* View-dependent display refinement: bodies seen up close are drawn from finer display plans (#1320)
Each frame the viewport works out every shown body's screen-space error (the display
quality's chord tolerance in pixels where the body is nearest the eye) and picks a
refinement step past the chosen display quality, each halving the chord, with hysteresis.
Steps are planned off the UI thread and swapped in when ready, within a triangle budget
and a cache size. Faces (GPU plan or CPU mesh), edges, silhouettes and highlights of a
refined body all come from the refined plan, so a highlight stays on the drawn triangles.
Planned bodies are chunked by content on the GPU, so a refinement re-evaluates only its
own chunk. Display only: the reference mesh, the B-rep and exports never change.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* Display refinement: only collect finished plans while the view stands still, time the choice, keep the web planning one step a frame
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* Format
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* Keep the Display quality note as it was (the longer one pushed the Colour vision list off the Graphics page)
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* Web app: read a STEP file a piece per frame, with progress and Cancel (#1376)
The kernel's STEP reader walks the file first and converts its solids afterwards,
and StepReading exposes those stages: parse and walk, then convert a solid (or a
batch) per step, then finish into the shared import cache. The web app's file
load drives it from the frame loop for about 30 ms a frame, shows the same
progress card and Cancel as the desktop, and then runs the insert or open, which
finds the file already read. The desktop path is unchanged in behaviour.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* Web app: make the imported bodies' meshes a few per frame too (#1376)
After the read, the insert or open runs, and then the bodies' display meshes are
made a frame's worth at a time ("Preparing the view"), as the desktop worker
warms them, instead of all in the first frame that draws the design.
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component.insert_design (a saved part as a linked component) had no button, so an
assembly of separately saved parts looked impossible. It is now on the ASSEMBLE panel
of every tab and in the File menu; it asks for the file, and a STEP or mesh file picked
there is inserted as Insert STEP or Insert Mesh would.
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* Windows: resize border from the first frame, DPI-correct window moves (#1381)
- The egui resize zones were laid out after the start page's early return, so a launch without
a design had no resize edges at all. They now run on every page.
- Windows: the main window's procedure answers WM_NCHITTEST with the resize edges and corners,
Windows' own border width at the window's DPI (8 px at 100 %), so the OS shows its resize
cursors and runs its own resize (snap included) from the first message; no egui zones there.
- Windows: WM_GETDPISCALEDSIZE returns the size winit then applies (same logical size), so the
rect the OS suggests while the title bar is dragged onto a monitor with another scale is the
rect the window gets.
- Zone sizes and hit test shared in titlebar.rs and unit-tested; Windows CI checks the hit test
right after launch and a real edge drag.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* Windows resize smoke: find the main window by its title
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* Windows resize smoke: probe the maximized window at the screen's edge
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Measure now reads the picked item's exact shape (cylindrical faces, circular and arc edges,
sketch circles, arcs and lines, profiles, planes, points):
- A circle, hole or arc shows Ø, R and its length (circumference, or arc length and angle).
- A slot (a sketch profile, or a half-cylinder end of a slot in a solid) shows its width,
centre-to-centre length and overall length.
- Two items where one is round measure from the centre or axis by default (axis to axis,
axis to plane, edge or point), with the closest and farthest distances listed too; the
panel switches between centre, min and max, and the canvas line follows.
- inspect.measure and MCP `measure` (new `items` argument) add diameter, radius,
center_distance, min and max; existing fields are unchanged.
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* Fillet/chamfer: point the drag arrow into the corner on inside edges (#1384)
The radius/distance arrow always pointed against the faces' outward
bisector, which is into the body on an outside edge but away from the
corner on an inside one, where the blend adds material. The arrow and
the spline radius handles now take each edge's convexity into account,
so dragging out along the arrow grows the value on both kinds of edge,
and each edge of a mixed chain follows its own.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* Tests: no unreachable! in the blend arrow helper
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Preferences ▸ Navigation ▸ Orbit around now offers View centre (the default, as before), Origin and Point under the cursor. A saved orbit_cursor preference migrates to the cursor option, and the control channel still accepts the old key.
Thanks to @kuraneko1 for this.
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The groove's facets came in sweep order, and the BSP takes each list's first
polygon as its splitter, so the tree was as deep as the list: quadratic time and
memory. An M8 x 60 mm thread ran out of tree depth after 12.9 GB. A fixed shuffle
gives a shallow tree and the same result (volume and faces equal to 1e-9).
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fr.json covers the messages main added since #1224 (render workspace, design properties, display quality, surface untrim, joint drive stops, Save as Mesh), with the same terminology conventions.
A dimension to a line, or between two parallel lines, drew its extension lines from the
measured end point and its foot on the other line, so they ran the whole length of the
lines to wherever that end happened to be. They now start from the nearest point of each
line to the dimension line, and disappear where the dimension line already crosses it.
Fixes#1361
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Converted sheets take the rule's corner relief between walls and its bend relief where a bend ends beside more of the fixed face, and a wall on part of an edge bends only where it stands. Noted under format 21; nothing new is saved.
A new face-based Extrude Join (and outward Press Pull) joins the picked face's body by default and stores that scope, so an edge-touching neighbour is no longer tried first or absorbed. Explicit targets and participants still win. Related to #226.
The Joint and As-built Joint dialogs explain why picks make no joint and offer Create Components from Bodies when every pick is on one component; joint.create and joint.as_built suggest component.from_bodies. Labels in all catalogs. Fixes#1239.
Offscreen GPU test devices start the backend the app would choose (WGPU_BACKEND, else one hardware backend on Windows) instead of every backend at once. Test-only. Fixes#1330.
The Midpoint Line tool previews the line from the cursor's mirror image through the middle to the cursor, which is what the second click commits. Fixes#1358.
Fixes#1187. New parameters.move {name, before|after} reorders user parameters (the design's own params order, so it is saved with no format change, and undoable); the Parameters dialog's user rows get up/down buttons. Label in every catalog. I merged main in. Checked on main + this branch: cargo check --workspace, the engine parameters tests, the UI parameter_order test, and docs/features.md regenerates unchanged.
Closes#1284. sheet.export_dxf writes layers by role (OUTLINE, CUT, TEXT or ETCH, dashed BEND_UP/BEND_DOWN, optional BEND_NOTES, POCKET_<side>_Z…_MM and PERFORATION), inner contours before the outline; text: cut|etch, bend_notes and note_height, per_body files. Letters are derived from the timeline, nothing new is saved (format unchanged). I merged main in (the export's parameter list keeps main's pocket layer names). Checked on main + this branch: cargo check --workspace, the engine cmd::sheet tests (160) and the io DXF tests.
Fixes#1167. While a sketch is edited, a body that a rolled-off, unsuppressed Remove deletes is not shown (unless the sketch is built on it); the history stays rolled back, only the view changes. Drawing, picking, screenshots, thumbnails and the browser's Bodies folder agree; document.inspect reports removed_later. Checked on main + this branch: cargo check --workspace, the engine sketch_edit_removed/occurrences tests and the UI viewport/browser tests.
Part of #771 and #772. solid.sweep and surface.sweep take orientation (perpendicular, parallel or a direction), twist (up to 4 turns) and end scale (0.01 to 100), applied about the profile's normal through the path's start; default options run the old sweep, so existing sweeps are unchanged. New fields are optional, left out when unset and noted under format 21; twist and scale are model parameters. Both sweep dialogs get Orientation, Twist and End Scale rows; labels in every catalog. Checked on main + this branch: cargo check --workspace, kernel/engine/UI sweep tests, the doc suite and the robustness goldens.
One docked Save as mesh dialog replaces Export STL / 3MF / 3MF with face tags, with an optional Send to slicer that lists the slicers installed on this machine. Engine: file.save_mesh and file.slicers; the Convert Mesh dialog goes (mesh.convert and the MeshConvert feature stay, so existing designs open). Strings in all catalogs; screenshots in the PR. Checked on main + this branch: cargo check --workspace, the engine slicer/mesh/file tests, the UI catalog and menu tests and scenario s14 (the one local colour-token failure is epaint's TexturesDelta panic, which main shows on this machine too).
Fixes#1075. sketch.constraint.symmetry takes a centre point (the origin or any sketch point) as well as a line; the Symmetry tool's third pick may be the origin point or the sketch's own X/Y origin axis. Checked on main + this branch: cargo check --workspace, the engine cmd::sketch tests (257) and the UI symmetry pick tests.
* Optional supersampling (SSAA) for the viewport, adaptive and within the texture limit (#1288)
Preferences ▸ Graphics ▸ Supersampling: Off (default), 1.5× or 2×. The frame is drawn into
textures of the viewport's own kind (format, depth/stencil, MSAA) at that multiple of its pixels,
over transparent black, then filtered down into the viewport with four bilinear taps (the exact
2 × 2 box at 2×) and composited premultiplied over the background. Lines keep their on-screen
width; silhouettes and edges come out smoother.
Adaptive (on by default): the view is drawn at full speed while the camera moves and
supersampled once it has held still for a quarter of a second.
The supersampled size stays within the device's largest texture side (#869) and a 384 MiB
budget for colour and depth (MSAA samples included); under 1.25× is not worth it and the frame
is drawn as usual.
Labels in en/de/ja/ko/zh; `ui.prefs` `supersampling` and `supersampling_adaptive`.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* Supersampling: factor and adaptive on one row; Off reads Off (1×)
The Graphics page grew past the colour vision menu in the preferences scenario, and a second
Off on the page took its click.
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solidcraft-cli snapshot takes --camera JSON and --view with a saved view name (through view.apply, as the MCP screenshot does), plus --no-grid and --no-axes; the MCP screenshot and ui.render take grid/axes, the headless render skips a hidden origin axis, and the app's ui.render follows the Grid and Origin switches. Closes#1245.
A Convert to Sheet Metal bend point can now lie on a bend modelled with its radius (a cylinder tangent to two flat faces) or in the middle of a chamfer; either becomes one bend at the faces' virtual sharp, with the rule's radius. Holes and engravings carry over. Bend points on edges convert as before. Recorded under format 21. Tests in cmd::sheet::convert_tests; the sheet-metal guide is updated.
Drive Joints opens on the joint picked in the browser, else the first joint that moves, and won't start on a rigid joint. ui.start takes params: joint.drive opens on a joint (id or name) at given values, driving nothing until OK; a command or param it doesn't take is refused.
file.insert_step and doc.open on a STEP file take `up` (turn a Y-up file so its up is +Z) and `names` (names for the imported bodies). The MCP tool and the app's control requests pass them through; an import without them works as before. Tests in the kernel's STEP reader, the engine, MCP and the file-load UI; docs/step-import.md and docs/mcp.md describe both.
A solidcraft-mechanisms agent skill with a worked example that a test replays through the MCP server (the actuator follows the hinge with the stated stroke and the drive stops at the rod's limit); the skills index and docs/mcp.md list it.
While Draft, Accessibility or Curvature Map analysis is on, a legend at the bottom left of the viewport says what each colour means and which values it stands for, with the theme's analysis colours and stripes. Labels translated in en/de/ja/ko/zh. Fixes#973.
Without a 3DxWare profile, Linux now uses the driver's object-mode mapping (physical Ry and Rz swapped and reversed), so a tilt rolls and a twist spins. Windows and macOS are unchanged; a profile still takes precedence. Fixes#1172.
The bridged MCP server starts when no app is listening, says so in its instructions and in each tool error, and connects on the first call after the app starts. A batch that could not be sent says the app is not running. docs/mcp.md describes it.
snapshot starts from --in (a design or STEP file) with the script on top, as run does, and refuses options it doesn't take; an unknown command id names the closest registered ids.
A control-channel method that reads the orbit camera, sets any of target/yaw/pitch/roll/distance, and fits listed occurrences (or everything) keeping the direction. Its reply passed back sets the same view again; a refused field changes nothing.
joint.drive answers moved, and a reason (with unconnected) when the joint can move nothing; motion.play answers moved and unmoved; joint.list answers floating chains. joint.drive values come back in joint.list's shape (deg/mm). quiet: true trims joint answers and motion.play poses. A single value keeps a joint's other values. Drive Joints shows the floating case (drive.unconnected, all locales).
component.list {compact: true} gives counts of bodies, features, sketches and construction planes instead of their names, lists occurrences without identity transforms and children as occurrence ids; bodies: true keeps body names. The default form is unchanged.
* Preferences ▸ Graphics ▸ Display quality: Coarse, Normal, Fine, Ultra (#1287)
A viewing preference that sets how finely the viewport tessellates curved faces and edges:
chord tolerance relative to each body's size (3e-3, 1e-3, 3e-4, 1e-4) and the most a facet may
turn (30, 20, 12, 7 degrees). Normal is the tolerance the viewport has always used.
Bodies keep a display plan per level, so switching is a re-plan the first time and instant
after; the reference mesh the model reads (picks, holes, measuring) and exports are unchanged.
Away from Normal the model scene builds edges, and faces on the CPU path, from the plan at that
level, so silhouettes and edges get finer with the faces and a highlight still lies on the
displayed triangles.
The preference is saved with the others, set over the control channel (`ui.prefs`
`display_quality`), labelled in en/de/ja/ko/zh. `solidcraft-cli bench-open --display LEVEL
[--edit NAME EXPR]` times the plans at a level and after a parameter edit.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* Highlighted edges follow the display quality too
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A regression test: an inside flange on a 100 x 60 plate turned by every whole degree from 0 to 89 builds and keeps the analytic volume. At 62 degrees the trimmed corner used to land on a border of the sew's vertex grid and the flange failed to close.
A fillet or chamfer on a cylindrical boss's bottom arc now builds with a closed display mesh: the seam-extension containment ray counts a shared curved-boundary endpoint once. Merging the split faces of a three-edge arc corner rebuilds the face on the original input face's full surface instead of a piece's restricted patch, and runs under the kernel's panic guard. Fixes#1262 and #1263.
Co-authored-by: Karl-VonRichter <[email protected]>
The empty design shown at launch, New on a design that is still empty, file.new and the blank design left when the last tab closes all take the Units of new designs preference. Opened files and the sample part keep their own units. Fixes#1205.
Co-authored-by: raythurman2386 <[email protected]>
Section Analysis clipped the origin and construction planes and axes along with the model. They now draw from their own unclipped lists, with the same depth and blending; bodies, edges, sketches and highlights are clipped as before. Fixes#1229.
Co-authored-by: DuBearte <[email protected]>
A symmetric solid extrude of 10 mm is now 10 mm thick, 5 mm each side of the sketch plane, and switching from One Side to Symmetric keeps the thickness entered. Under format 21 the extent records its convention; designs saved without it keep the per-side reading, so their geometry and parameters don't change. Fixes#1236.
Co-authored-by: Karl-VonRichter <[email protected]>
A round or chamfer whose edge chain runs on across a curved seam (the end circle of a lofted tube whose axis bends) is now built: the section solve keeps its contact on the seam through a plane taken afresh at the seam's nearest point at each step. Straight seams are unchanged. Robustness seed 41 is re-recorded: its second fillet, refused before, now builds. Fixes#1213.
Co-authored-by: gvocale <[email protected]>
A fillet or chamfer that consumes both seams of a side, leaving its old boundary and the fitted contact on the same curve, now returns TooLarge ("the blend would consume a neighbouring face") instead of a zero-area face that doesn't mesh. Genuine two-edge faces are kept. Fixes#1113.
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A modelled thread as other CAD systems write it to STEP has cylinder faces trimmed by helices
that turn several times around the shaft, and cylinder faces bounded by two circles with no
seam edge. The display planner refused any face whose boundary winds around its surface, so
the whole body fell back to the reference mesher, which drew those faces with triangles across
the solid.
The planner now cuts such a face along a parameter line into one period: every loop and its
copies a period apart are clipped to the strip, and the parts of the cut line inside the face
join the pieces into closed loops, with the seam nodes made once for both sides. The cut face
is meshed by Delaunay with sag refinement, and the sag check runs once more after shaping.
Bodies with a face trimmed by more than one turn take their reference mesh (picking, measuring,
the CPU viewport) from the plan too.
Tests: an ISO M10x1.5 and M12x1.75 thread built from helices, as made and after a STEP round
trip: the display mesh stays within the tolerance of its surfaces and the thread's volume, and
has no degenerate, sliver or flipped triangles.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* Action matrix regressions of #1255: knuckle rounds, thin holes, a 45° flange hole, an axis after an edit
- Curve blends: past the end of a curved edge the run of sections along the end
tangent wrapped round the ring of centres; it is shortened while it still
crosses the end face (the hinge knuckle's cap rounds at 0.728 mm).
- Boolean retry guard: each body's volume is measured finer than its smallest
radius, and a volume out of bounds is measured again ten times finer before
it refuses (a 0.133 mm drill measured -30272 mm³; a plastic part's coarse
mesh was off by more than the slack).
- Sheet metal: a drill cap's certificate allows the evaluation noise its fitted
tilt shows (a hole square to a 45° flange).
- Construction geometry on a named face uses the face found by name, not a
second pick at its nearest point (an axis through a corner round after a
parameter moved it).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* Retry guard: measure the target, tool and result at one tolerance
Measured at different tolerances, the chords' error on the faces they share
didn't cancel: a blind hole in a long D-profile bar measured 20 mm³ more than
the bar.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* Action matrix baseline from this branch's full run: 37 actions pass again, none fewer
Blessed with cargo xtask action-matrix --from DIR --bless from the 16 shards of
run 38673859774.
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