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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKFStjEFzpGyLq5bMpWxTd
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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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKFStjEFzpGyLq5bMpWxTd
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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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKFStjEFzpGyLq5bMpWxTd
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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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).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKFStjEFzpGyLq5bMpWxTd
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKFStjEFzpGyLq5bMpWxTd
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKFStjEFzpGyLq5bMpWxTd
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKFStjEFzpGyLq5bMpWxTd
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.
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKFStjEFzpGyLq5bMpWxTd
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKFStjEFzpGyLq5bMpWxTd
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKFStjEFzpGyLq5bMpWxTd
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKFStjEFzpGyLq5bMpWxTd
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKFStjEFzpGyLq5bMpWxTd
