Ondsel ES, an engineering suite with an open-source heart (FreeCAD)

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This is a distribution of FreeCAD 0.22 (the current developer version) with the Ondsel Lens collaboration tools preinstalled; so far I have not seen anything else that is unique to them.

Ondsel are a big part of some of the biggest improvements in recent FreeCAD versions, among them the integrated assembly workbench, some significant improvements in Sketcher, and they are organising the continued work towards mitigating the Topological Naming Problem.

The TNP mitigation is not complete yet; the developers are still progressing this.

> so far I have not seen anything else that is unique to them.

The integrated assembly workbench isn't yet 100% merged to the main FreeCAD development branch, nor are some of the new Sketcher tools.

But those will be, yes? Apart from the Ondsel-specific Lens stuff, are there things that will not make it into main FreeCAD?

Development is a continuous process, so you can think of Ondsel ES as 3D CAD software that is always one step ahead of the upstream project. There will likely always be things that are not part of FreeCAD yet.

There could be other things that will not make it to FreeCAD at all due to 3rd-party licensing, but it's too early to discuss this. Right now, there are other priorities.

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