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Fixes #3254

What

step-export had a failing test but no writer for BodyKind::ShellModel
(committed first as d088ea0c4, per CONTRIBUTING.md's "tests first"). This
PR adds the writer arm named in that issue.

The change

• shell() (crates/step-export/src/lib.rs:701) takes a new allow_open: bool
  parameter; the closed-shell precondition at :718 is if !step_shell.closed && !allow_open, and the shell kind it emits is CLOSED_SHELL or
  OPEN_SHELL depending on step_shell.closed instead of always
  CLOSED_SHELL.
• WriteMode::Auto's dispatch gets a BodyKind::ShellModel arm that calls
  shell(&mut entities, body, &model.pcurves, true) and collects the result
  into a SHELL_BASED_SURFACE_MODEL entity.
• The representation selection grows a MANIFOLD_SURFACE_SHAPE_REPRESENTATION
  branch alongside the existing ADVANCED_BREP_SHAPE_REPRESENTATION /
  FACETED_BREP_SHAPE_REPRESENTATION ones, gated on the new list being
  non-empty.
• The previously-bare wildcard arm in the dispatch now names the one
  remaining unhandled variant, BodyKind::SolidWithVoids, per
  clippy::match_wildcard_for_single_variants.

No step-import change: it already maps SHELL_BASED_SURFACE_MODEL to
BodyKind::ShellModel (map.rs:79) and accepts OPEN_SHELL (:1007,
:1594).

Evidence

• cargo test -p step-export: 22/22 passing (was 21/22, with the new
  round-trip test failing before this commit).
• cargo fmt --all --check (step-export scope): clean.
• cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings: clean.
• cargo test -p goldens --lib: 390 passed, 25 failed — all pre-existing in
  this clone (missing upstream/ fixtures; one unrelated flake), unchanged
  by this diff. No case's expected output in crates/goldens/expected/
  changed.
• No compatibility flag: this adds a previously-unreachable dispatch arm: no
  existing behaviour changes for ManifoldSolid or Faceted bodies.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Shell-model bodies can now be exported, including open shells when open-shell export is allowed. Exported shells retain their open or closed state.
  • Layer and colour assignments are now included for shell models.
• Limitations
  • Bodies containing solids with voids remain unsupported for export.

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Walkthrough

The STEP exporter now supports ShellModel bodies in automatic mode. It writes shell-based surface representations, including open shells, and includes shell-model entities in layer and colour assignments. Tests cover round-tripping and presentation assignments.

Changes: Shell-model export

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Open and closed shell serialization crates/step-export/src/lib.rs	The shell writer accepts open shells when enabled. It emits OPEN_SHELL for open shells and CLOSED_SHELL for closed shells.
Shell-model representation and assignments crates/step-export/src/lib.rs	Automatic mode writes ShellModel bodies as SHELL_BASED_SURFACE_MODEL and includes them in a MANIFOLD_SURFACE_SHAPE_REPRESENTATION. Layer and colour assignments include the emitted shell-model entity. Tests cover open-shell round-tripping and presentation assignments.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related issues

• Issue 2577 describes a broader STEP pipeline effort that includes exporter capabilities. This change adds shell-model export support.
• Issue 2579 describes moving the STEP exporter into solidcore and includes sheet export. This change adds shell-model sheet export support.

Suggested reviewers: alexmitchellmus

Merge Risk: Low · up to 36a50

Shell-model export now works and keeps layers and colours. A shell-level reversed orientation may not survive a round trip. The same limitation exists for other body kinds and can be handled separately.

Architecture risk: Medium · up to 36a50

The change affects 1 system.

Changed systems: crates

Architecture concerns
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Systems and components

• observed — crates (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in crates/step-export/src/lib.rs: The module documentation adds one SHELL_BASED_SURFACE_MODEL per shell model, which may contain an open sheet shell, and states that each body kind uses its own shape representation.
• observed — Modified behavior in crates/step-export/src/lib.rs: The shell documentation and signature add allow_open; bodies must still have exactly one shell, but the error now describes that as a writer limitation rather than a malformed model.
• observed — Modified behavior in crates/step-export/src/lib.rs: Open shells are rejected only when allow_open is false; previously every open shell was rejected.
• observed — Modified behavior in crates/step-export/src/lib.rs: The shell entity type now depends on step_shell.closed: closed shells emit CLOSED_SHELL, while permitted open shells emit OPEN_SHELL.

Reliability and maintainability

• inferred — Risk-relevant change factors for crates: blast_radius_1; direct_dependents_1

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Title check		The title names the main change: step-export now writes SHELL_BASED_SURFACE_MODEL for BodyKind::ShellModel bodies. The raw summary and objectives confirm this is the primary change, which adds the aut…
Linked Issues check		Issue #3254 requires a WriteMode::Auto writer for BodyKind::ShellModel that emits SHELL_BASED_SURFACE_MODEL for an open shell, and a round-trip test that reads the output back as BodyKind::ShellModel.…
Out of Scope Changes check		All changed hunks are in crates/step-export/src/lib.rs. They serve #3254 or its direct support: the shell() allow_open parameter and OPEN_SHELL kind; the ShellModel dispatch arm; the shape representat…

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The title names the main change: step-export now writes SHELL_BASED_SURFACE_MODEL for BodyKind::ShellModel bodies. The raw summary and objectives confirm this is the primary change, which adds the automatic-mode writer for shell models and the related shape representation and presentation handling. The title is specific, short, and free of file lists or vague terms.

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Issue #3254 requires a WriteMode::Auto writer for BodyKind::ShellModel that emits SHELL_BASED_SURFACE_MODEL for an open shell, and a round-trip test that reads the output back as BodyKind::ShellModel. The whole-PR diff (merge base 15f62db to head 36a5020) shows: a new ShellModel dispatch arm calling shell(..., true) and emitting SHELL_BASED_SURFACE_MODEL; shell() accepts open shells only when allow_open is true and emits OPEN_SHELL for open shells; a MANIFOLD_SURFACE_SHAPE_REPRESENTATION branch for shell models; and the test shell_model_round_trips_as_an_open_shell, which asserts kind ShellModel, one open shell, one face and three vertices after reimport. The issue's reproduction (one open planar quad, one body) is covered by this path. The raw summary and the changed hunks are consistent. The changes since the previous review (f85e311 to 36a5020) include presentation assignment fixes for shell models and a test, which keep the requirement met. Test results are author-reported; I did not rerun them.

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All changed hunks are in crates/step-export/src/lib.rs. They serve #3254 or its direct support: the shell() allow_open parameter and OPEN_SHELL kind; the ShellModel dispatch arm; the shape representation branch; the narrowed wildcard arm naming SolidWithVoids; the updated error text listing SHELL_BASED_SURFACE_MODEL; the module and function doc comments describing the new output; and the presentation-assignment changes that include shell-model IDs in layer and colour assignment, which the PR states were needed so shell-only models keep requested layers and colours. The layer-skip for an empty shape set prevents an invalid SET[1:?] assignment and applies only to the new output path's bodies. The two added tests exercise the new behaviour. No unrelated code, dependency, or golden-output change appears in the reviewed diff. Multi-shell support and orientation handling are explicitly deferred and not changed here.

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Major · Include shell models in presentation assignments. · lib.rs:1349

crates/step-export/src/lib.rs:1349
Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win

Include shell models in presentation assignments.

If write_with_metadata exports a shell model, body_ids omits it. The requested color and layer therefore do not apply to that body. For a shell-only model, the layer assignment also has an empty item set, although STEP requires at least one item. Add shell_model_ids to body_ids. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Review comment at @crates/step-export/src/lib.rs at line 1349:
Update body_ids in write_with_metadata to include shell_model_ids alongside faceted_ids, so shell bodies receive the requested color and layer assignments and shell-only layer assignments contain an item.

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Review comments at @crates/step-export/src/lib.rs:
- Line 1289: Update the ShellModel export path around shell() to serialize every
contained shell into the model’s boundary list instead of passing the entire
model through the single-shell path. Preserve the existing one-shell restriction
for solids.
- Line 1289: Update the shell serialization call that passes model.pcurves so
imported pcurves stored in model.file_pcurves are preserved for SEAM_CURVE and
SURFACE_CURVE entities; if the exporter cannot serialize them, reject the shell
rather than silently dropping its UV trim or seam data.
- Around line 850-855: Update the shell export logic using step_shell so it
preserves orientation == false in a STEP representation that the importer
interprets correctly, while leaving the existing closed/open distinction intact.
Add a regression test that exports and reimports a reversed shell and verifies
its effective face orientation is preserved.

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Review comments at @crates/step-export/src/lib.rs:
- Line 1349: Update body_ids in write_with_metadata to include shell_model_ids
alongside faceted_ids, so shell bodies receive the requested color and layer
assignments and shell-only layer assignments contain an item.

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Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Heavy lift

Preserve the shell orientation.

If an imported shell has orientation == false, this emits a plain shell without applying that orientation. The importer assigns plain shells orientation == true, so a round trip reverses the effective face orientation. Preserve the orientation in the emitted representation and add a regression test. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Update the shell export logic using step_shell so it preserves orientation == false in a STEP representation that the importer interprets correctly, while leaving the existing closed/open distinction intact. Add a regression test that exports and reimports a reversed shell and verifies its effective face orientation is preserved.

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Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Heavy lift

Support all shells in a shell model.

If a ShellModel contains two or more shells, shell() rejects it at Line 707. The importer accepts multiple shells in one SHELL_BASED_SURFACE_MODEL, so those models cannot be exported. Serialize each shell into the model’s boundary list and retain the one-shell restriction for solids. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Review comment at @crates/step-export/src/lib.rs at line 1289:
Update the ShellModel export path around shell() to serialize every contained shell into the model’s boundary list instead of passing the entire model through the single-shell path. Preserve the existing one-shell restriction for solids.

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Preserve imported pcurves.

If an imported shell contains a SEAM_CURVE or SURFACE_CURVE, the importer stores its pcurves in model.file_pcurves and leaves model.pcurves empty. This call passes only model.pcurves, so the writer emits the 3D curve without the original pcurves. A subsequent import loses the UV trim and seam data. Serialize the imported pcurves or reject shells whose pcurves cannot be preserved. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Update the shell serialization call that passes model.pcurves so imported pcurves stored in model.file_pcurves are preserved for SEAM_CURVE and SURFACE_CURVE entities; if the exporter cannot serialize them, reject the shell rather than silently dropping its UV trim or seam data.

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Thanks — I went through all four findings against the current code. One was a real regression this PR introduced and is now fixed; two are real but pre-existing and belong in their own issues; one does not hold.

Include shell models in presentation assignments (lib.rs:1349) — fixed. Correct, and it is this PR's regression: before the shell-model arm, write_with_metadata errored out before reaching the presentation block, so a shell-only model could never get there. shell_model_ids now joins body_ids, and the layer assignment is skipped entirely when a model carries no shapes, since assigned_items is SET[1:?]. Committed as a failing test first (ce36193) and the fix (36a5020), per CONTRIBUTING.

Multi-shell ShellModel bodies (lib.rs:1289) — real, pre-existing, not fixed here. step-import's map.rs does build multi-shell ShellModel bodies, so the asymmetry is genuine. But shell() rejects them loudly rather than writing something wrong, and the same one-shell restriction applies to ManifoldSolid. Writing SHELL_BASED_SURFACE_MODEL over several shells is a separate change with its own round-trip tests; I would rather not grow this PR into it. What I did fix is the error message, which said supports one closed shell — wrong twice over for a shell model, whose one shell may legitimately be open. Happy to open a follow-up issue.

Shell orientation == false is dropped (lib.rs:850-855) — real, pre-existing, not introduced here. The writer never emits ORIENTED_CLOSED_SHELL/ORIENTED_OPEN_SHELL, so a reversed shell loses its orientation on ManifoldSolid and SolidWithVoids exactly as it does on ShellModel. That is a round-trip defect in the existing writer that this PR neither causes nor widens; it wants its own issue and test. Say the word and I will file it.

model.file_pcurves is not passed to shell() — not applicable. file_pcurves is documented in step-import/src/model.rs as "filled by the importer; an exporter ignores it", and pcurves (which the shell-model arm does pass through, the same as every other arm) is the field the writer is contracted to read. Passing file_pcurves would be writing against the opposite of its stated contract. Leaving as is.

Docstring Coverage — shell() and write_inner() now have doc comments, and the module header documents the new SHELL_BASED_SURFACE_MODEL arm.