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What and why

With the Dimension tool in Linear mode, a click on an anchor did not always take that anchor. A linear dimension can be made by clicking a first point and then a second point (linear dimensions help). Two faults affected those clicks:

• A press on an anchor that moved more than 3 pixels before the release dragged out the dimension of the segment under the pointer and committed it almost on top of the art. A press on an anchor now picks it unless the pointer moves past the anchor's 8-pixel reach. A longer drag still dimensions the segment.
• A pick linked only an anchor of the segment nearest the pointer. An anchor of another path near that segment, for example one inside a group lying just inside another object's edge, was taken at most as a Smart Guides point with no link. When only one end of a dimension has a link, moving or scaling the art moves only that end. A pick now links the nearest anchor of any visible, unlocked path within reach, in groups and compound paths too. The search is bounded like the segment search in pick.

docs/dimensions.md describes both rules. The 8-pixel reach is VectorCraft's own value, the same reach the tool already used for an anchor of the hovered segment.

The branch merges cleanly with main at dc456e18c. Open #1931 also changes crates/tools/src/dimension.rs and docs/dimensions.md. It conflicts with main today, and this branch adds no new conflict: git merge-tree of #1931 with this branch lists the same conflicts as with main.

How it was tested

In crates/tools/src/dimension.rs:

• a_press_on_an_anchor_picks_it_when_the_pointer_moves presses two corners of a rectangle, moving about 3.6 and 4.5 pixels before each release. It checks that nothing is committed and that the pending dimension links both anchors. A drag past the reach still drags out a segment dimension.
• a_press_on_a_live_shapes_anchor_picks_it does the same on a live rectangle's corner.
• an_anchor_under_another_objects_edge_is_picked puts a compound path inside two nested groups, with an anchor of its second subpath 3 points inside a rectangle's top edge. A click there links that anchor, and a press that moves about 4 pixels picks it too.

The first and second tests fail without the press change, and the third fails without either change. Without the link change, the click takes the right point but with no link.

Commands run on 59791c8c0, based on main at dc456e18c:

• cargo fmt --all -- --check
• cargo check --workspace --tests
• cargo clippy -p vectorcraft-tools --all-targets -- -D warnings
• cargo test -p vectorcraft-tools: 910 passed, 1 ignored.
• cargo test -p vectorcraft-engine --test it dimension: 34 passed.
• cargo xtask brands, cargo xtask layers, cargo xtask assets

Checklist

• cargo xtask ci passes (fmt, clippy, tests, assets, brands, layers, wasm).
• 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
  (why and how).
• Clean-room: nothing copied from Adobe products or GPL/AGPL code (AGENTS.md).
• Every new asset has a row in ASSETS.md.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Linear measurements can now snap to nearby anchors across eligible paths, groups, and compound paths. If no anchor is close enough, Smart Guides and existing segment or pointer snapping remain available.
  • Pressing near an anchor supports dragging it, while longer drags continue to measure the segment beneath the pointer.
• Documentation
  • Updated the Linear tool guide with anchor snapping, drag behavior, and curved-segment measurement details.

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Walkthrough

The Linear tool now searches eligible paths for nearby anchors and links picked anchors to their paths. Anchor presses use an 8-pixel drag threshold; other presses retain the 3-pixel threshold. The documentation describes these interactions.

Changes: Linear Anchor Snapping

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Anchor search and snapping crates/tools/src/dimension.rs	The tool searches eligible paths for anchors within 8 pixels. If none is in reach, Smart Guides remain next, followed by segment-point or pointer snapping.
Anchor press and drag handling crates/tools/src/dimension.rs, docs/dimensions.md	The tool records whether a press began near an anchor and applies the corresponding drag threshold. Tests cover moved presses, live-shape anchors, and anchors near another object's edge. The documentation describes anchor picking and longer-drag behavior.

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

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: vecteza

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 59791

No material issue established by this review remains to block merging after normal checks.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 71.43% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly summarizes the main change: Linear-mode clicks can pick anchors from any path.
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Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Additional comments: 2

crates/tools/src/dimension.rs: 1

399-399: Trivial · Performance & Scalability · Low value

Unverified finding
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The press computes anchor_under again, and the hover result may already hold it.

A full scan of up to 20,000 anchors runs on each press, in addition to the hover scan. This is bounded and acceptable. self.snapped already holds the hover result for the same point in most cases. Reusing it is optional.

docs/dimensions.md: 1

9-11: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Low value

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The text on lines 9-11 is a little unclear, and line 11 is overlong.

Line 11 holds the curved-segment sentence, then the Smart Guides sentence on the same line, so the wrapping is uneven. The curved-segment sentence now follows the drag rule. Its subject "A curved segment" could read as part of the drag behavior. Start a new sentence or bullet, for example "Dragging a segment measures a curved segment from end to end."

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Merged, thanks @dotCooCoo! It passed its CI checks.

[dotCooCoo]

I checked the two additional review notes against main (e1c199a18). Neither needs a change:

• crates/tools/src/dimension.rs:399 (anchor_under on press): the press checks the anchor at the press position. The hover fields hold target and the snap result from the last move, which can be at a different position or stale after an edit or a press with no move before it. anchor_under stops after 20,000 anchors, so the extra call has a bounded cost.
• docs/dimensions.md:9-11: both sentences match points_source (a point on a segment uses FreePoint::on_segment; any other point links to the path under it, or else the path at the other end). Line 11 is not the longest line in that paragraph, and Markdown wraps lines when it renders the page.