Direct distance entry (#1429) turned every bare number at a point prompt
into a distance, so ROTATE's angle and the values automation types were
read as coordinates. The step reads the token first now — `feed_command`
reports whether it claimed it — and only an unclaimed one becomes a
distance. That also puts the token back on the unified step driver, which
owns the P / L selection keywords and the dimension-snap bookkeeping, and
stops `on_text_input` running twice for the same token. A tracking ray
carries its own base, so it no longer demands an anchor that the first
point of a command does not have yet.
Plugin command execution (#1425) re-implemented the command line inside
the plugin host: it dispatched families directly, skipping the teardown
that starts a command (grip edits, selection gestures, `last_point`, the
accepted snaps), and made every `CmdResult::Dispatch` in the application
skip plugin dispatch to avoid its own re-entrancy. A scripted line now
runs through `run_command_line`, with the trailing Enter left off while
the plugin streams the command, and the re-entrancy is handled by a flag
set for the length of the plugin's call. A pause parks the line's Enter
with the rest of its tokens instead of dropping it.
A font reference (#1432) tried the family lookup before the face-file
index, and that lookup ends in a prefix match a longer file name loses to
(`ISOCPEUI.TTF` would take `ISOCP`). The exact file answers first.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Follow-up to #1341:
- interactive UCS offers Face / OBject; bare UCS OBJECT starts an entity pick
- one UcsPickCommand serves both FACE and OBJECT
- ucs_from_normal calls the existing arbitrary-axis helper instead of a copy
- prompt catalogue key and en-US text follow the new option list
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
On Windows a plot with no printer chosen went to the PDF application's
bare "print" verb — whatever that application considered its default —
and a viewer without a "printto" verb (Edge, store readers) silently
dropped the printer the dialog had chosen. The dialog also never named the
system default, and a failed printer enumeration left only "Default" and
"PDF" with the reason written to a console nobody sees.
- The default printer is looked up by name (GetDefaultPrinterW) both for
the dialog's "System default printer (…)" entry and before every job.
- A pure route decision (plan_print_route) resolves "Default" to that
name and uses the PDF application only when it registered a "printto"
verb for .pdf (AssocQueryStringW); otherwise the job goes straight to
the spooler through the existing GDI path. The report says which:
"Sent to printer: NAME (direct print | via the PDF application)".
- list_printers reports the system's own error; the plot dialog shows it
under the printer row and the command line warns once. A desktop without
CUPS is an empty list, not an error.
- PRINTERS command: default printer, listed printers (or the error) and,
on Windows, the print route — a report to paste into an issue.
- Properties… on the Default entry opens that printer's preferences sheet.
- GDI path: the driver's dmSize is kept (its private data lives behind
it), the print raster is no longer memoised for the session, and a
spooled temporary PDF is removed.
Tests: route planning (named / blank / no default / printto or not), the
PRINTERS command; the two Windows-only GDI tests pass the resolved name.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
- PSETUPIN / -PSETUPIN: with no arguments a file picker offers the chosen
drawing's named page setups in the Plot dialog; `PSETUPIN <file>` opens
the same chooser on that file; `PSETUPIN <file> *` or
`PSETUPIN <file> name,name` import straight away. Same-named setups are
replaced, the import is one undo step, and the report counts both.
- The Plot dialog's page-setup list gains "Import…": the chooser shows the
source drawing's setups with a tick each, All, Import and Cancel, and
selects the first imported setup afterwards. The source is read off the
UI thread with the same reader the editor uses for its own setups
(`scene::document_page_setups`), and handles that only meant something
in the source drawing (plot view, visual style) are dropped on import.
- Options → General → Plotting: "Show the page setup for new layouts"
opens the Plot / Page Setup dialog whenever a layout is created
(persisted with the plot preferences).
Tests: the document reader, the command (all / named / unknown / missing
file / undo) against a drawing saved by the app, the chooser flow, and the
new-layout option. Nine new strings in all 21 locales.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Plot dialog:
- "Units" (millimetres / inches) is the page setup's own unit: the offsets
and the custom scale are shown in it, the stored ratio converts with it
so the plotted result and the paper space's unit stay the same
- "Custom: [paper] mm = [drawing] units" spells the picked scale in that
unit and accepts a typed ratio, which selects the list's name for it or
becomes a ratio entry of its own
- "Hide paperspace objects" is the page setup's plot-hidden flag; it is no
longer derived from the "Hidden Line" shade mode
- "Save changes to layout" (paper layouts, on by default) writes the dialog
into the layout when a plot is sent; previews never touch it
- offsets are labelled in the page-setup unit and kept in millimetres in
the file
System variables (typeable, through SETVAR, listed by SETVAR ?):
- PLOTOFFSET, PAPERUPDATE, PLOTROTMODE, PLOTTRANSPARENCYOVERRIDE and
BACKGROUNDPLOT live with the persisted plot preferences: the plot origin
counts from the printable corner unless PLOTOFFSET says the paper edge;
a printer that does not list the sheet either warns or switches to its
default sheet; transparency can be forced on or off; BACKGROUNDPLOT bit 1
is the dialog's background switch and bit 2 drives batch plots
- CTAB and TILEMODE read and switch the current layout
Tests cover every new control and variable; six new strings in all 21
locales; the Plot dialog grows to 940×690 for the two extra rows.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
CREATESKETCH opens a sketch on the current UCS, or on one of the three
origin planes with XY, XZ or YZ. FINISHSKETCH closes it again.
Nothing here is new machinery: the plane is a UCS, the square-on view
is PLAN, the drafting aids are the snapper. What the pair adds is
holding them together and putting them back afterwards, including the
snap master state, so a user who works with snapping off gets that
back rather than silently keeping it.
Squaring the view up is not cosmetic. Drawing on a plane seen nearly
edge-on is the main way geometry lands somewhere the user did not
mean, because a few pixels of cursor travel cover a long way in world
space.
A sketch is a mode rather than a document object, so what it produces
is ordinary model-space geometry and the file stays a DWG other
software can open. Whatever was drawn becomes the Previous selection
set, so EXTRUDE then Previous consumes it without making the user
reselect a profile they just finished.
Comments and the Options help text describe the behaviour of commercial
solutions without naming any product. The command menu puts the command's
keywords directly under Enter / Cancel, with Recent Input and Snap
Overrides below them, so the choices that change from step to step are the
closest to the pointer.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
The command menu now follows the commercial solutions' layout row for row: Enter, Cancel,
Recent Input ▸, the command's keywords, Snap Overrides ▸ (every object snap
with its glyph, Mid Between 2 Points, None, Osnap Settings…), then Pan and
Zoom. Pan / Zoom run transparently while a command is active ('PAN,
'ZOOM …): navigation modes leave the command untouched and an interactive
ZOOM Window parks it and resumes it afterwards. Rows carry an icon gutter
so labels align; the Enter row shows a default value ("<0.5000>") as its
hint instead of a second finish row.
ARC gets the commercial solutions' prompt flow with all keywords: start [Center], second
point [Center/End], end; after Center: end [Angle/chord Length]; after
End: center [Angle/Direction/Radius]; Enter continues tangent. The
previous default (Center/Start/End with method codes) stays as ARC_CSE.
Object snaps gain a one-shot "None" override. New strings in all locales.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
The viewport context menu is now built from a pure model
(ui::popup::context_menu) rendered by the overlay: while a command runs it
offers Enter / Cancel / every keyword of the command's options() with the
keyword shown as a hint, a Recent Input submenu and M2P; when idle it offers
Repeat, Recent Input, Clipboard, Undo/Redo with history labels, the edit
block (Erase/Move/Copy/Scale/Rotate/Mirror/Draw Order), Isolate, Pan/Zoom,
selection tools, Properties and Options. The default row is anchored under
the pointer and the menu is keyboard-navigable (arrows, Enter, mnemonic
letters; any other key closes it and types into the command line).
Right-click behaviour is a user preference (Options → User Preferences,
SHORTCUTMENU / SHORTCUTMENUDURATION): shortcut menu (commercial solutions default),
time-sensitive, or the previous Enter-first cycle.
LINE gains options() (Close/Undo/eXit).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
- IMAGEEMBED: pack raster images into OLE2FRAME entities so a .dwg is
self-contained; 'Embed Image' entry in the XREF attach menu; control/MCP
op embed_image for external tools; dxf_name for OLE2FRAME queries.
- Scene: populate_images_from_document now rebuilds OLE2FRAME and PDF
underlay models too (they used to vanish after any XREF op).
- Printing: add PRINTER_ENUM_NETWORK pass when listing printers; GDI
spooler fallback (hayro raster at 300 DPI + StretchDIBits) for hosts
whose PDF handler registers no print verb; DEVMODE orientation with a
90-degree raster rotation fallback for v4 drivers; fix the fit-scale
precedence bug that printed blank pages.
- PDF export dialogs on Windows use the async file dialog so the native
overwrite confirmation no longer deadlocks the UI thread.
- Plot dialog: persist the chosen printer (saved on selection) and the
picked plot window across sessions; page setups with no device no
longer reset the output device.
- Community fonts: detect unresolvable .shx references on open and offer
a download from the repository's fonts/ folder (contribution guide in
fonts/README.md); custom font source URL setting for intranet font
servers; downloaded fonts resolve from the per-user fonts directory.
Refresh associations after complete SpaceMouse camera updates and recognize imported paper-space owners without Layout objects. Use kernel containment, intersection, perpendicular and spline tangent solving; pin cadkernel 7ce27f2 and add regressions.
Point input now keeps an `AcceptedSnap` alongside each point a command
collects: the paper point, the model point it came from, the viewport and
frame it was seen through, and the geometry identity the snap engine
attributed. Interactive picks record in the click handler, typed / dynamic /
headless points record in `feed_command`, and the list is cleared whenever a
command starts or the active space changes. Commands that don't care keep
consuming the plain paper point unchanged; PR2 reads the model point and
frame, PR3 the source.
Dimension association inference is suppressed when the dimension's points came
through a viewport. Inference matches geometry against the dimension's own
definition points in whatever space it is handed, so paper definition points
projected from a viewport would associate with unrelated paper-sheet geometry
at those coordinates, or match model geometry using paper coordinates. An
empty source list makes `attach_dimension_association` a no-op. PR3 replaces
this with real viewport-aware associations.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
**TEXTFILL marked the drawing modified.** It is an application preference —
it lives in a process global and is snapshotted into settings.json — but it
was missing from the list of names that persist, so setting it dirtied the
open drawing instead and never reached the settings file through that path.
**LTSCALE and CELTSCALE validated differently depending on the door.** The
standalone commands reject a value of zero or less, because a non-positive
linetype scale degenerates every dash pattern in the drawing. `SETVAR LTSCALE
-5` accepted it. A test drives both entry points for both variables and fails
on the SETVAR path without the fix.
**ISAVEBAK, SAVETIME and FILEASSOC were missing from the autocomplete
registry** although all three dispatch, so the command line never offered
them.
**`bg_color` and `paper_bg_color` were dead fields**, always written as `None`
and ignored on load since the model-space configuration superseded them.
Removing them is safe: the config is `#[serde(default)]` and ignores unknown
keys, so existing settings files simply stop carrying them.
One thing the survey flagged that turned out not to be a bug: on the Display
page the model background row hides itself outside Custom mode while the
paper and desk rows do not. That asymmetry is correct — the canvas mode
governs only the model background, and the other two apply in every mode.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Brings in 54 commits from origin/main: a selection-performance overhaul,
surface thickening, GPU-native wide/tapered stroke rendering, continued
ocs_doc_api evolution, and assorted fixes/polish (block double-click
editing, DWG hatch/database repair, clipboard, collapsible Properties
sections).
Six real conflicts, all where this branch had independently re-applied
a fix upstream later revised or already carried natively:
- src/app/automation.rs, src/app/command_driver.rs: combined both
sides — kept this branch's sketch-constraint/named-parameter loading
on "new"/"open", adopted main's Scene::clear()/material_base_dir and
its newer rebuild_derived_caches() over the older bump_geometry().
Scene::clear() (src/scene/entity.rs) now also resets
sketch_constraints/named_parameters, so every caller gets this for
free instead of each call site repeating it.
- src/io/mod.rs, src/scene/render_graph.rs: adopted main's design
outright (commit 973af87d, authored by Hakan directly) — a large
MINSERT is no longer purged as "corrupt" at load, only its rendering
is bounded, preserving the source data. This branch's own earlier
design (reject at load) predates that revision.
- src/scene/pipeline/mesh_gpu.rs: adopted main's valid_rgba_size()
guard (a real robustness improvement over this branch's version).
- src/snap.rs: replaced wholesale with main's version — this branch's
copy was an explicit verbatim snapshot from an earlier upstream PR
(commit 4c264b8c) with zero constraint-system-specific content, and
main has since evolved it considerably further.
Also removed two now-dead duplicates the merge surfaced without a
conflict marker (both branches had independently fixed the same
things): the OPTIONS/OP command dispatch/autocomplete entries, and
automation.rs's open_finalizes_and_purges_like_the_ui_open_path test
(kept main's version, which covers strictly more: solid_models/
material_base_dir reset on "new").
Full workspace suite passes (812 lib tests + this branch's own 24
constraint/persistence integration tests) except the one pre-existing,
unrelated font-test failure already present on main. Zero clippy
findings in the hand-written merge resolution itself; the ~1,171
warnings clippy reports are pre-existing in the 54 absorbed commits,
not introduced here.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
Named parameters (docs/named_parameters_design.md, stages 3-4):
- ParameterTable (src/scene/named_parameters.rs): a document-wide table of
named formulas, each resolved through a shared expression evaluator with
cross-parameter references, cycle detection, and division-by-zero/parse
error reporting. SketchConstraint::driving_param becomes DrivingValue
(Literal | Named) instead of a bare f64, resolved at solve time by
sketch_solve::build_constraint via Scene::named_parameters.
- Persistence (src/scene/named_parameters_persist.rs): same lazy XRecord
model sketch_persist.rs already established, synced around open/save.
Bumps the sketch-constraint XRecord's own format version (1 -> 2) since
DrivingValue's shape doesn't line up with a version-1 blob's bytes.
- PARAMETERS command and its editor (src/ui/window/named_parameters.rs):
add/remove/edit rows, live validation, duplicate-name detection: Apply
defines the table and re-solves every constraint scope with a
named-parameter-driven constraint (command_driver.rs). Distance/Angle
constraint prompts (modules/draw/constrain/value.rs) now accept either a
literal or an existing parameter's name, mirroring how the constraint's
own value prompt already worked.
- Undo scope-down carried over from this project's own established pattern
(constraint-system stage 9): the geometry an Apply moves is one undo
step, but the parameter table edit itself has no undo entry yet — a
documented follow-up, not a silent gap.
UI scale setting (src/app/settings.rs, app/mod.rs, ui/window/options.rs):
a whole-interface scale percentage (50-200%), wired directly into iced's
own per-window scale_factor hook rather than per-panel font-size
plumbing, so it applies immediately to every panel, dialog, and the
ribbon at once. Persisted alongside the existing lineweight-display-scale
setting.
OPTIONS/OP command dispatch (app/commands/view.rs, app/commands/mod.rs):
OPTIONS was registered for autocomplete but had no dispatch arm — the
Start-tab welcome screen's own button was the only way to reach it.
Found live-testing the UI-scale setting, unrelated to that feature
itself. "OP" is AutoCAD's own short alias.
help/: a new self-contained static user-help manual (manual.md as the
authored source, tools/build_help.py splits it into the committed static
HTML pages plus search index) — not yet wired into the application.
64 new/updated tests across the named-parameters and constraint-prompt
changes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
Options → Selection already carried the pick box, the selection-area effect
and the grip visuals. Four settings behind it were finished, persisted and
reachable only by typing a system variable, and one more was a constant.
**Four that only needed a widget.** `SELECTIONEFFECT`, `SELECTIONPREVIEW`,
`PICKADD` and `PICKDRAG` are all wired end to end already. `SELECTIONEFFECT`
was the odd one: the card's own "Restore Defaults" button resets it, so it
could be turned off by a button and only turned back on from the command
line.
`SELECTIONPREVIEW` is a bitmask and gets one checkbox per bit, which is why
`set_preview_bit` exists rather than two inline expressions — the bits are
the thing this change is most able to get backwards.
The `PICKADD` checkbox is worded as AutoCAD words it, "use Shift to add to
selection", which is the *inverse* of the stored flag. That inversion is
commented at both ends; it reads as a bug otherwise.
**`GRIPOBJLIMIT`.** The limit past which a selection gets no grips arrived
with the selection work as a hardcoded 100, matching AutoCAD's default. It is
now a setting, a slider and a system variable, following `PICKBOX`'s path
exactly. AutoCAD's 0 means "no limit", which the old `>` comparison could not
express, so the read now guards on it — with a test, because zero is the one
value that would otherwise suppress every grip instead of allowing all of
them.
The slider covers 0..=1000, where every useful value lives; the sysvar takes
AutoCAD's full 0..=32767, and a larger value set from the command line parks
the handle at the end while the read-out keeps showing the real number.
**`SelectionPrefs`** replaces the `pick_box` parameter rather than adding
three more. `view_window` already took seventeen positional arguments, and
`pick_add` / `pick_drag_rect` are two adjacent `bool`s that would swap
silently at the call site.
**Two fixes found on the way.** `OPTIONS` and `OP` were registered for
autocomplete but never dispatched, so typing either answered "Unknown
command" and the dialog could only be opened from the start page. And the
`SELECTIONPREVIEW` doc comment had its bits the wrong way round — the code
reads `& 1` for the idle rollover and `& 2` for the in-command one, as
AutoCAD does — which would have put the two new checkboxes' labels backwards.
**Not done, deliberately.** `PICKFIRST` and `PICKAUTO` exist but are always
on, with no variable. `PICKSTYLE` is stored in the header and read by nobody
— group expansion decides from the group's own `selectable` flag — so an
"object grouping" checkbox would control nothing. Associative-hatch selection
does not exist as a selection behaviour. Each needs a behaviour change rather
than an exposure.
Of the ten new strings, en-US and el-GR are translated; the other nineteen
locales carry the English text. Composing them from existing keys, the way
el-GR composes the neighbouring labels, only works for one of the ten —
there is no existing key for "limit", "unlimited", "shift", "rectangle" or
"lasso", and "Grips: Objects" as the label of a numeric limit would be worse
than an untranslated string.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
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.
