An Edge Flange feature can set the shape and size of the relief at the corners its flanges make, in place of the sheet metal rule's. Design format 24.
Co-authored-by: NOWN-DEV <[email protected]>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <[email protected]>
A sketch text's height, place (x and y) and angle can each be an expression over the design's parameters, and the text follows parameter changes, undo and reopening. Closes#1362.
Co-authored-by: NOWN-DEV <[email protected]>
New command inspect.compare {a, b, tolerance?}: measures of both and their differences, two-way surface deviation from a bounding-volume tree, regions beyond the tolerance clustered by side (only_in_a / only_in_b) with integrated volumes and faces, a verdict, optional face colouring as one undo step, and warnings for open meshes. Geometry in solidcraft-geom (compare.rs), command in the engine. Closes#1363.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pasting an Import together with later features that name its bodies now points those features at the pasted copies, including bodies whose names carry a number such as X (2).
Convert to Sheet Metal without bend edges refused every plate whose bounding-box diagonal reached a thousand times its thickness ("no outline on that face"), and just under that limit a hole smaller than the mesh's sag fell out of the outline and the DXF. The outline's tolerance is now at most a tenth of the thickness: a thin plate is meshed again at that tolerance. Nothing new is stored. Tests: long thin strips, sheets thousands of times longer than thick, and a strip keeping holes down to 1 mm.
docs/mcp.md gains a "Camera and close-up recipe" section: the orbit camera's conventions (radians, eye direction for yaw and pitch, orthographic half-height, which side inspect.section keeps) and a seven-step recipe for a close-up of one region of a large STEP model. Documentation only.
The CPU renderer's line depth test allowed a fixed share of the scene's depth range (2e-4), which on large designs or close views let edges a millimetre or more behind thin sheet show through it. Each pixel now keeps the screen depth slope of the surface it shows, and a line passes where it is no further behind than that slope spans across the line's width, plus f32 rounding. Section caps use their plane's slope.
Edges lying on steep faces now draw their full width; edges behind a face stay hidden. Only crates/render/src/raster.rs changes; the GPU viewport is unchanged.
Co-authored-by: NOWN-DEV <[email protected]>
Trimming the base at an edge flange's setback snaps corners within tolerance onto the trim line and merges away the zero-width run a ledge as tall as the setback left along it, so the ledge goes with the strip as a lower one does. Splitting outline edges at other cells' corners now skips points within the model's tolerance of an end, so a ledge a little taller keeps its sliver and the bend runs under it, also off the axes. Both used to fail with "sew: a degenerate edge". Nothing new is stored.
The plate check compared the face outline's area (from the tessellation, so each hole was a polygon of chords) with the exact volume, and refused plates with a few small holes. Where the outline runs along a cylinder about the plate's normal it is now an arc of that circle; coaxial pieces of one radius are one wall, so a hole split into two, three or four faces is one circle. The check passes with its tolerance unchanged, and the flat pattern and its DXF carry one CIRCLE per hole (ARC for rounded corners and slot ends).
A round blank now converts too, so unfold_cut_refold_and_convert checks the refusal with a block thicker at one end instead of a rod.
A hole drilled square to a flange's panel, not only the base's, is now a flat cut-out of the sheet: it unfolds with its panel to where the bend allowance puts it, shows in the flat pattern and DXF as a circle, and survives unfold and refold. A pocket tool spans the cut-outs already inside it (a counterbore's hole), so the order they are made in no longer matters. Fixes#560.
A coincident face is pushed apart only when the space it moves through holds nothing that changes the result; otherwise the boolean falls through to the exact strategies.
Co-authored-by: NOWN-DEV <[email protected]>
A sketch's link to a projected edge now keeps the edge's persistent name and finds it by that name when the body changes, instead of taking whichever edge ends up nearest its point.
Convert to Sheet Metal now takes a solid or a shelled body by its bend edges (`bends`): the faces reached from the fixed face across those edges become the sheet, keeping the part's envelope, with the flat pattern by the rule's K-factor and radius. Other edges between sheet faces are cut open. The result works with edge flanges, cuts, Unfold/Refold, the flat pattern and DXF. A conversion without `bends` is the plate conversion as before. The optional `bends` field is noted under format 17. Fixes#647.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Sheet-metal cut-outs and base flange outlines drawn with ellipses, splines or text stay exact curves in the flat pattern and the unfolded body; the folded body follows them with tangent arcs within 0.001 mm (#659).
An edge flange picked on an edge that cut-outs have partly removed is built along what is left of that edge (the stretch nearest the pick), so each side of a notch can get its own flange.
An edge flange whose edge ends at an inside corner of the base now trims only the strip under its own edge, so legs and stems past that corner stay. Where the bend ends beside more of the base, the rule's bend relief (relief_width, relief_depth) is cut into the base, or a note says why it was left out.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
A point dimensioned from linked geometry (projected, included or intersected) keeps its side when a parameter moves the link's source past it: the solve reads sides and turns from the stored state instead of from beside the moved line, both on recompute and when editing the sketch.
Co-authored-by: NOWN-DEV <[email protected]>
An edge flange on another flange's far edge (a return) runs along that edge from end to end, following the parent's closed or cut-back corner, and returns of one feature close toward each other at convex base corners, mitred the rule's gap apart. Bends stop square where the mitre allows. Fixes#593.
Co-authored-by: NOWN-DEV <[email protected]>
The bend table, flat pattern and DXF list a bend only where its centre line has material: a bend that cut-outs (or pockets that together go through the sheet) shorten keeps what is left, and one they split gets a row per piece, all with the bend's number.
Co-authored-by: NOWN-DEV <[email protected]>
sketch.text and sketch.edit_text take an optional font: an installed family or a .ttf/.otf/.ttc file. Edit Text gets a Font field. The font is kept with the text under format 16; no fonts are bundled, and the font search is bounded.
Fixes#513
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Display meshes also bound the angle one facet turns, so bends and small holes on a large body are drawn round instead of as chamfers or squares. Bounded per face, and only the display mesh changes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Sheet Metal Rules get a Corner Relief Shape (notch, round or rectangular), sized by the rule's corner relief, cut where two bends meet at a corner of the base. Notch, the default, keeps existing designs as they were. File format 16.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Text outlines count as drawn geometry when picking profiles, and "all profiles" leaves out the counters of letters (the holes of A, B, 8), so text extrudes as letters with their holes whether or not other curves are drawn next to it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
A hole positioned on a face now follows that face along the hole's own axis instead of sliding to the face's nearest point. When the face no longer reaches the position, the hole stays where it was placed and the feature says so.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Two line segments that lie on one another within the tolerance, a hair from parallel, no longer report a crossing somewhere along their overlap; the ends of the overlap split the edges instead. This stops booleans from leaving sub-tolerance edges or stray vertices.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
A sketch on a flat face of a sheet metal body was refused ("this face has no exact planar
source"), so the only way was a plane frozen in space. When the sheet changes (a flange's
angle, the thickness), the frozen sketch stays behind: a cut from it fails on the slanted
flange or leaves a blind pocket in the thicker sheet.
`sketch.create` with a face of a sheet metal body now attaches the sketch to the panel the
face belongs to. It keeps the face's name, `sheet:<body>:<panel>:<top|bottom>` (the panel is
the base or a flange's feature tag), and takes the panel's exact plane from its flat region
and fold each time the model is evaluated, so the sketch follows the sheet through parameter
changes, unfold and refold. Its coordinates are the flat pattern's (the bottom face's y
mirrored). A face that is gone is reported as a lost attachment, never replaced by the
nearest face. The attachment follows a renamed or copied body, shows as `sheet_face` in the
command result and as its own status in Redefine Sketch Plane. `fixed: true` still freezes.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Project, Intersect, Include 3D Geometry and Text resolved the active sketch's
plane without the model, so on a construction plane that is built from geometry
(perpendicular to a plane through a sketch line, through three points, midway
between two faces, tangent, along a path) they stopped with "this plane is built
from the model: evaluate first". Evaluation resolves the same plane against the
model before the sketch, in its component's frame; the sketch commands now do
the same, in one place, for adding a link, refreshing the links on an edit,
snapping a point onto an edge and the internal face profiles.
Tests: a sketch on a plane through a sloped sketch line projects a point and a
line of that sketch, follows a parameter that tilts the plane (also after reopen
and after another edit), holds text, intersects a body and includes an edge; the
same on a three-point plane and a midplane.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
One edge flange feature gave all its flanges one height and one angle. A
part whose flanges lean differently took one feature per angle, and
flanges of separate features don't close toward each other, so its
corners stayed open.
- sheet.flange (edge): an entry of `edges` is a point [x, y, z] as before,
or {point, angle?, height?} whose angle and height (expressions, checked
like the feature's) replace the feature's for that edge. Bad input is
refused with the edge named. Before, the object form was read for its
point and the rest was ignored without a word.
- The feature stores its edges as FlangeEdge. An edge without values of
its own is written as the plain point it always was, so designs without
them are read and written as before; an unknown key in an edge is
refused, not dropped.
- The edges' values are feature inputs of their own (Edge angle, Edge
height, after the feature's), so parameters, renames and
parameters.change reach them. timeline.edit names the edges again when
it changes them, so each value stays with its edge.
- SheetBody::add_flanges_each trims every edge by its own setback and
adds the flanges. The corners between them close as between equal
flanges: the closing already works from the two flanges it joins (each
one's fold and leg), so the flat pattern follows by hand from the
angles, the heights and the rule (the tests derive it).
- The Flange dialog shows a row per picked edge with an angle and a
height box (empty: the dialog's value) once more than one edge is
picked, and brings them back on Edit Feature.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
kernel::sew refused a solid with a thin planar face away from the origin: a slab
30 x 2 mm and 0.00013 mm thick with a corner at (-300, -200, 5), turned 0.45 rad
about x, failed with "sew: face 1: cannot attach a plane to a wire that is not on
one plane", though its faces are flat to 1e-14 mm.
truck's plane fit sums the cross products of a boundary's control points about a
centre and takes the points' sum for that centre (it divides by the number of wires,
not of points): eight times as far from the origin as a rectangle of four lines. The
sum is the same about any centre, but its rounding grows with the square of the
centre's distance, and on a thin face, whose normal is short, it turns the normal far
enough for truck's own 1e-6 flatness test to fail: truck finds the slab's four thin
faces 3.0e-7 to 2.1e-6 mm out of the planes it fitted.
A planar face keeps truck's plane wherever truck gives one. Where truck refuses, the
same fit is made on a copy of the boundary moved so that the mean of its control
points is the origin, and the plane is moved back; a boundary that leaves its plane
or has no area is refused as before.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
A body of several pieces (a plate and the islands a cut leaves inside its
holes, such as letter counters) was written as one BREP_WITH_VOIDS whose
other shells were voids. Export now writes one solid per lump, each with
its face colours; a real void stays a void of its lump.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
The planar arrangement solved a line and a circle, or two circles, for their two
crossings even where the curves only touch. At a tangent contact the two roots are
rounding noise spread along the curves by its square root: a 1e-12 mm error in the
centre's distance from the line puts them 2e-6 mm either side of the contact on a
2 mm arc, well inside the tolerance of both curves; when the noise falls the other
way there is no root at all. Cutting a rounded corner (an arc tangent to the two
edges it ends on) out of a plate with planar_regions_boolean then ran that far along
the plate's edge past the arc's end before turning onto the arc: a 200 x 37 plate
turned by 0.25 degrees came back with six edges, one of them 3.45e-6 mm long.
Curves that touch within the arrangement's tolerance now meet at the one point their
centres give: the foot of the circle's centre on the line, or the point on the line
of centres of two circles tangent inside or outside. Circles of nearly one radius
about nearly one centre keep the general formula.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
A cut-out made in the flat pattern could cross a bend only with edges
running along the bend or square to it: a round hole or a slanted slot
over a bend line failed to fold ("not supported yet: curved cut-outs
across a bend", "... cut-out edges running across a bend at an angle").
Sheet: a flat edge in a bend zone now folds whichever way it runs: along
the bend to a line, across it to an arc, and any other way to a curve on
the bend's cylinder (a slanted line to a helix). The curve is carried as
a chain of cubic Hermite pieces fitted within 1e-7 mm on both faces of
the sheet, with breaks that depend on the flat edge only, so the top
face, the bottom face and the wall share them. The wall between the two
chains is a ruled surface with radial rulings: the cut-out's wall stays
square to the sheet. The bend's own faces stay exact cylinders, now sized
to the whole boundary of their cell (a curved edge may bulge past its
corners).
Kernel: such an edge has no line, arc or conic form, so the sewing
interface gets EdgeSpec::Chain (a chain of cubic Bézier pieces: a cubic
B-spline with triple inner knots, its ends on the shared vertices) and
SurfSpec::Ruled (two chains joined by straight lines, so a wall built
from the chains holds them exactly). The sheet module's rev_edge becomes
EdgeSpec::reversed, so the new variant is handled where edges are
reversed.
The test for "along" and "across" is in millimetres (1e-6 mm at the
edge's ends) instead of relative 1e-9, so coordinates rounded by a script
fold as drawn.
Tests. Kernel: a box with one wall bulging as a cubic (chains of two
pieces at the bottom and the top, the wall ruled between them) sews to a
valid solid of the analytic volume, 27.6 (measured 27.59965); chains with
the wrong number of control points, a NaN or too many pieces, and a ruled
wall between chains of different piece counts, are refused. Sheet: a slot
turned 30° and a round hole across 72°, 90° and 108° bends fold to valid
solids that lose the cut-out's flat area times the thickness (K = 0.5:
400 and 100.53 mm³, measured within 0.02); a slanted flat edge folds to
its exact helix within 1e-7 mm (measured 1.9e-8) on both faces; lines
along and across the bend keep their line and arc. Engine:
fold_through_cut_outs now expects a round hole across a fold to fold, and
to unfold to the same round hole; the per-bend machining guard (#296)
sews a bend that carries a round cut-out, so a hole beside it cuts and a
hole in the bend is still refused.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: bherbruck <[email protected]>
The flat-pattern point budget (16 384) counted every cut-out by its 0.001 mm
chords, arcs included, so a plate with 240 round 4 mm holes (about 100 chords
each, 480 exact arcs) was refused with "sheet metal flat geometry exceeds the
bounded processing budget" when the holes were cut in the unfolded sheet. The
planar booleans work on exact lines and arcs whole, so those now count once
each; a sampled curve still counts its chords. A second limit keeps the
chords of everything, arcs included, at 65 536, the same figure the planar
boolean applies to the sampling it does itself, so the work stays bounded.
planar_region no longer samples an exact loop only to discard the result: the
complexity check right above it already covers the same budget.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Edge flanges meeting at a corner of the base were closed only at exactly
90°; at any other angle they stayed open (a V at 72°) and the rule's gap
was not used.
The flanges of one feature now close at any convex base corner and any
bend angle: each panel end is cut square to the sheet on a line in the
flat (slanted off 90°, stored as ext plus a new per-end slope) so the
edges nearest each other, on the inner faces, run parallel the rule's gap
apart about the plane bisecting the inner faces. The construction reads
the two flanges' own angles, so it holds for unequal ones as well. At 90°
it is the extension the old code gave (reference case 69-sm-tray is
unchanged). A corner that can't close (a gap under 0.01 mm, flanges
bending opposite ways, ends that would overlap in the flat pattern) stays
open, and the flange feature reports a warning that says where and why.
A flange of a later feature leaves the corner as it was (reference case
75-sm-bracket-holes: the earlier flange keeps its length).
Tested at 72° and 90° against a hand derivation, on a trapezoid, and
every 5° from 45° to 135° on a rectangle and a trapezoid (gap exact, one
flat region without hairline edges, one valid shell holding the flat
material).
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
A parameter change can break a feature without failing the command that
made it; parameters.change reports it only in its `errors`. `run` then
exited 0 and exported the bodies as they were before the failing feature:
a shrunk sheet-metal tray whose unfold failed came out folded, without
the holes and cut-outs made after the unfold.
`run` now checks the evaluated timeline before writing anything. Any
feature with an error fails the run with status 1, lists the failing
features on stderr and writes none of the --out and --save files, as a
failing command already does. --allow-errors writes them anyway. `eval`
is unchanged and still reports the errors in its timeline.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
NOWN-DEV