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Tommaso Bianchi b2654ebd8a Design: a body knows what made it, so "Delete Body" can exist
Reported by Tommaso: select a body, and there is no Delete in the offer. Two independent
faults stacked behind that.

FIRST, clicking a body never selects the body. Whole-body picking is deliberately unbound
(DesignSketchTool.cpp) pending the rubber band, so a viewport click only ever yields
Face/Edge/Vertex. The offer therefore saw face_planar, and "delete" accepted body_solid but
no face kind, so the row was filtered out entirely — while the status line read "Body 1
face 0 selected", which actively teaches the wrong model.

SECOND, even selecting the body from the Bodies list, Delete refused in red: "Select the
FEATURE that created this body". CadBody had no link back to its maker, so the offer was
advertising a verb it could not perform — worse than the action:null rows fixed earlier this
session, because this one is ENABLED and its refusal reads like user error.

CadBody::source_feature fixes the second. It is stamped in ONE place, the recompute loop,
and the rule is just "still unset?". That is sufficient because of an invariant worth
stating: no feature ever replaces a whole CadBody. Every in-place op writes only .shape
(boolean, cut, mirror-fuse, transform, dress-up — all 8 sites checked), so a body keeps the
stamp it was born with; a consumed body is erased outright, taking its stamp with it; and
the only bodies still at -1 are the ones the current feature just pushed. A feature type
added later needs no change here as long as it keeps to that invariant.

"Delete Body" fixes the first, sitting beside "Delete Face" in Modify and reachable by
pointing at any face/edge/vertex. The two names cannot be confused, and "delete" gave up the
body kinds so both can never appear for one selection. Deleting a body removes the feature
that made it, which is a real edit to the recipe, so it asks first and NAMES the feature — a
body vanishing from the viewport is not evidence of which feature went, and this is the one
action here that cannot be eyeballed.

Multi-body delete is NOT offered. bodies_2 was in the first draft of the verb; the handler
deletes exactly one body, so a two-body selection would have silently deleted whichever was
m_sel_solid_body. Caught before it reached a binary, at the cost of one rebuild.

Verified on BOTH rigs, full round trip: click a face -> Modify > Delete Body -> "Delete
Extrude2?" -> body gone, Sketch1 correctly left behind, panel falls back to the idle hint ->
Undo -> Extrude2 and Body 1 restored.
2026-08-02 09:41:58 +02:00
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