are not integrated into the FreeCAD source code (yet!), but are easy to install on an existing FreeCAD 0.15 installation. Instructions are provided on the pages linked below:

Assembly2
The Assembly 2 workbench provides tools to create multi-part assemblies, and is a very good alternative for the official Assembly workbench which is still under development (see forum thread).



Drawing Dimensioning
The Drawing dimensioning workbench adds powerful dimensioning and annotation tools to the Drawing workbench (see forum thread).



Work Features
The WorkFeature macro adds a wide range of helper objects such as alignment planes or axes, and tools to help you to position and align objects along those helper objects (see forum thread).