Weekly Release - Back to Normal
After my end-of-year vacation, we're back to normal this week, and things are progressing nicely! I've declared victory on #1249 and refocused my attention on #1162. This requires extensions to the builder API, and I've already written a bit about how all of that fits together.
These hand-on programming activities are mixed in with lots of thinking going on in the background, about how the kernel needs to be structured in the future. I want to build a CAD system that makes changes to geometry easy to understand and reason about, and this will need to be supported in the kernel on an architectural level. A complete picture is still forming in my mind, and I'll let you know how that progresses!
In perhaps more interesting news, we've had some awesome contributions this week! @zthompson47 has fixed an annoying issue, that (re-)loading the model would freeze the GUI, and @antonok-edm has implemented support for arcs in sketches, allowing for more interesting shapes to be created!
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End-user improvements
Improvements to Fornjot and its documentation that are visible to end users.
- Fix model updates freezing GUI; improve loading messages (#1476; thank you, @zthompson47!)
- Don't wrap
Angleby default (#1478; thank you, @antonok-edm!) - Support arcs in sketches (#1484; thank you, @antonok-edm!)
Ecosystem improvements
Improvements to Fornjot components that are relevant to developers building on top of those. These have an indirect effect on end users, through fixed bugs and improved robustness.
fj-kernel
- Expand and clean up builder API (#1479, #1483, #1485, #1489)
- Remove
fj_kernel::iter(#1480) - Remove
Vertex::global_form(#1481) - Improve some validation error messages and validation test output (#1486)
Internal Improvements
Improvements that are relevant to developers working on Fornjot itself.