value toggle, and redesigned constraint-ribbon icons
Properties panel:
- New "Parameters" section (shown with no selection) listing every named
parameter with inline name/formula editing, add, and delete, backed by
new PropValue::ParamRow/ParamAddRow and command_driver handlers
(resolve_named_parameter_edit, on_prop_param_commit/_delete/_add_new).
A fresh parameter's formula now defaults to "1", not "0" — a 0-length
seed value is a genuine solver singularity for a Distance constraint
driven by that parameter, with no defined direction to grow back out of.
- New "Constraints" section (shown for a single selected entity) listing
every constraint touching it as a clickable PropValue::EntityLink that
selects the linked entities in the viewport, danger-tinted when the
constraint conflicts.
Constraint pills:
- New Options > General toggle, "Show values and parameter names on
constraint markers" (on by default, persisted). Off, every pill shows
just its bare glyph instead of glyph+driven-value/parameter-name — the
glyph alone is enough to see a constraint is present, without the value
text covering nearby geometry on a dense sketch.
Constraint-ribbon icons:
- Replaced all 18 unicode/letter glyph icons (including the plain "F",
"L", "M", "S" letters) with proper SVGs under assets/icons/constrain/,
matching the Modify section's two-color style (#B4B6B9 white / #6DB7ED
blue, consistent stroke width). Tangent reuses the Draw section's
white-arc-plus-blue-dots motif.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
Arcs are now full constraint participants (center/radius via the existing
Circle-shaped solver path, plus real endpoints kept consistent by arc-rules
CurveValue constraints); adds Diameter/DistanceX/DistanceY/ArcLength/Normal
constraint kinds and initial Ellipse entity support (center-based
constraints only). DWG-native class mappings and gaps (ArcLength, Ellipse)
are grounded against real ObjectARX headers rather than guessed, so files
saved with DWG-native constraints stay honest about what AutoCAD can
actually represent.
Also fixes a case-sensitivity bug where a lowercase named-parameter
reference typed at a dimensional constraint's value prompt was rejected
(the command line uppercases SingleToken input before the parameter-name
lookup), and adds a "Used by" column to the Named Parameters panel.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
The application has no support-file search path — the four folders it uses
are functions returning fixed paths, not settings. Rather than build a Files
page that pretends otherwise, this one answers the question people actually
open it to ask: where does this thing keep my plot styles. Each row shows the
location and opens it in the file manager, and a row whose path the platform
could not give says so with its button disabled.
General gains buttons through to the plugin manager, the keyboard shortcut
editor and the alias editor. Those three have good dialogs of their own and
are not absorbed; Options simply stops being a place you cannot reach them
from.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
The ViewCube, the UCS icon, its at-origin placement and selection cycling all
have commands and status-bar pills, and all four kept their value only on the
app struct. Turn the ViewCube off with NAVVCUBE, restart, and it is back.
Nothing failed — the setting evaporated — so a checkbox for any of them would
have been a checkbox that forgets. They are persisted first, with a
round-trip test, and only then given controls.
The new 3D Modeling page carries the three view tools plus the drawing
variables that decide how solids are tessellated: ISOLINES, DISPSILH, SURFU,
SURFV, SURFTYPE, SOLIDHIST and SHOWHIST. Those are saved in the DWG rather
than in preferences, so the page says so beside each group and hides them
entirely when no drawing is open.
Changing them also rebuilds the geometry. The SETVAR path never did, which is
why the comment beside LTSCALE's invalidation exists — the same reasoning
applies here, and without it a new isoline count does not appear until some
unrelated edit rebuilds the solid.
Selection cycling joins the Selection page next to the other two selection
modes, since that is what it is.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Two drafting preferences had no proper home. The Drafting Settings dialog
displays the drafting rotation and offers only a Reset button — there was no
way to type an angle short of `SETVAR SNAPANG`. The polar tracking increment
existed in exactly one place: a pop-up hanging off the status-bar pill.
The rotation is a text field over an edit buffer rather than the value
itself, so clearing it to retype does not snap the crosshair to zero on the
way through; the buffer is reseeded whenever the value is restored from
behind it. Angles render without a trailing `.0`, matching how the polar
pop-up has always shown them — same kind of number, same reader.
Snap modes, grid spacing and object snap stay in Drafting Settings, where
they belong; the page links to it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Zoom direction and factor, whether TEXTEDIT ends after one object, whether
continued dimensions inherit the base dimension's style, which points QDIM
measures from, and which annotative objects pick up a newly set scale. All
six work today; none had a control.
Two of them needed their meaning worked out rather than copied.
ANNOAUTOSCALE stores the mode in the magnitude and on/off in the sign, and
the four modes are not documented anywhere in the app — the command prompt
just says `[-4..4]`. Reading `add_annotation_scale_to_objects` gives them:
1 skips layers that are off, frozen, locked or frozen in the viewport, 2
keeps the locked ones, 3 skips only locked, 4 takes everything. The dropdown
names them instead of showing bare numbers, and choosing Off negates rather
than zeroing, so the mode survives being switched off and back on — which is
the convention the status-bar pill already follows.
The QDIM origin priority had no system variable at all; it could only be
reached through a keyword inside the running command.
Drawing units stay in their own dialog; this page links to it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Hakan Seven