Reference-only entities (plugin API v9): a scene-scoped, in-memory
designation for plugin-owned display geometry, plus HostNotification
dispatch to native plugins so they can re-mark on DocumentOpened.
Resolves the new DeltaSnapshot site in block_editor.rs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Close the no-load-callback gap: on_notification was a dead dispatch sink —
a plugin had no way to learn that the active document changed, the selection
changed, or that a document opened, so runtime designations could not be
re-seeded after a load.
Dispatch the existing plain variants at the fingerprint-guarded boundaries
the v4 bridge already uses: DocumentChanged (the active tab's settled
geometry epoch) and SelectionChanged (the selection set) leave through
BuiltinPlugin::on_notification at the post-message boundary — after the
mutation settles and pending history scopes closed, never mid-undo or
mid-pick — and at the automation post-op boundary. Plugin-initiated writes
publish immediately after settling, like the drawing-changed event; the
boundary fingerprint guard deduplicates.
Add the additive HostNotification::DocumentOpened { tab_id } variant
(discriminant 10, the counterpart of DocumentTabClosed): fired exactly once
per whole-document install — file open, template new, system open — keyed on
a new per-tab document generation, so an edit can never repeat it and a
reload fires it once. The API version stays v9 (the bump is unreleased).
Write semantics for handlers, tested and documented: a handler may call
HostApi write methods through the same session (set_reference_only at
minimum); its write bumps the epoch, the next boundary notifies once more,
and because re-marking already-designated geometry is a documented no-op —
no epoch bump, no undo step, no publish — the loop terminates. History
(undo/redo) replay itself emits nothing; the boundary is the only channel.
No Python mapping, like the rest of this increment.
Open the Edit Block Definition dialog when BEDIT is invoked without an active selection, listing candidate block definitions alphabetically while filtering layout records, anonymous blocks, and external references. Allow typing a new valid block name to start an empty block editor session that only commits to the drawing block table upon explicit save.
Preview the current unsaved block in a disposable drawing with independent history. Keep normal Draw tools available, append Close Test Block, and return to the original editor without saving. Guard persistence paths and handle refresh and parent-close lifecycle by stable document identity.
Lines still showing when the pointer reaches the overlay history no
longer fade under it; leaving restarts their COMMANDLINEFADETIME.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A save records the entered model viewport (or the sheet) as the layout's
last active viewport, and opening the layout enters it again with its
UCS. Picks up the codec fix that kept a last-active link from being read
as the sheet viewport (codec d57097c, kernel b40fa59, graph 2360341).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The docked panel and Quick Properties render the same rows from one
state, so a picked colour opened both dropdowns and each swallowed the
other's click.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A ten-minute time::every on wasm piles up long setTimeouts in the shared
wasmtimer driver until it stops waking every timer, which silenced the
automation channel and drop-open about 8 s after load.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A lone Alt shows a code on every ribbon tab and quick-access button.
Typing a tab code opens the tab and shows the codes of its buttons,
dropdowns, slide-outs and collapsed panels; a button code runs it, a
dropdown or slide-out code opens it and shows its item codes, Esc goes
back one level. Codes follow the reference ribbon; buttons without a
reference counterpart get none and unnamed menu items are numbered.
Codes are drawn as accent pills over the widgets that reported their
bounds in the current frame, with a hint bar under the ribbon. While
the tips are open keys go to them only. The automation gets a keytips
action and read operation.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Create a new named definition from current session edits, restore the source checkpoint, and continue editing the copy with fresh local history. Add the name dialog and Save dropdown, clone supported owned metadata onto independent handles, and refuse unsupported relationships atomically.
REFEDIT opens a dialog after the pick: the nesting chain as chips with a
preview of the chosen definition, all objects or picking them in the
drawing, attribute definitions (offered only when the definition has
them), locking objects outside the working set and unique names for an
external reference's named objects. The settings are remembered.
With unique names an xref's dependent layers, linetypes, text styles and
blocks are checked out as $N$NAME records of their own; without, under
the plain name, sharing a host record of that name. Save writes them back
under the reference's names, and the records made for the session are
removed when it closes. -REFEDIT uses the remembered settings.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
IMAGEADJUST (alias IAD) takes the selected raster images or asks
"Select image(s):", then opens a dialog with a before/after preview of
the first image and brightness, contrast and fade rows (bar plus
stepper, whole numbers 0-100). Apply writes the values to every chosen
image as one undo step; restore defaults sets 50/50/0. Adds the
image_adjust automation action and the image-adjust locale group.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
One finger already worked as the mouse. Two or more fingers now make a
gesture instead of fighting over the cursor: two drag to pan and pinch to
zoom about the fingers, three drag to orbit; a quick two-finger tap opens
the context menu, a three-finger tap zooms to the extents and a quick
three-finger swipe up shows the isometric view. While a gesture runs the
drawing area's own pointer handling keeps out, and the press the first
finger started is dropped.
Refs #906
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Ctrl+click on a polyline selects the segment under the cursor (again to
drop it); several segments can be picked. Only the picked segments are
highlighted, and MOVE, ROTATE, SCALE and MIRROR then change just their
vertices, so the neighbouring segments stretch to follow. Any other
selected objects are transformed whole as before.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A paste that finds no text now reads an image off the system clipboard
on desktop as well as on the web. The pixels are written as a PNG beside
the drawing (or in the config folder for a drawing never saved) and
placed as a raster image at the cursor, the same way the web paste
attaches a screenshot. PASTESPEC falls back to the same image paste when
the clipboard holds neither objects nor text.
Refs #645
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three toggles beside the Recent Documents title switch the panel between
the existing list, a grid of thumbnail tiles and one large preview per
file. The choice is kept in the recent section of the app config.
Refs #1494
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
An associative array is an AcDbAssocAction with an
AcDbAssocArrayActionBody, dependencies on the array INSERT, the block
holding the item references and the block holding the source objects,
and value parameters (Items, ItemSpacing, Rows, …). Selecting the array
INSERT now shows its counts and spacings in Properties; changing one
places the items again and rewrites the item references, the body's
item records and the parameter values together, in one undo step, so
the drawing stays associative when saved.
Rectangular arrays follow their RowProfile axis, AxesAngle and base
normal; polar arrays turn about the centre recovered from their first
item, Radius and StartAngle. Both match the stored items of the
associative arrays in the sample drawings (122 of 123 rectangular, all
polar items of the polar samples). Path arrays are shown read-only.
Refs #1109
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
FBXEXPORT (also EXPORTFBX) saves every 3D mesh of the drawing (solids,
surfaces and meshes, at full display resolution) as a binary FBX 7.4
file for visualisation tools: one model per object with its geometry,
face normals and a material in its display colour. Axes stay Z-up and
the unit scale follows the drawing's insertion units.
Refs #1502
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Options > Display gains Window Elements with "Show the menu bar"
(MENUBAR) and "Show the ribbon" (RIBBON / RIBBONCLOSE); Options > User
Preferences gains a Hatch switch for HPASSOC. The command line now
starts at 80 % opacity so the drawing shows through it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
MENUBAR 1 shows File, Edit, View, Insert, Format, Tools, Draw,
Dimension, Modify, Parametric and Help menus above the ribbon; every
entry runs an existing command, and a test keeps each entry pointing at
a registered command. RIBBONCLOSE hides the ribbon and RIBBON brings it
back, so the menus can replace it. Both choices persist.
Also translates the "File" label, which every locale had left in
English.
Refs #1450
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Opening the block editor brings up a Block Editor ribbon tab with
Edit / Save / Discard, Attribute Definition, and the geometric,
dimensional and parameter tools that drive parametric blocks. The tab
is only listed while a block editor session is open, and leaving the
session returns to the tab that was active before.
Refs #509
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
ADJUST gathers raster images or PDF/DWF/DGN underlays (other objects are
dropped silently, pickfirst is used, a mixed set is refused), then asks the
image option (Brightness default) or the underlay option (last used), with
value prompts that offer the image's own value or the session's last
underlay fade/contrast, and Monochrome Yes/No. Invalid values re-prompt.
One undo step. -IMAGEADJUST, PDFADJUST, DWFADJUST and DGNADJUST take one
kind each. Raster image Brightness/Contrast/Fade move to an Image Adjust
section as whole numbers with 0-100 validation.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
COMMANDLINEOPACITY (20-100 percent, default 100) and a slider under
Options > Display make the floating command line's panels see-through,
so the drawing stays visible behind it. The input field stays opaque
for legibility. The value is an application setting that persists.
Refs #1494
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Pressing on a selected object (away from its grips) and dragging runs
MOVE on the selection from the grabbed point, and the release is the
destination, so the drag gets the command's preview, snaps and ortho.
With Ctrl the drag runs COPY and places one copy. A press that does not
move stays an ordinary click, and drags that start off the selection
still make a window or lasso.
Refs #750
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
HPASSOC (0 or 1, default 1) is the starting state of the hatch
command's associative option. It is an application setting: typed
directly or through SETVAR, it persists across sessions and does not
mark the drawing modified.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
In model space MVSETUP draws the sheet border at the drawing scale
(scale factor, paper width and height) and zooms to it, or switches to
a layout. On a layout it creates viewports in a bounding area (a single
one, a 2x2 engineering set of top/front/right/isometric views, or an
array with spacing), deletes picked objects, and scales picked
viewports to a paper/model unit ratio.
A viewport's fit to the model now measures the model along the
viewport's own view direction, so side and isometric views frame it
too.
Refs #1501
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
PASTESPEC offers the formats on the clipboard: Objects and Block for
objects copied in the application (the PASTECLIP and PASTEBLOCK paths),
and Text for the system clipboard's text, placed as multi-line text in
the current text style with its lines as paragraphs.
Refs #645
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A non-associative hatch's boundary vertex grips now offer Add Vertex and
Remove Vertex next to Stretch, on polyline boundaries and on boundaries
made of line edges alike. Add Vertex inserts the vertex after the picked
one, halfway along the next segment (on the arc for a bulged polyline
segment, splitting its bulge), and lets it be placed like any grip.
Remove Vertex drops it while keeping at least a triangle.
Line-edge boundaries used to show two grips at every corner (one line's
end, the next one's start), so dragging one opened the loop; each corner
is now one grip that moves both ends.
The automation grip_menu_pick action chooses an entry of the open grip
menu, so these edits can be scripted and checked.
Fixes#1058
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Typing <angle at a point prompt (e.g. <30) now fixes the direction of
the next point from the last one until a point is placed: the cursor
moves along that direction, and a bare number entered next is the
distance along it. The angle is read in the drawing's angle base and
direction and turned into the current UCS. Works from the command line
and from scripts or the automation token input alike.
Fixes#1464
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Host side of HostApi::set_reference_only: plugin-owned display geometry that
renders and snaps normally but must not be edited or picked by the person at
the screen, while the owning plugin keeps full write access through the host.
- Storage: a human-readable marker value in an XDATA record under the
host-owned OCS APPID (registered on first use; foreign values survive
verbatim; stale verbatim DWG EED is dropped on rewrite), so the flag
round-trips DWG and DXF with the entity and cannot collide with plugin
APPID namespaces.
- Grips: refresh_selected_grips yields none for a reference-only entity and
an active grip edit on a newly designated target is cancelled like a
locked-layer one.
- Picking: a reference-only wire flag extends the snap_only skips in every
hit test, so a click passes through to the editable entity underneath, and
box, window, lasso, fence and select-all gathers skip the designation;
fills, solids and instanced meshes are excluded through the shared
candidate handle set.
- Write policy: built-in user paths treat a reference-only entity like a
locked-layer one (Scene::update_entity / update_entities refuse,
erase_entities skips), while the plugin-owned variants
(update_entity_plugin / erase_entities_plugin, mirroring the
remove_entities editor split) and the whole HostSession surface write
through. The MCP entities read exposes a top-level reference_only boolean
and set_properties refuses with the reference_only failure code.
- Undo: the entity-write contract - a change joins a plugin-opened push_undo
scope, a scope-less change is one undo step of its own, refusals and
idempotent re-marks record nothing.
- Known limit: entities nested inside block instances (the block cache
rebuilds instance wires without the flag).
Evidence: marking_flags_and_unmarking_clears,
foreign_values_under_the_host_app_id_survive, other_apps_are_untouched,
reference_only_refusals_record_no_undo_step,
reference_only_designation_composes_undo_like_entity_writes,
reference_only_survives_dxf_and_dwg_round_trips,
user_paths_refuse_and_plugin_paths_write_reference_only_entities,
select_all_visible_skips_reference_only_entities,
clicks_pass_through_reference_only_wires,
box_selections_skip_reference_only_wires,
entities_records_expose_the_reference_only_designation.
