Docs: Explode rewrite, clipboard commands, two new nodes, Data flyout nav
Command pages
- New: Copy, Paste, Paste in Place, Duplicate in Place, Copy Style
- New: Line: Tangent to Two Circles
- Corrected: Duplicate now says independent copies rather than shared
points; Tangent explains that every answer is ghosted and the nearest
one is kept; Detach no longer contradicts itself
- Prose pass items 11 to 18: Move, Arc, Group, Snap to Guides, Snap to
Intersections, Point on Object, Detach, Elliptical Arc
- Select Parents and Select Children added to selection.md, with rows
on menu-select.md
Node pages
- New: Select Alternating, Weld Seams
- Explode rewritten: a section and its own card for every kind it takes
apart, plus a note on the six retired per-type nodes
- Compare and Select by Condition documented, with cards and diagrams
- nodes-data.md rebuilt as five flyout sections matching the interface,
each with its icon and a line on why those nodes group together
Two corrections against the shipped code
- Select by Condition: an item is a top-level member, not a single
shape, so a member holding several shapes goes to one side whole
(#628). The page had described the behavior it replaced.
- Export as DXF: a color with an alpha channel keeps its color and
loses only the transparency, which DXF cannot carry. The page had
claimed the transparency survives. The palette-merge paragraph gained
the two limits the exporter applies: only layers Locus named itself
are merged, and the annotation layers never fold in with the drawing
colors. Both checked against src-tauri/src/export.rs.
Navigation
- _Sidebar.md Data block regrouped into the five flyouts
- Six retired Explode entries dropped, four pages moved to Construct
- All 26 previous and next chains rebuilt from the sidebar as the single
source of truth
Assets
- 17 icons, 7 effect diagrams, 15 node cards
Docs: American spellings, Explode retirement, new nodes, prose pass
American spellings throughout. 346 replacements across the public text:
centre, colour, grey where it was not the noun, millimetre, behaviour,
organise and the rest. Gray keeps its E, which is how Blossom spells it.
No UI label in the app was ever British, so the wiki and the app agree.
Explode is now one node. node-explode.md is new and answers for every
shape, taking a group apart a layer at a time. The six per-type pages
stay reachable and each carries a retirement notice pointing at it;
documents built with them still open and still work.
Two new node pages, Compare and Select by Condition, both with an icon
pending note for Vera.
Export grouping documented in preferences, export-svg and export-dxf:
Group by Layers and Group by Outline Color, alongside hairline black.
Math gains Absolute Value. Tangent rewritten to the new behaviour:
options shown, nearest one chosen, click again for the other.
Select Parents and Select Children written into selection.md from
Theo's spec, with two rows in menu-select.md and dead icon references.
Not shipped yet. Both ADD to the selection rather than replacing it.
Node prose pass. Every node page now carries at least a short
explanation, on the principle that a reader landed there because the
interface did not explain itself. Command pages are getting the same
treatment, 14 of 34 so far.
First-pattern figures rebuilt. The Slider and Math wires crossed on the
way into Rotate, which made the Home page banner read as though Angle
and Repeat were swapped. They were not; the layout was wrong. Also
dropped a degree sign from the Angle socket label, which the app does
not have.
Bottom nav on every page, Apollonius, and the Combine menu completed
Navigation
- Every page's own Previous/Next line is now repeated at the bottom, directly
above the Related heading. Done by tools/add_bottom_nav.py, which finds that
heading BY NAME rather than by position, so the nav never lands in the middle
of a real section.
circles-arcs
- New Apollonius section with its own figure, apollonius-cases.png, built by a
new generator build_apollonius.mjs. Three worked cases: two lines and a
circle, three circles, two points and a line. One solution solid, the rest
light and dotted. Placed immediately before the Arc tool heading.
- circle-methods.png reverted: Apollonius gets a separate diagram, not a
fourth panel on the existing one.
selection
- Select Outer Edges removed. It is a node-side command and does not belong on
the modeling-view page. Added a Related link to the node page instead.
transform-tools
- Rewritten so the page only ever speaks of transforming POINTS. Locus does not
transform objects, it transforms the free root points an object is built
from, and everything standing on them re-solves and follows.
- New callout before the Transform menu heading: if root points are shared with
objects you do not want to move, run Edit > Detach first.
- Reference and handle clicks snap in all the same ways a point does.
align-distribute
- The same Detach callout added at the bottom, below the refusal paragraph.
regions-booleans
- Paint Region added to the list of ways to build a region.
menu-combine
- The Combine menu has eight commands and this page listed six. Paint Region
and Split (Bake) added, in menu order.
- Two new pages: combine-paint.md and combine-split.md. Split's page says
plainly that it is a one-shot bake, not a live boolean.
- The Previous/Next chain shifted, so combine-fill, combine-autoregion,
combine-difference and menu-transform changed their nav lines, and _Sidebar
gained both entries.
- Both icons rendered by the normal exporter from Vera's glyphs, tinted region
like the rest of the row.
Beta 2 docs: Bounding Box, Auto Mirror, Auto Array, and what 0.3.0 changed
New pages for the Bounding Box node and the Auto Mirror / Auto Array
library clusters, with cards. The symmetry clusters no longer have a
Guides output and their Upright input is now Deskew: pages, cards (all
seven languages) and the generators updated. Existing pages catch up
with the rest of the release: weld seams in line work, Stroke W as a
field or list, per-shape SVG line weights, new-file framing and pencil,
guide nudging, snap lines finding crossings, multi-select Divide, image
References, Inspect keys and ghost colours, and a language change that
keeps the drawing.