* Links: update linked designs that changed while the assembly's tab was away
A design coming back to its tab compares the modification time and size of its linked
design files with what they were when it went to the background, and runs Update Links
on the worker thread for those that changed: saved in another tab, another window or by
a checkout. Preference update_changed_links (Design, Linked designs) turns it off.
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* Docs: the assembly guide says linked designs update when their tab returns
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* Links: Vietnamese strings, now that vi is a complete catalog
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* Links: remember what each design last read, so an update that fails is tried again
A design's linked files are now recorded as the design last read them: when Update Links reads a
link without an error, or when the link is first seen. Coming back to the tab reads again what
differs, one link per run, so a file that cannot be read holds up no other and is tried again
the next time, and a part changed while the assembly was shown is taken up on its next return.
Closing several tabs together reads nothing on the way, and the web build, which keeps no file
times, looks at nothing.
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* Links: no read during a save-changes prompt, records for adopted designs and missing files
A tab shown to answer "save changes?" reads no link before its save, and Cancel there or on a
batch lets the tab left in front read what it skipped. A design opened in place of the blank one
records its links at once, a link whose file is missing is recorded as missing so it is read when
the file comes back, and a read queued for a design that is no longer shown by the time it starts
is dropped. More changed links than can wait at once are read on the next return.
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* Assemblies: edit a linked component in place, with the assembly around it
Activating a linked component opens the design it comes from in a tab of its own, with the
rest of the assembly drawn faded around it where the component sits, so the part's own history,
browser and commands are at hand. Finish Editing in the browser saves the part, goes back to the
assembly and closes the part's tab when the edit opened it; coming back to the assembly updates
the changed link (or Finish Editing runs Update Links when that is turned off). Update Links in
the part also reads the assembly's links again, off the window thread, and redraws the assembly
around the part; a result for an assembly changed meanwhile is dropped with a message.
The part is an ordinary tab, so saving, autosave, recovery, closing and quitting treat it as any
other design. The model scene's ghost triangles are now drawn (only the preview's were).
Preference edit_linked_in_place turns it off. Builds on the update of changed links when an
assembly's tab returns.
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* Edit in place: a double-click opens it, Activate only activates
A double-click on a linked component edits it in place, in the browser as on a face in the
view (around the placement clicked), and the component's menu gets Edit in Place. Activate and
the browser's radio button make it the active component as they always did, so a linked
component can still be activated without opening its design.
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* Double-click on a component's face: edit a linked one in place, activate any other
A double-click on a face in the view activates the component the body belongs to, at that
placement, as a double-click on its row does; a linked one is edited in place. Bodies of the
design itself or of the active component are left alone, and so is a double-click with a
modifier. One preference, double_click_components, covers both gestures.
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* Edit in place: fixes from review
An edit whose part never opens is forgotten instead of starting on a later open of the same
file, and the web build starts the edit after its synchronous open. Finish Editing goes on only
for a save into the linked file and in the part's own tab, waits for a "changed on disk"
answer, and says so when the part was saved elsewhere. Showing the assembly no longer drops a
refresh, which now records the links it read so coming back reads nothing twice. The faded
assembly is worked out once per picture, a bad mesh index skips its whole triangle, and the
last two status texts come from the catalogs.
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* Edit in place: Finish Editing on the MODEL tab and the mouse's back button
Finish Editing is a command now, component.finish_edit, with its schemas: the app window
answers it, anywhere else nothing changes, as with view.fit. While a linked design is edited in
place the MODEL tab ends with a FINISH EDITING panel, pinned at the right as FINISH SKETCH is,
with a new left-arrow icon; the browser keeps only the line naming the assembly. The mouse's
back button, or a keyboard's Back key, finishes too unless a dialog, tool or sketch is open.
The assembly guide describes editing in place.
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* Edit in place: fixes from the second review
Saving the assembly waits while it reads its links for the part
Finish Editing waits for dialogs, tools, sketches and prompts open in the part, also when run as a command
The assembly reads the edited part explicitly when it does not check its links on its own
The FINISH EDITING panel cannot be customized
A tab opened by an edit stays that edit's to close when the part is entered again
The mouse's back button finishes editing; the keyboard's only while no text field has focus
Refreshing the assembly keeps its selection and active component
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* Edit in place: fixes from the third review
component.finish_edit run as a command opens nothing and answers with an error when it cannot finish; engine.batch and engine.script refuse it
A double-click or Edit in Place while a dialog, tool or sketch is open in the assembly keeps it open
What changes in the assembly while it reads its links without changing its document stays: picks, activation, components dragged but not captured
Showing the assembly while it reads its links starts no second read
A new or opened design in the part's tab ends the edit
Finish Editing keeps the part's tab open while its agent chat runs
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* Edit in place: Update Links run as a command in the part refreshes the assembly too
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* Edit in place: the ribbon button reads Finish Edit, as Finish Sketch does
A bare "Finish" took the catalogs' surface-finish translation (German "Oberfläche").
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* Edit in place: fixes from the fourth review
Finish Edit waits while the part's agent is in the middle of its turn, instead of keeping the tab of any chat open
A part saved while its assembly refreshes is read again when the edit finishes: the refresh records the files as it found them
A double-click on a linked component while something is open in the assembly says so instead of activating it
Commands are recognised in any spelling the engine takes, so engine.batch and engine.script cannot slip Finish Edit through
Update Links run as a command refreshes the assembly from the control channel only, not for the app's own reads
Moves of components the refresh removed are not carried over, and a refusal is one message
The command description and the guide say that the command does not save the part
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* Edit in place: the command is Finish Edit, as Finish Sketch is
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* Edit in place: a command to start it, and fixes from the full review
Added component.edit_in_place {component, path?}: the double-click and Edit in Place in the menu run it, and as a command it asks nothing, so a network location not allowed yet or a design open elsewhere makes it fail instead
Finish Edit asked by the part's own agent finishes once that agent's turn ends; the button still waits for the turn
The parameters and design properties panels, with text typed and not applied yet, hold up entering and finishing an edit
A refresh is not taken up under an undo, a queued command or a feature still being computed in the assembly
Refusals say what holds them up (a refresh, a file being read or written) instead of nothing
The browser strip names the assembly that is refreshing, not any assembly
The schema description says the command does not save the part
Korean strings for every new message
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* Edit in place: fixes from the second full review
The MCP batch tool refuses component.edit_in_place and component.finish_edit as steps instead of sending them one by one
Edit in Place asked while the assembly's agent is in its turn opens the part once the turn ends; a double-click then is refused rather than stopping the agent
Both commands answer queued: true when they wait for the agent's turn, and stopping the agent forgets what it queued
An undo, a queued command or a delete check running in the design holds up entering and finishing an edit
A refresh redraws every edit of the assembly, the parts in other tabs too
In an assembly never saved, a double-click activates the linked component as before
The control and MCP docs list the new batch and script refusals, and the commands list every way they fail
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* Edit in place: fixes from the third full review
The MCP batch tool refuses the two commands however a step names them, an execute step too
A queued Edit in Place is checked fully when asked for, a second one is refused, and both queued requests wait for what runs in the design instead of being dropped
Disconnecting the agent forgets what it queued, as stopping it does
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* Edit in place: help text for the Finish Edit button
main now requires help for every toolbar command (#7134), and Finish Edit
is one. Written in every language the branch's catalog carries.
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