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
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.
Keyboard characters only: sweep all 245 English pages
Every character that cannot be typed on a US keyboard is replaced. Em dash
becomes a colon where it introduces a list bullet's description, matching how
the Italian pages already read, and a spaced hyphen everywhere else. The
Previous/Next angle quotes and the breadcrumb arrows become < and >, the menu
path triangle becomes >, arrows spell out as -> and <->, the ellipsis becomes
three periods, and the en dash and minus sign become a hyphen.
Two characters do two jobs and are split by context. The middle dot is a pipe
where it separates links and " x " where it is multiplication, as in Min + k x
Step and Radius x cos(Angle). The degree sign becomes " degrees" after a digit
and is dropped after a letter, where it was a stale reference to the Rotate
node's Angle socket, which no longer carries one.
Also: superscript two becomes 2, the square root sign becomes sqrt, the
division sign becomes /, less-than-or-equal becomes <=, and the decorative
emoji in Home, the footer, the sidebar, community and licensing are removed.
Kept: the command, shift and option key glyphs in the shortcut lines, and the
Greek letters used as math notation.
Verified: no file changed its line count, and no markdown table row changed its
cell count.
Add Vera's 11 node icons; drop stale pending markers
Render the last 11 node glyphs (auto-region, group-by-shape, tick,
nearest-point, perpendicular-offset, point-on-curve, point-on-ellipse,
arrow-style, dimension-angle/linear/radial) into images/icons at the
house 180x180 output-type-tinted tile. Remove the now-obsolete
'assets pending' comments — every icon and diagram is in place.
Docs: Series + Point: Polar, list-aware nodes, constants page, phyllotaxis
Document Theo (#246-249): new Series and Point: Polar node pages (with cards); a searchable Constants & unit conversions page (3 worked examples + diagrams); and a Phyllotaxis recipe. Add the Power op + list-aware note to Math; list radii + per-circle region to Circle: Center Radius; list-aware notes on Rotate/Scale/Offset/Place/PlaceVariant/the variants/Rectangle: Directed. Extend Lists & collections with the list-aware concept. Sidebar + nav updated.