A lone Alt shows a code on every ribbon tab and quick-access button.
Typing a tab code opens the tab and shows the codes of its buttons,
dropdowns, slide-outs and collapsed panels; a button code runs it, a
dropdown or slide-out code opens it and shows its item codes, Esc goes
back one level. Codes follow the reference ribbon; buttons without a
reference counterpart get none and unnamed menu items are numbered.
Codes are drawn as accent pills over the widgets that reported their
bounds in the current frame, with a hint bar under the ribbon. While
the tips are open keys go to them only. The automation gets a keytips
action and read operation.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Create a new named definition from current session edits, restore the source checkpoint, and continue editing the copy with fresh local history. Add the name dialog and Save dropdown, clone supported owned metadata onto independent handles, and refuse unsupported relationships atomically.
REFEDIT opens a dialog after the pick: the nesting chain as chips with a
preview of the chosen definition, all objects or picking them in the
drawing, attribute definitions (offered only when the definition has
them), locking objects outside the working set and unique names for an
external reference's named objects. The settings are remembered.
With unique names an xref's dependent layers, linetypes, text styles and
blocks are checked out as $N$NAME records of their own; without, under
the plain name, sharing a host record of that name. Save writes them back
under the reference's names, and the records made for the session are
removed when it closes. -REFEDIT uses the remembered settings.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
IMAGEADJUST (alias IAD) takes the selected raster images or asks
"Select image(s):", then opens a dialog with a before/after preview of
the first image and brightness, contrast and fade rows (bar plus
stepper, whole numbers 0-100). Apply writes the values to every chosen
image as one undo step; restore defaults sets 50/50/0. Adds the
image_adjust automation action and the image-adjust locale group.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
One finger already worked as the mouse. Two or more fingers now make a
gesture instead of fighting over the cursor: two drag to pan and pinch to
zoom about the fingers, three drag to orbit; a quick two-finger tap opens
the context menu, a three-finger tap zooms to the extents and a quick
three-finger swipe up shows the isometric view. While a gesture runs the
drawing area's own pointer handling keeps out, and the press the first
finger started is dropped.
Refs #906
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Ctrl+click on a polyline selects the segment under the cursor (again to
drop it); several segments can be picked. Only the picked segments are
highlighted, and MOVE, ROTATE, SCALE and MIRROR then change just their
vertices, so the neighbouring segments stretch to follow. Any other
selected objects are transformed whole as before.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
A paste that finds no text now reads an image off the system clipboard
on desktop as well as on the web. The pixels are written as a PNG beside
the drawing (or in the config folder for a drawing never saved) and
placed as a raster image at the cursor, the same way the web paste
attaches a screenshot. PASTESPEC falls back to the same image paste when
the clipboard holds neither objects nor text.
Refs #645
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Three toggles beside the Recent Documents title switch the panel between
the existing list, a grid of thumbnail tiles and one large preview per
file. The choice is kept in the recent section of the app config.
Refs #1494
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
An associative array is an AcDbAssocAction with an
AcDbAssocArrayActionBody, dependencies on the array INSERT, the block
holding the item references and the block holding the source objects,
and value parameters (Items, ItemSpacing, Rows, …). Selecting the array
INSERT now shows its counts and spacings in Properties; changing one
places the items again and rewrites the item references, the body's
item records and the parameter values together, in one undo step, so
the drawing stays associative when saved.
Rectangular arrays follow their RowProfile axis, AxesAngle and base
normal; polar arrays turn about the centre recovered from their first
item, Radius and StartAngle. Both match the stored items of the
associative arrays in the sample drawings (122 of 123 rectangular, all
polar items of the polar samples). Path arrays are shown read-only.
Refs #1109
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
FBXEXPORT (also EXPORTFBX) saves every 3D mesh of the drawing (solids,
surfaces and meshes, at full display resolution) as a binary FBX 7.4
file for visualisation tools: one model per object with its geometry,
face normals and a material in its display colour. Axes stay Z-up and
the unit scale follows the drawing's insertion units.
Refs #1502
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Options > Display gains Window Elements with "Show the menu bar"
(MENUBAR) and "Show the ribbon" (RIBBON / RIBBONCLOSE); Options > User
Preferences gains a Hatch switch for HPASSOC. The command line now
starts at 80 % opacity so the drawing shows through it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
MENUBAR 1 shows File, Edit, View, Insert, Format, Tools, Draw,
Dimension, Modify, Parametric and Help menus above the ribbon; every
entry runs an existing command, and a test keeps each entry pointing at
a registered command. RIBBONCLOSE hides the ribbon and RIBBON brings it
back, so the menus can replace it. Both choices persist.
Also translates the "File" label, which every locale had left in
English.
Refs #1450
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Opening the block editor brings up a Block Editor ribbon tab with
Edit / Save / Discard, Attribute Definition, and the geometric,
dimensional and parameter tools that drive parametric blocks. The tab
is only listed while a block editor session is open, and leaving the
session returns to the tab that was active before.
Refs #509
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
ADJUST gathers raster images or PDF/DWF/DGN underlays (other objects are
dropped silently, pickfirst is used, a mixed set is refused), then asks the
image option (Brightness default) or the underlay option (last used), with
value prompts that offer the image's own value or the session's last
underlay fade/contrast, and Monochrome Yes/No. Invalid values re-prompt.
One undo step. -IMAGEADJUST, PDFADJUST, DWFADJUST and DGNADJUST take one
kind each. Raster image Brightness/Contrast/Fade move to an Image Adjust
section as whole numbers with 0-100 validation.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
COMMANDLINEOPACITY (20-100 percent, default 100) and a slider under
Options > Display make the floating command line's panels see-through,
so the drawing stays visible behind it. The input field stays opaque
for legibility. The value is an application setting that persists.
Refs #1494
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Pressing on a selected object (away from its grips) and dragging runs
MOVE on the selection from the grabbed point, and the release is the
destination, so the drag gets the command's preview, snaps and ortho.
With Ctrl the drag runs COPY and places one copy. A press that does not
move stays an ordinary click, and drags that start off the selection
still make a window or lasso.
Refs #750
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
HPASSOC (0 or 1, default 1) is the starting state of the hatch
command's associative option. It is an application setting: typed
directly or through SETVAR, it persists across sessions and does not
mark the drawing modified.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
In model space MVSETUP draws the sheet border at the drawing scale
(scale factor, paper width and height) and zooms to it, or switches to
a layout. On a layout it creates viewports in a bounding area (a single
one, a 2x2 engineering set of top/front/right/isometric views, or an
array with spacing), deletes picked objects, and scales picked
viewports to a paper/model unit ratio.
A viewport's fit to the model now measures the model along the
viewport's own view direction, so side and isometric views frame it
too.
Refs #1501
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
PASTESPEC offers the formats on the clipboard: Objects and Block for
objects copied in the application (the PASTECLIP and PASTEBLOCK paths),
and Text for the system clipboard's text, placed as multi-line text in
the current text style with its lines as paragraphs.
Refs #645
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
A non-associative hatch's boundary vertex grips now offer Add Vertex and
Remove Vertex next to Stretch, on polyline boundaries and on boundaries
made of line edges alike. Add Vertex inserts the vertex after the picked
one, halfway along the next segment (on the arc for a bulged polyline
segment, splitting its bulge), and lets it be placed like any grip.
Remove Vertex drops it while keeping at least a triangle.
Line-edge boundaries used to show two grips at every corner (one line's
end, the next one's start), so dragging one opened the loop; each corner
is now one grip that moves both ends.
The automation grip_menu_pick action chooses an entry of the open grip
menu, so these edits can be scripted and checked.
Fixes#1058
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Typing <angle at a point prompt (e.g. <30) now fixes the direction of
the next point from the last one until a point is placed: the cursor
moves along that direction, and a bare number entered next is the
distance along it. The angle is read in the drawing's angle base and
direction and turned into the current UCS. Works from the command line
and from scripts or the automation token input alike.
Fixes#1464
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Introduce would_create_cycle in block_service to prevent recursive block definitions with case-insensitive matching across block records. Enforce cycle refusal at INSERT commit in BEDIT and during block redefinition (redefine_block_raw) with a shared error message. Ensure render-time recursion truncates safely with a one-time session warning on cyclic documents.
Enforce constant attribute flag in ATTEDIT dialog by presenting constant attributes as disabled and ignoring modifications. When exploding an insert, restore block-definition attribute definitions as transformed ATTDEF entities while dropping instance attribute values.
In a tilted 3D view a grip followed the cursor onto the screen plane
through the orbit target, so a circle or arc jumped to another radius and
a polyline vertex left its plane. A model-space grip now moves in the UCS
XY plane at its own elevation (the screen plane only when seen edge-on).
A solid stays drawn while its grip moves, and its own edges were still
snap candidates: a cone's base radius landed on its own side. The edited
entities are left out of the grip's snap set.
Fixes#1033
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
- A layout opens for the first time when its page setup was never
initialized (no paper size, no media name) or it was created in this
session; its page setup is initialized then, and with
LAYOUTCREATEVIEWPORT it gets its first viewport. A layout never opened
is saved with an uninitialized page setup and no viewports, so it gets
its viewport when the file is opened again, here or in the reference.
- Select Viewport for view: a viewport is selected when the pick box
(PICKBOX pixels at the sheet's zoom) touches its frame; a pick well
inside or outside selects nothing and the prompt repeats.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Renaming a layer or a style was only applied on Enter; clicking anywhere
else dropped the typed name. A click that moves focus off a field whose
text changed now commits it. New and Copy in the style managers open the
generated name for renaming, so a new style can be named right away.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
A layout opened for the first time - one whose sheet viewport had to be
made, or one created in this session - gets a viewport centred on the
printable area, 0.8 of its width and height, zoomed to the model's
extents, while LAYOUTCREATEVIEWPORT is on. The profile variable takes
ON/OFF or 1/0 and is kept with the settings.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
A new drawing is metric with metre insertion units, but its annotation
multiplier stayed at Scene::new()'s unitless 1 while opened files and
CANNOSCALE convert paper millimetres into drawing units (0.001 at 1:1).
Annotative text and dimensions were drawn 1000x too large until the
first scale change, then shrank to their real size and looked gone,
also after switching back to 1:1.
One helper now derives the multiplier from the header; new drawings,
file open and every INSUNITS change (UNITS, the units popup, DWGUNITS,
SETVAR) go through it.
Fixes#1674
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
The web control channel gains a save operation that serializes the
active drawing in the requested format and returns it as base64 in the
reply, clearing the dirty flag, the counterpart of opening from bytes.
A host page can also define window.openCadStudioSaveFile(name, bytes)
to receive every saved or exported file in place of a browser
download; while it is set no file picker opens.
Fixes#1704Fixes#1705
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
- The background image texture is not an sRGB view: the image is drawn with
its own colours, as the solid and gradient colours are.
- An entered paper-space viewport shows its named visual style (Realistic,
...) in the render-mode picker, and a mode picked there is recorded as the
viewport's visual style.
- The view_background automation action takes offset=x,y and scale=x,y.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
