de_Release Notes 0.10

New Feature

• Support STEP import , which imports STEP assembly into Assembly3 container(s). There is also another import option to import multiple-level assembly into separate documents in their own directories. More multiple-document import settings are available through the STEP import preference page

  

  Check out demo here

• Support adding plain group to further organizing assembly parts, elements and constraints.

• Introduce the new Attachment constraint based on the discussion of Assembly without solver [thread]. This constraint completely fixed the relationship between two (or more) involved parts. This constraint can be solved easily without relying on the expansive algebra solver, if and only if the constraint contains any part that is either explicitly fixed by a Lock constraint , or indirectly fixed through a chain of other Attachment constraints. If the condition is not satisfied, the constraint will be treated like a Coincidence constraint , with locked angle and passed to the solved as usual.

• Add button to toggle coordinate system visibility of an Element

FreeCAD LinkStage3

• Add support of plain group in App::Link. See demo here.

• Multi-solid support in PartDesign. See demo here

• Performance improvement in PartDesign feature Transform.

• Support adding/removing properties (i.e. dynamic property) in all DocumentObject and Document. See demo here.

• Change tab window behavior for external linked document.

• Improve Selection View multi-element picking list feature.

• Support Copy/Move/Replace/Link action when drag and drop in tree view. See demo here.

• Improve tree view and document loading performance.

• Improve auto transaction feature, i.e. better undo/redo. Every command will now setup a default transaction.

• Bundle CadQuery as fc_cadquery, and exposed to Expression as pseudo property _cq.

• Support of using variable outside of function in extended expression syntax.