hatch_add_boundary was refused on COM (hatch_edge_paths), so a transverse
section of any hollow part — a bushing, a flange bore — could not be drawn in
AutoCAD at all: draw_prims asked the capability map and refused up front.
ActiveX takes a loop as whole objects, which is not the same as "cannot take a
typed edge": each edge now becomes a real temporary LINE, true ARC or ELLIPSE
in the hatch's own space, appended with AppendInnerLoop, evaluated and
deleted. A loop that is only chained lines becomes one closed polyline — one
COM call instead of 180 for a flattened bore. The edge list is validated in
full first with the headless engine's messages; a loop AutoCAD refuses is
taken back out with its temporaries.
Measured on AutoCAD 2026 (25.1s), in scratch documents closed unsaved:
- a two-arc island leaves exactly 10000 - 100*pi (9685.8407) of a 100 x 100 hatch;
- the OD40/ID20 sleeve's transverse section B-B, drawn through the view engine
and draw_prims, hatches 942.2864 mm2 — the engine's declared 180-gon;
- an open chain is refused (E_FAIL) and the entity count is unchanged.
hatch_edge_paths is now supported on both engines.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKFStjEFzpGyLq5bMpWxTd
block_find_references asks entity_list(type_filter="INSERT"), and ActiveX
calls a block reference AcDbBlockReference, so on a live seat the filter
matched nothing and every block reported zero references. Measured on
AutoCAD 2026 (25.1s): AcDbBlockReference, AcDbPolyline, and one class per
dimension kind (AcDbRotatedDimension, AcDbAlignedDimension,
AcDbDiametricDimension, AcDbRadialDimension, AcDb2LineAngularDimension,
AcDbOrdinateDimension).
entity_list and entity_count now let the DXF name find them: INSERT matches
BLOCKREFERENCE/MINSERTBLOCK, LWPOLYLINE matches POLYLINE, and DIMENSION every
*DIMENSION class. The reported type stays the ActiveX spelling, so a caller
already filtering by it is unaffected. Verified live in a scratch document:
two inserts, one dimension and one line are found by INSERT, DIMENSION and
LINE (the INSERT filter found 0 before).
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKFStjEFzpGyLq5bMpWxTd
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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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKFStjEFzpGyLq5bMpWxTd
Three blocking findings on the refs group, all of them the same shape: a
number or a refusal the caller was entitled to read as measured.
1. ezdxf xref_manage: the victim scan and the `inserts` count both walked
`doc.modelspace()` only, then dropped the definition with
`delete_block(safe=False)` -- the flag that suppresses the in-use check.
An xref shown on a paper-space sheet was reported as 1 insert where the
drawing held 2, and detaching it left that sheet INSERT with no BLOCK
behind it: `ezdxf.recover` reports `FIX 103 UNDEFINED_BLOCK: Deleted
entity INSERT(#34) without required BLOCK definition` and the repo's own
drawing_audit silently deletes the sheet geometry. The scan now walks
`doc.blocks`, which is every entity space (model space, each paper-space
tab, every block definition) and is exactly what ezdxf's own safe check
searches with `doc.query('INSERT[name==...]i')` -- hence the
case-insensitive name match. `delete_block` is now `safe=True`, as the
plan's Interfaces block pins it, so a future miss raises instead of
writing a corrupt file.
2. COM xref_manage(action='list') reported `kind: "attach"` for every row,
a literal constant. Re-measured on this seat's registered type library
(C:\Program Files\Common Files\Autodesk Shared\acax25*.tlb, "AutoCAD
2025 Type Library", installed with AutoCAD 2026): IAcadBlock's xref
members are exactly IsXRef, Path, Name, Reload, Unload, Bind, Detach,
XRefDatabase -- no overlay indicator exists on the interface, so an
overlay was reported to the client as an attachment. The row now says
`kind: None`, the same honesty the adjacent `inserts` field already had,
and the contract plus the tool docstring say so.
3. COM xref_attach had no duplicate-block-name guard, although
contracts/refs.py and the tool docstring both promise the refusal and
ezdxf implements it. Two different part.dwg files, or a re-attach after a
repath, silently re-pointed or half-wrote the definition while the
payload claimed the new path. Added `_block_names(doc)` (Blocks.Count /
Blocks.Item(index) / block.Name -- the members xref_manage already walks)
and the refusal fires before AttachExternalReference is dispatched, with
the same message the headless engine gives. Lower-cased, because AutoCAD
symbol-table names are case-insensitive.
Tests: five new ones, each failing against the unfixed backends -- an xref
shown on Layout1 is counted and detached with the drawing, the detached file
audits clean through ezdxf.recover, delete_block's in-use check is pinned,
the live listing reports kind None (against a fake that models only the
measured members, so it cannot enshrine an invented one), and the live attach
refuses a held name (xref and plain block, either case) without dispatching.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKFStjEFzpGyLq5bMpWxTd
SECTION 24 completes at eleven tools with xref_attach, xref_manage,
image_attach, data_extract and drawing_export_dwg, on the four contract members
that genuinely differ per engine -- backends/contracts/refs.py. Everything else
in the sheet track composes the generic members and is written once.
The ActiveX members were read off the AutoCAD 2026 seat's own type library
(C:\Program Files\Common Files\Autodesk Shared\acax25enu.tlb, "AutoCAD 2025
Type Library" 1.0, the library the running 25.x seat registers) before a line of
the COM path was written, and the measurement is in the code beside the calls:
IAcadModelSpace.AttachExternalReference(PathName, Name, InsertionPoint,
Xscale, Yscale, Zscale, Rotation, bOverlay, Password)
IAcadModelSpace.AddRaster(imageFileName, InsertionPoint, ScaleFactor,
RotationAngle)
IAcadBlock: IsXRef (get), Path (get AND put -- so the repath is an assignment,
not a method), Reload(), Unload(), Bind(bPrefixName), Detach(),
XRefDatabase (get)
IAcadDocument.SaveAs(FullFileName, SaveAsType, vSecurityParams)
AcSaveAsType: ac2000_dwg=12 ac2004_dwg=24 ac2007_dwg=36 ac2010_dwg=48
ac2013_dwg=60 ac2018_dwg=64 (=acNative)
The running seat itself was not answering COM while this landed (its window was
Not Responding and GetActiveObject never returned), so the type library -- which
is the same seat's declared surface and reads without a call into the process --
is what the members are measured from; no document of the operator's was opened
or touched. This repository has been bitten four times by a fake that invented a
member, so the COM fakes in the tests model those names and nothing else.
ActiveX angles are radians, so the degree-to-radian conversion happens at that
boundary and nowhere else.
Headlessly, ezdxf.xref.attach carries the attachment (measured on ezdxf 1.4.4:
block flags 20 for an attachment and 24 for an overlay, so "is this an xref" is
flags & (BLK_XREF | BLK_XREF_OVERLAY) -- masking BLK_XREF alone misses every
overlay), add_image_def + add_image the raster, with Pillow reading the pixel
size so the placed image keeps the file's aspect.
Three capability keys, declared in both maps:
dwg_write -- measured absent here (odafc.is_installed() is False), so the
ezdxf entry is a runtime re-evaluation like viewport_render's
matplotlib check rather than a hardcoded False: installing the
ODA File Converter starts the call working with no edit to the
map. The refusal names the install route and drawing_export_dxf.
xref_live -- reload and bind need a live seat's xref manager and are refused
headlessly; list, detach and path are headless and are not
behind the key.
xlsx_write -- openpyxl is optional and absent here; CSV is always available,
so the refusal never blocks the deliverable and says so.
Two numbers the plan predicted wrongly are corrected to what the registry
actually does. `block` outranks `drawing` in _GROUP_TAG_PRIORITY, so the two
xref tools file under `blocks` (9 -> 11) beside block_insert -- which is where
an xref belongs, being a block definition that lives in another file -- and
`drawing` moves 11 -> 12, not 11 -> 14. And `data_extract` must not say "parts
list" in its own text: that is the golden discovery query for
entity_create_table, and a file writer outranking the tool that draws the thing
is a regression the tuning bar catches. It is described by its destination --
a file -- instead.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKFStjEFzpGyLq5bMpWxTd
Measured 2026-09-22 by scripts/smoke_settings_com.py --build-dwt against the
running AutoCAD 2026 (25.1s), each on a scratch Documents.Add() document:
1. RPC_E_CALL_REJECTED (-2147418111) on Documents.Count straight after
Documents.Open, after Close(False) inside document_close, and in
_ensure_document_state: AutoCAD's own message filter refuses incoming
calls while it is still switching documents. pywin32 exposes no
CoRegisterMessageFilter, so _wait_out_rejected_call waits the window out
for read-only callables (0.25 s -> 1 s pauses, 20 s budget, inside
COM_CALL_TIMEOUT) at those sites and after Documents.Add/Open; any other
com_error is not retried.
2. layer_list raised "'IAcadLayer' object has no attribute 'Color'. Did you
mean: 'color'?": acax25enu.tlb spells IAcadEntity/IAcadLayer `color` and
`Lineweight`. Late-bound dispatch resolved .Color/.LineWeight
case-insensitively; with a makepy cache present (this machine's gen_py was
regenerated on 2026-09-17, and every object a method returns is then a
generated wrapper) the lookup is exact. All 17 sites now use the typelib
spelling, which works on both wrappers; the fakes model the measured names.
3. layer_state_restore raised "'IAcadObject' object has no attribute
'Count'": Dictionaries.Item and IAcadDictionary.Item are declared
IAcadObject* (the narrowing _com_unnarrow already handles for MLEADER
styles). The save path went through the typed Dictionaries.Add, so only
the reopen paths failed. Both now un-narrow; the fakes narrow like pywin32.
4. The Freeze put on layer 0 raises 'Invalid layer' whatever the value, even
False while thawed (color/Linetype/Lineweight/Plottable/LayerOn/Lock/
ActiveLayer all fine on it), so a state saved with 0 current restored with
two warnings and 0 unapplied. Freeze is written only when it changes the
layer.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKFStjEFzpGyLq5bMpWxTd
AcadApplication has no GetVariable/SetVariable members; they live on
AcadDocument. Measured on the running AutoCAD 2026 (25.1s, 2026-09-22,
scratch Documents.Add(), Close(False)):
hasattr(app, 'GetVariable') -> False
hasattr(app, 'SetVariable') -> False
app.GetVariable('INSUNITS') -> AttributeError: ... IAcadApplication
instance ... has no attribute 'GetVariable'
doc.GetVariable('INSUNITS') -> 4
doc.GetVariable('MEASUREMENT') -> 1
doc.GetVariable('FILEDIA') -> 1; doc.SetVariable('FILEDIA', 0) -> None,
reads back 0, restored to 1
doc.GetVariable('AUDITCTL') -> 0, 'CMDACTIVE' -> 0, 'USERS1' -> ''
Fifteen call sites in backends/com_backend.py still went through the
Application inside `try/except ... log.debug`, so on a live seat they
silently degraded: MEASUREMENT defaulted every seat to metric,
drawing_info reported units from a failed INSUNITS read, drawing_audit
never set AUDITCTL, the CMDACTIVE guards of system_run_command /
system_run_lisp never fired and run_lisp never read USERS1 back. All are
rerouted through `_acad_doc()`; the try/except stays only where an
optional read is defaulted (INSUNITS -> "Unknown", AUDITCTL absent on a
host that lacks it, USERS1 after the expression ran) and the log line
says so.
Linetype loading, measured the same way: `SendCommand("_-LINETYPE _LOAD
CENTER acadiso.lin\n\n")` loads nothing with FILEDIA=0 and leaves the
command at `Enter an option [?/Create/Load/Set]:` (LASTPROMPT), which
makes the whole seat answer RPC_E_CALL_REJECTED to every client until
ESC is pressed; with FILEDIA=1 it opens the modal "Select Linetype File"
dialog. `doc.Linetypes.Load("CENTER", "acadiso.lin")` returns None and
the table grows 3 -> 4; a repeat raises 'Duplicate record name', an
unknown name 'Undefined linetype', a missing file 'File system error'.
`_ensure_linetype_loaded` and `linetype_load` now call `Linetypes.Load`
(MEASUREMENT still read on the document to pick the .lin), touch no
FILEDIA, and report a failure with the English excepinfo description.
`apply_standard` reads every variable it will write before the first
style is created, so a read the engine refuses is a refusal with nothing
written (it used to fail after ISO-25 / ISOCP were created and current).
Fakes: every application fake refuses GetVariable/SetVariable
(tests/test_styles.py's COM fixture carried them on the Application,
enshrining the wrong shape); the members exist on document fakes only.
Regression tests per rerouted site: linetype load via Linetypes.Load with
MEASUREMENT on the document, drawing_info units from the document,
AUDITCTL set/restored on the document, CMDACTIVE/USERS1 on the document,
apply_standard refusing before any write.
Live end-to-end with the real ComBackend on a scratch document:
apply_standard('iso') -> INSUNITS 4, ISO-25 (already in acadiso.dwt,
created: false) and ISOCP (created: true) current, second call created:
false / changed: {}; linetype_load('CENTER') -> Linetypes 3 -> 4, FILEDIA
stays 1, repeat already_loaded, 'NOSUCHLT' refused by name;
_ensure_linetype_loaded('HIDDEN') -> 3 -> 4; drawing_info units 'mm';
drawing_audit AUDITCTL 0 -> 0; system_run_command ok;
system_run_lisp('(+ 40 2)') -> '42'.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKFStjEFzpGyLq5bMpWxTd
Live AutoCAD writes a real .dwt through SaveAs(path, ac2018_Template = 66) and
puts the description into the summary Comments; headlessly a .dxf template is
written through drawing_save_as and a .dwt request is refused with capability
dwt_write, naming the DXF route and the COM route. drawing_save_as's "dwt"
entry was 5 (acR13_dxf): a DWT request wrote an R13 DXF under a .dwt name.
Probed live on AutoCAD 2026 (typelib: ac2018_Template = 66, acR13_dxf = 5,
acTemplateDwg absent; the saved file starts AC1032, the document is rebound,
Comments takes). SECTION 19 is now 6 tools; SAVEAS joins SHARED_ACAD_COMMANDS;
templates/README.md documents the two files per template.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKFStjEFzpGyLq5bMpWxTd
_com_dimensions_using walked every entity of every layout and, since the
un-narrowing fix, re-dispatched each one through a dynamic proxy before
reading ObjectName (~8-10 ms per entity), which put dimstyle_modify past
the 60 s COM_CALL_TIMEOUT on a ~6k-entity drawing after its SetVariable +
CopyFrom had already landed. It is now a single
SelectionSet.Select(acSelectionSetAll, (0 . "DIMENSION") (3 . <style>)),
which answers from AutoCAD's own index whatever the drawing size.
Measured live (AutoCAD 2026, scratch doc, 1000 LINEs + 14 dimensions across
model and paper space): walk 12.7-15.8 s, selection 0.02-0.09 s, identical
handle sets; the whole dimstyle_modify tool now returns in 0.07 s.
The group-3 filter value is a wcmatch pattern, so the style name is
backtick-escaped (_wcmatch_literal): unescaped, "A.B" also selected the
dimensions of "A_B", "N#1" those of "N21", "P[1]" those of "P1", "S@X"
those of "SAX" (measured). Handles are returned in ascending handle order,
Select failures propagate, and the selection set is deleted either way.
tests/test_styles.py: the fake document carries a SelectionSets that
emulates ssget "X" over every layout with wcmatch-literal semantics and
narrowed IAcadEntity items, refusing an unescaped wildcard; three tests
cover no-per-entity-read, escaping, and cleanup-on-failure.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKFStjEFzpGyLq5bMpWxTd
Documents.Add(<file>) accepts only a genuine DWT. Measured on AutoCAD 2026:
Add(templates/iso_a3_pid.dxf) returned the default acadiso drawing (layers
['0'], Layout1/Layout2) exactly as Add() and Add(<missing.dwt>) did, so
drawing_new(template=<bundled name>) reported ok:true with source
'bundled_dxf' over a blank document, and the explicit .dxf path route was
just as blank. ComBackend.drawing_new now converts any non-.dwt template
through AutoCAD itself (Documents.Open read-only -> SaveAs ac2018_Template,
older constants tried next -> Close(False)), caches the .dwt in the temp
folder keyed on path/size/mtime, hands Add the .dwt, and refuses a missing
template file instead of letting Add default silently. The tool result
carries template.dwt / template.dwt_cached. Re-measured end to end through
server.drawing_new on the real ComBackend: ansi_b_mech -> 11 layers, tab B,
DIMTAD 0 / DIMTIH 1 / DIMEXO 1.5; iso_a3_pid -> 17 layers, tab A3, second
call reuses the cached .dwt (0.8 s conversion once). Fake-ActiveX tests pin
the call shape and that the conversion document never stays open.
Headlessly the build's fallback wrote spec 4.1 only as header DIM variables,
and the renderer folds six of them, so DIMTAD/TIH/TOH/EXE/EXO/GAP/LUNIT/LWD
were a no-op: ansi_b_mech dimensioned with ISO text placement while
system_get_variable and AutoCAD said ANSI. The fallback now also stores each
value on the Standard dimstyle; the five DXFs are rebuilt (--check passes)
and a test reads the effective values off a DIMENSION drawn from each
template and asserts header and style agree.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKFStjEFzpGyLq5bMpWxTd
Four review findings against the COM styles block, all measured on AutoCAD 2026
(scratch documents from Documents.Add, closed without saving):
1. textstyle_create: `TextStyle.fontFile = "arial.ttf"` raises 'Filer error' for
every bare TrueType name (bundled presets included) after TextStyles.Add has
run, leaving a stub with an empty font that a retry meets as "already exists";
a full path is accepted but the STYLE record then carries the machine path.
`SetFont("Arial", bold, italic, 0, 0)` — the STYLE dialog's own route — stores
the clean `arial.ttf`. The font is now located before Add (`_com_locate_font`:
support path, then the Windows font folders), a TrueType is written by the
family/subfamily read from its `name` table (`_truetype_face`), an SHX by the
name given, an unlocatable file is refused with nothing written, and a write
ActiveX still refuses after Add deletes the entry it added.
2. _ensure_com_textstyle goes through the same helper, so DIMTXSTY / text_style
ARIAL and ISOCPEUR are created on the first call with a real font instead of
failing once and then silently binding a fontless style.
3. dimstyle_create / dimstyle_modify check a user DIMBLK/DIMBLK1/DIMBLK2 against
doc.Blocks before any write (`_com_require_arrowhead_blocks`, the headless
`_require_arrowhead_blocks` twin, same message and table-spelling rewrite);
a write that fails after DimStyles.Add restores the previous ActiveDimStyle
(discarding the unsaved overrides) and deletes the half-made style and any
preset text style the call created.
4. _com_dimensions_using un-narrows each `Layouts.Item(i).Block.Item(p)` —
declared IAcadEntity*, so `.StyleName` raised AttributeError under a makepy
cache and the blanket except reported `[]` — and swallows nothing.
The fake in tests/test_styles.py now models the measured ActiveX rules (bare
TrueType fontFile refused, SetFont by installed typeface, SetVariable refusing an
unknown arrowhead, IAcadEntity narrowing on block items, Delete) so the old code
cannot pass; nine tests cover the four findings. SECTION 18 docstrings state the
live engine's refusal rule for fonts and the pre-write arrowhead check.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKFStjEFzpGyLq5bMpWxTd
4fe2d96 matched custom keys with str.casefold(), but AutoCAD's key compare
is a simple one-to-one case compare, not Unicode full case folding.
Measured on AutoCAD 2026 (AddCustomInfo of the second spelling over the
first on a scratch document, Close(False)): Project/PROJECT, Grün/GRÜN,
é/É, ÿ/Ÿ, ł/Ł, σ/Σ, я/Я and dž/DŽ are one key ('Duplicate key'), while
Straße/STRASSE, ẞ/ß, kelvin/Kelvin-sign, µ/Μ, σς/ΣΣ and Dž/DŽ are two keys
(both stored) -- every one of those six is casefold()-equal. So with
'Straße' present, `custom={'BEFORE': 'b', 'STRASSE': 's2', 'AFTER': ...}`
was routed to SetCustomByKey, AutoCAD answered 'Key not found', and the
request raised with subject and BEFORE applied and AFTER never written --
the half-write class the fix claimed to close; a delete of 'STRASSE' over
'Straße' raised the same way; headlessly 'STRASSE' overwrote the 'Straße'
value instead of becoming a second tag; and the validator refused
{'Straße', 'STRASSE'} with a reason AutoCAD contradicts.
COM no longer routes from a Python approximation. An exact spelling goes
to SetCustomByKey; anything else is AddCustomInfo, and its 'Duplicate key'
(excepinfo scode -2145386475, measured) falls back to SetCustomByKey. A
delete is RemoveCustomByKey, and its 'Key not found' (scode -2145386476)
is reported as not deleted. Any other com_error keeps propagating. The
scode is matched before the English description because the HRESULT text
is localised.
The headless engine and the validator match on `custom_key_fold`: a
per-character fold to lowercase only when lower()/upper() are single
characters that round-trip and the character is one of the two; it never
changes string length and reproduces every measured pair (ß, ς, µ, the
Kelvin sign, Dž, ı and İ stay as they are). Docstrings in settings.py and
server.py now state that rule instead of 'case-insensitive'.
Tests: parametrized fold over the measured SAME / DISTINCT table (plus a
pin that casefold() merges the six DISTINCT pairs, which is why 4fe2d96
regressed), validator acceptance of each DISTINCT pair, headless
side-by-side storage and deletion of each pair, the fake SummaryInfo now
matches by the same fold and raises pywintypes.com_error with the
measured excepinfo tuples, the COM half-write scenario for each pair
(no SetCustomByKey guess, 'Key not found' delete tolerated, rest of the
request lands), the 'Duplicate key' fallback, and an unrelated
SummaryInfo failure still raising. The scodes were measured live before
the change; AutoCAD stopped answering COM (blocked in another agent's
command or a modal dialog) before the post-change re-run, so that run
is recorded as not done.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKFStjEFzpGyLq5bMpWxTd
Two review findings on 32821c6.
1. Once the shielded rollback body runs after a real client cancellation it
can fail (the COM hard timeout, _safe_send_command's own deadline, an
ezdxf quarantine refusal). That RuntimeError escaped run_spec as an
ordinary error and the mcp lowlevel server, which had already answered
the cancelled request, tried to respond a second time: `assert not
self._completed` in mcp/shared/session.py escaped the server task group
and the whole session died (measured through the real transport: the next
system_status was never answered and Client.__aexit__ re-raised the
AssertionError). run_spec now decides by the exception it is handling:
after a cancellation the rollback error is logged and the cancellation is
what propagates, so the SDK's cancellation suppression applies; after any
other error the rollback error propagates as before, with the original
chained as its context.
2. The docstring promised the rollback on both engines, but on the live
AutoCAD 2026 ComBackend.transaction_rollback sent `_UNDO B` with no UNDO
Mark in the stack (StartUndoMark/EndUndoMark form an undo *group*, not a
Mark), AutoCAD answered "This will undo everything. OK? <Y>", SendCommand
blocked at that prompt, _run gave up after 60 s, the entities stayed and
every COM client was rejected until a human pressed ESC. transaction_begin
now types `_.UNDO _M` before StartUndoMark (refused with ok:false while
CMDACTIVE, where the Mark would be swallowed as input), and
transaction_rollback ends the group and sends `_.UNDO _B`, which returns
exactly to that Mark - also on an empty transaction, where `_UNDO 1` would
be one step too many. A rollback with no transaction is refused the way the
headless engine refuses it, because an unmarked Back is that prompt.
Measured with the real ComBackend in a scratch Documents.Add() document on
the running AutoCAD 2026 (closed with Close(False)): begin 31 ms ->
entity_create_line + circle -> rollback 63 ms -> 3 entities back to 1,
CMDACTIVE 0, no prompt; an empty begin/rollback leaves the older line;
begin/commit unchanged.
Tests: the two failure modes on run_spec (anyio scope cancellation with a
raising rollback completes the task group and logs; a ValueError with a
raising rollback still raises the rollback error with the ValueError as
context), the real-transport case (client.cancel mid-run, rollback raises,
the next request is answered, cleanup through the real rollback), the COM
shape now pins `_.UNDO _M, StartUndoMark, EndUndoMark, _.UNDO _B`, and
test_com_sprint3 grows a Mark-keeping fake document whose unmarked Back
fails the way the prompt does: begin before the group, rollback consumes the
Mark, rollback without a transaction sends nothing, begin refuses on
CMDACTIVE.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKFStjEFzpGyLq5bMpWxTd
The 2b9791f fix mirrored only the characters the first review happened to
measure ('=' and ';'), so `custom={'AAA': 'first', 'A:B': 'x', 'ZZZ': 'never'}`
still raised from AddCustomInfo('A:B') on the live engine after subject and
AAA were applied -- the same half-write for 11 other keys. Re-measured on
AutoCAD 2026 by sweeping every character 0x20-0x7E through a scratch
document: exactly thirteen printable characters are 'Invalid key' anywhere
in a key (" * , / : ; < = > ? \ ` |); control characters, internal spaces,
a no-break space and unicode are accepted; leading/trailing whitespace
(space, tab, NBSP) is refused. `_CUSTOM_KEY_FORBIDDEN` is now that set,
the internal-NBSP refusal (wrong: measured accepted) is gone, and the
validator / tool docstrings state the measured rule instead of a closed
enumeration that was false.
A delete (`{key: None}`) is exempt from the AddCustomInfo syntax rules:
RemoveCustomByKey never validates syntax (measured: 'Key not found', never
'Invalid key'), and 2b9791f ran the check before the None branch, so a key
an ezdxf script wrote ('A=B', ' PAD ') showed in drawing_properties_get and
could never be removed. The line-break rule still applies both ways.
Also measured: custom keys are case-insensitive in AutoCAD (AddCustomInfo
over an existing case-variant is 'Duplicate key'; SetCustomByKey and
RemoveCustomByKey match either spelling and keep the stored one). The COM
routing was case-sensitive, so `{'PROJECT': ...}` over 'Project' went to
AddCustomInfo and failed mid-write -- the same class. Both engines now
match existing keys casefolded (update in place under the stored spelling,
never a second tag), and a request naming two case-variants is refused.
Tests: parametrized validator sweep over all thirteen characters, the
accepted set (control chars, NBSP, unicode, the other printables), the
delete exemption headlessly on a DXF carrying such keys and on the fake
SummaryInfo, case-variant refusal, and case-insensitive routing against a
fake that raises 'Duplicate key' / 'Key not found' like AutoCAD. Confirmed
live through the real ComBackend on a scratch document (Close(False)).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKFStjEFzpGyLq5bMpWxTd
Three review findings against SECTION 19 on the live engine, each measured
on AutoCAD 2026 in a scratch document with the operator's BACKGROUNDPLOT=2:
- plot_style_list read Preferences.Files.PrintStyleSheetPath; the ActiveX
member is PrinterStyleSheetPath, so the AttributeError was swallowed and
every row came back installed=None. Renamed in the backend, the server
docstring and the test fake (which faked the same wrong name). Live: 13
rows, all 9 catalogue ctb files installed, four .stb files as installed.
- ComBackend.drawing_export_pdf returned ok before any file existed under
background plotting, so batch_plot died on path.stat() with an unhandled
FileNotFoundError and a later foreground plot raised E_FAIL. The export
now sets BACKGROUNDPLOT=0 around PlotToFile (restored after), honours the
method's bool and reports ok only with the file on disk (bytes included).
batch_plot turns a backend RuntimeError or a phantom ok into a per-row
ok:false, keeping the rows already plotted.
- With a sheet current, the Model row was that sheet plotted again: the COM
export switched tabs only when a layout was named. layout=None now makes
Model current (restoring the tab), and batch_plot names every layout,
Model included, so both engines plot the tab the row is labelled with.
Live: Model row /Title (Model) at 210x297 beside the A3 sheet, the active
tab and BACKGROUNDPLOT restored.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKFStjEFzpGyLq5bMpWxTd
Measured on AutoCAD 2026: under a UCS at (100,50) rotated 90 deg, a pick on a
circle at WCS (105,70) came back from IAcadUtility.GetEntity as (20,-5,0),
while Utility.GetPoint already answered in WCS. A model doing ucs_set ->
user_select -> entity_create_* at `picked` would place geometry at a silently
wrong position. The point goes through Utility.TranslateCoordinates(acUCS,
acWorld) packed as a VT_ARRAY|VT_R8 VARIANT (the plain tuple GetEntity hands
back is refused as "Invalid argument Point"). The fake Utility now models the
UCS frame and the VARIANT requirement; a new test pins the measured figures
and checks GetPoint stays untranslated. Docstrings state WCS.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKFStjEFzpGyLq5bMpWxTd
acax25enu.tlb declares IAcadDictionaries.Item, IAcadDictionary.Item and
IAcadDictionary.AddObject as returning IAcadObject*. With a makepy cache for
the AutoCAD type library present (it is, on any machine where gencache ever
ran against AutoCAD), pywin32 wraps each result in the gen_py class of the
declared type, which exposes only IAcadObject members: .Count/.Item/.GetName
on the dictionary and .ArrowSize/.LandingGap/.TextHeight/.TextStyle on a
style all raised AttributeError, so the previous round's removal of the
@capability refusal turned a typed UnsupportedCapabilityError into a raw
AttributeError on AutoCAD 2026.
`_com_unnarrow` re-dispatches an object on its raw IDispatch through
win32com.client.dynamic.Dispatch (no gencache side effect, unlike CastTo),
and the dictionary route applies it to the dictionary, to every Item(i) and
to the AddObject result. Verified live on AutoCAD 2026 (scratch document,
closed afterwards): list reads Standard = 0.18/0.09/0.18/Standard, create
writes ISO-LDR = 2.5/1.0/2.5/ISOCP, the duplicate is refused, and an
independent late-bound read of the dictionary agrees.
The fake in tests/test_styles.py now models the narrowing: Dictionaries.Item,
Dictionary.Item and Dictionary.AddObject hand back a wrapper that answers only
IAcadObject members and raises on everything else (reads and writes alike)
until unwrapped through _oleobj_. Five COM tests fail against the previous
backend and pass now; a new test pins the missing-dictionary path
(Dictionaries.Add before AddObject).
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKFStjEFzpGyLq5bMpWxTd
user_pick_point / user_select answer {cancelled: true} on ESC (DISP_E_EXCEPTION)
and {timed_out: true} past COM_CALL_TIMEOUT; preferences_set refuses read-only,
unknown and out-of-range keys before any ActiveX call.
The read-only key is Files.PrinterStyleSheetPath, not the spec's
PrintStyleSheetPath: IAcadPreferencesFiles has no member of that name
(measured live on AutoCAD 2026 / R25.1), and a misspelt key would make
preferences_get() raise on every live call.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKFStjEFzpGyLq5bMpWxTd
Summary fields are refused headlessly with capability dwgprops before any
write; custom properties are $CUSTOMPROPERTYTAG/$CUSTOMPROPERTY pairs and
survive save + reopen. Validation is shared, by name, and never str()-coerces.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKFStjEFzpGyLq5bMpWxTd
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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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKFStjEFzpGyLq5bMpWxTd
Four review findings, all measured by the reviewer on AutoCAD 2026:
1. ucs_list and the ucs_restore('world') CMDACTIVE guard read
app.GetVariable, but GetVariable is an AcadDocument member — the tool
was dead live and the guard's swallowed read forced cmd_active to 0,
sending `_.UCS _W` into any open prompt. Both read the document now,
and a failed CMDACTIVE read refuses instead of proceeding. The fake
app in tests/test_views_ucs.py has no GetVariable any more, so the
old code cannot pass.
2. view_named_save defaulted from doc.ActiveViewport.Center/Height/Width,
which does not track the display (it answered the initial view after
`_.ZOOM _C 5,6 20`). The current view is VIEWCTR / VIEWSIZE at the
SCREENSIZE aspect — what `-VIEW _S` records (width 40.267 for height
20). The fake viewport is deliberately stale so a read of it fails.
3. view_named_restore wrote Center/Height/Width into the AcadViewport;
AutoCAD anchors the lower-left corner and widens to the display
aspect, landing a 10x20 view at (5, 6) on VIEWCTR (20.134, 6). It now
zooms the saved rectangle (app.ZoomWindow), which centres and fits
like `-VIEW _R` (VIEWCTR = saved centre, VIEWSIZE = max(h, w/aspect)),
reports `applied: "zoom_window"` and reads VIEWCTR / VIEWSIZE back.
Headless the same reconciliation moved the centre whenever the
*Active VPORT's aspect was rewritten from w/h (even the 1.34 default
opened at x = 11.734): the aspect the file carries is left alone —
it is the display's, written by AutoCAD at save — and the window is
fitted into it; the payload adds `vport_height` / `aspect_ratio`.
4. layer_state_restore set ActiveLayer before the loop and outside the
try; AutoCAD refuses to make a frozen layer current, so the spec's
own save → freeze → restore path raised an opaque COM error with
nothing applied. When `frozen` is being restored the state's current
layer is thawed first; the write is wrapped and a refusal lands in
`warnings`. The fake document and layer now model both refusals.
Live AutoCAD was not running in this round (GetActiveObject failed, no
acad process), so the fix is measured against the reviewer's numbers,
not re-measured.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKFStjEFzpGyLq5bMpWxTd
DXF and ActiveX layer tables are case-insensitive, but block_define collected
the primitives' layers with a case-sensitive set. A request naming 'Alpha' and
'ALPHA' with create_layers=True made ezdxf add the first, then raise
DXFTableEntryError on the second after the write — layer left behind, no block,
surfaced as an internal error instead of a named refusal. COM ran Layers.Add
twice, got the existing layer back the second time, and reported two layers
created for one that appeared; the two engines diverged and the refusal message
without create_layers named the same layer twice.
referenced_layers() in backends/block_specs.py keys the set on the folded name
and keeps the first spelling; both engines consume it. _FakeLayers in the
hardening tests now matches Item/Add case-insensitively and returns the existing
record on a duplicate Add, as the ActiveX table does, so the COM path is pinned.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKFStjEFzpGyLq5bMpWxTd
base_x/base_y were only float()-cast, so a NaN base point was written into
the BLOCK record; a primitive on a layer the drawing lacks was written as a
dangling reference doc.audit() never flags (and on COM would fail mid-loop
after Blocks.Add). validate_base_point names the key; the layer table is
probed before the first write and the missing names are refused, or created
and reported as layers_created when create_layers=true (new optional kwarg,
contract + both engines + tool).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKFStjEFzpGyLq5bMpWxTd
block_insert and block_set_attributes applied str() to whatever arrived, so
a JSON null became the text None and a non-mapping failed after the INSERT
was written. validate_attribute_values (backends/block_specs.py) runs first
on both engines: strings pass the one-line rule, ints and finite floats are
written as plain digits, everything else is a TypeError naming the tag.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKFStjEFzpGyLq5bMpWxTd
Headless text_find_replace matched and wrote only dxf.text of an ATTRIB/ATTDEF, so on a multi-line attribute it reported replaced: 1 while block_get_attributes and block_explode still carried the old embedded MTEXT (and a needle on the second line was never found). The ATTRIB/ATTDEF branch now reads through _attrib_value and writes through _write_attrib_value, the same pair block_get_attributes / block_set_attributes use.
COM block_explode swallowed a failing GetAttributes() (attrs = ()), GetConstantAttributes() and Invisible, then exploded, deleted every ATTDEF placeholder and the reference and returned ok: True with no attribute text -- every value destroyed silently on a transient RPC_E_CALL_REJECTED. Those reads now happen before Explode() and propagate with nothing written; a failure after the explode deletes the members it added and the TEXTs written so far and leaves the reference in place (_undo_explode), so the drawing is never left half-burst under an exception. The fakes gain the members a live AcadBlockReference / AcadAttributeDefinition always expose (GetConstantAttributes, Constant, Invisible) instead of relying on the swallow.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKFStjEFzpGyLq5bMpWxTd
Two review findings on the multi-line-attribute paths of block_explode /
block_set_attributes.
COM: `_add_mtext_from_capture` wrote `InsertionPoint` before
`AttachmentPoint`. ActiveX's `AttachmentPoint` keeps the text body where it
is and relocates the anchor, so every non-TopLeft attribute was laid out
TopLeft-at-anchor with only the label moved (live: a BottomLeft two-line
note landed two lines low, BottomRight also a box width right). The anchor
is now written last, unconditionally, after the attachment and the frame.
Verified live on AutoCAD 2026: every alignment's bbox matches the control
and the end-to-end burst MTEXT sits at the ATTRIB's TextAlignmentPoint.
The fake MTEXT now relocates `InsertionPoint` on `AttachmentPoint`/`Normal`
writes the way ActiveX does, both tests assert where the anchor ended up,
and the alignment test uses BottomRight rather than the default TopLeft
that could never show the displacement.
ezdxf: `_write_attrib_value` relied on `set_mtext`, which mirrors only the
first line into `dxf.text`; below R2018 ezdxf exports no embedded MTEXT,
so the default R2010 document saved `NEW ONE` where the reader had
promised `NEW ONE\PNEW TWO\PNEW THREE`. `dxf.text` now carries the whole
value (AutoCAD's own `TextString` convention) after the MTEXT rebuild;
the R2010 round-trip test uses a `\P` value, and an R2018 round trip
pins both surfaces.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKFStjEFzpGyLq5bMpWxTd
An unnamed UCS (UCS Origin / 3P without saving, the common kind) has an
empty UCSNAME exactly like WCS does, so both engines answered
`current: world` while the drawing was not in WCS — verified live on
AutoCAD 2026 (`_.UCS _O 10,10,0` → UCSNAME="" WORLDUCS=0) and on the DXF
it writes ($UCSNAME='' $UCSORG=(0,20,0)). A silent wrong value.
- COM: a named match still wins; otherwise WORLDUCS (AutoCAD's own answer)
decides, and WORLDUCS=0 appends a `name: None` row built from
UCSORG/UCSXDIR/UCSYDIR.
- ezdxf: the same rule against $UCSORG/$UCSXDIR/$UCSYDIR via the new
`engineering.environment.ucs.is_world_axes`; a stale $UCSNAME falls back
to the frame instead of leaving no row current.
- Server `ucs_list` result: `current` is null for an unnamed UCS (never
`world`), plus `current_unnamed: bool` so null is unambiguous.
- Tests: helper, headless (unnamed row, stale name, and the exact AutoCAD
DXF over the wire), and COM fake reading WORLDUCS + the frame variables.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKFStjEFzpGyLq5bMpWxTd
Two review findings on the headless engine, both content lost with ok: True.
Multi-line attribute writer: `block_set_attributes` set only `attrib.dxf.text`,
so after an edit `block_get_attributes` reported the new value while
`block_explode` (`_burst_attrib`) burst the embedded MTEXT at its pre-edit
content -- and on the default R2010 document, where ezdxf exports no embedded
MTEXT, a save/reload carried the new value the exploded drawing never showed.
`_write_attrib_value` now rebuilds the embedded MTEXT from its own virtual
entity with the new content (`virtual_mtext_entity()` + `set_mtext(...,
graphic_properties=False)`, the round trip ezdxf's `BaseAttrib.transform`
uses), keeping placement, style and height; `_attrib_value` reports the
embedded MTEXT's full `Line1\PLine2` content for a multi-line attribute, as
AutoCAD's `TextString` does, so get / set / explode / COM agree.
Opaque members: `block_explode` iterated `virtual_entities()` without a
`skipped_entity_callback`, so ezdxf dropped every member it cannot copy
(OLE2FRAME) or transform (VIEWPORT) with a debug log, an ACAD_PROXY_ENTITY
without proxy graphics contributed nothing, and the reference was then deleted.
`_explodable_members` materializes the list before any write and refuses by
member with the typed capability `explode_opaque_members` (declared on both
engines: headless False with the reason, COM native), naming the block and
the live way out. The block_explode docstrings (backend and tool) now state
this refusal instead of claiming the xref/MINSERT gate covered everything.
Tests: eight new headless cases in tests/test_track_a_hardening.py -- the
multi-line reader, the rewrite (value on every surface, placement unchanged,
clean audit), a `\P` value and the empty value, an R2010 save/reload, the
single-line path unchanged, the opaque-member refusal (nothing written,
reference alive, members named), an ordinary block still exploding under a
uniform scale, and the capability declared on both engines.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKFStjEFzpGyLq5bMpWxTd
Finding 1: page_setup_list swapped size_mm for plot_rotation 1/3 but
reported the margins un-turned, so a 297 x 210 sheet carried its portrait
margins ([20, 20, 7.5, 7.5], printable 282 x 170) while ezdxf's Page and
_paper_frame plotted [7.5, 7.5, 20, 20] (257 x 195). The mapping now lives
once in papers.turned_sheet (cross-checked against Page.from_dxf_layout
for all four rotations) and is used by the ezdxf row, _paper_frame and the
COM row. page_setup_apply resets plot_rotation to 0; headlessly it now
re-writes the turned margins un-turned so the sheet keeps the margins it
had (nothing moves, changed says nothing), and on COM, where margins come
from the .pc3, the ones that moved show up in changed.
Finding 2: both engines forced plot paper units to millimetres with no
units field in the row, so an inch-authored ANSI sheet was rescaled 25.4x
with ok: True and changed naming only the media. Rows now carry
paper_units (mm | inches | pixels, DXF group 72 / AcPlotPaperUnits);
resolve_page_setup takes paper_units="mm" (default) | "inches" | None
(keep the layout's units, as AutoCAD's own Page Setup does); a move is
reported in changed and, with its 25.4x consequence and the way back, in
the new warnings list (papers.page_setup_warnings, identical on both
engines).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKFStjEFzpGyLq5bMpWxTd
A multi-line ATTRIB keeps its content in an embedded MTEXT; dxf.text is only
the first line (ezdxf) or "Line1\PLine2" (AutoCAD), so the TEXT the explode
emitted silently dropped lines or rendered literal \P with a clean audit.
ezdxf: `_burst_attrib` adds `virtual_mtext_entity()` (graphic properties and
WCS placement already carried; the reference matrix applied for a constant
ATTDEF) and marks it invisible like the ATTRIB. COM: `_capture_attrib` reads
`MTextAttribute` / `MTextAttributeContent` / `MTextBoundaryWidth` and
`_add_mtext_from_capture` goes through `AddMText` (height, style, frame,
then Rotation, then the attachment mapped from the ATTRIB's Alignment).
Two INSERT kinds `virtual_entities()` cannot explode were destroyed with
ok: True: an xref (no virtual entities, reference deleted) and a MINSERT
(only the first cell resolved, the rest of the grid gone). Both are now
refused by name before any write, on both engines (`block_record.is_xref`
/ `mcount > 1` headless; `Blocks.Item(Name).IsXRef` / `AcDbMInsertBlock`
live, the latter previously failing the INSERT check with the misleading
"not a block reference").
Tests: nine new cases in tests/test_track_a_hardening.py (headless multi-line
ATTRIB and constant ATTDEF, xref and MINSERT refusals, a single-cell grid
that still explodes; COM multi-line capture, frame-before-angle, and both
named refusals). The fake ActiveX surface gains AddMText and IsXRef.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKFStjEFzpGyLq5bMpWxTd
ezdxf's VIEW default is direction=(1, 1, 1) — an isometric view — so every
named view the headless engine wrote to disk was oblique while the tool
claimed to store the plan window of center/height; AutoCAD restored it in
that DCS. view_named_save now writes direction (0,0,1), target (0,0,0) and
view_twist 0 explicitly. view_named_restore copies direction/target/twist
from the VIEW into the *Active VPORT instead of flattening a foreign
oblique view to plan, reading the attributes the way the file carries them
(ezdxf forces those tags on export). Measured live on AutoCAD 2026:
Views.Add already creates a plan view, so the COM path only gains a note.
Tests: the VIEW entry and the reopened DXF assert 11/21/31 = 0/0/1 and the
target; a hand-built oblique, twisted VIEW restores its orientation into
the VPORT and a tool-saved view puts it back on plan.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKFStjEFzpGyLq5bMpWxTd
COM: ``text.Normal`` was a plain Python tuple, which ActiveX marshals as
VT_ARRAY|VT_VARIANT and refuses with E_INVALIDARG (verified live on
AutoCAD 2026); because the write came after Explode(), the ATTDEF deletes
and AddText, the tool raised and left the drawing torn. It now goes
through ``_apoint`` like every other point write, and the fake ActiveX
surface refuses a bare tuple on Normal/InsertionPoint/TextAlignmentPoint
so a test cannot pin the wrong call shape again.
COM: every AcDbAttributeDefinition Explode() returned was deleted, but
GetAttributes() excludes constant attributes, so a constant attribute's
only visible text was destroyed with ok: True. A constant ATTDEF from the
explode (Constant member, or its tag in GetConstantAttributes()) is now
captured like an ATTRIB and replaced by a TEXT; placeholders are still
just deleted.
ezdxf: an AutoCAD-authored reference carries no ATTRIB for a constant
attribute and virtual_entities() skips ATTDEF, so the same text vanished
headlessly. A constant ATTDEF whose tag has no attached ATTRIB becomes a
TEXT transformed by the reference matrix, the path add_auto_attribs takes,
and is not converted twice when block_insert did attach one.
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`system_get_variable` / `system_set_variable` called `GetVariable` /
`SetVariable` on the object `_acad_app()` returns. Those are `AcadDocument`
members; `AcadApplication` has neither, so on a live seat every call died
with `AttributeError: AutoCAD.Application.GetVariable` before anything
reached AutoCAD -- `drawing_settings` (all keys, read and write) was dead on
the COM engine although both engines were promised. Measured on AutoCAD
2026: `hasattr(app, "GetVariable")` is False. Both methods now resolve the
document through `_acad_doc()`, whose "No drawing is open" refusal is what a
seat without a document reports. Verified live through `ComBackend`:
LIMMAX reads (277.0, 202.5); `drawing_settings({"annotation_scale": "1:50",
"polar_angle": 45, "polar": True})` applies and reads back 1:50 / 0.02 /
45.0 / True in model space.
The test fake shipped with the task had GetVariable / SetVariable on the
*Application*, so the gate asserted a call shape the real object does not
have. `_FakeApp` now carries only `ActiveDocument` + `Documents.Count` and
raises `AttributeError` for the two names, exactly like the real
Application; the sysvar store is a `_FakeDoc` that the real `_acad_doc()`
resolves. Two regression tests: the document is the target (call list), and
no open drawing raises the clear RuntimeError. The older
`tests/test_com_sprint3.py` coercion test pinned the same wrong target and
now fakes the document.
`tests/test_com_backend.py::_measure_backend` replaced the module-level
`_acad_doc` without ever restoring it, so a MagicMock document leaked into
every later test of the session -- invisible while nothing downstream
resolved the document itself, fatal once the sysvar path did. An autouse
fixture in that module restores it.
Not touched (same root cause, other owners): `app.GetVariable` /
`app.SetVariable` in `_ensure_linetype_loaded`, `drawing_info`,
`drawing_audit`, `system_run_command` and `system_run_lisp` in
backends/com_backend.py.
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Layer states are ACADMCP_LAYERSTATES XRECORD chunks (<= 255 ASCII chars each),
in the file and not in AutoCAD's Layer States Manager. Headless view restore
writes the *Active VPORT (ezdxf's header has no $VIEWCTR; measured). UCS is
stored and made current; tool coordinates stay WCS.
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Three live-measured behaviours of AutoCAD 2026 that the fake did not replay:
* GetPaperSize / GetPaperMargins answer in millimetres whatever PaperUnits
says; the 25.4 factor listed every imperial layout as [10668.0, 7543.8]
and lost the paper name. No factor now; the fake pins PaperUnits=0.
* Layout.StandardScale = 19 (ac1_5) is refused with "Invalid input" in every
condition; '1:5' is dropped from ACTIVEX_PLOT_SCALE so it goes through
SetCustomScale(1, 5) like 5:1 already did.
* Writing ConfigName replaces CanonicalMediaName with the new device's
default, and writing the old device back does not bring the media back —
the unknown-media refusal and a late refusal both left the layout on the
old device's default paper while the error claimed it was restored. The
device write now snapshots media / units / rotation and journals one
combined undo; the read-back after every unwind is compared to the
read-back before the first write and the message names what did not go
back instead of asserting it did.
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The BURST path on the live engine read TextString/InsertionPoint/Height/
Rotation/Layer/Invisible and nothing else, so the +Z TEXT that AddText
builds got the ATTRIB's OCS Rotation with no Normal: a mirrored
reference's tag (Normal (0,0,-1), the same premise the ezdxf regression
pins) came back reading theta instead of 180deg-theta, un-mirrored, on
the wrong side of its anchor at theta=0, with ok: True. Style members
(StyleName, ObliqueAngle, ScaleFactor, Backward/UpsideDown, Alignment +
TextAlignmentPoint, Color) were dropped the same way.
_capture_attrib_text_members reads the ActiveX twins of the headless
_ATTRIB_TO_TEXT carry, guarded per member and never written as a guess;
a +Z Normal is not carried and a left-aligned ATTRIB drops its
TextAlignmentPoint (ActiveX refuses it). Writes go Normal/Thickness/
style -> Rotation -> InsertionPoint re-asserted in WCS when the frame
changed -> Alignment -> TextAlignmentPoint -> Layer -> Color -> Visible.
Two fake-surface tests: the mirrored/styled ATTRIB pins every write and
the Normal-before-Rotation and Normal-before-InsertionPoint order; the
bare ATTRIB pins that absent members are skipped. Both fail on the
previous commit.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKFStjEFzpGyLq5bMpWxTd
The ActiveX Reference (CenterPlot Property, acadauto.chm, AutoCAD 2026):
"This property cannot be set to True on a layout object whose PlotType
property is set to acLayout." The shipped sequence wrote PlotType=5 and
then CenterPlot=True for the *default* call, so page_setup_apply(layout,
resolve_page_setup("ISO_A3")) could not succeed live — either COM raised
with nine writes landed and nothing put back, or the result claimed
applied.center=True over a read-back of False.
- resolve_page_setup resolves `center` to None for plot_area="layout"
(validated as a bool first; kept as the bool for "extents"), and
`center_applies(plot_type)` carries the rule for both read-backs.
- Both engines: page_setup_list reports `center: None` under acLayout
instead of a stored flag nothing honours; apply never sets the centre
bit / CenterPlot for a layout plot (ezdxf clears bit 4, the state
AutoCAD stores for acLayout; COM clears a stale CenterPlot=True *before*
PlotType moves to acLayout, and writes CenterPlot for an extents plot
only *after* PlotType=acExtents).
- COM: every write is journaled and unwound in reverse when AutoCAD
refuses one; the ValueError names the refused property and says the
layout was restored (or what could not be). The old device-only
rollback is the same mechanism now.
- tests: the fake enforces the documented CenterPlot rule (the shipped
sequence fails under it, which is the reviewer's repro), and can refuse
a named property; new cases pin the no-write, the ordering both ways,
the reverse unwind including SetCustomScale, and the None read-backs.
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The tuple/list branch put the win32com VARIANT built for SetVariable into the
returned dict. The system_set_variable tool returns that dict verbatim under
output_schema {"type": "object"}; pydantic cannot serialise a VARIANT, FastMCP
drops the structured content and the client sees "outputSchema defined but no
structured output returned" -- after AutoCAD had already applied the write, so
every raw point-variable write (LIMMIN, LIMMAX, GRIDUNIT, SNAPUNIT, INSBASE)
was a retry/undo trap on the live engine while the audit log said TOOL OK.
The VARIANT is now only the SetVariable argument; "value" carries the
coerced Python list. The fake-ActiveX test asserts the reply, and a new
Client(server.mcp) test drives the tool through the output schema so the
serialisation path is covered.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKFStjEFzpGyLq5bMpWxTd
Two silent wrong-place defects in the BURST path. An ATTRIB is an OCS
entity, so the TEXT that replaces it now carries extrusion/thickness with
insert/align_point; a mirrored reference (ATTRIB reflected to (0,0,-1),
INSERT +Z with yscale=-1) put the tag 50 units across the mirror axis with
a clean audit. Members and TEXTs now go into the INSERT's owner layout
(ezdxf get_layout, COM ObjectIdToObject(OwnerID)) instead of the current
space: a sheet title block exploded while Model was current duplicated
geometry into model space and then died on delete_entity headless, and on
COM landed the tag text in model space with ok: True. A reference nested
in a block definition is refused before any write on both engines.
Five regression tests (mirrored INSERT, sheet-owned INSERT with Model
current, nested INSERT, and the COM owner-block / nested-refusal call
shapes) fail on the previous commit and pass here.
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virtual_entities() yields geometry only, so an exploded tagged symbol lost
its tag value silently. Every attached ATTRIB now becomes a TEXT at the
same WCS placement/height/rotation/style/layer (invisible stays
invisible), reported as attribute_texts. COM reads GetAttributes before
Explode, deletes the ATTDEF placeholders Explode returns, AddText per
value, and deletes the reference ActiveX Explode leaves behind.
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EnvironmentContract carries every member of the track E interface; the two
drawing_properties_* members are @capability('dwgprops') in this worktree only
and become @abstractmethod when group C's implementations merge.
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Headlessly, grid/snap are stored on the active VPORT, CANNOSCALE in
AcDbVariableDictionary (+ an ACAD_SCALELIST entry), and LIMMIN/LIMMAX on
the model-space layout as well as the header — measured: the header alone
is overwritten at save. Registry-saved variables (AUTOSNAP, POLARANG, …)
are refused with capability registry_sysvar instead of vanishing.
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Track A's task-1 gate covered block_insert only; the sibling tool still
returned a handle for a typo'd name that doc.audit() later deleted, and
both tools accepted *Model_Space (a reference cycle). One gate per engine
(_require_block / _require_block_defined) is now shared by both placing
tools: non-string name -> TypeError, unknown -> ValueError naming it,
layout block -> ValueError, all before add_blockref / InsertBlock.
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