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Tommaso BianchiandClaude Opus 5 799f840218 Thicken Surface: fill the corners of a closed-loop wall
snaporca-wm4s. Thickening the 4-walled open box (60x60 in plan, 40 tall, no caps)
by 5 produced volume 29648.15 where the geometry requires (60^2-50^2)*40 = 44000
— about 67% of it. The corner material at the four vertical edges was simply
absent.

CAUSE. MakeThickSolidBySimple offsets each face along its own normal and sews;
it never extends neighbours to meet, so wherever two faces join at an angle the
corner is empty. A flat sheet has no such join and was always exact (18000.000),
which is why the defect looked like a measurement artefact.

WHY THE TWO EARLIER ATTEMPTS COULD NOT HAVE WORKED. Both switched to ByJoin —
plain, then with Intersection/GeomAbs_Intersection — and both returned a shell,
not a solid, so the body lost its volume entirely and both were reverted. That is
not a parameter problem: in OCCT, BRepOffset_MakeOffset::MakeThickSolid builds a
solid only inside `if (!myFaces.IsEmpty())` (BRepOffset_MakeOffset.cxx:1115).
Handed an open sheet with no closing faces, it stops after the offset shell and
returns it, reporting IsDone() with a non-null shape containing no TopAbs_SOLID.
ByJoin hollows a CLOSED solid by removing faces; an open sheet is outside its
contract.

FIX. Close the sheet, then use the call that mitres: cap the free rims
(ShapeAnalysis_FreeBounds -> MakeFace), sew shell+caps into a closed shell, make
a solid, and hollow it inward passing the caps as the faces to remove — the caps
come back off and leave the wall. Two details, each found by measurement rather
than reasoning:

* A shell sewn from an extruded sheet carries no guarantee of outward
  orientation, and MakeSolid does not fix it. Inside-out, the inward offset goes
  OUTWARD: measured bbox 70x70x40 and volume 339141.59, larger than its own
  bounding box because the result overlaps itself. A negative GProp mass is
  exactly that inversion, so it is the test; Reverse() on it.
* A SINGLE face has no neighbour to mitre and must keep the BySimple path. It
  does have a free boundary, so "has free wires" is the wrong question — capping
  a lone face with its own rim sews a zero-thickness shell and measures 6000
  against 18000.

Also: IsDone() is not a success test here, since both failed attempts had it
true. The code now explores for TopAbs_SOLID and refuses a shell.

Tests: new case asserts 44000 with the wall's bbox at 60x60x40 (catching the
inverted-orientation shape, which has the right volume nowhere near the right
place), plus the flat-sheet control at 18000 that must not regress. Full kernel
suite green: 2502 assertions in 187 test cases.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-15 23:13:32 +02:00
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2025-12-08 22:42:11 +08:00

OrcaSlicer tests

Building, running and writing tests is documented on the wiki, under How to Test.

Two files here rather than there, because coding agents only read what is in the repository:

  • AGENTS.md is the same guidance in short form, and is what an agent working under tests/ picks up.
  • CATCH2.md is the Catch2 reference, including the mistakes that break a test at runtime.