Round things came out with too few sides in drawings measured in metres, and
zooming in did not help.
The chord tolerance was floored at five thousandths of a world unit. That is
a fine sampling for a part measured in millimetres and a coarse one for a
building measured in metres: a ten-centimetre pipe got about ten sides and a
five-centimetre bolt about seven. The floor was also what stopped the frame
asking for better, so closing the camera on one changed nothing.
A chord height is an absolute length, so any fixed value carries an assumption
about the drawing's units. Bounded against the curve's own radius instead,
which carries none. The two ends are really segment counts: a circle gets at
least about fifty sides and never more than about a hundred and sixty,
wherever the camera is and whatever the drawing is measured in. Between them
the frame still decides, so a curve fills in as the camera closes on it.
Straight runs keep the frame's own tolerance — there is no curvature to
sample, and two ends are all a line has.
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The last four truck crates are gone from the manifest. What they were doing
falls into three parts, and each now has one answer instead of two.
NURBS evaluation. truck was carrying B-spline curves and surfaces for the
SPLINE entity, hatch boundaries, BLEND's endpoint frames, the spline preview
and ACIS spline-surface faces. The kernel now has both, over one de Boor
written across however many coordinates a control point holds — so a plane
curve and a space curve cannot drift apart, and a surface is the same
algorithm applied twice. The rational and the polynomial cases stop being
separate types: weights absent means polynomial.
The entity conversion. Every LINE, ARC, ELLIPSE, SPLINE and polyline was
built into truck topology purely so it could be sampled back into points.
They are sampled through `entities::curve` now, which is where each one's
geometry is already defined once and what EXTRUDE and REVOLVE read — so a
circle drawn on screen and a circle handed to the Model tab come from the
same definition. That retires four of TruckObject's variants and the module
is renamed for what it does.
SWEEP and LOFT. Both only ever produced a mesh, so both are built from point
lists: a band of quads per span, and a lid where a profile closes. Lofting
profiles of different densities resamples them by distance rather than by
index, so a circle lofted to a square no longer twists.
Two things worth noting for anyone reading the old comments. The tolerance
globals that lived in the tessellation module were never about truck at all —
they are the per-frame chord height, and they move to `curve_tol`. And the
rule that a profile handed over as `Lines` silently broke EXTRUDE and REVOLVE
no longer holds: those read the curve directly and never look at this channel.
The two `automation` test failures are unchanged from before this and are not
caused by it.
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The kernel gained a B-rep layer — topology, analytic surfaces, surface
intersection, face splitting, point classification, booleans — and
acadifc gained the bridge that lifts an ACIS document into it and lowers
it back, provenance-driven so an untouched body saves byte for byte.
The reachability test is a compile-time one on purpose. A dependency
chain that stops resolving is caught where it breaks rather than the
next time somebody reaches for the far end of it.
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Two places were left describing geometry for themselves.
A fit-point SPLINE was drawn from a C² cubic solved in spline.rs while
TRIM and snap cut a separate interpolation from the kernel. Near enough
to look right, far enough apart that a trim landed beside the line it
was aimed at. It now draws the curve those commands work on, and falls
back to the local solve only where the kernel declines — a fit spline
through points in space is not a planar curve, so there is nothing for
it to say.
Closed fit splines were worse than that: the kernel's interpolation is a
clamped solve with no wrap in it, so the curve TRIM used never returned
to its start and the seam cut nothing. Repeating the first fit point
closes it. The seam is C¹ where the rest of the curve is C², which is
the honest limit of a clamped solve — the alternative was a curve with a
gap in it.
OFFSET's preview sampling had drifted the same way TRIM's had: an arc
and a circle read `center.x/.y` as world coordinates when the entity
stores them in its OCS, so an extruded one previewed on the wrong side;
every curved kind was cut at a fixed twenty segments per radian whatever
its size; and an ellipse rebuilt its axis frame from the major axis' X
and Y alone, dropping the Z the entity stores. A hundred lines of that
become one tessellation. A RAY now previews as far as an XLINE does
rather than as a stub the length of its direction vector.
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The point lists were built three different ways and none of them scaled
with the geometry. A full ellipse was cut into sixteen segments per half
and an elliptical arc into thirty-two, whatever its size, so anything
large read as a polygon; a circle worked out its own segment count from
the chord tolerance; an arc was handed to truck's arc-through-three-
points builder, which cancels at survey coordinates.
All three now sample the entity's curve at the render pass's chord
tolerance, so how round something looks follows how big it is and how
far in the view is zoomed. The ellipse also stops casting its local
coordinates to f32 on the way in — the vertex path splits f64 into a
double-single pair precisely so that precision survives to the shader,
and throwing it away first defeated that.
What does not change is the kind of object each entity hands over.
EXTRUDE, REVOLVE and SWEEP read their profile and path out of Contour or
Curve and have no arm for a bare point list, so an arc or an ellipse
given as Lines would quietly stop being usable as either. The arc keeps
its circle_arc edge for that reason; only the ellipse's control points
change, and they keep the same two-half-edge wire.
The ellipse now decides it is closed from its own endpoints rather than
from its stored parameters, so a file that writes an end a hair short of
a full turn still produces a wire a plane can attach to.
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The same shape was being read out of an entity's fields in three places
and the three had drifted. An arc's tessellation cut it at 20 segments
per radian, TRIM's sampling at 16, and its snap points came from a
fourth expression again; a spline was sampled at a fixed 96 points
however long it was; TRIM read an arc's centre as world coordinates
when the entity stores it in its OCS, so an arc carrying the (0, 0, −1)
normal a MIRROR leaves behind acted as a boundary on the wrong side of
the drawing.
entity_curve returns a PlanarCurve: the shape, plus the plane its
coordinates are read in. The plane comes from the entity's OCS — its
extrusion normal through the DXF arbitrary-axis algorithm — not from the
UCS. A UCS is the working plane a user drew in and an entity does not
remember it: draw a circle in a UCS turned 30° about Z and the stored
normal is still +Z, which is why the header keeps the UCS separately.
The algorithm itself stays in transform.rs, where the format is
understood and where #142's degenerate case was fixed once.
Entities that store world coordinates and may not be planar at all —
LINE, SPLINE — are checked rather than assumed. A spline whose points
wander in space returns None instead of being flattened onto XY, which
would move it.
entity_curve_xy folds the plane away for the editing commands, which
work in plan view and need every boundary in one frame before two of
them can be intersected.
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