* Viewport: keep the model scene in blocks and upload only what changed
Every change rebuilt the whole model scene (every body's triangles and edges) and
uploaded all of it again, so a design an agent builds one body at a time paid for the
whole model on every command. The scene is now built in blocks of a few bodies, cut
where a body's own key says, and each block's bytes and GPU buffers are kept while the
block comes back unchanged. Body boxes (fit, picking, ground shadow) are kept per mesh.
Rendering is unchanged: the bicycle from bench-agent opens to a byte-identical
screenshot.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* Browser: find an occurrence's placed bodies by name, not by search per row
Each body row of a placed component searched the placement's bodies for its own, every
frame: quadratic in the component's bodies (720 for the bench-agent bicycle's hardware).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
The reader converts each item once, but every instance made its own display mesh
(tessellation, seam and tangent flags), the most expensive step of opening a large
assembly. A later instance of an item now shows its first instance's mesh, placed by
the difference of the two placements. Only rigid placements share; split lines and
any operation drop the link. Measurements and export read each instance's own
geometry, so eval output is unchanged.
Generated assemblies: mesh phase 2,215 -> 139 ms (901 bodies) and 1,028 -> 85 ms
(5,401 bodies), with the same triangle counts.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
sheet.export_dxf writes an AutoCAD 2000 drawing with ELLIPSE and SPLINE entities for ellipses, splines and text outlines instead of chords, with curves: arcs for machines that read only lines and arcs. Perforation circles go through the same writer. Closes#1089.
Rectangular and circular sketch patterns stay linked to their source: editing the pattern's count, spacing or the source geometry updates the copies, and the copies keep their point and radius relations. Patterns are saved under format 20; older designs keep their independent copies.
PathScope::check reports a missing folder inside the scope as NotFound with the nearest existing folder, instead of calling it outside the allowed folders. Paths outside the scope and dangling links are still refused. Fixes#1077.
Edges shorter than the model tolerance are dropped from the flat cells, and the refold sews touching corners, so a cut-out across a bend line no longer fails with a degenerate edge.
doc.open and the STEP/mesh imports run on the file loader's worker with the request's path scope, and a font named by file path in a design is checked against the scope before it is read.
A design built over MCP is many small commands, and each one did work over the
whole design, so building or showing a 1,300-body design took minutes:
- moved components were transformed and meshed again after every change; world_state
now reuses each placed body whose definition and placement are unchanged
- next_d_name searched the design once per candidate number
- Document::eval evaluated every parameter for every expression; now only when the
expression names one
- param_rows' used_by was quadratic; the desktop no longer gathers completions on every
change while no text box has focus
solidcraft-cli bench-agent builds a generated ~1,300-body bicycle command by command
and times it (241 s -> 16 s here). Eval output is unchanged apart from timings.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Open and Save use parented AsyncFileDialog sheets; their answers run on the UI thread in a later frame, so resizing the window while a picker is open no longer re-enters winit and aborts. Editors, tab changes, Close/Quit and model-changing control requests wait for the answer; the local library Open and Export in the Appearance dialog use the same flow. Fixes#1088.
Ruled B-spline sheets that are circular cylinders or cones are written as CYLINDRICAL_SURFACE and CONICAL_SURFACE, so other readers no longer bound the part by sheets that reach past its faces.
Startup no longer stops at a bad settings file or a missing GPU: a settings file that fails to load is set aside, a failed GPU start retries with the software renderer, and a safe mode starts with defaults. Adds a troubleshooting page to the guide.
The engine's headless scene takes a palette; ui.render and the CPU viewport build it from the window's theme tokens, so a dark window renders a dark picture. CLI snapshots, MCP screenshots and Home thumbnails keep the default colours.
Moves the per-feature geometry handling (transforms, face points, profile selections, point expressions) into one geometry walk in feature_geometry.rs, with a golden record of what each feature kind moves. sheet.perforate holds no world geometry and joins the no-op arm.
Where an Import's stored labels pair one for one with its numbered built bodies (X, X (2), X (3)), component.paste_new stores the copy under the bodies' names, so the copied features after it find their bodies. No format change.
sketch.text and sketch.edit_text make the curve a text follows construction in the same undo step, so it no longer cuts the letters into pieces; the reply names the curve as guide.
A line end snapped onto a curve within the horizontal/vertical snap slides along the curve to where the axis crosses it; the preview, value boxes and click share one placement (#1121).
The feature menu of the bottom timeline and the side history gets Copy (the selection, or the right-clicked feature) and Paste (at the marker). Ctrl+click in the bottom timeline toggles a feature in the selection (#1034).
timeline.paste keeps a cylinder Emboss's persistent face name, remapped onto the pasted features and bodies, so the copy embosses the pasted cylinder instead of failing (#1035).
Inactive document tabs get a faint outline so neighbouring tabs stay apart, and the Home tab uses the same hover tint as the design tabs so its label stays readable in the light theme. Fixes#1115.
Adds sheet.perforate: round holes on a staggered or square grid over the flat sheet, kept clear of edges, cut-outs and bend zones. The holes go to the flat pattern, the DXF and the measured volume rather than the B-rep, so a panel can carry many thousands of them.
Adds local scalar appearance and material libraries: a catalog in the io crate with safe writes, engine commands to list and apply library entries, and a library dialog in the UI, with docs.
* Refuse fillets and chamfers that run past their faces or cross each other (#1080)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* Blend fit: chamfers keep their old acceptance of crossed loops; skip the volume bound along tangent chains
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* Blend fit: one selection per check, a coarse volume pass first; record the refused oversize blends in the action matrix baseline
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Thin Extrude builds walls of a set thickness along sketch curves, open chains and closed loops, with the wall centred, inside, outside or on both sides at two thicknesses. Saved under format 20 (thin on an Extrude); an extrude without thin saves as before. Closes#721.
Part 2 of #876: one walk over the references a feature holds (the sketches it's built from, the features it names, the bodies it works on) replaces three hand-written matches, with a golden record covering every variant.
Where SolidCraft can replace itself safely, the Update window gets Update now:
- AppImage: the new AppImage is downloaded next to the old one, verified and renamed over
it; Restart now starts it as SolidCraft exits.
- Windows MSI: the verified .msi starts (msiexec /i … /passive) once SolidCraft has closed,
after the usual questions about unsaved designs.
- Windows portable zip / standalone exe: the running solidcraft.exe is renamed to .old, the
new one takes its name (solidcraft-cli.exe too), Restart now; .old goes at the next start.
- macOS: the verified .dmg is opened (the app is ad-hoc signed and not notarized, so it isn't
replaced behind the user's back).
- Flatpak, Snap, deb, rpm, tar.gz: never replaced; the window shows the command.
Every package's SHA-256 must match the release's SHA256SUMS.txt (HTTPS, same release); a
mismatch deletes the download and changes nothing. With PUBLIC_KEY set in update/install.rs,
SHA256SUMS.txt.minisig must also verify (minisign-verify, MIT) with a trusted comment naming
the release. release.yml signs the list when the UPDATE_SIGNING_KEY secret exists and fails
when the app expects signatures but the secret is missing; docs/releasing.md has the steps.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Pieces that share a name are numbered by where their centres lie. Two pieces lying almost level along the sort axis no longer swap numbers between runs because of noise in their centres' last bits, so a saved name keeps pointing at the same piece. Closes#569.
* Straight edges stay one edge after cuts (#1049)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* Robustness goldens: cuts join straight edges along untouched walls (#1049)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* fmt
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* Robustness goldens note: what each changed seed shows when replayed on both builds
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* GPU tessellation: a pipeline the device cannot build falls back to CPU meshing instead of crashing (#1098)
Build the tessellation compute pipeline inside error scopes; TessGpu::new returns an error,
and the viewport logs it and meshes bodies on the CPU. A Windows CI job builds the pipeline
with D3D12's FXC on the WARP adapter.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* Tessellation shader: basis functions in one-dimensional local arrays, so D3D12's FXC compiles it (#1098)
FXC has to unroll loops that write an array inside a struct (Basis.n0/n1) or a 2-D array
(ndu) by a counter, and cannot with run-time trip counts (X3511). A2.2 basis functions in a
local 1-D array returned whole; derivatives from the degree p-1 functions; the pole step
offsets computed rather than indexed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
At start, and at most once a day, a background thread asks GitHub for the latest stable
release (one HTTPS GET to releases/latest, nothing else sent; 15 s timeout; silent when
offline; GitHub's rate limit respected). When it is newer than this build, an Update button
appears next to Report a bug. It opens a window with the version, the release notes and
Download (the asset that fits this installation), Skip this version and Remind me later.
- Versions compare as semver; a nightly counts as the release it was built after, so it is
offered only a newer stable release.
- The installation is detected (AppImage, Flatpak, Snap from the store or a file, deb, rpm,
tar.gz, Windows MSI/portable/exe, macOS app); Download picks the fixed-name asset.
Development builds and the Flatpak (no network permission) never check.
- Preferences > General > Updates: Check for updates automatically (on) and Check now.
- HTTP via ureq + rustls with the operating system's certificates (desktop app only).
- docs: Updates and privacy page.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
A renderer-independent OpaqueSurface (colour, metallic fraction, roughness, dielectric IOR) with bounded inputs, an original GGX/Smith/Schlick reference response with Lambert diffuse, and exact piecewise sRGB8 decoding. Numerical contract only: no document format, command or UI change.
Loading a design raises next_id above the largest feature, component and occurrence id, so a missing or stale value can't hand a new item an id already in use, and duplicate ids are rejected as a damaged design. Id allocation uses checked_add, so an exhausted id space is an error instead of a wrap or a panic.
Part of #1016 (points 1, 2 and 4). nekomario28's #1061 reached the same fix independently; thanks to both.
Co-authored-by: nekomario28 <[email protected]>
Bodies imported with the same label come in as X, X (2), X (3). Renaming one of them no longer renumbers the others: body.rename now pins the current names of the feature's other bodies when it stores the new one, so later renames, materials, appearances and features still find them.
A tapered extrude now offsets spline and conic curves as well as lines and arcs, so sketch text and any other profile can take a taper, and the join of tapered letters onto a face finds its boolean result.
A chamfer of a hole corner, where the mitre extension runs into the wall, now takes the local blend and comes out as one bevel instead of a notched cut; where that blend can't build the edge, the cutters that used to succeed are kept (#814).
With a Chinese UI on Windows and macOS, the first CJK fallback was a Japanese font without the simplified characters, so one word mixed glyphs from two faces with different line heights and they sat on different baselines. For zh the Chinese face now joins the fallback chain before the Japanese one, and the chain is rebuilt on the frame the UI language changes; other languages keep the previous order.
sketch.text and sketch.edit_text took at, height, angle and text with a silent default when a value had the wrong kind, so a height of "H" made 5 mm text and at: ["H", 25] put it at the origin. An input that is given (not null) now has to be what it names, or the command is refused with the input's name, and a null at no longer passes as the origin.
The live preview of a join, cut or intersect now sends the tool body's scene as soon as the tool is built, then runs the feature for its error while the dialog keeps its spinner. OK pressed while the preview is still computing the same commands waits for it instead of computing the feature a second time on the UI thread; the session shares its evaluation cache with the preview's scratch copy.
macOS hands files opened from Finder, the Dock or open -a to the application delegate's application:openURLs:, which winit's delegate lacks, so AppKit showed "SolidCraft cannot open files in the SolidCraft design format". open_documents adds that method to the delegate's class before launch finishes and queues the paths for the UI, which opens them like files named on the command line.
This is the one place SolidCraft's own code uses unsafe: the app crate denies unsafe_code instead of forbidding it, and only the two macOS-only functions in open_documents.rs allow it, with the reason documented there and in AGENTS.md. Adapted from VectorCraft (see ATTRIBUTION.md).
Closes#997.
A planar union no longer leaves a sliver where an edge crosses its neighbour, so a sheet whose outline runs on past a flange's edge with a slight bend unfolds again.
The command search asked its text field for focus on every frame. On Wayland that restarted the text edit's held key, so the key kept repeating in other windows after the palette closed. Focus is now requested once, when the box opens, with a test that the field doesn't take focus back while the box stays open.
Fixes#724.
timeline.export_script (and solidcraft-cli script) writes a design's history as a command script that solidcraft-cli eval replays into the same design, so a bug that only shows on one design becomes a one-file repro. timeline.add restores one stored feature with its id, names and references, through the same checks a design file gets when it opens.
Closes#886. SychPL's #1078 approached the same issue independently; thanks to both.
Co-authored-by: SychPL <[email protected]>
On Windows the temporary folder often has an 8.3 short name, which the path scope refuses. vfs::long_names spells folders SolidCraft derives from the environment with long names, and the MCP scratch folder and the recovery folder use it, so screenshot without a path and the recovery commands work there again.
