Note: Only bug reports with a prior forum discussion will be considered. Reports without this will be closed. The help system was rewritten and upgraded to display information directly from our Wiki. The system now relies on the Help Addon. When you first use the Help tool or the What’s this? A new preference Rotate to nearest has been introduced. If selected, the 3D view is rotated to the nearest most logical position, based on the current orientation of the cube, when a cube face is clicked. Else clicking a face will always result in the same rotation. To experience the difference try the same click sequence as in the animation with and without the option Rotate to nearest. By clicking the new round button in the top right corner you can quickly switch to the backview of the current scene. The size of the cube can now be adjusted with the Cube size preference. Tooltips now display the command name in the title, making it easier for new users to look for help.

WhatsThis). This is also the name of the page that documents the command in the Wiki. The new Std UserEditMode command allows the user to choose an edit mode that will be used when an object is double-clicked in the Tree view. Click the image on the left so see an animation of the selection. If a selected edit mode is not applicable, the object’s default edit mode is used instead. Dependencies-selection relnotes 0.20.png The Tree view context menu has the new entry Add dependent objects to selection. The new tool Section Cut allows to get non-hollow and also persistent cuts of parts and assemblies. It is now possible to use the decimal separator belonging to the language specified for the FreeCAD interface. For example on a German Windows, when you set the interface language to English and select the new option Use selected language number format, the dot will be used as the decimal separator.

Note: For FEM simulations using the dot as decimal separator is highly recommended to get correct results. Two new mouse navigation styles have been added. One based on OpenSCAD, the other on TinkerCAD. It is now possible to pan the view of the dependency graph with the mouse. Fixed an issue where using tablet pen devices (e.g. The coordinate system in the 3D view can be resized in the preferences in the section Display ? 3D View. A new setting in Preferences ? General allows to substitute the numerical keypad decimal separator with the appropriate locale separator if they are different. It is now possible to set the Backspace key as a standalone shortcut key without the need to specify an additional modifier key. When using Edit ? Copy or Edit ? Duplicate selection for an object with dependencies there is a new Use Original Selections button in the object selection dialog. Click this button to copy/duplicate only the objects you originally selected prior to opening the dialog, ignoring dependencies and ignoring any actions you might have taken while the dialog was open, such as checking or unchecking some of the checkboxes.

The effect is the same as if you had unchecked all the checkboxes next to the objects you did not originally select and pressed OK. Note: special care should be taken when copying/duplicating TechDraw Pages. It is recommended to also copy/duplicate all children of the Page (Templates, Views, Dimensions, etc.). Otherwise changes to one Page will also impact the other page. For example, deleting a View on one Page also removes it from the other Page, or deleting a page will also remove all its content from the other Page. A new type of add-on called a Preference Pack was added, allowing a subset of a user preferences file (user.cfg) to be saved, distributed, and easily applied by other users. Preference Packs can be use to distribute «Themes,» for example, by allowing a developer to include both a Qt stylesheet for widgets as well as a set of other colors and styles for items in the user interface that cannot be set using a stylesheet (e.g.

Anything that can be configured via a user.cfg file can be set using a Preference Pack. The «Workbenches» preference panel was modified to support the ability to «autoload» workbenches on FreeCAD startup. FreeCAD received many new Python API functions: MeshObject::trim(base, normal) was changed to MeshPy::trimByPlane(base, normal): Trims the mesh with a given plane. The Addon Manager was modified to support the distribution of Preference Packs, and to display information found in an addon’s metadata. The Addon Manager also includes improved support for Addons whose source code is located at several different git hosting locations. Networking support was improved to provide more robust handling of SSL connections and support for proxies requiring authentication. Support was added for automatically adding macro buttons to the toolbar after installing, for disabling Addons without removing them, and for switching which git branch of an Addon is checked out. Finally, the user interface was modified to improve searching and display of different list filters.