Motion Trace: a point's path as a joint is driven or a study plays, kept as a 3D spline (#1529)

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 | M8 | Surface workspace (#772). Done: Patch (sketch regions; edge loops of any shape and number of sides as one face, G0/G1/G2 to the faces beside each edge, through points, #759), Stitch, Thicken (planes and cylinders), Extend (straight edges of planar surfaces), Trim (by a plane or a face), Delete Face (healing), Boundary Fill, zebra/draft/curvature-map analysis. Proposed, in order: surface Extrude/Revolve/Sweep/Loft from open and closed curves (#757), Offset surface (#758), Unstitch and Reverse Normal (#766), Delete Face without healing (#768); Extend curved faces and edges (#760), mutual trim and trim by projected curves (#767), Untrim (#761), Thicken every surface kind (#765); Ruled (#762), Boundary surface and curve networks with G0/G1/G2 (#763), Blend surface (#764), sweep guide rails and two-rail sweeps (#771; orientation, twist and end scale done; loft rails #201), fillet between surface bodies (#769); continuity analysis, surface curvature combs and isocurves (#770) | deferred | — |
 | M9 | Components and assemblies: New Component / Create Components from Bodies, active component, per-component origin/bodies/sketches/timeline entries, occurrences with transforms, Copy/Paste vs Paste New, nested Browser tree with visibility and isolate; Ground, Move/Copy of occurrences, joints (rigid, revolute, slider, cylindrical, pin-slot, planar, ball) by joint origins with limits and Drive Joints, closed kinematic loops (four-bar, slider-crank: the loop's other joints follow the driven one on its branch, and driving stops where a loop can no longer close), As-built Joint, Rigid Group, Contact Sets (driving and motion studies stop where bodies in a set would pass through each other), Motion Study (joint values keyed along a timeline, playback, export of occurrence positions as JSON/CSV), Exploded views (automatic or by hand, shown without changing placements); interference, per-component physical properties; STEP with assembly structure; URDF export for robot simulators (links with meshes, mass and inertia; joint chains whose values match Drive Joints; docs/urdf.md). Physical properties now measure material-aware component/occurrence placements, descendants and repeated instances, including pending moves and body reassignment offsets; contact geometry and automatic exploded centres respect those offsets. Groundwork done: component tree, occurrences with transforms (instances, Paste New), world placement, active component as authoring frame, ground, Capture/Revert Position, moving bodies and sketches. UI: ASSEMBLE panel dialogs for New Component, Joint (snaps on faces, edges, circles and vertices; animated motion preview; offsets, flip, limits), As-built Joint, Joint Origin, Rigid Group, Drive Joints (live slider), Motion Link and Interference (overlaps shown red); joints in the timeline and the Browser | in progress | 32 |
 | M8 | Surface workspace (#772). Done: Patch (sketch regions; edge loops filled G0), Stitch, Thicken (planes and cylinders), Extend (straight edges of planar surfaces), Trim (by a plane or a face), Delete Face (healing), Boundary Fill, zebra/draft/curvature-map analysis. Proposed, in order: surface Extrude/Revolve/Sweep/Loft from open and closed curves (#757), Offset surface (#758), Unstitch and Reverse Normal (#766), Delete Face without healing (#768); Extend curved faces and edges (#760), mutual trim and trim by projected curves (#767), Untrim (#761), Thicken every surface kind (#765); Ruled (#762), Boundary surface and curve networks with G0/G1/G2 (#763), Patch with G1/G2 and general loops (#759), Blend surface (#764), sweep guide rails and two-rail sweeps (#771; orientation, twist and end scale done; loft rails #201), fillet between surface bodies (#769); continuity analysis, surface curvature combs and isocurves (#770) | deferred | — |
+| M9 | Components and assemblies: New Component / Create Components from Bodies, active component, per-component origin/bodies/sketches/timeline entries, occurrences with transforms, Copy/Paste vs Paste New, nested Browser tree with visibility and isolate; Ground, Move/Copy of occurrences, joints (rigid, revolute, slider, cylindrical, pin-slot, planar, ball) by joint origins with limits and Drive Joints, closed kinematic loops (four-bar, slider-crank: the loop's other joints follow the driven one on its branch, and driving stops where a loop can no longer close), gears, rack and pinion and screws (motion links whose ratio follows picked radii, parameters or a pitch, also inside closed loops), As-built Joint, Rigid Group, Contact Sets (driving and motion studies stop where bodies in a set would pass through each other), Motion Study (joint values keyed along a timeline, playback, export of occurrence positions as JSON/CSV), Motion Trace (a picked point's path as a joint is driven or a study plays, closed loops following; kept as a 3D sketch spline), Exploded views (automatic or by hand, shown without changing placements); interference, per-component physical properties; STEP with assembly structure; URDF export for robot simulators (links with meshes, mass and inertia; joint chains whose values match Drive Joints; docs/urdf.md). Physical properties now measure material-aware component/occurrence placements, descendants and repeated instances, including pending moves and body reassignment offsets; contact geometry and automatic exploded centres respect those offsets. Groundwork done: component tree, occurrences with transforms (instances, Paste New), world placement, active component as authoring frame, ground, Capture/Revert Position, moving bodies and sketches. UI: ASSEMBLE panel dialogs for New Component, Joint (snaps on faces, edges, circles and vertices; animated motion preview; offsets, flip, limits), As-built Joint, Joint Origin, Rigid Group, Drive Joints (live slider), Motion Link, Gear, Rack and Pinion, Screw and Interference (overlaps shown red); joints in the timeline and the Browser | in progress | 32 |
 | M9 | Components and assemblies: New Component / Create Components from Bodies, active component, per-component origin/bodies/sketches/timeline entries, occurrences with transforms, Copy/Paste vs Paste New, nested Browser tree with visibility and isolate; Ground, Move/Copy of occurrences, joints (rigid, revolute, slider, cylindrical, pin-slot, planar, ball) by joint origins with limits and Drive Joints, closed kinematic loops (four-bar, slider-crank: the loop's other joints follow the driven one on its branch, and driving stops where a loop can no longer close), gears, rack and pinion and screws (motion links whose ratio follows picked radii, parameters or a pitch, also inside closed loops), inverse kinematics (`joint.reach`: a part's point to a target through the joints on its chain, within limits and with loops closed, nearest pose and its stopper when out of reach; dragging a jointed part in the viewport moves it as far as its joints allow), As-built Joint, Rigid Group, Contact Sets (driving and motion studies stop where bodies in a set would pass through each other), Motion Study (joint values keyed along a timeline, playback, export of occurrence positions as JSON/CSV), Exploded views (automatic or by hand, shown without changing placements); interference, per-component physical properties; STEP with assembly structure; URDF export for robot simulators (links with meshes, mass and inertia; joint chains whose values match Drive Joints; docs/urdf.md). Physical properties now measure material-aware component/occurrence placements, descendants and repeated instances, including pending moves and body reassignment offsets; contact geometry and automatic exploded centres respect those offsets. Groundwork done: component tree, occurrences with transforms (instances, Paste New), world placement, active component as authoring frame, ground, Capture/Revert Position, moving bodies and sketches. UI: ASSEMBLE panel dialogs for New Component, Joint (snaps on faces, edges, circles and vertices; animated motion preview; offsets, flip, limits), As-built Joint, Joint Origin, Rigid Group, Drive Joints (live slider), Motion Link, Gear, Rack and Pinion, Screw and Interference (overlaps shown red); joints in the timeline and the Browser | in progress | 32 |
 | M10 | Sheet metal: flange (base, edge, contour), hem, unfold/refold, convert, flat pattern + DXF, rules: done. PLASTIC enclosure subset: Boss, Rib, Web, Lip/Groove, Snap Fit, Rest, Plastic Rules (library, edit, assign; rule draft and clearance as feature defaults): done, tested against hand-computed geometry. UI: SHEET METAL and PLASTIC tabs in Fusion's layout with dialogs (live preview, Edit Feature, pre-selection) for Flange, Hem, Unfold/Refold, Convert, Sheet Metal Rules, Create Flat Pattern (flat view with bend lines, bend table CSV/JSON and DXF export with exact circle/arc/line cutouts), Boss, Lip/Groove, Snap Fit, Rest, Manage and Assign Plastic Rules; Fold (bend along a sketch line); flanges meeting at a corner closed at any angle with the rule's gap; edge flanges with their own angle and height per edge in one feature; corner reliefs (notch, round, rectangular, tear) chosen by the rule; Convert to Sheet Metal from a solid or shelled body by its bend edges (flat faces, sharp bends) | in progress | 36 |
 | M11 | 2D drawings | deferred | — |