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.
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orca_cad's test_geometry.cpp is upstream Catch2 v3 with no CAD suite, so the
surface_deviation check lives alongside the CAD tests here. Built + ran green
in orca_cad's kernel-test docker: All tests passed (4 assertions). Both forks
now carry the test.
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Port of the snaporca CAD work to the mainline fork.
- Onshape default planes (XY/XZ/YZ) at the bed centre (transparent, labelled);
modeling origin unified to the bed centre (CadDocument::modeling_origin);
world-axis triad moved to the bed centre on the Design canvas only.
- Datum plane: clickable ghost-plane base pick + draggable offset arrow.
- Slot: dims reassessed to inter-centre distance / radius / angle; fixed the
duplicate cap-arc radius quote.
- Hole: 3D cube move-handle on the face; binds to the face on the first click;
decluttered side-distance construction lines.
- Thread: derive the M spec (diameter/pitch/depth) from a picked cylindrical
surface or circular edge (GeometryEngine::circle_of_edge); fuse the helical
ridge onto the existing body; MakePipeShell fixed-binormal sweep (uniform, no
twist) + self-intersection/param guards.
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Mirror of snaporca-cad a82cb0d. snaporca-88g — three [CadDocument] tests
proving recompute() replays the whole timeline, so editing any feature (not
just the last) rebuilds downstream: mid-timeline extrude edit -> fillet
rebuilds; first-feature sketch edit propagates the chain; the same survives
serialize_recipe()/deserialize_recipe(); a sketch->extrude->hole->chamfer
chain rebuilds hole+chamfer on a mid-edited extrude. All 3 pass (34 assertions,
Catch2 v3). on_edit_feature edits the tree-selected feature at any position
(13/16 types); Import/Boolean/Cut get a status message instead of a silent
no-op (full dialogs = follow-up snaporca-nu9).
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Dual-fork mandate: port the parametric-recipe 3MF persistence from
snaporca-cad commits ed19eac+147e1c4 so a saved project reopens with the
editable CAD feature tree, not just the baked mesh.
Shared kernel/format/GUI (identical to snaporca-cad):
- CadDocument serialize_recipe/deserialize_recipe (cereal BinaryArchive,
versioned) + CadFeature split save/load + imported_solid<->BRep string.
- Model::cad_recipe carried through 3MF zip entry Metadata/SnapOrca_cad.bin
(writer + binary-verbatim reader branch).
- DesignPanel on_commit() stamps the recipe; on_tab_shown() rehydrates a
loaded project via load_recipe() (deserialize -> feed_bodies + refresh_tree).
Mainline-only adapters (no snaporca-cad counterpart — Catch2 v3 vs v2):
- tests/libslic3r/test_caddocument.cpp: <catch2/catch_all.hpp> +
`using Catch::Approx;` (v3 scopes Approx under Catch::).
- tests/libslic3r/CMakeLists.txt: register test_caddocument.cpp (the
original CAD port had left it out of the test build).
Verified on behemoth (snaporca-deps toolchain): libslic3r_tests clean;
[CadDocument] 17/18 (only the pre-existing tangent-to-circle SIGABRT fails,
identical to snaporca-tkz); K1 serialize round-trip + version-reject pass
(13 assertions); new [3mf] "CAD recipe blob survives a 3mf save/load cycle"
passes byte-for-byte; orca-slicer GUI links clean (186/186, DesignPanel.cpp
compiled). Interactive :10 click-through pending (no Design-tab automation).
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