Model space appearance now follows the active UI theme instead of a
hardcoded dark background. Canvas mode is user-selectable (Match Theme /
Classic CAD Dark / Custom RGB), with matching controls for the paper
sheet and desk surround backgrounds and grid opacity.
Implements industry-standard CAD system variables, all settable via
command name, SETVAR, and the Options dialog:
- COLORTHEME (0/1 dark/light UI scheme, preserves custom palettes)
- COLORSCHEME (interactive named-theme selection)
- BACKGROUND (THEME/CLASSIC/DEFAULT/DESK presets, RGB triplets)
- SELECTIONAREA, SELECTIONAREAOPACITY (translucent marquee fill)
- WINDOWSAREACOLOR/WINDOWAREACOLOR, CROSSINGAREACOLOR (ACI or theme)
- SELECTIONEFFECT, SELECTIONEFFECTCOLOR (GPU highlight pass, driven by
selection_generation invalidation — no retessellation)
- SELECTIONPREVIEW (bit 0 = idle rollover, bit 1 = in-command hover)
- GRIPSIZE, GRIPCOLOR, GRIPHOT, GRIPHOVER (grip overlay styling)
INSERT enumerated all block names in a single prompt string, causing unbounded overlay growth and full-screen occlusion in drawings with many blocks. Replace prompt enumeration with a ranked, incrementally filtered suggestion model: BlockPicker maintains precomputed lower/upper caches and usage ranks (MRU/frequency), filters via O(n) substring scan and partial sorting (select_nth_unstable) to O(k), bounded to CLIPROMPTLINES.
Introduce CLIPROMPTLINES (Integer 0-50, Registry, default 3) for the number of temporary prompt lines above the command window; persist in UserSettings, expose via SETVAR and direct entry, enforce in CommandLine::view. Suggestion count is in direct relation to CLIPROMPTLINES (limit = clip, capped to 50).
Make search live without requiring Enter: add CadCommand::on_live_input, implement for INSERT/MINSERT via picker.set_needle, and wire to command-line input paths (Message::CommandInput, on_command_append_char, on_command_backspace). Updates use upper/lower caches and partial sort for <0.2ms per keystroke on 10k blocks, with debounced block-usage persistence (MRU cap 20, freq cap 200) to avoid I/O thrash. Correct tri_count test helper to use display_from_solid.
Implement the AutoCAD compatible HATCHTOBACK (HB) command and enhance the interactive DRAWORDER command pipeline with comprehensive verb selection and viewport entity picking.
Key implementations and architectural details:
1. HATCHTOBACK command execution
* Isolates entities belonging to the active layout block record or global space.
* Filters out entities residing on locked layers using an efficient hash set lookup.
* Records targeted delta undo operations on SortEntitiesTable objects (~100 bytes) rather than snapshotting full document structures.
* Performs granular draw depth cache invalidation via Scene::invalidate_draw_depth, preserving existing geometry tessellations and spatial indices.
* Emits localized user notifications when no qualifying hatch entities are found.
2. Interactive DrawOrderCommand state machine
* Supports preselected entities as well as interactive on demand selection gathering.
* Implements subverb selection supporting single character shortcuts (A for Above, U for Under, F for Front, B for Back) and case insensitive keyword parsing.
* Enables interactive reference object picking directly in the viewport via needs_entity_pick and on_entity_pick callbacks.
* Supports hexadecimal handle specification directly from the command line interface.
3. Ecosystem and system integration
* Bumps DEFAULT_ALIASES_VERSION from 2 to 3 to register the HB alias while preserving existing user overrides.
* Integrates HATCHTOBACK and HB into dynamic autocomplete registries.
* Adds localized message strings across all 20 Fluent translation catalogs.
* Corrects hatch boundary serialization flags to ensure outermost boundary rings consistently carry the external attribute.
F8 reached ORTHO as an ordinary command, and dispatching a command tears
down whatever is running first: the active command dropped, its preview
cleared, its base point forgotten. So pressing F8 partway through a LINE
abandoned the line, and during a MOVE it took the dragged ghost with it.
A function key gets pressed mid-command — that is what it is for.
Toggles that only flip a flag now skip the teardown: ORTHO, GRID, SNAP,
POLAR, and the drafting-settings popup. None of them starts a command,
opens a document or reads geometry, so there is nothing for the teardown
to protect.
F7, F9 and F10 came through the same path and were broken the same way;
they are fixed with F8. F3, F11 and F12 already had messages of their
own and were never affected.
Closes#677
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
The status-bar units button wrote INSUNITS, which nothing on screen reads.
INSUNITS only tells the drawing how to scale content arriving from
elsewhere, so picking a unit relabelled the drawing and changed nothing
visible — the selector looked broken because the variable it moved was
invisible.
Point the button at LUNITS instead, the setting that decides how every
coordinate and distance is written, and give the three questions the word
"units" runs together a place each:
- The button offers the five length formats, each shown beside a sample of
itself, so Engineering and Architectural are told apart by sight.
- UNITS / DDUNITS opens a real dialog: length and angle format and
precision, the direction angle zero points, whether positive angles run
clockwise, and the insertion unit. Its sample comes from the same
formatters the drawing uses, so it cannot drift from the readout.
- DWGUNITS converts. Model geometry, viewport framing, the header's length
defaults and each dimension style's scale all move together in one undo
step; paper space is left alone, since the sheet is still the same sheet.
Locked layers are converted too — a half-converted drawing would be at
two scales at once.
The coordinate readout formatted at four decimal places whatever the
drawing asked for; it now goes through the same format_length the
properties panel uses. That made the angle formats reachable in turn, so
degrees-minutes-seconds now carries the d/'/" marks that say which
convention it is, and surveyor's units are written at all.
Typed input is still plain decimal: a length the readout writes as
5'-6 1/2" cannot yet be typed back. ANGBASE and ANGDIR are stored but not
yet applied to displayed directions.
Closes#668
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Drawings arrive from elsewhere carrying someone else's layer names, and
folding them into a set of house layers meant renaming and merging by
hand, one layer at a time.
LAYTRANS reads a layer set out of another drawing and moves this one onto
it. Given a file it maps every name the two already share and translates
at once, which is all most incoming drawings need. Bare, it opens a
translator: the drawing's layers on one side, the loaded set on the
other, mappings built up between them and applied only on Translate, so a
mapping can be reconsidered and the whole translation is a single undo
step. Mappings can be saved and read back, objects can be forced to
ByLayer so the target layer's properties are what actually shows, and the
result can be written out as a log.
The move itself is the one LAYMRG already made for a single pair, so
LAYMRG now goes through it too rather than keeping its own copy.
Three things fell out for free or nearly so. A standards file is a
drawing, so .dws and .dwt need nothing but a place in the file filter.
The entity list is flat and holds block definitions, so objects inside
blocks travel with everything else instead of being stranded on a layer
that no longer exists. And a target layer that this drawing already has
is left alone: the drawing has an opinion about it, and restyling it
would reach past what was asked for -- only newly created targets take
the standard's properties.
Mappings are saved beside the drawing rather than inside a DWS. That is
where AutoCAD keeps them, but putting them there would mean inventing a
place in the drawing that nothing else reads back.
Closes#624
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
The ribbon offered four styles and dispatched each one's id as a command.
Two of those ids were not visual-style commands: "Shaded" carried SOLID,
which draws a 2D filled polygon, so choosing it started a draw command;
"Hidden" carried HIDDEN, which matched nothing at all, so it did nothing.
The intent had been for the button to fire its tool's event, but the
dropdown never reads one -- it dispatches the id.
Behind that sat two generations of the same feature. The render-mode
picker offered the seven styles a viewport can actually be drawn in;
everything else -- the ribbon, VSCURRENT, SHADEMODE, VISUALSTYLES and a
handful of bare verbs -- went through a binary wireframe-or-shaded flag
that could only approximate them, reporting "Hidden (shown shaded)" and
"X-Ray (shown as wireframe)" when asked for something it had no way to
draw. Four descriptions of one choice, each drifting on its own.
There is one list now. Each style names itself once -- mode, label, icon,
and the command that applies it -- and the ribbon, the picker, the
VISUALSTYLES verb and the interactive prompt all read from it, down to
the line that lists the choices, so what is offered cannot disagree with
what works. Keywords are the render modes' own names, since there is one
set of styles left to name.
The binary path is gone rather than kept alongside: its message, its
module event, the tool definitions that produced it, the ribbon's
special-cased highlight arms, the bare style verbs and the older keyword
spellings. X-Ray goes with it -- no render mode draws one, and it was
already coming out as a plain wireframe. Three files that had been left
holding a single icon constant each fold into the list.
Note: ModuleEvent::SetWireframe leaves the plugin API with it.
Closes#621
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Only Previous and Last were on offer, so Window, Crossing, Fence, the two
polygons and All could not be reached at all -- and with no keyboard to
type them into, the buttons were the only way in.
Window and Crossing fix the sense of the next box. Dragging derives that
from the direction the corner travels and would overwrite it the moment
the corner moved, so the derivation stands down while a keyword holds it.
Add and Remove decide what a pick does for the rest of the round: Remove
subtracts the way Shift already does, rather than through PICKADD, which
decides whether a pick *replaces* the set and so would have wiped
everything gathered so far. Both are dropped when the next command
starts, since neither outlives the selection that asked for them.
Fence and the polygons are picked point by point, which TRIM and EXTEND
already ask for. That gesture -- the points, the rubber-banded dashed
preview, whether the path closes -- moves into one place both bind to,
and the two preview builders duplicated in trim.rs go with it.
A fence is not the polygon test with crossing set: that closes the point
list and counts whatever lies inside, so a line drawn past a row of
objects would take everything behind it too. It gets a hit test that only
counts a real intersection, and skips the area-based geometry entirely.
The lasso gathered its hits from wires, hatches, block hatches, meshes and
block meshes inline; the new modes need the same list, and a second copy
would drift. Both now come through `Scene::path_hit_handles`.
Closes#596
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Add a searchable block palette with previews, file import, collision-safe nested definitions, and dependency/table-record import. Keep palette thumbnails current across drawing switches and block-definition edits.
PICKADD 0 = click/box/lasso replaces the selection (Shift toggles),
empty click clears; PICKADD 1 (default) keeps today's accumulate.
PICKDRAG 1 = press-drag spans a rectangle marquee through the box
machinery; PICKDRAG 0 (default) keeps the freeform lasso. Both persist
in settings.json. Also re-points the start-page gate test at the
start_allowed fn it moved into (#388/389 refactor left it broken).
Closes#226
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
Tool highlights used to stick: every click set active_tool, but only
interactive commands and a hand-maintained per-modal list ever cleared
it, so one-shots (Cleanup/AUDIT, view actions) and unlisted dialogs
(Customization/ALIASEDIT, CUI, Plugin Manager…) stayed blue forever.
Now the rule is mechanical: state toggles light from state only (the
click highlight drops immediately), interactive commands stay lit
while running, dialog openers stay lit until the modal closes (generic
clear replaces the per-modal list), and one-shots never keep it — the
dispatch site turns the highlight off when nothing stayed running.
On the Start tab, tools whose command the start gate refuses now render
dimmed (grey icon + label) across all button styles, dropdowns and the
quick-access strip; start_allowed() is the single shared authority.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
Donate, Send Feedback, OCS Web and Manage > About all answered "No
drawing open — use New or Open first." and did nothing.
Two doors guarded the welcome tab and the outer one shadowed the inner.
`dispatch_command` already knew which commands stand alone — About,
Donate, Report and the links were all on its list — but
`on_ribbon_tool_click` refused every ribbon event before dispatch was
ever reached.
The welcome page's own buttons emit RibbonToolClick, so they are only
ever clickable while `is_start` holds: the refusal covered exactly the
case they exist in, and they had never worked. New Drawing / Open File /
Plugins send their own messages, which is why the page still looked
alive.
So the ribbon door now defers commands to dispatch and keeps refusing
only what touches the scene. The policy stays in one place instead of
being half-remembered in two. A drawing tool is still turned away on the
welcome tab (#299) — the wording just comes from dispatch now.
The same gap was swallowing tools the issues never mentioned: CUI and
ALIASEDIT configure the application, not a drawing, and were missing
from the list, so fixing only the ribbon door would have moved their
refusal one door down rather than removing it. HELP and CUILOAD /
CUIIMPORT join them.
The new test drives the real message path and fails on the old code with
the reported wording. It reads the allowlist from source rather than
dispatching DONATE / REPORT / WEBVERSION, which shell out to a browser —
that also fails the day someone adds a welcome-page button and forgets
the list.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Make objects genuinely annotative — carrying real per-scale
representations that interoperate with other CAD apps — rather than just
a native flag. `create_annotation_context` synthesizes the extension-dict
chain (AcDbContextDataManager -> ACDB_ANNOTATIONSCALES -> per-scale leaf)
from the entity's placement; the editable Annotative toggle now covers
Text and block references as well as MText/MLeader; and a new
"Annotation Object Scale" dialog (OBJECTSCALE) adds/removes an object's
per-scale memberships. Requires the acadrust ObjectContextData encoder
(Cargo.lock bump).
Also fixes a render bug where objects carrying an *empty*
ACDB_ANNOTATIONSCALES (a single-representation marker with no per-scale
reps) were treated as annotative and (mis)scaled by the annotation factor
in scaled paper viewports, ballooning the text: an object is now
annotative-by-context only when its scale collection is non-empty, so
such objects render at their base geometry.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Command aliases (L→LINE, CC→COPYCLIP) were scattered across dispatch match
arms and CommandRegistration name arrays. Move them all into a single
user-editable file:
- assets/ocad.pgp: shipped default alias table (ALIAS,*COMMAND format),
embedded and copied to config/ocad.pgp on first launch; only that user
copy is read after. AA→AREA default closes#286.
- resolve_alias() rewrites the leading command token at the top of
dispatch_command_inner, so aliases resolve for every path (families,
plugins, Repeat menu). Args after the first space are untouched.
- Autocomplete hides alias keys and, when the whole input is an alias,
surfaces its target command as the top (highlighted) suggestion so the
highlight matches what Enter runs (AA→AREA, L→LINE).
- ALIASEDIT opens a new editor modal (add/edit/delete rows) with an Apply
button; Apply persists to ocad.pgp, closing discards unapplied edits.
- Strip alias tokens from all 8 dispatch match-arm files and 71 module
CommandRegistration arrays, keeping canonical/synonym/distinct-command
names. ocad.pgp is now the sole source: deleting or remapping an alias
there takes effect. CUI stays on the keyboard-shortcut panel.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
TEXTFILL 1 (default) fills TrueType text; TEXTFILL 0 draws it hollow
(outline only). Settable directly or via SETVAR, 0/1 or ON/OFF. SHX/LFF
stroke fonts are unaffected.
Reuses the existing stroke-SDF path: bake_glyph treats a TTF glyph as a
stroke (outline) field instead of a signed fill field when TEXTFILL is
off. Toggling resets the glyph atlas and re-tessellates text so quads
pick up the re-baked tiles. Persisted in user settings.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Run EXTRIM, pick a cutting boundary (line/arc/circle/ellipse/spline/
polyline), then click a side: every object crossing the boundary is
trimmed on that side and objects wholly on it are erased. Side is decided
by a parity crossing count (a segment to the pick point crossing the
boundary an even number of times is on the pick side), reusing the trim
intersection machinery; line boundaries extend to infinity. Line/arc/
circle are trimmed exactly; polyline/ellipse/spline via dense sampling.
Live preview while choosing the side: boundary in yellow, surviving parts
in blue, the removed parts in red.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Run QUICKPRINT (or QP), select objects, then Enter: the selection's
bounding box becomes the plot window and a PDF is written next to the
drawing (<name>_<timestamp>.pdf) using the active page setup, with no
dialog. Model space.
Implemented as a selection-gathering CadCommand (src/modules/view/
quick_print.rs) returning CmdResult::QuickPrint(handles); the host
(on_quick_print_handles) unions the picked entities' AABBs, sets the
plot window, and reuses the tested clipped window-export path.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Autocomplete suggestions came only from all_registered_command_names() —
the compile-time inventory registry returning &'static str — so
runtime-loaded plugin commands could never appear. Typing a plugin's
command prefix (e.g. `LS_`) showed nothing even with the plugin loaded
and its ribbon tab active; dispatch worked, only discovery was blind.
Collect each enabled plugin's ribbon ToolDef command ids plus its
manifest command_prefixes into a dynamic candidate pool
(OwnedRibbonGroup::command_ids → PluginManager::command_names →
plugin_command_names), refreshed in rebuild_ribbon_modules on startup
load, settings reload, and every enable/disable toggle. ranked_matches
now merges this pool with the static registry and returns owned strings.
A plugin.toml `commands = [...]` list for sub-verbs with no ribbon button
(e.g. LS_AUTOLABEL) stays a follow-up — it's a plugin-API surface change.
Closes#272
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Two follow-ups to ADDSELECTED:
- It no longer permanently changes the current layer/colour/linetype/
lineweight. The template's properties are captured as the drawing
defaults only while the launched draw command runs; a snapshot taken in
cmd_add_selected is restored the moment that command ends (central hook
in apply_cmd_result) or is interrupted by another command.
- Dimensions are supported: add_selected_verb maps each DimensionType to
its DIM* command, and the template's dimension style is adopted as the
current DIMSTYLE (restored afterwards). commit_entity_handle now stamps
every new dimension with the current DIMSTYLE — the DIM commands left the
default "Standard" on the entity, so a normal dimension also picks up
the active style now.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Take the first selected entity as a template, adopt its general
properties (layer, colour, linetype, lineweight, linetype scale) as the
current defaults, then start the matching draw command so the object
drawn next inherits them.
Supports Point, Line, Circle, Arc, Ellipse, all polylines (PLINE), Text,
MText, Spline, Hatch, Solid, Ray and XLine; other types report that
creation is unsupported. Registered for command-line autocomplete.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Layer color/linetype/lineweight and MATCHPROP edits set the
document dirty flag but never bumped geometry_epoch. The wire
caches key on that epoch and bake a ByLayer entity's resolved
color at tessellation time, so they returned stale wires until
a new entity forced a rebuild. Bump geometry on those four
handlers so the edit repaints immediately.
Also remove REGEN/REGENALL/REDRAW/REDRWALL: the GPU raster
pipeline keeps the display continuously in sync, so on-demand
regen/redraw is a no-op concept in OCS.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
- FLATSHOT: project the selected solid's edges to 2D Line entities at Z=0
- CONVTOSURFACE: convert the selected solid(s) to Surface entities
Both reuse the cached B-rep's edge wires. COMMANDS.md: 219/262.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Package the drawing plus its referenced files (xrefs + raster images)
into a sibling "<name>_archive" folder via std::fs, reusing the
existing block_records / entities iterators. COMMANDS.md: 217/262.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Convert selected closed polylines and circles into Region entities,
one wire loop each (reuses acadrust Region/Wire). COMMANDS.md: 215/262.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Six more standard commands by reusing existing infrastructure:
- CLOSE: close the active tab (Message::TabClose)
- HIDE / VISUALSTYLES: per-viewport render mode (Message::SetRenderMode)
- QUICKCALC / QC: alias the CAL arithmetic evaluator
- HYPERLINK <url>: attach a hyperlink via the PE_URL XData record
- XOPEN: open a selected xref's source file (Message::OpenRecent)
COMMANDS.md updated to 214 done / 15 partial / 33 missing of 262.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Integrate a large batch of standard CAD commands and fix several
name/behaviour mismatches, with no product references in code.
3D solids (reusing the truck B-rep pipeline):
- SLICE, INTERFERE, PRESSPULL, POLYSOLID, PYRAMID, SECTION
- 3DROTATE, 3DMIRROR, 3DALIGN (cached-solid transforms)
Annotation / text:
- ARCTEXT, SPLINEFIT (Catmull-Rom to Bezier), DIMJOGGED, OBJECTSCALE
(XData markers honoured by the existing geometry-gen / tessellator)
Blocks / misc:
- NCOPY (block-content extraction via explode_entity)
- OPTIONS, SYNCPVIEWPORTS, THICKEN, plus earlier toggles, aliases,
system variables, and layer/style/view commands
POINTCLOUD/RECAP and UNDERLAYLAYERS/UOSNAP are intentionally left out:
they require a proprietary binary / PDF-layer parser, a GPU point
renderer, and real test files.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Broad pass over the command set: integrate missing commands, wire
previously-unreachable ribbon/menu buttons, and correct name/behaviour
mismatches. Every UI command token now resolves (real handler where the
infrastructure exists, an honest "not yet implemented" status otherwise).
New commands:
- Draw: 3DPOLY, 2D solid (SO/SOLID2D), HELIX, TRACE, SKETCH, DIMCENTER
(DCE/CENTERMARK)
- Modify/inquiry: REVERSE, MEASUREGEOM (MEA), DBLIST
- Data/manage: BASE, OVERKILL (exact-duplicate removal), AUDIT (read-only
integrity report), SETVAR (system-variable get/set), SCRIPT (.scr runner),
FINDNONPURGEABLE
Behaviour fixes:
- LINE and SPLINE gain Close/Undo; AREA computes area/perimeter in f64
(correct at large coordinates)
- ATTEDIT/ATE unified so the alias and the ribbon button open the
interactive editor; -ATTEDIT is the command-line form
- Linear/aligned/radius/diameter dimensions gain a text override (Text) and
text angle (Angle) option
- INSERT gains Scale/Rotate options; COPY gains an Array option
- LINETYPE SET sets the current entity linetype; SETBYLAYER resets overrides
- UNDO accepts a step count
Integrations: standard dimension/block aliases (DLI/DRA/DAN, BMAKE,
EXPORTPDF, DDIM), drafting-aid and screen toggles (GRID/SNAP/POLAR/OSNAP/
DSETTINGS/CLEANSCREEN/QUICKPROPERTIES), viewport tiling
(CASCADE/HORIZONTAL/VERTICAL/VPJOIN), and customization entry points
(CUI/ALIASEDIT).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Replaces the opt-in `rmb_enter` setting (and `RMBENTER` command) with
always-on behavior. While a command is active, the first viewport
right-click acts as Enter (commit / close) and a second consecutive
right-click opens the context menu instead. Idle right-click still opens
the menu; right-drag still orbits.
The cycle is tracked per tab (`right_click_entered`) and restarts on any
other interaction — a left-click pick, a new command, an orbit, or
leaving the viewport — so the next right-click is Enter again.
Refines #185.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
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