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.
Enable in-place editing of inherited properties in the Properties panel:
- Transparency: Switch to PropValue::EditChoice with ByLayer and ByBlock presets to allow direct typing of any numeric percentage value (0..90%) without combo_box autocomplete interference.
- Select-all-on-click: Integrate EditChoice text inputs into build_field_key_map with dedicated widget IDs, preserving click-to-select-all across editable fields.
- Material: Provide bounded preset choices (ByLayer, ByBlock, Global, and active custom material) to avoid scanning large drawing dictionaries.
- Plot style: Implement mode-aware behavior with interactive Choice in STB mode and ReadOnlyWithTooltip in CTB mode.
- Read-only tooltips: Introduce PropValue::ReadOnlyWithTooltip to provide contextual explanations for locked fields while preserving mouse text selection and clipboard copying.
- Dropdown alignment & unified borders: Fix EditChoice internal input/caret background clipping so the container's 1px neutral/active border surrounds the entire control identically to Lineweight and text inputs.
- Document defaults & aggregation: Synchronize document header defaults when editing with No selection, and aggregate heterogeneous multi-selections (*VARIES*).
Share source buffers across block placements and render nested content with GPU instance transforms.\n\nChunk silhouettes and compact mesh material data so large drawings stay under device buffer limits and remain responsive.
The shaded surface of a curved solid was visibly coarser than its own
wireframe: the wire ran along the true rim while the facets cut inside it.
Two things were wrong, and only one was the tolerance.
`facet_res` is a resolution multiplier — the same one `scale_lod` divides the
fallback sampler's chord fraction by — and the kernel path was using it as a
sag in world units. At the default that asks for a whole unit of departure, so
nothing smaller than a metre subdivided at all and a face was only ever as
round as its own boundary. It is a fraction of each surface's own radius now,
which carries no assumption about the drawing's units.
And it is the *edges'* fraction, shared from `EDGE_CHORD_FRAC` rather than
copied. Those edges are drawn over these faces; sampling the two differently
is what put the wire across a facet instead of along its corners. `facet_res`
is deliberately not applied either, since the edges it must line up with are
built once at highest detail and never scaled.
A torus is measured by its tube rather than its ring — the tube is the tighter
bend, and sampling to the ring leaves the section a hexagon.
The primitive-volume test claimed a mesh can never read over its true size.
That holds for a convex solid, where every chord lies inside; a torus is not
one, and across the inside of its tube the chords fall outside the material.
It passed before only because the sampling was too coarse to show it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
The last four truck crates are gone from the manifest. What they were doing
falls into three parts, and each now has one answer instead of two.
NURBS evaluation. truck was carrying B-spline curves and surfaces for the
SPLINE entity, hatch boundaries, BLEND's endpoint frames, the spline preview
and ACIS spline-surface faces. The kernel now has both, over one de Boor
written across however many coordinates a control point holds — so a plane
curve and a space curve cannot drift apart, and a surface is the same
algorithm applied twice. The rational and the polynomial cases stop being
separate types: weights absent means polynomial.
The entity conversion. Every LINE, ARC, ELLIPSE, SPLINE and polyline was
built into truck topology purely so it could be sampled back into points.
They are sampled through `entities::curve` now, which is where each one's
geometry is already defined once and what EXTRUDE and REVOLVE read — so a
circle drawn on screen and a circle handed to the Model tab come from the
same definition. That retires four of TruckObject's variants and the module
is renamed for what it does.
SWEEP and LOFT. Both only ever produced a mesh, so both are built from point
lists: a band of quads per span, and a lid where a profile closes. Lofting
profiles of different densities resamples them by distance rather than by
index, so a circle lofted to a square no longer twists.
Two things worth noting for anyone reading the old comments. The tolerance
globals that lived in the tessellation module were never about truck at all —
they are the per-frame chord height, and they move to `curve_tol`. And the
rule that a profile handed over as `Lines` silently broke EXTRUDE and REVOLVE
no longer holds: those read the curve directly and never look at this channel.
The two `automation` test failures are unchanged from before this and are not
caused by it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Every 3-D solid OCS makes or opens now goes through cadkernel, which holds
analytic surfaces — a cylinder is a cylinder record, not a spline that looks
like one. That is what lets a solid built here be written back out as exact
ACIS instead of a triangulation, and a facetted export is a one-way door: the
next application to open the file would have no way back to the circle.
The Model tab's seven primitives, the Design-group booleans, 3DROTATE,
3DMIRROR, 3DALIGN, SLICE, SECTION, POLYSOLID and PYRAMID all come from the
kernel now, and `scene.solid_models` holds a `Body`. A mirrored solid needed
its own care before; the kernel reverses the loops on the way through, so it
comes back the right way out rather than lighting black.
EXTRUDE and REVOLVE sweep the profile `entities::curve` already defines, so a
circle, an arc-bulged polyline and a closed spline arrive as the same thing.
A circle extrudes into four cylinder patches rather than a run of chords, and
a profile turned about an axis becomes a cone, a sphere or a torus. A spline
profile has no analytic side wall and is refused rather than approximated.
ACIS goes both ways through the codec's own bridge: `lift` to read and
`append` to write. That drops the 679-line truck conversion and the planar-
only exporter, and the tessellator keeps its bespoke sampler as a fallback for
whatever the kernel cannot yet express — reported rather than passed off as
whole, since a mesh missing a wall looks finished.
truck-shapeops is no longer used and is gone from the manifest. truck-modeling
stays for now: fourteen files use it as a 3-D NURBS evaluator, which the
kernel has no answer for yet, and SWEEP and LOFT have no kernel operation
behind them either.
The two `automation` test failures are unchanged from before this and are not
caused by it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
The pattern's lines were clipped by sorting their crossings with the
boundary and taking every other span. That is right where a line cuts a
boundary cleanly and wrong wherever it grazes one: a line through a
corner crosses twice in effectively one place, and from there every span
is inverted — the fill lands in the holes and the solid comes out empty.
A 1e-5 dedup on the crossings hid some of it and could not fix the rest,
because which crossings to merge is not the question.
The kernel divides the line by its crossings and then asks each span
whether its middle is inside, which costs a containment test apiece and
cannot get out of step. It also accepts a curved boundary rather than
only a polygon, which this call site does not need yet and a section
fill will.
What stays is the PAT frame — the family angle, spacing, origin offset,
the k range and the dash walk — which is a format convention rather than
geometry.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Each entity built its own, and what they offered had drifted apart from
what the geometry actually has:
- An arc offered no quadrants at all. It now offers the ones its sweep
covers, and no more.
- A spline offered its control points as endpoints. For a control-point
spline those are not on the curve, so the cursor landed in empty space
beside the geometry. It now offers its two real ends and its midpoint,
with the fit points — which are on the curve — still on offer.
- An elliptical arc had no midpoint and no ends.
A new SnapHint::Endpoint carries an end that cannot go in key_vertices.
Consecutive entries there are taken to be joined by a straight segment
and their midpoint offered, which is right for a line or a polyline and
wrong for anything curved: an arc's two ends would also produce a snap
out on the chord. Splines lose their key_vertices for the same reason —
the chord between two fit points of a curvy spline does not run along
it.
A polyline's midpoints and arc-segment centres stay out of snap_pts
deliberately. The engine already derives a chain's midpoints from its
vertices, and a wire carrying a centre is treated as round elsewhere,
which a polyline with one bulge in it is not.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Route model, paper, viewport and nested block content through one traversal while preserving leaf renderers. Carry decoded material state into mesh shading and harden solid geometry conversion.
Hakan Seven