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<html><head><title>Release notes 0.15</title><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><link type='text/css' href='wiki.css' rel='stylesheet'></head><body><h1>Release notes 0.15</h1><span class="mw-redirectedfrom">(Redirected from <a href="https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/index.php?title=Release_notes_0.15&redirect=no" class="mw-redirect" title="Release notes 0.15">Release notes 0.15</a>)</span></div>
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<div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr"><div class="mw-parser-output"><p>FreeCAD 0.15 was released on April 8, 2015. This is a summary of the most interesting changes. The complete list of changes can be found in the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.freecadweb.org/tracker/changelog_page.php">Mantis changelog</a>. Older versions at: <a href="Release_notes_014.html" class="mw-redirect" title="Release notes 014">0.14</a> - <a href="Release_notes_013.html" title="Release notes 013">0.13</a> - <a href="Release_notes_012.html" title="Release notes 012">0.12</a> - <a href="Release_notes_011.html" title="Release notes 011">0.11</a>
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<a href="https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/index.php?title=File:Spark-Plug-Plane.jpg" class="image"><img alt="Spark-Plug-Plane.jpg" src="1024px-Spark-Plug-Plane.jpg" width="1024" height="576" srcset="/wiki/images/thumb/4/4e/Spark-Plug-Plane.jpg/1536px-Spark-Plug-Plane.jpg 1.5x, /wiki/images/4/4e/Spark-Plug-Plane.jpg 2x" /></a>
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<center>Spark Plug Plane by r-frank</center>
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<div id="toc" class="toc"><div class="toctitle"><h2>Contents</h2></div>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#General"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">General</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2"><a href="#Search_box_in_Selection_view"><span class="tocnumber">1.1</span> <span class="toctext">Search box in Selection view</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="#Units_support_is_spreading"><span class="tocnumber">1.2</span> <span class="toctext">Units support is spreading</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="#Minor_enhancements"><span class="tocnumber">1.3</span> <span class="toctext">Minor enhancements</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="#Part_Workbench"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Part Workbench</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="Sketcher_Workbench.html"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Part Design & Sketcher Workbench</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7"><a href="#Ellipses"><span class="tocnumber">3.1</span> <span class="toctext">Ellipses</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8"><a href="#Enhanced_selection_tools"><span class="tocnumber">3.2</span> <span class="toctext">Enhanced selection tools</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9"><a href="#Merging_sketches"><span class="tocnumber">3.3</span> <span class="toctext">Merging sketches</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10"><a href="#Enhanced_sketch_properties"><span class="tocnumber">3.4</span> <span class="toctext">Enhanced sketch properties</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11"><a href="#Minor_improvements"><span class="tocnumber">3.5</span> <span class="toctext">Minor improvements</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12"><a href="Spreadsheet_Workbench.html"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Spreadsheet Workbench</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13"><a href="Draft_Workbench.html"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Draft Workbench</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14"><a href="#Allow_sticky_fonts_in_ShapeString"><span class="tocnumber">5.1</span> <span class="toctext">Allow sticky fonts in ShapeString</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-15"><a href="#Minor_improvements_2"><span class="tocnumber">5.2</span> <span class="toctext">Minor improvements</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-16"><a href="#Drawing_Workbench"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">Drawing Workbench</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-17"><a href="#Export_drawing_pages_to_DXF"><span class="tocnumber">6.1</span> <span class="toctext">Export drawing pages to DXF</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-18"><a href="#Minor_improvements_3"><span class="tocnumber">6.2</span> <span class="toctext">Minor improvements</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-19"><a href="Arch_Workbench.html"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">Arch Workbench</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-20"><a href="#Updated_IFC_importer.2Fexporter"><span class="tocnumber">7.1</span> <span class="toctext">Updated IFC importer/exporter</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-21"><a href="#New_feature:_Cut_object_with_plane"><span class="tocnumber">7.2</span> <span class="toctext">New feature: Cut object with plane</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-22"><a href="#New_roof_tool"><span class="tocnumber">7.3</span> <span class="toctext">New roof tool</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-23"><a href="#Panels"><span class="tocnumber">7.4</span> <span class="toctext">Panels</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-24"><a href="#Furniture"><span class="tocnumber">7.5</span> <span class="toctext">Furniture</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-25"><a href="#Minor_enhancements_2"><span class="tocnumber">7.6</span> <span class="toctext">Minor enhancements</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-26"><a href="#External_modules"><span class="tocnumber">8</span> <span class="toctext">External modules</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-27"><a href="#Assembly2"><span class="tocnumber">8.1</span> <span class="toctext">Assembly2</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-28"><a href="#Drawing_Dimensioning"><span class="tocnumber">8.2</span> <span class="toctext">Drawing Dimensioning</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-29"><a href="#Work_Features"><span class="tocnumber">8.3</span> <span class="toctext">Work Features</span></a></li>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="General">General</span></h2>
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Search_box_in_Selection_view">Search box in Selection view</span></h3>
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<p>The selection window allow users to search inside the selected objects. Moreover you have now possibilities to select only one entity, unselect an entity, zoom fit on an entity and go to the entity in the tree view.
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</p><p><a href="https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/index.php?title=File:FeatureSelectionView.jpg" class="image"><img alt="FeatureSelectionView.jpg" src="FeatureSelectionView.jpg" width="398" height="210" /></a>
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Units_support_is_spreading">Units support is spreading</span></h3>
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<p>The new <a href="Quantity.html" title="Quantity">units</a> system of FreeCAD, introduced in version 0.14, is now used by almost all modules of FreeCAD, including the <a href="Sketcher_Workbench.html" title="Sketcher Workbench">Sketcher</a>, <a href="Draft_Workbench.html" class="mw-redirect" title="Draft Workbench">Draft</a> or <a href="Arch_Workbench.html" class="mw-redirect" title="Arch Workbench">Arch</a>. A few areas still don't use it, but generally speaking, you can now count on proper units support throughout your whole workflow.
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Minor_enhancements">Minor enhancements</span></h3>
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<ul><li> Import/Export now has an own section in the Edit > Preferences section. Now all file formats are grouped into their own tab, which makes it easier for new users to find the right options.</li>
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<li> Customized keyboard shortcuts now accept up to 4 keys.</li>
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<li> FreeCAD now <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=7715">supports the VR Occulus Rift device</a>.</li>
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<li> Support of custom global toolbars: Aside from adding custom toolbars with your own tools to any workbench, it is now also possible to add custom toolbars which will stay present on all workbenches.</li>
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<li> New Lib Pack for Windows, with the latest OCE 0.17</li></ul>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Part_Workbench">Part Workbench</span></h2>
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<ul><li> A couple of new geometric elements have been added: Parabola, ArcOfParabola, Hyperbola & ArcOfHyperbola</li></ul>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Part_Design_.26_Sketcher_Workbench">Part Design & Sketcher Workbench</span></h2>
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Ellipses">Ellipses</span></h3>
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<p>The <a href="Sketcher_Workbench.html" title="Sketcher Workbench">Sketcher</a> gained proper support for ellipses. Those can be constructed in different ways, and can be used for any kind of subsequent operation.
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</p><p><a href="https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/index.php?title=File:Ellipse-example.png" class="image"><img alt="Ellipse-example.png" src="Ellipse-example.png" width="485" height="390" /></a>
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Enhanced_selection_tools">Enhanced selection tools</span></h3>
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<p>The Sketcher also gained a series of new tools to help you diagnose, optimize or fix problems in your sketches. You can now, for example, easily select the elements associated with a constraint, or select the constraint associated with an element, or find conflicting or redundant constraints.
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</p><p>The Sketcher UI also gained some new panels, and now shows you a selectable list of elements of your sketch.
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Merging_sketches">Merging sketches</span></h3>
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<p>It is now possible to merge several sketches into one with the click of a button.
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Enhanced_sketch_properties">Enhanced sketch properties</span></h3>
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<p>The properties view of sketch objects has also been enhanced, and named Datum constraints (distance, horizontal distance, vertical distance) inside the sketch will now appear and be editable directly in the properties view of the sketch, without the need to enter edit mode.
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Minor_improvements">Minor improvements</span></h3>
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<ul><li> Added more regular polygons to sketcher</li>
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<li> Added new constraint: Symmetry constraint perpendicular to axis of symmetry</li></ul>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Spreadsheet_Workbench">Spreadsheet Workbench</span></h2>
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<p>The <a href="Spreadsheet_Workbench.html" title="Spreadsheet Workbench">Spreadsheet Workbench</a> has been completely recoded. FreeCAD now possesses a state-of-the-art, robust, feature-rich spreadsheet editor. A couple of functionalities found in the previous version of this workbench have been removed, such as the property controllers, but this is a complex issue requiring more time to design properly. At the present time, however, the new spreadsheet already offer far better possibilities to gather data from your model.
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</p><p><a href="https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/index.php?title=File:Spreadsheet_screenshot.jpg" class="image"><img alt="Spreadsheet screenshot.jpg" src="640px-Spreadsheet_screenshot.jpg" width="640" height="377" srcset="/wiki/images/thumb/2/25/Spreadsheet_screenshot.jpg/960px-Spreadsheet_screenshot.jpg 1.5x, /wiki/images/2/25/Spreadsheet_screenshot.jpg 2x" /></a>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Draft_Workbench">Draft Workbench</span></h2>
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Allow_sticky_fonts_in_ShapeString">Allow sticky fonts in ShapeString</span></h3>
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<p>For the nostalgic of old CAD software, sticky fonts (in which letters are made of simple lines, not filled shapes) can now be used with the <a href="Draft_ShapeString.html" title="Draft ShapeString">ShapeString</a> tool.
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</p><p><a href="https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/index.php?title=File:Stickyfonts.jpg" class="image"><img alt="Stickyfonts.jpg" src="Stickyfonts.jpg" width="640" height="189" /></a>
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Minor_improvements_2">Minor improvements</span></h3>
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<ul><li> <a href="Draft_Line.html" title="Draft Line">Lines</a> can now be defined by their length and angle in the current working plane</li>
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<li> Relative extension lines for <a href="Draft_Dimensions.html" title="Draft Dimensions">dimensions</a></li>
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<li> Support for <a href="Sketcher_Ellipse.html" title="Sketcher Ellipse">sketcher ellipses</a></li>
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<li> <a href="Draft_Array.html" title="Draft Array">Array</a> objects can now be fused</li></ul>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Drawing_Workbench">Drawing Workbench</span></h2>
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Export_drawing_pages_to_DXF">Export drawing pages to DXF</span></h3>
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<p>The system used to export Drawing pages to DXF until now used a very complicated hack to convert the SVG code to FreeCAD object then back to DXF with the Draft exporters. Now, the export is done internally inside the Drawing module, which gives much faster and reliable results. DXF export now uses a <a href="Drawing_templates.html" title="Drawing templates">template system</a> similar to SVG sheets. If your Drawing page uses a certain SVG template, and a DXF template with the same name is found at the same location, it is used to generate the DXF file.
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</p><p><a href="https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/index.php?title=File:Drawing-dxf-export.jpg" class="image"><img alt="Drawing-dxf-export.jpg" src="Drawing-dxf-export.jpg" width="640" height="746" /></a>
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</p><p>In the DXF file, the different views are placed as scaled blocks. This allows to quickly restore the 1:1 scale.
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Minor_improvements_3">Minor improvements</span></h3>
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<ul><li> It is now possible to reuse projection settings from an existing view when creating new draft views.</li></ul>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Arch_Workbench">Arch Workbench</span></h2>
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Updated_IFC_importer.2Fexporter">Updated IFC importer/exporter</span></h3>
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<p>FreeCAD's <a href="Arch_IFC.html" title="Arch IFC">IFC importer</a> has received a lot of work and testing, and a massive upgrade. The old, python-based importer, has been disabled (it is still usable from the python console, though), and FreeCAD now uses exclusively and intensively the newest, bleeding-edge <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ifcopenshell.org/python.html">version 5</a> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ifcopenshell.org/pythonOCC/example1/">read more</a> about it) of <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ifcopenshell.org/">IfcOpenShell</a> that is now available on all main platforms (be sure to download the version that matches the python version used by your FreeCAD installation). We now benefit from a much faster and reliable import and export, a much simpler and cleaner code (read: easier to extend), and already a few additional goodies, such as better support for curve-based objects and IFC properties.
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="New_feature:_Cut_object_with_plane">New feature: Cut object with plane</span></h3>
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<p>This new functionality, <a href="Arch_CutPlane.html" title="Arch CutPlane">Arch CutPlane</a>, makes it possible to cut an object according to a plane defined by the face of another object. It is possible to cut the object behind or in front of the selected plane.
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</p><p><a href="https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/index.php?title=File:Arch_CutPlane_example.jpg" class="image"><img alt="Arch CutPlane example.jpg" src="Arch_CutPlane_example.jpg" width="640" height="294" /></a>
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="New_roof_tool">New roof tool</span></h3>
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<p>The <a href="Arch_Roof.html" title="Arch Roof">Roof</a> tool was completely remade and now makes it possible to define slopes different for each sides from roof, moreover it is possible to define a thickness of roof, the length of the overflow.
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</p><p><a href="https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/index.php?title=File:RoofExample.png" class="image"><img alt="RoofExample.png" src="RoofExample.png" width="647" height="591" /></a>
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Panels">Panels</span></h3>
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<p>A new <a href="Arch_Panel.html" title="Arch Panel">Panel</a> object has been added to the <a href="Arch_Workbench.html" class="mw-redirect" title="Arch Workbench">Arch Workbench</a>. It allows to create all kinds of panel-like objects, and will be specially useful for panel constructions such as the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.wikihouse.cc/">wikihouse</a> or <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.popup-house.com/">popup house</a> projects.
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</p><p><a href="https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/index.php?title=File:Arch_Panel_example.jpg" class="image"><img alt="Arch Panel example.jpg" src="640px-Arch_Panel_example.jpg" width="640" height="342" srcset="/wiki/images/4/4b/Arch_Panel_example.jpg 1.5x" /></a>
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Furniture">Furniture</span></h3>
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<p>The new <a href="Arch_Equipment.html" title="Arch Equipment">Arch Equipment</a> object is designed to add all kinds of non-structural standalone objects to your architectural projects, such as lighting appliances, sanitary equipments or furniture.
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Minor_enhancements_2">Minor enhancements</span></h3>
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<ul><li> The Basepoint of <a href="Arch_Frame.html" title="Arch Frame">Arch Frame</a> object can now be set to a specific vertex of the profile.</li></ul>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="External_modules">External modules</span></h2>
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<p>There has also been some very interesting work on new workbenches and macros, that are not integrated into the FreeCAD source code (yet!), but are easy to install on an existing FreeCAD 0.15 installation. Instructions are provided on the pages linked below:
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Assembly2">Assembly2</span></h3>
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<p>The <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/hamish2014/FreeCAD_assembly2">Assembly 2 workbench</a> provides tools to create multi-part assemblies, and is a very good alternative for the official Assembly workbench which is still under development (see <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=8577">forum thread</a>).
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</p><p><a href="https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/index.php?title=File:Assembly2_example.jpg" class="image"><img alt="Assembly2 example.jpg" src="Assembly2_example.jpg" width="640" height="382" /></a>
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Drawing_Dimensioning">Drawing Dimensioning</span></h3>
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<p>The <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/hamish2014/FreeCAD_drawing_dimensioning">Drawing dimensioning workbench</a> adds powerful dimensioning and annotation tools to the Drawing workbench (see <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=8395">forum thread</a>).
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</p><p><a href="https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/index.php?title=File:Drawing_Dimensioning_example.jpg" class="image"><img alt="Drawing Dimensioning example.jpg" src="Drawing_Dimensioning_example.jpg" width="640" height="382" /></a>
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Work_Features">Work Features</span></h3>
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<p>The <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/Rentlau/WorkFeature">WorkFeature macro</a> adds a wide range of helper objects such as alignment planes or axes, and tools to help you to position and align objects along those helper objects (see <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=9056">forum thread</a>).
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