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 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A cut or an intersection between prisms (a plate and the tools through it) is now decided in 2D before either operand is meshed. A body's size and volume are measured once, a placement reads its orientation from its matrix, the evaluation cache is bounded to 64 MiB, and STEP import copies fewer shells. Hole plates evaluate 20-30% faster with less memory, and models are unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Refs #303. file.save / file.save_as can store a warm native geometry cache (cache: true, off by default) keyed to the document hash, app version and adapter revision. Opening shows a bounded preview from it until the rebuilt session replaces it. Any cache failure counts as a miss.
A SolidCraft-owned portable B-rep schema (geometry schema 2 with analytic curves and surfaces, explicit frames and ranges, fitted intersection curves) and a versioned body envelope (SCBREP03) with its own metadata records, a bounded binary codec, a validator with resource budgets, and an adapter that refuses what it can't convert exactly. Pinned by a box-and-fillet golden fixture. Not yet written by application saves. Refs #303.