Adds CadFeatureType::Helix — the missing input for Sweep. Sweep already
existed but could only follow a sketch, so springs, coils, augers and
non-standard-pitch threads were unreachable. Helix + the existing Sweep now
gives all of them with no further work.
Built the OCCT way: a 2D line on a Geom_CylindricalSurface (Geom_ConicalSurface
when helix_taper_deg != 0) turned into an edge and lifted to 3D with
BRepLib::BuildCurves3d — a true analytic helix, not a sampled polyline, so a
swept spring is smooth rather than faceted. The axis is the plane normal
through the plane origin, matching how Revolve and Plane already work.
Sweep's path resolution is widened to accept either a Sketch (unchanged
behaviour) or a Helix, and rejects anything else with a clear error. Helix
itself is skipped in route_feature and recompute — like the datum features, it
produces no body and exists to be consumed.
Invalid input is refused rather than approximated: non-positive radius or
pitch, negative height, a turn count above 10000 (which would hang OCCT), and
a taper that would drive the radius negative before reaching the top all fail
with a specific error.
Serialization: helix_radius/pitch/height/left_handed/taper_deg appended at the
very end of both save and load, identical order, after the coordsys block.
SNAPORCA_CAD_RECIPE_VERSION stays 2; Helix is appended to the end of
CadFeatureType. Golden fixture regenerated with distinctive literals and
field-value assertions; all pre-existing assertions pass unchanged.
Tests assert analytic values. The one that actually proves it is a helix and
not a circle or a spiral: arc length of r=5 pitch=2 height=10 measured with
BRepGProp::LinearProperties against 5*sqrt((2*pi*5)^2 + 2^2), WithinRel 1e-3.
Plus bounding box (2r in X and Y, height in Z), the conical top radius, the
left-handed winding compared at equal parameter, and the integration test:
a circle r=1.5 swept along a 5-turn helix gives one valid solid of ~1115 mm^3
(WithinRel 0.1 — pipe sweeping is not exact).
MCP: `helix` method registered in describe_tools().
Ported from snaporca 6cdc6b5459. Two fork-specific adjustments: the two new
error-message assertions use Catch2 v3's ContainsSubstring (v2's Contains does
not exist here), and the golden fixture is copied rather than regenerated
because this fork cannot be compiled locally — make_golden_doc_v1() is
byte-identical across both forks, so the blob is provably the same.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BVzKmX6Y1aEteit1HTXG4Q
Adds CadFeatureType::Axis and ::CoordSys — reference geometry that produces
no solid, modelled on the existing Plane datum feature.
Axis construction methods (AxisType): TwoPoints, FaceNormal,
CylinderCenterline, PlaneIntersection, AlongEdge. The centreline case is the
useful one: it gives a real axis through an existing hole or boss.
Coordinate systems (CoordSysType): PointWorld and FaceAndDirection. The
latter Gram-Schmidts the picked references, so the stored frame is
orthonormal even when the user's X hint is not perpendicular to the face
normal; the third axis is derived by cross product rather than stored, so it
cannot drift out of sync.
Revolve and pattern are deliberately NOT rewired to consume these — this
commit adds the reference geometry only and changes no existing behaviour.
Serialization: all axis_*/coordsys_* fields appended at the very end of both
CadFeature::save and load, identical order, after mirror_keep_original.
SNAPORCA_CAD_RECIPE_VERSION stays 2; Axis and CoordSys are appended to the
end of CadFeatureType so existing type ordinals are unchanged. Golden fixture
regenerated with distinctive non-default literals and field-value assertions
for every new field; all pre-existing assertions pass unchanged.
Tests assert analytic values: two-point axis direction exactly +Z with unit
length, cylinder centreline collinear with Z and on the true axis, parallel
planes fail cleanly, and the Gram-Schmidt frame is orthonormal to 1e-9 with
X x Y == Z. Degenerate input (identical points) fails with a non-empty error
rather than producing NaNs.
MCP: `axis` and `coordsys` methods registered in describe_tools().
Ported from snaporca 242d4efecb. The golden fixture is copied rather than
regenerated because this fork cannot be compiled locally (Eigen 5.0.1 vs the
build image's 3.3); make_golden_doc_v1() is byte-identical across both forks,
so the two fixtures are provably the same blob.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BVzKmX6Y1aEteit1HTXG4Q
Adds CadFeatureType::Mirror: reflect a target body about a plane using
gp_Trsf::SetMirror + BRepBuilderAPI_Transform. BooleanMode::New keeps the
mirrored copy as its own body (mirror_keep_original decides whether the
source survives); BooleanMode::Add fuses it back into the source, so an
overlapping mirror does not double-count volume.
Serialization: mirror_keep_original is appended at the very end of both
CadFeature::save and load (append-only contract). The mirror plane reuses
the existing `plane` member and the body selector reuses `target_body`,
as Cut already does. Golden fixture regenerated at the current
SNAPORCA_CAD_RECIPE_VERSION = 2; the existing field-value assertions all
still pass unchanged, and the reorder tripwire was re-verified after
regeneration (swapping draft_face/draft_angle in `load` alone still
fails the golden test).
Tests assert analytic values: mirrored volumes equal (8000 each) with the
reflected centroid, Add on a non-overlapping asymmetric body gives exactly
2x volume, Add across an intersecting plane gives strictly less than 2x,
and an invalid body index fails cleanly with a non-empty error.
MCP: `mirror` method registered in describe_tools().
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BVzKmX6Y1aEteit1HTXG4Q
Port of snaporca c2821af783. New GeometryEngine::mass_properties over BRepGProp
(separate VolumeProperties/SurfaceProperties), bounds-checked
CadDocument::body_mass_properties, and a mass_properties MCP method. Query-only:
no CadFeature, no serialization, no version change. Analytic tests
(WithinRel/WithinAbs): cube 8000/2400/COM(0,0,10)/inertia 533333, cylinder
500pi/300pi, hollow = solid-500pi, invalid index -> valid=false.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BVzKmX6Y1aEteit1HTXG4Q
query_topology: indexing a body face-by-face was quadratic — face_by_index
re-walks the explorer and edge_by_index rebuilds the whole indexed map on every
single call. On a 15.7k-face / 25.6k-edge imported solid this blew past the
MCP 15 s main-thread timeout with the UI frozen throughout. GeometryEngine
gains faces_of()/edges_of(), which enumerate once in the very same order (ids
stay interchangeable with the _by_index accessors, so fillet/up_to_face targets
are unaffected). Measured on that body: 15 s timeout -> 0.46 s.
Feature ops: every commit-time m_doc.recompute() (fillet, cut, shell, boolean,
extrude, ...) now goes through recompute_guarded(), which runs the rebuild on a
worker thread. Live-preview/drag paths stay inline on purpose — yielding inside
a drag would be worse than the stall.
run_off_ui_thread(): the progress dialog is now created only after 300 ms, so a
fast op does not flash a dialog, while input stays blocked (wxWindowDisabler)
for the whole operation since the worker owns the document.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BVzKmX6Y1aEteit1HTXG4Q
Opening an STL/OBJ in the Design pane now rebuilds it into a real OCCT B-rep
solid that the face/edge feature tools can operate on, instead of a print mesh.
GeometryEngine::mesh_to_brep is a native C++ port of mesh2step
(github.com/tommasobbianchi/mesh2step): vertices and edges are shared across
triangles at construction time (vertex cache by deduped index, edge cache by
unordered index pair), so no BRepBuilderAPI_Sewing pass is needed to rebuild the
topology afterwards, and watertightness falls out of the edge-usage counts for
free. An open mesh is returned as a shell and reported as such — never dressed up
as a fake solid.
It runs in-process on the OCCT kernel libslic3r already links, so no STEP file is
written or re-read. That is not an optimisation but the whole point: a faceted
STEP of a 62k-triangle mesh is ~149 MB and OCCT's STEPControl_Reader takes >300 s
to parse it back, so routing this through a file would hang the GUI.
Coplanar neighbours are merged (ShapeUpgrade_UnifySameDomain, 5° default) so the
body arrives with pickable CAD faces rather than one face per triangle — on the
20,656-triangle test part that is 20,614 faces down to 4,784. Without it the
import is technically a solid but nothing you can meaningfully fillet or extrude.
- Design pane: "Import mesh" button + Shift+M; warns above 50k triangles.
- MCP: import_mesh {path, tolerance, merge_angle_deg}, returning the full
conversion stats so a caller can tell an honest solid from an open shell.
- Catch2: cube round-trip (exact volume, 12 faceted faces, 6 after merge), open
mesh stays a shell, and the scale-independent sliver rule that a naive
area < tolerance^2 test would get wrong.
Verified end-to-end on the real 20,656-triangle ir3v2 hotend STL: reproduces
mesh2step's Python run exactly (20,614 kept, 42 degenerate, 0 boundary edges,
2 non-manifold edges, not watertight) and the resulting body's bbox matches the
one FreeCAD reports for the same part.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BVzKmX6Y1aEteit1HTXG4Q
Reconstruction is no longer box-only. Five new actions, all thin
wrappers over existing CadDocument::add_* (the same kernel the GUI
calls): revolve (sketch -> add_revolve), fillet/chamfer targeted at a
measured edge id from query_topology, hole (add_hole), and boolean
(union/subtract/intersect over two bodies). extrude and revolve also
accept an optional closed profile=[[x,y],...] -> add_sketch_profile,
the Measure->Build bridge: feed a measured/sliced contour straight back.
Shared helpers plane_from / bool_from / profile_from. Each action is
transactional (checkpoint -> add -> recompute -> undo on failure ->
refresh) and returns post-state. Live-verified: fillet, chamfer (clean
edge), hole, profile-extrude (L), revolve (ring), boolean union (3->2
bodies). MCP method catalogue now 13.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BVzKmX6Y1aEteit1HTXG4Q
Add the Build-input and Validate ends of the reverse-engineering loop.
import_step loads a STEP as native B-rep bodies (the reference part to
measure), reusing the GUI Import path (read_step_solids -> Import
features -> recompute). validate_against compares a body to a reference
({step:path} | {body:id}) and reports volume delta %, bbox delta, and
centroid offset via OCCT GProp + Bnd_Box — the RE skill's actual
acceptance metric (the "scarto %"); surface-deviation heat-map is the
upgrade path.
With this the full Understand -> Measure -> Build -> Validate loop is
live: 8 methods (describe_tools/describe_scene/query_topology/measure/
slice_body/import_step/validate_against/extrude). Verified: import a STEP
then validate body vs same STEP = 0.0%% delta / 0.0mm offset.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BVzKmX6Y1aEteit1HTXG4Q
The "evidence" half of the reverse-engineering loop — read-only
perception that turns a body into measured numbers. query_topology
lists faces (centroid/normal, cylinder radius+axis when round) and
edges (length, circle radius); measure returns distance (and angle when
both refs have a direction) between two {face|edge|point} refs;
slice_body cross-sections a body by a base plane at an offset and
returns world polylines (sections-as-evidence). All reuse GeometryEngine
topology accessors; slice_body adds one BRepAlgoAPI_Section call.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BVzKmX6Y1aEteit1HTXG4Q
Predispose the Design tab to run under an external MCP agent. New
McpControl.{cpp,hpp} embeds a line-delimited JSON-RPC 2.0 server over a
Unix domain socket, off unless env SNAPORCA_MCP is set. Requests are
marshalled onto the wx main thread and run through the SAME CadDocument
kernel the GUI uses, via two thin DesignPanel hooks (mcp_doc /
mcp_after_change) — no parallel engine.
Slice-1 methods: describe_tools (introspection -> the bridge builds tool
schemas), describe_scene (feature tree + per-body bounding boxes), and
extrude (centred rectangle sketch -> new solid). Every op returns its
full post-state. POSIX-only; Windows compiles to a no-op.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BVzKmX6Y1aEteit1HTXG4Q
