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== Path Workbench==
== Path Workbench==


== Sketcher Workbench ==
== Sketcher Workbench ==

* The new View section tool creates a section plane that removes matter on the model that is in front of the sketch plane. This can be useful when the sketch plane is located inside a solid model. Pressing the View section tool again toggles the view back to a full view.
* The Sketcher solver benefited from improvements and is now better at detecting redundant and conflicting constraints, especially those induced by symmetric constraints.
* New constraint diameter added
* DoF Finder is a new utility to help find degrees of freedom. In the Solver messages widget in the Tasks panel, the traditional message ''Under-constrained sketch with x degrees of freedom'' now underlines the ''x degrees'' text in blue. Clicking on it will highlight in green, in the 3D view, the elements that are not fully constrained.

Relevant forum links:
* [https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=29192 Recent Several Sketcher improvements]
* [https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=29152 Feature #1632: Allow entering of diameter instead of radius for circle radius constraint]


== Spreadsheet Workbench ==
== Spreadsheet Workbench ==

Revision as of 22:07, 15 September 2018

FreeCAD 0.18 is currently in active development and is still not officially released, but development builds can be downloaded for testing. See details on the Download page. In the meanwhile, you can help us fill these Release notes with the new features that are being added. Click on Help FreeCAD for details on how to contribute.


FreeCAD 0.18 was released on DD Month, 201x, get it from the Download page. This is a summary of the most interesting changes. The complete list of changes can be found in the MantisBT bugtracker FC 0.18 changelog.

Older FreeCAD release notes can be found in Getting started.


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General

  • The Document tree (Model tab) now offers 3 options for how all documents are displayed, with the option set from the View → Document Tree menu:
    • Only display the currently active document;
    • Display all documents as it used to be up to v0.17;
    • Expand the active document and collapse all others.

Arch Workbench

Draft Workbench

FEM Workbench

Part Workbench

PartDesign workbench

Path Workbench

Sketcher Workbench

  • The new View section tool creates a section plane that removes matter on the model that is in front of the sketch plane. This can be useful when the sketch plane is located inside a solid model. Pressing the View section tool again toggles the view back to a full view.
  • The Sketcher solver benefited from improvements and is now better at detecting redundant and conflicting constraints, especially those induced by symmetric constraints.
  • New constraint diameter added
  • DoF Finder is a new utility to help find degrees of freedom. In the Solver messages widget in the Tasks panel, the traditional message Under-constrained sketch with x degrees of freedom now underlines the x degrees text in blue. Clicking on it will highlight in green, in the 3D view, the elements that are not fully constrained.

Relevant forum links:

Spreadsheet Workbench

Surface Workbench

TechDraw Workbench

Additional Modules

Some of the new community modules that were actively developed during the 0.18 development cycle.

  • Curves, a collection of tools to create and edit NURBS curves and surfaces.
  • Nurbs, a collection of scripts for managing freeform surfaces and curves.
  • Silk, a collection of NURBS surface modeling tools focused on low degree and seam continuity.
  • Flamingo Workbench, a set of customized FreeCAD commands and objects that help to speed-up the drawing of frames and pipelines.
  • GDT, geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T).
  • CadQuery FreeCAD Module is a workbench that allows users to write Python scripts, and is tailored to those based on the CadQuery CAD scripting API. A new code editor is made available, and script variables can be edited dynamically through the use of a parameter dialog. The workbench also adds a menu that includes normal file operations for CadQuery scripts (open, new, close, etc), and example scripts to help users learn new concepts.
  • Defeaturing Workbench is intended for editing imported STEP models, removal of the selected features from the model.