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e12758ff91 Public reference tests: analytic and FreeCAD expected values (#310)
The oracle no longer uses Fusion measurements. tests/oracle/<case>/ now holds the 76 recipes
(our own format, with recorded measurements and tool-specific fields removed) and an
expected.json per case:

- 55 analytic cases: closed-form values from tools/oracle-analytic/ (stdlib Python, formulas
  in each case's "method").
- 21 FreeCAD cases: the same recipe built with FreeCAD's public scripting API by
  tools/freecad-oracle/ (an external program, not a dependency), with a reference.stl for 20.

solvecraft-cli oracle compares body count, volume, area, centre of mass, bbox, face counts
where the geometry fixes them, and, against reference.stl, the sampled Hausdorff distance and
the principal moments (spatial.rs from #301). cargo xtask oracle reads tests/oracle, writes
docs/oracle.md with the source of each value, and supports known_failure marks for tracked
bugs. CI runs it on every PR; a manual workflow regenerates the FreeCAD values. step-corpus,
seam normalisation and the through-all emulation, which only existed to compare with Fusion,
are removed.

75/76 pass; 75-sm-bracket-holes is a known failure (#296).


Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RjGw4gA5ZvKrU8MQP6sBgT

Co-authored-by: bherbruck <bherbruck@herbrucks.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-12 10:43:43 -04:00

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# STEP import
SolidCraft reads STEP (ISO 10303-21; AP203, AP214 and AP242 geometry) with its own reader in `crates/kernel/src/step_in` (written from the public standards; no third-party STEP code). A STEP file becomes an **Import** base feature on the timeline: it holds the file's B-rep (the STEP text is kept in the design, so the design reopens without the file) and later features — fillets, holes, cuts sketched on its faces, shells — build on its bodies.
- **Open**: File → Open (`doc.open`) accepts `.step`/`.stp` in any case and starts a new design; `solvecraft part.step`; `solvecraft-cli eval part.step`, `solvecraft-cli run script.json --in part.step`; the MCP `open` tool.
- **Insert** into the current design: File → Insert STEP… or SOLID → INSERT (`file.insert_step {path}`).
- **Drag and drop** a STEP file on the window: inserted when the design has features, opened otherwise.
Read: manifold solid breps (with voids), faceted breps, shell-based surface models; planes, cylinders, cones, spheres, tori, B-spline and rational B-spline surfaces (with knots, Bézier, uniform, quasi-uniform), surfaces of revolution and linear extrusion, trimmed surfaces; lines, circles, ellipses, B-spline curves, polylines, trimmed/surface/seam curves; length and angle units (SI prefixes, conversion-based units such as inches); product names (body names come from the solid's name, else the product's); surface colours; assemblies (next-assembly-usage occurrences placed by item-defined transformations, and mapped items) — the product tree is kept in the feature for the components milestone. Files are untrusted: sizes, entity counts and nesting are capped and every kernel call is guarded. What cannot be read becomes a warning on the feature (a face left out gives an open body); not read yet: offset surfaces, pcurve-only edges.
## Imported appearances
Imported body colours and face colours are retained through later features. Body
colours remain the fallback under explicit design appearances and materials; face
colours follow persistent face names. A removed face has no colour assignment to
display on the resulting body.
## IGES
IGES 5.3 files (`.igs`/`.iges`) open, insert and drop the same way: `crates/kernel/src/iges_in.rs` (written from the published specification) restates the file as STEP and the STEP reader reads it, so the feature holds STEP text. Read: manifold solid B-reps (186) with their shells, faces, loops, edge and vertex lists; trimmed (144) and bounded (143) surfaces, and bare B-spline patches, sewn into a solid by their shared edges (an open body when they do not close); lines, circular arcs, ellipses, composite curves, rational B-spline curves; planes (108, 190), cylinders, cones, spheres, tori, rational B-spline surfaces, surfaces of revolution and tabulated cylinders; transformation matrices; units; colours (314 and the predefined numbers); body names (name properties, else labels). Not read yet: ruled and offset surfaces, curves on surfaces given only in parameter space. Export (`file.export` to `.igs`) writes each body as a manifold solid B-rep on the same surfaces a STEP export uses, with its name and colour.