Sheet metal: tear as a fourth corner relief shape (#809)

A sheet metal rule's corner relief shape can now be tear; saved under format 17 with a note.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>

docs/book/src/guide/files.md

@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ is available. Missing or incompatible pictures use the usual thumbnail generatio
 The default `cache: false` omits the portable thumbnail too.
 The repository's `docs/design-container.md` describes limits and encoding details.
 
-Current designs use format 17, including face anchors on a piece of a face by its own name, sheet metal rims and bend ends, bend edges for Convert to Sheet Metal, the names of projected edges, physical materials defined in the design, the font of sketch text, sheet metal corner relief shapes, sketch face anchors on cylinder caps, sketch axis
+Current designs use format 17, including face anchors on a piece of a face by its own name, sheet metal rims and bend ends, bend edges for Convert to Sheet Metal, the tear corner relief of sheet metal rules, the names of projected edges, physical materials defined in the design, the font of sketch text, sheet metal corner relief shapes, sketch face anchors on cylinder caps, sketch axis
 links, persistent
 names from exact face history, exact planar shell-face anchors, persistent analytic offset boundary roles and
 association profile references, durable sketch face anchors, periodic fit splines and versioned

docs/book/src/guide/sheet-metal.md

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 Where two bends of one edge flange feature meet at a corner of the base, the rule's **corner
 relief shape** (`corner_relief_shape`; Corner Relief Shape in Sheet Metal Rules) says what is
-cut there. `notch`, the default, cuts nothing more: the bends end square at the corner. `round`
+cut there. `notch`, the default, cuts nothing more: the bends end square at the corner, which
+leaves a step in the flat pattern between each bend's end and its flange's closed end. `tear`
+cuts no relief either, and no step: both bends run to the corner where the two bend lines
+meet, and each bend's end is cut straight, in the flat pattern, from that corner to where its
+flange's closed end starts. Folded, the two bends touch at the corner and open to the rule's
+gap where the flanges start; the bend table lists a torn bend between the middles of its two
+ends. A tear whose cuts would cross in the flat pattern, or that would run one bend into the
+other folded (flanges at very different angles), is left out with a warning and the corner
+keeps its notch. `round`
 and `rectangular` cut a relief the rule's **corner relief** across, centred on the corner where
 the two bend lines meet: out of the base a round with half that size as its radius, or a square
 with half that size as its side, and both bends stop where it begins, cut straight across. The
@@ -94,8 +102,8 @@ with the flange it stands on; where the flange beside that one leans in over it,
 cut back until it keeps as clear of that flange as the end of the flange it stands on does.
 Returns that can't be closed stay open with a warning, as on the base. Returns of separate
 features don't close toward each other either: make the returns round a corner in one feature.
-A corner relief changes none of this: it leaves the flanges' closed ends as they are, so the
-returns on them close over a relieved corner as over a whole one.
+A corner relief or a tear changes none of this: it leaves the flanges' closed ends as they
+are, so the returns on them close over a relieved or torn corner as over a whole one.
 
 ```json
 {"command":"sheet.flange","params":{"edges":[[60,2,20],[118,45,20],[60,88,20],[2,45,20]],