That is, the intermediate and end points will get a lower Z value, so the whole object gets a constant inclination. Slope tool: When used on a Draft Line or Draft Wire, this tool will allow you to give it a specific slope/inclination.When activated, all newly created Draft and Arch objects will automatically be placed in that group. Autogroup system: The Draft workbench now features an auto-group button on its main toolbar.Import support for the 3DS format has been added.The Arch Workbench OBJ and DAE exporter now support materials, both when importing and exporting.They allow automatically creating multilayer walls, or control the different materials of compound objects such as windows. Multi-materials have been introduced in the Arch workbench.A new Nesting tool (still experimental), allows composing cut sheets by automatically placing 2D shapes in a containing shape.They allow building a model composed of Arch Panels, and then generating cutting sheets that can be used by the Path Workbench to generate cutting machine code. New Panel tools were specifically designed for panel constructions.These grid objects can then be used as axes systems, or as bases for complex window or panel arrangements. A new Arch Grid tool allows easily creating spreadsheet-like base objects by stretching, joining or splitting cells.They can also be customized to show different kinds of situations such as levels. Arch Axis tools have also been rewritten, and allow more complex systems by combining different series of axes together.Windows gained several enhancements, such as the possibility of defining subcomponents as openable, show opening symbols, appear open, and having louver panels.During the Google Summer of Code 2017 edition, to which FreeCAD participated, the Arch Rebar tool was greatly extended and gained a friendly User Interface to easily add several standard types of Reinforcement bars to your concrete structures.The Arch Structure tool was extended with a series of new presets to build precast concrete elements.You can use lines, sketches or wires as a base to place tubes, and automatically create connections between 2 or 3 tubes. New set of piping tools to design piping systems.New Arch Schedule tool: This tool has been completely rewritten, and now offers much more flexible ways to gather data from the document into a spreadsheet, using different kinds of queries, such as counting all objects of a certain type, or summing up the total volume of a certain category of objects.New License and Libraries tabs list FreeCAD's license and provide info on used third-party libraries. The FreeCAD project acknowledges the contributions of its community by adding a Credits tab in the About FreeCAD dialog.Most of FreeCAD's icons were reworked to better comply with Tango guidelines.stpZ (a compressed STEP format) is now supported. STEP import leverages the new Part container and uses it to organize an imported STEP assembly into sub-assemblies, now more closely following the original document's structure. The dependency graph benefited from graphical enhancements.A new Navigation Indicator at the bottom right of the FreeCAD window allows quick access to the navigation styles.Document recomputes can now be disabled/enabled via the context menu.Yorik van Havre wrote " The FreeCAD Manual" as an introductory book on how to use FreeCAD.The new TechDraw workbench aims to replace the Drawing workbench, and already provides more features than the old Drawing workbench. New tools to create datum (reference) geometry such as points, axes and planes make PartDesign a lot more versatile. A new Body container now holds a chain of features and lifts the requirement of mapping sketches to planar faces. The PartDesign workbench has been completely overhauled. New additional modules were also developed by the community. For comparison, this is more than three times the work done between v0.16 and 0.15! Most existing workbenches benefited from improvements, and two completely new workbenches were added. More than 6,800 revisions were added to FreeCAD's source code. It's been 2 years since the previous 0.16 release, but the FreeCAD team didn't stay idle during that time.
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