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

 * investigation of using separate thread for hidden line removal and face finding

Upcoming
These items have working code in the development environment and will be implemented early in the v0.21 development cycle.
 * Navigation modes (implemented)
 * New face detection algorithm
 * PrintAll function
 * Bitmap hatching 6582 (implemented)
 * Extension line gaps 6774 (implemented)
 * Section dialog live/deferred update option
 * Convert all templates to "plain svg"
 * View stacking order 6012

These items have semi-working code or are well defined and will be implemented at some point in the v0.21 cycle.
 * Projection group dialog upgrade including live/deferred update option
 * Expanded dimension dialog that includes ability to update 2d and 3d references. Possible retirement of current "Link Dimension" function.
 * Ability to specify file preferences as relative paths 6707

These items are expected to be in v0.21, but have not been analyzed in detail.
 * ability to specify units by dimension or page instead of system wide.
 * weld symbol upgrades including ISO/AWS symbology and help text 6313

These items are candidates for v0.21, but require investigation
 * ordinate dimensions 6587
 * broken view 5694
 * improved handling of Draft/Arch objects
 * include sketcher points in drawings
 * Feature Control Frames (GD&T)
 * Threaded hole representation

There are a number of smaller feature requests that will probably be implemented in v0.21, possibly as macros.