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What and why

The Smooth tool refit every anchor in the stretch it smooths with a corner angle of 179°, so a drag across a 90° or 120° corner rounded it off. The help page describes the tool as reducing irregularities in a path as you drag along it. It does not give a corner rule, so the rule below is VectorCraft's own.

  • crates/engine/src/cmd/draw2/smooth.rs: smooth_corners marks an anchor as a corner when the path turns by more than 57.5° (an angle inside the corner under 122.5°) at the anchor itself, and also over the tool's reach and over twice the reach on either side of it. Distances are measured along the path, curved segments included. They stop at an open path's ends and go no more than an eighth of the way round a closed path. A jag or bump smaller than the reach still turns sharply at its anchor but not over twice the reach, so it is smoothed. An open path's first and last anchors are never corners. Directions that have no length or are not finite give no corner.
  • refit_split cuts the smoothed stretch at each corner and refits each part on its own. The corner keeps its position and the directions the path arrives and leaves along. This applies to open paths, to a drag over part of a closed path, and to a drag over the whole of a closed path, the anchor it starts at included. A whole closed path with corners keeps its start anchor when the refit keeps an anchor there. A closed path with no corner is smoothed across its first anchor as before.
  • The threshold is the same on every drag and at any Fidelity, and has no setting. path.smoothRegion keeps its parameters and reply.
  • A drag that only meets kept corners changes nothing: it returns {ids: [], before: 0, after: 0} and adds no undo step.
  • The walk that measures each anchor's neighborhood passes at most 256 segments, so the work per anchor is bounded on a path of very many short segments. When the reach is not met within that walk, the anchor is not kept as a corner.
  • The params text of path.smoothRegion, docs/mcp.md and one line in docs/target-app-parity.md describe the rule. No user-visible string changed.

This changes existing behavior: a Smooth drag across a corner sharper than 122.5° now keeps it instead of rounding it.

How it was tested

New tests in crates/engine/src/tests/draw2.rs:

  • the_smooth_tool_keeps_corners_sharper_than_its_threshold: corners of 30°, 60°, 90°, 120° and 122.4° stay; 122.6°, 125°, 135°, 150° and 170° are not kept; legs of one and of ten segments, at Fidelity 0.5, 2.5 and 10.
  • smooth_drags_again_and_again_keep_a_corner_in_place: three drags over a 90° and a 120° corner leave each corner where it was while a wobble on the same leg is smoothed.
  • smoothing_a_closed_path_keeps_its_corners: a whole-path drag and a drag over one side keep the corners, the one the path starts at included, smooth the jags, and keep the start anchor.
  • smoothing_keeps_a_corner_between_curves: a corner between curved legs, with a handle of no length.
  • a_smooth_drag_that_only_meets_corners_adds_no_undo_step: an open path's corner and a square's four corners.
  • smoothing_keeps_no_small_jag_as_a_corner: a line with 1 pt jags that turn by 90° loses all of them.
  • a_corner_at_the_end_of_the_smoothed_stretch_stays: a corner just out of the drag's reach keeps its place and turn.

New unit tests in crates/engine/src/cmd/draw2/smooth.rs:

  • corners_are_found_only_where_the_path_turns_at_and_around_an_anchor: coincident anchors, NaN and 1e308 coordinates, a 100,001-anchor zigzag, an open and a closed square, a reach of 0 and a two-anchor path.
  • a_small_jagged_loop_has_no_corners, a_corner_between_long_curves_is_measured_along_them (a corner turning by 60°, 120° inside, between two 1,000 pt curves) and a_corner_is_not_kept_where_the_reach_is_not_measured (a 400 pt, 90° bump in 1 pt segments).

Each test fails without the change, except smoothing_keeps_no_small_jag_as_a_corner and a_corner_at_the_end_of_the_smoothed_stretch_stays, which check behavior that the change must not alter and pass both with and without it. The existing Smooth tests pass unchanged.

Focused checks on the final tree, on Linux x86-64. The branch is one commit on main at 446bf59bc2 and merges cleanly with it. It conflicts with open #7276 in docs/mcp.md.

  • cargo fmt --all -- --check
  • cargo clippy -p vectorcraft-engine --all-targets -- -D warnings
  • cargo check --workspace --tests
  • cargo test -p vectorcraft-engine --lib smooth: 60 passed, 0 failed
  • cargo test -p vectorcraft-engine --test command_sweep: 24 passed, 0 failed
  • cargo xtask brands, layers (30 crates) and assets (337 files)
  • cargo xtask ci runs in this pull request's CI.

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  • 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

  • Improvements
    • Smoothing now preserves sharp corners on open and closed paths while smoothing smaller irregularities. Drags that encounter only preserved corners leave the path and undo history unchanged.
  • Documentation
    • Clarified when smoothing preserves corners and how adjacent sections are smoothed.
    • Clarified how point snapping works when Smart Guides are off, and how envelope content maps to curved sides and snaps near corners.

The Smooth tool refit every anchor in the smoothed stretch with a corner
angle of 179°, so a drag across a corner rounded it off. An anchor is now
kept as a corner when the path turns there by more than 57.5° (an
interior angle under 122.5°) at the anchor itself, over the Smooth
radius and over twice the radius on either side. On a closed path the
distances are no more than an eighth of its length. The stretch is cut
at each corner, each part is refit on its own, and the corner keeps its
position. The threshold is the same on every pass and has no setting.

A jag or bump smaller than the radius is not kept: the path does not
turn by that much over twice the radius. A whole closed path with
corners keeps its start anchor when the refit keeps an anchor there. A
drag that changes nothing adds no anchors and no undo step.

Docs: params text for path.smoothRegion, docs/mcp.md,
docs/target-app-parity.md.
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The Smooth tool now detects corners using a 57.5° threshold and radius-based path spans. It splits refits at detected corners, preserves their positions and handles, and skips unchanged results. Tests and documentation cover corner behavior on open, closed, and curved paths.

Changes: Smooth Tool Corner Preservation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Corner detection
crates/engine/src/cmd/draw2/commands.rs, crates/engine/src/cmd/draw2/smooth.rs
The command description and implementation specify a 57.5° threshold. The implementation samples curved segments and checks turns over radius-based spans, with bounded walks.
Corner-preserving path refitting
crates/engine/src/cmd/draw2/smooth.rs
Open and closed paths split refits at detected corners and preserve corner positions and handles. Unchanged refits return no result.
Behavior validation and documentation
crates/engine/src/cmd/draw2/smooth.rs, crates/engine/src/tests/draw2.rs, docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md
Tests cover open, closed, and curved paths, repeated drags, and no-op behavior. The documentation describes the threshold, spans, and unchanged-call behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Suggested reviewers: aiongg, mockydevs, bflatastic

Merge Risk: Low · previous review c05f5

The Smooth tool change preserves corners that turn more than 57.5° and refits the stretches between them. No behavioral defect is established. Before merge, update the status line and revision history of docs/target-app-parity.md as repository guidance requires, or explicitly accept the gap. Optionally, strengthen the curved-corner test to check the incoming and outgoing directions separately.

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Review comments at @crates/engine/src/cmd/draw2/smooth.rs:
- Around line 47-50: Update the endpoint refinement in corner_places so the
refined stretch covers both measurement distances, including twice reach along
the curve, rather than stopping based only on the control-polygon threshold. Add
a regression test with a collapsed endpoint handle verifying that smooth_corners
preserves a corner turning just over SMOOTH_CORNER_DEG at twice reach.

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…t a handle

Near an anchor whose handle does not reach out, the curve starts more slowly than its control polygon, so the finely cut stretch could end before twice the reach and the turn there was measured along a long chord. The stretches past it are now cut as finely until the pieces reach three times the reach. docs/mcp.md says the one-eighth cap applies to a closed path the drag reaches all the way round.

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crates/engine/src/tests/draw2.rs: 1

2140-2140: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Check both corner directions independently.

This assertion checks only the unsigned angle between the incoming and outgoing directions. If both directions rotate by the same amount, the assertion still passes, although the stated preservation requirement fails.

For both curved fixtures, compare the incoming and outgoing unit directions before and after smoothing. Keep the existing corner-position and turn checks.

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Update the checks for both curved fixtures to compare incoming and outgoing unit directions independently before and after smoothing, so equal changes to both directions cannot pass as preserved. Keep the existing corner-position and turn checks, including the assertion that the corner turning turn° is kept.

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When a drag reaches every anchor of a closed path that has a corner, the
path is cut open at the corner and refitted. The result started at the
corner unless the refit kept an anchor exactly at the old first anchor.
It now starts at its point nearest the old first anchor, at an anchor
there or at a new anchor split into the curve, as the other closed-path
cases do.
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