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What and why

Picking the two points of a Linear dimension snapped to anchors and to the line under the
pointer (#2432, #2516), but showed no Smart Guides and ignored the art around the pointer, so a
dimension couldn't be lined up with other objects the way the drawing tools can.

The Linear picks now go through the drawing tools' Smart Guides (guides::DrawSnap), hovering
too, so the guides show before each click:

• a point slides into line with other objects' anchors and centres (alignment guides, anchor and
  path labels, as the shape and pen tools show them);
• the second point also lands on the construction guides through the first (Leave::segment);
• precedence: an anchor of the line under the pointer still wins (it links the dimension to that
  path, as before), then a guide snap, then the closest point of the line ([Bug Report] [VectorCraft] Shift Constraint in Dimensions Tool #2432), then the pointer;
• Shift still constrains the second point to 45° steps; the guides go once the dimension is being
  placed, and on Escape.

The overlays draw the guides after the rubber band, so the existing rubber-band checks are
unchanged. docs/dimensions.md mentions the guides.

How it was tested

• New: dimensions::linear_picks_show_and_snap_to_smart_guides (engine it tests): hovering
  2.5 pt off a rectangle's top-edge level puts the pick on that level with its guides showing
  before the click; the second point, 1.5 pt off vertical, lands on the construction guide; the
  placed dimension reads 60.00 pt. It fails on the previous tool (no overlays while hovering).
• The existing Dimension tests (22 in it::dimensions, including [Bug Report] [VectorCraft] Shift Constraint in Dimensions Tool #2432 and Dimension/Measure tool does not snap to anchor points (must place points manually) #2516) pass.
• cargo test and cargo clippy --all-targets -D warnings for vectorcraft-tools and
  vectorcraft-engine pass on 41c765e9.

Checklist

• cargo xtask ci passes (fmt, clippy, tests, assets, brands, layers, wasm). Not run in full:
  fmt, clippy and the tests of the two touched crates pass; the wasm, layers, assets and
  workspace-wide stages were not run locally.
• No panics in shipped code: no unwrap(), expect(), panic!, unreachable!, todo! or
  unimplemented! outside tests, and no unchecked indexing on data from files, parameters or
  messages. Errors are returned as Result and shown to the user.
• Clean-room: nothing copied from Adobe products or GPL/AGPL code.
• Every new asset has a row in ASSETS.md (no new assets).

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Linear dimensions now snap picked points to nearby object anchors and centers, with the second point also snapping to construction guides through the first.
  • Smart Guides appear while hovering before each click, making snap locations visible during dimension placement.
• Documentation
  • Updated the Linear dimension guide with details about snapping behavior and guide previews.

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Walkthrough

Linear dimension picks now use cached Smart Guides snapping. Hover overlays show the snapped point and guides before selection. An integration test and updated instructions cover snapping both points and completing the dimension.

Changes: Linear Dimension Smart Guides

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Linear pick snapping and state crates/tools/src/dimension.rs	The tool computes and caches Linear pick snaps. Nearby anchors on the picked segment take precedence, followed by Smart Guides, the nearest point on the segment, and the pointer position. Reset and placement clear the cached snap and guide state.
Hover overlays and placement validation crates/tools/src/dimension.rs, crates/engine/tests/it/dimensions.rs, docs/dimensions.md	The overlay uses the cached pick and displays Smart Guides during Linear picking. The integration test checks hover snapping, guide overlays, second-point snapping, and the completed measurement. The instructions describe the same snapping behavior.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant DimensionTool
  participant SmartGuides
  participant Overlay
  User->>DimensionTool: Hover over a Linear pick
  DimensionTool->>SmartGuides: Compute snap result
  DimensionTool->>Overlay: Provide cached pick and guide overlays
  Overlay->>User: Show snapped point and guides
  User->>DimensionTool: Click to select pick
  DimensionTool->>DimensionTool: Use snapped point for dimension placement

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Possibly related issues

• storytold/vectorcraft issue 3701 — This PR adds Smart Guides snapping and hover overlays for Linear dimension picks, which overlaps with the issue’s request for dimension-tool anchor snapping and measurement overlays.

Suggested reviewers: vangel76, osamaamin2011

Merge Risk: Low · up to 5405e

An exact guide hit can place a Linear dimension point somewhere other than the visible guide indicates. This is a narrow snapping defect that should be fixed or accepted before merging.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 60.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 10 functions across 2 files. (1 skipped: …	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description check		The description includes the required What and why, How it was tested, and Checklist sections. It explains the behavior, test coverage, and clearly identifies that the full CI workflow was not run.
Title check		The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: Linear dimension picks now show and snap to Smart Guides.
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Resolution

Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @crates/tools/src/dimension.rs:
- Line 155: Update snap_linear to detect a guide snap from the stored guide
state, not whether guided differs from p. When DrawSnap reports an active guide,
return guided even if it equals the pointer; otherwise preserve the existing
picked-segment fallback.

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• crates/engine/tests/it/dimensions.rs
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🔎 Supported by static analysis

Script executed:

#!/bin/bash
ast-grep outline crates/tools/src/guides.rs --match 'DrawSnap|Leave' --view expanded
rg -n -C 25 'struct DrawSnap|fn hover\(|fn guides\(' crates/tools/src/guides.rs

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# Read the branch around line 155 and the stored snap-state use.
sed -n '120,185p' crates/tools/src/dimension.rs | cat -n
# Locate the snapping helper and the guide-result path.
rg -n -F -e 'fn snap_linear' -e 'guides()' -e 'DrawSnap' -- crates/tools/src/dimension.rs || test "$?" -eq 1
# Read PointSnap::snap_from, which produces the guide result.
rg -n -C 30 'fn snap_from' crates/tools/src/guides.rs || test "$?" -eq 1

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Use the stored guide state, not displacement, to detect a guide snap.

snap_linear treats the pointer as unsnapped when guided equals p. A guide hit that lands exactly on the pointer also gives guided == p, so the code skips the guide and returns the closest point on the picked segment. The guide overlay stays visible because DrawSnap still stores it, so the placed point can differ from the guide the user sees.

🐛 Suggested fix

--- "a/crates/tools/src/dimension.rs"
+++ "b/crates/tools/src/dimension.rs"
@@ -152,9 +152,9 @@
             self.snap.clear();
             return (point, Some(PointRef { node: edge.node, subpath: edge.subpath, anchor }));
         }
-        if guided.distance(p) > 1e-9 {
+        if !self.snap.guides().is_empty() {
             return (guided, None);
         }
         // Not on an anchor or a guide: snap to the closest point of the line (#2432).
         (edge.and_then(|e| nearest_on(cx, &e, p)).unwrap_or(p), None)
     }

This check uses the guide result that DrawSnap already reports. It does not depend on the snapped point moving.

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Suggested change

	if guided.distance(p) > 1e-9 {
	if !self.snap.guides().is_empty() {

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Review comment at @crates/tools/src/dimension.rs at line 155:
Update snap_linear to detect a guide snap from the stored guide state, not
whether guided differs from p. When DrawSnap reports an active guide, return
guided even if it equals the pointer; otherwise preserve the existing
picked-segment fallback.

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Merged, thanks @vecteza!