Outstanding features in AstoCAD only

Core:

  • Frameless window (linux and macOS support not perfect)
  • Improved navicube
  • Core toolbars rework.
  • New command group (new file, new part, new assembly)
  • Open command group (open + recent files)
  • Save command group (save, save all, save as, save copy)
  • Settings command group
  • Context menus tweaks
  • Notification area button: toggle consoles visibility instead.
  • Task view resize automatically and hides when not needed.
  • Task view buttons style reworked
  • All dock views headers : removed the toggle transparency, toggle overlay buttons.
  • Tree and Task views : Removed the closed button. (You can still toggle visibility by right click in the toolbars.)
  • Task view : hide the header all together.

Sketcher:

Part Design:

TechDraw:

Assembly:

Outstanding features that we authored in FreeCAD

Over 300 pull requests

Core:

  • Themes implementation
  • Drag and drop reordering in the Tree
  • Rework of the image planes
  • Quick measure label
  • Preferences : Workbench page and many other pages rework.
  • Core datum objects

Assembly:

  • Most of the Assembly Workbench

Sketcher:

  • Dimension tool
  • ‘On-view-parameters’ for geometry tools
  • Unified Coincidence/point-on-object tool
  • Unified alignment tool
  • Tool settings widget
  • Chamfer tool
  • Arc-slot tool
  • Rectangle tool rework
  • Trim ‘click and hold’ mode
  • Offset
  • Patterns tools (array, circular array, scale)
  • External geometry: Intersection, Defining and faces
  • Rework of sketcher’s task dialogs
  • Cleaning of Sketcher’s toolbars
  • Improvement of Sketcher’s constraints rendering
  • Infinite grid
  • Snapping to objects and angle snapping
  • Copy paste of geometries
  • Group dragging of geometries

TechDraw:

  • Dimension tool
  • Rework of insert tool
  • Implemented use of Links for views
  • Clip group simplification
  • Dimensions and view snapping

Part Design:

  • Rework of Part Design’s Fillet/Chamfer/Shell/Draft tools