wsteffe wrote: ↑Wed Feb 09, 2022 7:08 pm
Before making a PR we should agree, in example, on a design flow in which it is possible to pad multiple solids from disjoint closed wires placed in a single sketch. Unfortunately many FC developers do not agree on this idea and would surely reject any PR.
The developers who set that limitation and were vehemently against removing it are not active any more, there's no one currently active that would oppose it if it's done correctly AFAIK. We are off topic though so better to either leave it there or continue in a separate thread.
IMO the biggest problem of FC project is that it the missing of a project leader with a clear vision on the project goals and of what has to be done to achieve them.
partially agree, but this is also off-topic, some discussion surrounding this subject has been going on in the FreeCAD Project Association announcment thread
If and when I had some spare time to work on the FC code, I would better try to do it in the RT branch which I am using more regularly.
In example I would like to improve (because I need it) the Filling Feature of Surface WB (see
https://github.com/realthunder/FreeCAD/issues/248).
Sad but understandable, this attitude but from people actually submitting PRs is what I fear is coming if the TN merge remains stalled. On the other hand, given the likely license of those changes it's always possibly to cherry pick, how likely that is to happen and how simple it would be is a different matter.
onekk wrote: ↑Wed Feb 09, 2022 7:11 pm
Mostly TNP will not add new features, it add consistency when dealing with some operations that will change the "reference number" of some component like a face or an edge.
TN algorithm and automatic fixing of broken references (and assisted fixing) are features, and big ones at that. Current PR does not have that so those features cannot be tested. According to realthunder it only adds underlying functions that those features would use. Said functions cannot be tested by just using FreeCAD either because no feature uses them.