The v1.6 roadmap in five tracks: 154 -> 247 registered tools in 28 groups.
Evidence re-measured for the release:
- correctness A/B against v1.5.1: 26/48 -> 48/48, 22 fixed, 0 regressed
(ab-v1.5.1-vs-v1.6.0.json, replacing the -dev report);
- the reference adapter on matrix v7: 21/21 (autocad-mcp-pro.json, which
was the v3 run of 1.5); the published-report test follows it to v7;
- the 100-point rubric re-scored per category, every withheld point named:
93 (the competitor rows are their July snapshots, not re-reviewed);
- the perf lane as medians of five alternating runs, beside a v1.4.0
comparison on one interpreter (perf-v1.4.0-vs-v1.6.0.json).
Two roadmap criteria are not green, and the changelog, the README and the
roadmap say so: criterion 5 is withdrawn (track D, Plant 3D, dropped) and
criterion 7 is not met (creation 1.25x / 1.38x v1.4.0's time, still
1.17x / 1.20x with the timeout off). Carried to 1.7.
README rewritten for 1.6: what is new, the mechanical and architectural
sheets, the rubric and task-matrix charts, the measured limits (including
the four feature tables that ship empty), and the 1.7 roadmap. server.json
describes the 1.6 surface and declares TOOL_PACKS. CLAUDE.md corrects the
ISO 286 letter set and the empty feature tables.
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The evidence for track H, in the shape tracks A, E, B + G and F used.
- benchmarks/tasks_v7.py: 21 tasks, DEFAULT_MATRIX = "v7"; v6 to v2 stay
addressable. Both new tasks read the synthetic plant pair and nothing
else. takeoff_roundtrip: the P&ID called schematic, every routable run's
layout length equal to the rectilinear MST of its tags, sizes and services
as drawn (a return drawn on the supply layer included), the cable metres
rounded up after the allowance, an unstated power left empty.
understand_foreign: inches over millimetres flagged, the stray entity found
by handle, two plan copies separated, five layers classified. A test breaks
each input and watches its gate fail by name.
- Five correctness checks, every number worked out by hand in its docstring;
the published A/B report is re-run over 48 checks: 26 / 48 -> 48 / 48,
zero regressed.
- scripts/smoke_understand_com.py reads the pair through the live engine -
snapshots, the DWG route, both takeoffs and a diff - and closes every
document it opens; the CHANGELOG records what it returned.
scripts/field_test_takeoff.py runs the takeoffs on a user's own files,
refuses to write inside the repository and prints no quantity by default.
- The README token table is remeasured; check_doc_numbers derives the task
count from the v7 matrix; CLAUDE.md, both READMEs, the CHANGELOG and the
spec status line say what shipped.
One reader defect found on the way: describe.tag_occurrences read a wiring
callout ("Wiring to CP-2") as a place its panel is written, so the scale
check called CP-2 ambiguous and read "Wiring to CP1" as a phantom tag CP1 -
10 tags and 45 pairs (13.3 % within 10 %) where the generator placed 11 and
55 (21.8 %). A callout is no longer a tag occurrence, the rule
network.tag_occurrences already kept; two tests failed before the fix.
The smoke works only in documents it opened from its own temporary folder,
known by full path; it attaches with GetActiveObject only (the backend's
Dispatch fallback would launch AutoCAD), checks in the same COM-thread call
that the active document is its own before each snapshot, the DWG save and
the move, closes its documents with Close(False) and re-activates the
document that was active when it started. No new ActiveX member: Documents,
Item, FullName, ActiveDocument, Activate and Close are the ones the backend
already calls. Measured on AutoCAD 2026 (25.1s): exit 0, model-space types
equal file / live / DWG, export 0.104 s, no document of the run left open.
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The spec promised that the first live task would measure xrefs. It never
did: the plan measures model space, paper space and block definitions. 1.6
does not read an xref's own entities on either engine; the host drawing is
what gets read. The snapshot docstring and drawing_understand's docstring
now say so, and nothing is claimed about the live engine that was never
measured.
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The reconcile pass left one real defect for the reviewer. Groups U and N are
built side by side, so the takeoffs carry their own unit bands, cluster grid,
scale statistic and room faces, and nothing ever retires them. Two readers of
one drawing can disagree. On Task 6's own inches-over-millimetres layout,
infer_units without room faces ties three ways and falls back to the header,
while the takeoff's bands say mm.
Task 11 gains Steps 15-20, committed on their own before the README figures
are retaken:
- describe.drawing_units becomes the one unit call, used by describe,
scale_check and the takeoffs;
- the takeoffs read plan copies, scale and rooms through group U's modules;
- the stand-ins are deleted;
- tests/test_understand_one_reading.py pins one unit, one plan copy, one
verdict and one set of rooms per drawing.
Tasks 3, 4 and 6 now point at those steps. Review Focus 1 names
parse_diameters, the function every task uses.
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A second pass compared every tag, number and literal in the plan with the
field files, locally. Two borrowed values remained: a motor rating and one
motor tag. Both are now invented (18,5 kW, M82), and the dependent sums and
section rules were checked against them. The rest of the tank series was
renumbered to keep its old sort order, since several assertions compare
sorted tags: T4101-T4103, T4500 and T4600.
Docstrings no longer tie example layer names to a particular drawing. The
fixture's claim now says exactly what is invented (every tag and number) and
what is ordinary drafting vocabulary (layer and block names). The spec's
grounding paragraph now says "process plant" and no longer names the sector.
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The skeleton's header, constraints, file map and pinned interfaces now carry
their twelve tasks, in order:
- main (Tasks 1-2): the snapshot, vocabulary and label parsers, MAX_DXF_BYTES
512 MB and the office extra; the synthetic plant pair with its truth.
- U (Tasks 3-4): drawing_understand and drawing_scale_check; SECTION 26 opens.
- N (Tasks 5-8): the line network, orthogonal lengths and pipe rows, the
takeoff workbook with pipe_takeoff, then cable_takeoff; SECTION 27, pack plant.
- D (Tasks 9-10): drawing_diff and drawing_topology_check with the three
topo_* focuses, on D's own copy of SECTION 26.
- final (Tasks 11-12): packs, lean 65, aliases, golden queries and counts;
benchmark v7, five correctness checks, the live smoke, the field-test
script and the docs.
Interface pass: the U and N texts now say what Task 6 really does with the
scale check (it takes one through pipe_rows(scale=...) and otherwise keeps its
own stand-ins), and Task 11 moves D's block above SECTION 27 after the merge.
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Header, global constraints (confidentiality, read-only by default, nothing
invented, inferred units), the five real-world inputs no happy-path test
exercises (AutoCAD text codes, Cyrillic look-alike tags, repeated tags,
double-drawn pipe, a layout whose INSUNITS lies), file structure, the
interface block, execution with the worktree fast-forward rule, and the merge
notes. Task sections are drafted next.
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Read a drawing somebody else made and turn it into a deliverable: a one-call
drawing report (units that lie, stray extents, plan copies, multilingual layer
meaning), a scale check between a P&ID and its layout, pipe and cable takeoffs
whose topology comes from the P&ID and whose lengths come from the layout, a
revision diff by geometric signature, and topology checks. Grounded in a real
client project read locally (never committed): its P&ID proved to be
unscaled against its layout, which no tool had flagged.
Six tools (+ pack plant), three topo_* focuses, the office extra, a live DXF
snapshot through Document.Export (measured: the document is not renamed), and
synthetic fixtures that reproduce the field findings.
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The evidence for track F, in the shape tracks A, E and B + G used.
- benchmarks/tasks_v6.py: 19 tasks, DEFAULT_MATRIX = "v6"; v5 to v2 stay
addressable. arch_roundtrip draws the example plan with
arch_plan_from_spec and reads it back without the spec: rooms_detect must
find each labelled room within 0.1 % of its label and of the net floor
computed by hand (4825 x 5750 and 3825 x 5750), the schedules must list
D1, D2, W1, W2, and the plan is gated on a zero-issue critique and a
finalize score of at least 90. A test removes one room label and the gate
fails naming arch_room_unlabelled.
- Four correctness checks, every number worked out by hand in the docstring:
L / T / X junction corners and wall areas, a 4 x 5 m room labelled 20.00 m2
rather than its 21.84 m2 axis area, a door interrupting both faces, and a
plan of plain lines read as 20 and 15 m2 at confidence 0.6. The published
A/B report is re-run over 43 checks: 26 / 43 -> 43 / 43, zero regressed.
- scripts/smoke_arch_com.py runs the whole plan once on a live seat and
closes every document it opens; the CHANGELOG records what it returned.
- The token suite measures a TOOL_PACKS=core,arch row; check_doc_numbers
derives the task count from the v6 matrix; CLAUDE.md, both READMEs and
the spec status line say what shipped.
- fix(com): the first live smoke exited 1 - the room reader found 0 wall
segments. Measured on AutoCAD 2026 (2026-09-23): with a makepy cache,
ModelSpace.Item(i) returns the gen_py IAcadEntity wrapper
(type(item).__name__ == "IAcadEntity") and item.StartPoint on an
AcDbLine raises AttributeError, so every entity_list row lost its
type-specific properties (28 wall LINEs, 0 with start/end). _entity_info
now re-dispatches exactly that wrapper through _com_unnarrow; after the
fix 38 of 53 rows carry start/end and the smoke exits 0 with both rooms
at 27 743 750 / 21 993 750 mm2 and 0 critique issues. Re-dispatch
measured at ~1.7 ms per entity (dynamic vs gencache alike).
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Task 1 (main) lays the foundation every group branches from: the arch
layer set and role map, wall materials, EN/TR vocabulary, the plan model
with its ACADMCP_ARCH payload (opening_kind / stair_kind beside the record
kind), draw_prims(role_layer=) and the codec's app_id= / kinds=.
- Group W (Tasks 2-4): the wall engine (L/T/X junctions, opening cuts,
poche), doors, windows and stairs, the async layer with read_plan and the
exterior chains; SECTION 25 opens with four tools.
- Group R (Tasks 5-6): the planar-face finder, measured room labels, the
foreign-plan reader and the door/window/room schedules; three tools.
- Group C (Tasks 7-8): the furniture and sanitary catalogue, the grid and
the plan symbols; four tools.
- Final (Tasks 9-10, main after the W -> R -> C merge): arch_plan_from_spec,
the three arch_* critique focuses, the arch pack and lean 64, then the
v6 matrix with arch_roundtrip, four correctness checks, the live smoke
and the docs.
Consistency pass: group W's poche now goes through draw_prims with the
arch role map (Task 1 resolves wall materials there), and the hedges on
Task 1's payload spelling and Task 5's rooms_detect shape are replaced by
the shapes those tasks pin.
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Header, global constraints, file structure, the interface block every task
builds against, the group/ownership table, the SECTION 25 banner protocol and
the merge notes. Task sections are drafted next.
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One plan model — a wall network with hosted openings — and one engine that
resolves L/T/X junctions, cuts openings, hatches cut walls by material and
computes rooms as the faces the walls enclose, so areas are measured, never
typed. A pure planar-face finder reads rooms from foreign plans on both
engines (the live engine has no boundary_trace). Furniture/sanitary catalogue,
grid, symbols, exterior dimension chains, schedules from the model.
12 tools (SECTION 25, pack arch), English by default with lang="tr", poché by
material, three arch_* critique focuses, benchmark arch_roundtrip.
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The evidence for tracks B and G, in the shape tracks A and E used.
- benchmarks/tasks_v5.py: 18 tasks, DEFAULT_MATRIX = "v5"; v4, v3 and v2 stay
addressable so an earlier report reproduces exactly rather than being only
described. mech_assembly is roadmap criterion 3 - a flange-coupling sheet
built from the part model and the sheet standard, through the code the
tools call (apply_titleblock, draw_part/add_view/dimension_part,
insert_std_part, extract_records -> draw_bom_table, add_balloon), gated on
two numbers that cannot be negotiated: drawing_critique(focus=None) returns
zero issues and the finalize score is at least 90 (it scores 100, 18/18 on
the v5 matrix). The adapter returns the focuses that fired, so a
regression names itself, and a test drops one balloon to prove the gate
fails and names mech_bom_balloon_mismatch.
- Seven correctness checks (32 -> 39). mech_section_hatch_area is the one
that cannot be faked: a sleeve of length 60, outside diameter 40 and bore
20 cuts two faces totalling 1200 mm^2 exactly, read back out of the drawing
through entity_measure. sheet_frame_iso5457_a3 pins the A3 frame (20,10 to
410,287 inside the 420 x 297 trimmed sheet); mech_iso286_on_dimension pins
40 H7 at +0.025/0 through the layout; std_part_iso4014_m12 pins s = 18 and
k = 7.5 by value; mech_thread_unrepresented_is_caught is the seventh: a
quality gate that never fires is not a gate.
- scripts/smoke_mech_com.py executed every new COM path once on AutoCAD 2026
(25.1s): frame, title block, a sectioned shaft with 12 dimensions, an ISO
4014 block with 1 ACADMCP_MECH chunk, a weld symbol, the parts list read off
the drawing, a linked balloon, an xref attached / listed / detached, a
31687-byte .dwg (AC1032) through ActiveX SaveAs, critique 0 issues, exit 0,
every scratch document closed. It retries RPC_E_CALL_REJECTED (measured:
the first call after Documents.Add is refused) and tracks its documents by
the document list, since SaveAs renames them.
- Defects the evidence found, each fixed with a test that fails on the old
code:
* ezdxf dimension_diameter put the text beyond the SECOND chord point;
ActiveX AddDimDiametric puts it beyond the first (measured live: a d50
from (x,170) to (x,220), leader 10, text at (x,160)). Headlessly every
front-view diameter stood on its own chain dimension. ezdxf now follows
ActiveX.
* draw_part's anchor goes on MECH; ActiveX refuses entity.Layer on a
missing layer (measured -0x7ffdfff7 'Key not found'). draw.py ensures
every target layer before the first entity.
* bom.extract_records filtered on INSERT; ActiveX names it BLOCKREFERENCE
(ObjectName AcDbBlockReference) - the live parts list was empty.
* COM _entity_info reported no dimension text_position: ModelSpace.Item
narrows to IAcadEntity, which has no TextPosition (measured
AttributeError); read through _com_unnarrow (TextPosition measured on
AcDbDiametricDimension, WCS). dim_overlap compared bbox centres and a
diameter collided with its own bore.
* pid graph raised KeyError 'start' mid-critique on a LINE whose point read
AutoCAD refused while busy; such a line is left out.
* the validator read "ISO 4014 - M12x60" as fake dimension text.
- The published A/B report is re-run over the grown suite rather than
re-typed (26/39 -> 39/39, 13 fixed, 0 regressed), check_doc_numbers derives
the task count from the v5 matrix, the token table is remeasured with a
TOOL_PACKS=core,mech row (193 tools / 61,673 tokens), and the README's
collected-tests figure is retaken (3990).
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The plan embeds Task 12's module and tests verbatim, so it still carried the
`_current_space` read and the derivation that put the third-angle cone's short
side away from the circles. Both replaced with what shipped, so a re-run of the
task cannot transcribe the defects back.
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The five gaps the plan's reconciliation found, each resolved in the spec:
part placement lives in draw_part(at=, rotation=) so the dataclasses carry no
origin; engineering/sheet/refs.py is gone with the contract correction;
image_attach takes no clip and titleblock_apply no position (the ISO 7200
corner is fixed by the standard) — both recorded as out of 1.6; balloon_add
places one balloon per call against the item numbers bom_extract already
assigned.
Records the four feature tables that ship empty (DIN 509, DIN 471/472,
DIN 332-1, ISO 3601-2): no row could be verified against the standard here, so
the structure, the row-key contract and the refusal ship without rows, and the
features draw from explicit dimensions until the tables are transcribed.
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Assembles the skeleton and the five drafted parts into one plan, Task 1
through Task 16, each a TDD task with its failing test, its implementation
and its gate.
Groups:
- (main) Task 1 — primitives, the ACADMCP_MECH codec, the standards registry
and the ISO 128-50 material map; the shared foundation the four branches
all consume.
- M (Tasks 2-7) — the part model, the feature catalogue with its DIN/ISO
tables, the view engine (orthographic, then sections and details),
dimensioning, and SECTION 21's six tools.
- S (Tasks 8-9) — the ISO 4014/4017/4032/7089/4762 and ISO 15 tables, and
SECTION 22's three tools.
- A (Tasks 10-11) — ISO 21920-1 surface texture, ISO 2553 welds, centre
marks, the ISO 128-40 cutting-plane line and the material hatch:
SECTION 23's five tools.
- G (Tasks 12-14) — ISO 5457 frames and ISO 7200 title blocks A4-A0,
revisions, the ISO 7573 parts list and ISO 6433 balloons, xrefs, images,
data extract and DWG: SECTION 24's eleven tools and the four contract
members.
- F (Tasks 15-16) — the six mech_* critique focuses, the mech pack, lean,
aliases and golden queries; then the v5 benchmark, the correctness checks,
the live COM smoke and the docs.
Interface pass over the assembled file: View.dims is tuple[DimIntent, ...] as
the skeleton pins it; every XDATA writer calls Task 1's to_values rather than
re-deriving the chunk split from encode; stdparts' five standard features are
STD_FEATURE_KINDS so they do not collide with features.FEATURE_KINDS; the
revision block carries its own ACADMCP_SHEET_REV application instead of a
fourth ACADMCP_MECH kind that the pinned KINDS would refuse; and Task 16
states 39 correctness checks, which is what it registers.
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The header, global constraints, file structure, the interface block every task
builds against, the group/ownership table and the merge notes. Task sections
are drafted next.
Also corrects the spec's architecture section: the engineering tools compose
the generic contract members the way gear/keyway/titleblock already do, so only
four operations (xref_attach, xref_manage, image_attach, drawing_export_dwg)
need contract members and an implementation per engine.
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One part model — a revolved or prismatic profile plus typed features — and one
view engine that projects it into front/side/section/detail views with hidden
lines, cut faces and dimensions, instead of a generator per part shape. Around
it: the standard-parts catalogue as code inserted as blocks with attributes,
the ISO annotation symbols, and the sheet standard (ISO 5457 frames A4-A0,
ISO 7200 title blocks, revisions, ISO 7573 parts list, balloons, xrefs, DWG).
25 tools in four sections, new pack `mech`, three capability keys, six mech_*
critique focuses, benchmark task `mech_assembly` and six correctness checks.
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CLAUDE.md gains items 18-20 (styles, page setup & templates, environment),
the grown drawing_settings facade on item 11, lean 55 / 52 and
TOOL_PACKS=all|core,pid,settings, and three conventions: layer states are
ours (ACADMCP_LAYERSTATES XRECORD, mode "xrecord"), page-setup evidence is
the PDF's own /MediaBox, nothing interprets coordinates in UCS.
README token table re-measured on this tree with benchmarks/token_suite.py
(ratio/v1 estimates): full 199 tools / 59,315 tokens, core,settings 190 /
55,593, core 168 / 48,825, lean 55 / 16,360, search 2 / 356; corpus
re-derived from discovery.aliases: 186 AutoCAD command names, 933 synonym
phrases, 204 tools. Styles & standards row, page setup & templates row,
final environment wording, and "Known limitations of the settings track".
CHANGELOG Unreleased: the track E intro, Added (styles, page setup &
templates, environment, drawing_settings growth, benchmark evidence),
Fixed (the Track A hardening list), Changed (three groups, packs, measured
idle cost, release snapshot 204 · 8 · 5 · 3284). Spec status: implemented.
Where the plan's text and the tree disagreed, the tree wins:
mleaderstyle_create is implemented on both engines through the
ACAD_MLEADERSTYLE dictionary and no `mleaderstyle` capability key exists
(spec §4, capability maps), so the docs say so instead of calling it
ezdxf-only; the Task 7 fix (tolerant ACADMCP_PID payloads, crossings
tested against the arc) joins the hardening list the plan left it out of.
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Two review findings, both root causes.
1. `_sync_header_to_dimstyle` copied the DIMSTYLE entry's ezdxf-internal
arrowhead spelling (OBLIQUE) into the DXF-facing $DIMBLK/$DIMBLK1/$DIMBLK2
header, so the saved file named a block it did not hold (the blocks are
_OBLIQUE / _DOT) and `system_get_variable("DIMBLK")` answered "OBLIQUE"
headlessly against "_OBLIQUE" on COM and in the same engine's own
`dimstyle_list` row. The header write now goes through
`reported_arrowhead` — the same read-side rule `_dimstyle_value` applies.
Pinned by header, `system_get_variable`, save/reopen (`ezdxf.readfile`
header equals the block the file holds) and the Restore-to-Standard
empty-string case in `test_builtin_arrowheads_render_save_and_report_one_spelling`.
2. The `mleaderstyle` capability refusal rested on a false engine boundary.
acax25enu.tlb (AutoCAD 2026) exposes IAcadMLeaderStyle with Name,
ArrowSize, LandingGap, TextHeight, TextStyle, ... — exactly what
`Dictionaries.Item("ACAD_MLEADERSTYLE").Item(i)` returns — and
IAcadDictionary.AddObject(keyword, "AcDbMLeaderStyle") creates one.
COM `mleaderstyle_list` now reads the four values off those objects
(`values_available: True`); COM `mleaderstyle_create` validates every value
(`validate_mleaderstyle`, shared with ezdxf), checks the clash and the text
style before AddObject, then writes the four properties. The contract
method is `@abstractmethod` again, the key is gone from both capability
maps, the fake ActiveX surface models the real call shape, and the spec
(§4.2, §8.1, §9) states the ActiveX route.
Live AutoCAD was not running on this machine (GetActiveObject: operation
unavailable; no acad.exe), so the COM route is type-library-verified and
fake-tested, not executed live — scripts/smoke_settings_com.py (Task 24)
owns that.
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Two blocking review findings on the standards data layer:
* DIMTP and DIMTM were pinned to ("float", 0.0, 1e6), refusing every signed
deviation with a false "must be at least 0". AutoCAD documents both as
signed and the repo already relies on it: build_dim_override writes
dimtm=-0.022 for ISO 286 p6 and dimtp=-0.020 for f7, and
dimension_linear(fit=...) emits exactly those. A dimension style could
therefore never hold a double-positive or double-negative fit that the same
server draws correctly per dimension, and an agent obeying the message
would ship a sign-flipped tolerance. Both are now ("float", -1e6, 1e6); a
provenance test resolves the p6/f7/H7/h6 overrides build_dim_override
emits through resolve_dimstyle and pins the signs.
* 827719f made check_dim_value return DIMBLK/DIMBLK1/DIMBLK2 in the
canonical _OBLIQUE spelling and added ezdxf_arrowhead without telling
Task 10, whose plan helpers store the value verbatim and read the raw
string back - executed as written the headless drawing raised at render
and at doc.write, a user block passed the data layer and failed at save,
and ezdxf's OBLIQUE-in-session / _OBLIQUE-after-reload split made an
idempotent re-set report a change (spec section 8.3). This commit adds the
read-side twin reported_arrowhead (never raises; a foreign name passes
through), pins it with an in-session-equals-reloaded round trip, and edits
the plan: Task 9 Produces and Task 10 Consumes now name ARROWHEAD_BLOCKS,
canonical_arrowhead, ezdxf_arrowhead and reported_arrowhead; Task 10's
_write_dimstyle_values maps through ezdxf_arrowhead, _dimstyle_value and
_com_dimvar_for_report map through reported_arrowhead, a new
_require_arrowhead_blocks refuses a user block absent from doc.blocks
before dimstyle_create/modify write anything (and rewrites the name to the
block table's own spelling, measured to be what a reload reports), and two
headless tests witness the rendered INSERTs, the save/reopen spelling and
the refusal. The plan's own copy of the range table is corrected to match
the module (arrow kind, signed tolerances). The edited helper block was
executed against ezdxf 1.4.4 before being written into the plan.
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Skeleton (contracts, interfaces, file ownership, merge notes) plus the
drafted task steps for Track A hardening (H), styles (S), settings (C),
page setup and templates (P), environment (V) and the final tasks (F);
25 cross-group consistency findings reconciled before commit.
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38 tools in three sections: ISO-25/ANSI dimension, text and leader styles
with drawing_apply_standard; drawing_settings growth, a system-variable
catalogue and document properties; page setup with PDF mediabox read-back,
batch plot and five bundled templates built by the server's own tools;
multi-document on both engines, portable layer states, named views, UCS,
launch, preferences and operator prompts. Track A hardening is wave 0.
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scripts/smoke_pid_com.py runs the whole track against the live AutoCAD in
a new document. ComBackend.connect() is lazy by design, so the script reads
reachability from system_status()["connected"] rather than from connect()
as the plan sketched, and closes its document without saving unless --keep
is passed. On this machine (AutoCAD 2026, "25.1s (LMS Tech)") it exits 0:
5 nodes, 4 edges, 0 dangling, confidence_min 1.0, 0 critique issues,
2 XDATA chunks — identical to the headless engine on the same spec. The
first attempt exited 2 on a stale win32com gen_py cache (a package folder
holding only __pycache__); an environment fault, no backend change needed.
A/B against v1.5.1 published as ab-v1.5.1-vs-v1.6.0-dev.json: 26/29 ->
29/29, three miss -> pass, zero regressed. check_doc_numbers.py now names
the report and the two row labels in one place (AB_REPORT, AB_*_LABEL),
and README.md / benchmarks/README.md carry the new rows; the v1.5.0 and
v1.4.0 tables stay as history.
README: P&ID row, the showcase and catalogue images, the token table
re-measured (161 / 44,930 by default, 152 / 41,420 with TOOL_PACKS=core,
lean 50 / 14,007), every stale count reconciled (154 -> 166 registered,
149 -> 161 advertised, corpus 158/672 -> 162/731 by the same count, 19 ->
20 groups, 6 -> 8 resources, six-task matrix with pid_roundtrip), a
"Known limitations of the P&ID track" subsection, and the snapshot line at
this machine's 2423 collected tests (CI has not run on this tree; noted in
the changelog with the pre-existing 1369 vs 1363 drift).
CLAUDE.md: section 17, sections 5 and 7 counts, TOOL_PACKS, the two 1.6
contracts and the reader rules. Spec status -> implemented. The plan and
spec markdown were reformatted by ruff (fenced Python only) because
`ruff format --check .` was already red on them at HEAD and the gate
requires the whole tree clean.
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Two authoring slips in the valve x actuator composition:
- The diaphragm actuator's stem stopped at y=4 while the dome's flat base
sat at y=6, so the canonical control-valve symbol (PID_VALVE_*_DIAPHRAGM,
9 catalogue entries) shipped with its dome floating 2 mm above the stem.
- Actuators were placed at a fixed y=4 regardless of the body, so on the
needle body (top 5.6) the piston/motor/solenoid glyphs were drawn over
the knob and the hand bar across the needle's stem; the stem line(0,0,0,4)
also duplicated the needle's own axial line (and the butterfly disc).
Placement is now body-relative: `_body` reports `axis_top` (where its own
geometry on x=0 ends) and the stem runs from there to the glyph base at
`body_top + STEM_CLEARANCE`; the diaphragm dome's base is the stem top
(base + DIAPHRAGM_YOKE), and the FAIL attribute follows the glyph base.
The reference 8x4 bodies keep their published numbers (globe+diaphragm
signal at y=9.0, bbox top 9.0).
Tests: per-combination check that the stem starts at the body's derived
axis top, the glyph's lowest edge equals the stem top, the glyph clears
the body, and the signal port is the topmost edge; plus a catalogue-wide
no-duplicate-primitives gate. 33 combinations fail on the old geometry.
The plan's Step 3 snippet is synced with the fixed module.
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Plan covers the prerequisite block_insert attribute fix (ezdxf wrapped the
INSERT in an anonymous *U block and lost its ATTRIBs), the two generic
contracts, the 43-symbol catalogue, routing, the ISA-5.1 grammar, the
graph reader, deliverables, six critique focuses, pid_from_spec, TOOL_PACKS,
resources, benchmark v4, and the live COM smoke.
Spec reconciled with the plan: 43 base symbols, FUNC/LOOP at +-2.0,
solid = DXF SOLID entity, shape/direction options, example spec uses an
actuated FCV-101 (a hand valve has no signal port), refine hints in
detail["hint"], preflight LAYER_SET_INTENT_MISMATCH, radial port matching
on the circle.
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Research snapshot of the AutoCAD MCP field (20 READMEs, 2026-09-14), the
seven 1.6 tracks with measurable acceptance criteria, their order
(A -> E -> B -> G -> F -> H -> D), and the tool-pack decision.
Track A: symbol catalogue authored in code (ISO 10628-2 + ISA-5.1), two
generic contracts (block_define, entity_get/set_xdata), nine pid_* tools,
routing, the ISA-5.1 tag grammar, the pid_graph reader, six critique
focuses, TOOL_PACKS, and the test/evidence plan.
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Tool count 131 -> 154; 474 -> 1242 collected tests.
The release exists for two measured reasons. A 149-tool catalog costs a client
~40,300 tokens before it has asked for anything, and a drafter searching the way
drafters think -- FILLET, BPOLY, QSELECT, WBLOCK -- scored df=0 against the stock
index, because those words were simply not in the data.
Discovery and batching
- DISCOVERY_MODE=search replaces the catalog with search_tools + call_tool,
ranked over an AutoCAD command and synonym corpus (discovery/aliases.py) on
top of fastmcp's BM25 index. Measured: 40,305 -> 356 tokens advertised.
- cad_batch runs a step list in one round trip; fields= projects result-heavy
responses. The `core` profile is gone -- discovery replaced it.
Honesty debt (Tier 0)
- OCS/ECS: `extrusion` appeared nowhere in this codebase, so mirrored and
rotated geometry reported coordinates that were quietly wrong. backends/ocs.py
translates at the backend boundary; every tool coordinate is WCS on both
engines, and a tilted plane refuses rather than answering with a number that
looks fine.
- drawing_save_as(fmt="dwg") wrote DXF bytes to a .dwg path. drawing_audit never
repaired. analysis_measure_area shoelaced points the caller typed in.
- ezdxf calls gained a per-call timeout, so one hung call can no longer wedge a
server whose document lock is a single asyncio.Lock.
Architecture
- The 1854-line backend ABC is 19 contract modules; @capability(key, reason=)
makes optional methods declarative and a gate fails on undeclared holes.
- 8 layout/viewport tools, CHSPACE, CAD_PROGID escape hatch.
- Wave A: selection filters, boundary tracing, hatch depth, annotation objects,
measurement -- 13 tools of a planned 39. The REGION and 2D-boolean family was
cut on evidence: add_region() yields zero ACIS bytes and the greiner_hormann
substitute loses 28.2% of the area on a square with one semicircular edge.
Verified against a live AutoCAD 2026, which found four COM defects no amount of
reading would have caught -- AcadPViewport has no ViewCenter, and the line that
set it had been swallowed by a bare except since v1.4.
Benchmark v3 (15 tasks) and what it caught
- v2 scored this server 10/10, which carried no information: every task in it
exercised something the server was built around. Five tasks were added because
they can fail, and three did while being written -- a hatch could not be
measured though the refusal listed HATCH as measurable, the boundary tools and
the measure tool disagreed about the same shape (139.2177 vs 139.2699), and a
circle stored as two bulged vertices measured 0.0.
- Competitor reports are NOT re-scored. They are pinned v1.4 runs against v2 and
were never asked these five questions; the chart shows those rows `not run`.
- Correctness A/B: 21/24 -> 24/24, zero regressions.
Performance, stated plainly
The published v1.4 perf report was recorded on CPython 3.14 and the new one on
3.11.15, so the apparent 2-6x speedup is the interpreter, not this release.
Re-measured on one interpreter, v1.5.0 is 28% slower creating entities and 22%
slower on the 10k roundtrip. Fully attributed: EZDXF_CALL_TIMEOUT=0 restores
v1.4.0's exact numbers. That is the deadlock fix being paid for, the knob is
documented, and winning it back is on the 1.6 roadmap.
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