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]>
COMPARE picks a drawing (or takes its path) and matches its objects with
this drawing's by what they draw: type, layer and tessellated geometry,
so an unchanged copy matches whatever its handle. Objects only here are
outlined in green, objects only in the other drawing in red, over the
current drawing, and Next / Previous zoom from one difference to the
next with a count in the prompt. A moved or edited object shows as one
of each. eXit (or Esc) clears the overlay.
Refs #970
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
With the new Associative option on (the default), ARRAYRECT and
ARRAYPOLAR build the array the way the drawing format stores one: the
selected objects move into an anonymous source block, an anonymous
array block holds one ByBlock reference to it per item, an INSERT of
the array block takes their place, and an AcDbAssocAction with an
AcDbAssocArrayActionBody, its three dependencies, the BaseNormal /
Origin / basePoint parameters and the value parameters tie them
together in the model-space network. The array is then edited from
Properties like an array read from a file.
The option flips with AS and is remembered for the session; on a
rotated working plane the commands keep making plain copies. Saving
drops the action of an array whose reference was erased or exploded.
Checked: created arrays reopen as associative with their parameters
and items, and the ODA converter reads the saved DWG without errors.
Refs #1109
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]>
codec reads the line curve of edge action parameters, which carries the
row axis of associative rectangular arrays.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
- Add root CHANGELOG.md as master index with executive release summaries
- Add dedicated changelogs for last 4 releases (v2026.38, v2026.39, v2026.40/40.1 unified, v2026.41) and unreleased
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]>
A section volume now shows grips on its top and bottom faces, so its
height is pushed and pulled in place like its sides, not only through
the Properties palette. Live sectioning also cuts MESH, polygon mesh and
polyface mesh objects that close a volume, drawing each as the capped
solid it bounds in every visual style.
Refs #1407
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
SLICE now takes MESH, polygon mesh and polyface mesh objects. A mesh
that closes a volume is sliced as a solid, so each side is capped and
becomes a 3D solid. An open mesh, such as a pipe run imported without
end caps, is clipped face by face and each side stays a mesh, open
along the cut. Keeping one side or both works as for solids, in one
undo step.
Refs #1398
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
MOVE, ROTATE, SCALE and MIRROR updated a MESH, polygon mesh or polyface
mesh but rebuilt the display only for solids, regions, bodies and
surfaces, so a transformed mesh kept being drawn where it was. Meshes
now go through the same display refresh.
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]>
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]>
TXTEXP replaces each selected TEXT and MTEXT with one polyline per
glyph contour, on the text's layer and with its properties: a
lightweight polyline for flat text, a 3D polyline for tilted text.
The outlines come from the same glyph tessellation the text renders
with, so stroke fonts give their strokes and outline fonts their
closed contours.
Refs D#1665
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]>
DVIEW (alias DV) offers TWist and Undo. TWist rolls the active view
or viewport camera to the typed angle; Undo steps back through the
twists made in the session. The new alias reaches existing profiles
through the alias migration table.
Refs #638
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]>
PUBLISH now runs what PRINTALL does: pick the layouts, each plotted with
its own page setup, into one multi-page PDF or to the printer.
Refs #1124
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]>
Every further reference to an already expanded block (a translated copy
of the same definition, at the top level or nested) was materialised as
a full copy of every wire, although the GPU already draws those copies
from one shared source with a per-copy offset. Such a copy is now a
single stub wire holding the shared prototype and its offset (stubs nest
inside prototypes, so nested repeats collapse too).
- The block renderer expands stubs into instance references while it
groups by source, so drawing is unchanged.
- Interaction queries expand only the stubs near the query, so snapping,
picking, window and crossing selection see each copy's geometry.
- Plot, boundary detection, viewport projection and entity_wires() get
fully expanded wires; count and reference-edit recolouring expand the
set while they are active.
- OCS_NO_BLOCK_STUBS turns it off.
A drawing with 480 references to a block of 100 nested 50-line blocks
(2.4M lines) now opens with 11k wires instead of 2.4M: peak memory
5.4 GB -> 0.37 GB, wire assembly 2.4 s -> 36 ms, interaction index
3.7 s -> 23 ms. The viewport, a plotted PDF, snaps and selections are
identical with and without stubs, and on five real drawings the view
renders the same.
Refs #1698, #1542
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Delegate INSERT and MINSERT explosion to the document-aware codec implementation, removing duplicate attribute and base-point handling. Update workspace, kernel and graph pins together and cover rotated arrays with a nonzero base.
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.
The resident tessellation memo held its own copy of every entity's wires
next to the assembled resident set. Runs now stay only in the set: a memo
entry whose wires the set holds just marks them valid (InSet) and reads
them back through a weak link with the set's layout ranges, so the set
remains uniquely owned for in-place patches. A resident build moves new
tessellations straight into the set (Pending until it is bound); hidden
entities copy their run out before the patch blanks it, and an abandoned
patch hands its half-taken set back for the full build that follows.
Builds whose runs are recoloured afterwards (reference edit, count) keep
owned copies as before.
On a drawing with 2.4M nested block lines: wire assembly 3.7s -> 2.3s,
memory after it 4.6 GB -> 3.8 GB.
Refs #1542, #1698
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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]>
The new pointer op sends moves (canvas pixels, or a world point projected
through the camera the cursor edits with), button presses/releases and
wheel steps in order, and reports the cursor's world point after each, so
grip drags and picks go through the same cursor path as the mouse.
click now projects through that editing camera too (it used the model
camera inside an entered viewport), and the grips read reports each
grip's constraint axis.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Expose creation fields, constraints and examples for the 11 supported types without expanding startup tool schemas. Share the creation contract and constructor with execution to keep accepted inputs consistent.
Validation: MCP, contract/factory and entity creation regression tests.
"Requires a number." and "Requires 0 or 1 only, or option keyword."
had no catalogue entry, so every locale showed them in English.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
DIST printed the raw world angle (-180..180) while the Properties panel
and typed directions follow the drawing's base angle and direction.
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]>
Windows 10/11 retired IApplicationAssociationRegistrationUI's advanced
dialog; it fails with 0x80070490 and the user was left with only an
error. Open Settings > Default apps on the app's registered page instead.
Refs #725
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 Image tab gains an Adjust card: X/Y offset in pixels (-2000..2000)
and X/Y scale (-10..10, tenth steps, a negative scale mirrors, zero keeps
the image's scale) with spinners and Reset, inactive while the image is
stretched; Keep aspect ratio is a switch and makes both scales follow.
- The preview shows the image at its offset and scale, tiled when tiled,
and a stretched image kept to its aspect ratio covers the view.
- Automation: step=<field>,+1|-1 and reset; offset/scale take any numbers.
- Shaded with edges, Shades of Gray and Sketchy have catalog entries in
every language.
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]>
Hatches are drawn before the wires and write depth, so a transparent
hatch above lines in draw order still hid them through the depth test.
Transparent hatches now go to their own renderer drawn after the wires:
the lines behind show through the blend and the lines in front still
win the depth test.
Fixes#1720
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
A polyline band was stroked like a pen line, with round caps and round
joins, and each segment as its own path, so corners came out rounded
and overlapping. Bands now use butt caps and mitre joins in one path,
and a tapered band fills each segment's quad so a zero-width segment
stays a thin line.
Fixes#1721
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
*.pat files in <config>/patterns and *.lin files in <config>/linetypes
are read after the bundled catalogs, next to the fonts folder SHX
files already resolve from.
Fixes#1725
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]>
