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material_union in crates/doc/src/sheet.rs unites a sheet's cut-outs, pockets and flat-cut tools. It united them two groups at a time. Each union was a planar boolean that read both groups back as regions and rebuilt their SMLib sheets, so 1000 disjoint holes cost 999 planar booleans and 8,985 2D booleans. It now takes the nodes of the same pairwise tree 32 groups at a time:

• one planar boolean unites each chunk, and the kernel carries the sheets of its balanced rounds straight through;
• the chunks' read-backs become the next level's groups.

The same 1000 holes take 33 planar booleans and 1,967 2D booleans. The flat-work charge never exceeds what the old union charged on the same input. The construction guarantees most of that; the rest is measured (see below).

Part of #14460.

Changes a default: no

Scope

• fix(sheet): the flat pattern takes every cut-out in one planar boolean #15296 (merged 11-12) gave the flat pattern's cut-outs straight to its one cut boolean and removed that material_union call. As proposed there, this PR does not touch flat_material. It changes only material_union's body, which the folded solid, pockets, flat panels and eval_more.rs flat cuts still use. It is rebased onto fix(sheet): the flat pattern takes every cut-out in one planar boolean #15296 and reuses its test-only MATERIAL_BOOLEANS counter.
• Sheet metal: sheets with hundreds of cut-outs no longer hit the geometry limit #10356 puts box clustering in front of the rounds this PR changes. The two are complementary; whichever lands second rebases.
• No kernel change. crates/kernel only shrinks (CONTRIBUTING). The 11-10 draft's planar_regions_union and its counter are gone.

Why the charge is never more than before

The old union pairs consecutive groups from the first one each round and carries an odd last group up unchanged. It charges each union 8·(e² + e·(pa+pb)), where e = ea + eb, on its operands' region_complexity: raw regions in round 1, read-back unions above that.

What holds by construction:

• Chunks match the old tree. A chunk of C = 32 = 2^5 groups, aligned to the first region, is exactly the subtree of the old tree over those groups. Round j's group g is regions [g·2^j, min((g+1)·2^j, n)). This includes the last, partial chunk; a trailing single group is carried up with no boolean, as before.
• Each chunk is charged a subset of the old terms. It is charged the old tree's first-round terms over its groups: the same formula on the same operands. At level 0 the operands are the raw regions, so these are exactly the old round-1 terms. The chunk's inner rounds are not charged, so a chunk never costs more than the old union charged for that subtree.

What is measured, not constructed:

• Above level 0, a chunk's operands are the read-backs of the chunks below it. The old union's operands are the read-backs of its nodes. Both hold the same material, but a chunk is computed with no read-back between its rounds, so its arcs differ by about 1e-14.
• The charges can differ only where the read-back segment counts differ. The tests and every probe below assert that the counts are equal at every chunk node.

Evidence

Probe (not committed) on circle grids, ci profile, default budget. For each case it ran: the old union with the default budget; the old union with no budget, to get its full charge; and the new union. Closed-form area applies to disjoint grids (n·πr²) and to crossing grids where no three circles meet (n·πr² less one lens per neighbouring pair).

n · r · spacing	old (main)	new	new charge ≤ old full charge	chunk nodes match	area vs closed form
1000 · 0.05 · 0.03 (heavy overlap)	ok, 13.8M	ok, 4.2M	yes	yes	same as old to 13 digits
1400 · 0.05 · 0.03	ok, 21.6M	ok, 7.2M	yes	yes	same as old
1800 · 0.05 · 0.03	ok, 30.8M	ok, 9.3M	yes	yes	same as old
2000 · 0.05 · 0.03	ok, 35.6M	ok, 10.3M	yes	yes	same as old
2200 · 0.05 · 0.03	ok, 41.9M	ok, 11.2M	yes	yes	same as old
2400 · 0.05 · 0.03	ok, 47.2M	ok, 12.0M	yes	yes	same as old
3000 · 0.05 · 0.03	ok, 65.9M	ok, 14.7M	yes	yes	same as old (1 ulp-scale)
1000 · 0.5 · 0.8 (crossing)	ok, 426.7M	ok, 4.2M	yes	yes	3.1e-15 rel
1050 · 0.5 · 0.8	refused (713M full)	ok, 270.9M	yes	yes	2.1e-13
1100 · 0.5 · 0.8	refused (737M)	ok, 295.5M	yes	yes	2.4e-13
1150 · 0.5 · 0.8	refused (767M)	ok, 323.7M	yes	yes	2.1e-13
1200 · 0.5 · 0.8	refused (799M)	ok, 352.5M	yes	yes	3.1e-13
1250 · 0.5 · 0.8	refused (833M)	ok, 382.5M	yes	yes	1.2e-13
1300 · 0.5 · 0.8	refused (882M)	ok, 413.8M	yes	yes	3.1e-13
1000 · 0.5 · 1.5 (disjoint)	ok, 128.1M	ok, 4.2M	yes	yes	3.8e-14
1200 · 0.5 · 1.5	fails: SMLib export "shell count"	same failure	n/a	n/a	n/a
1400, 1450 · 0.5 · 1.5	refused by region_complexity	same	n/a	n/a	n/a
1000 · 0.5 · 1.000001 (a hair apart)	ok, 426.7M	ok, 4.2M	yes	yes	2.3e-14
1000 · 0.5 · 0.999999 (a hair overlapping)	ok, 426.7M	ok, 4.2M	yes	yes	2.9e-14

• No input the old union builds is refused, and every input both build gives the same region count and area. Crossing grids of 1050–1300 circles were refused on main and now build, each matching its closed-form area to 3e-13.
• How much of the old charge is kept depends on n. The chunk levels catch the old tree's rounds 1, 6, 11, and so on, and the old tree's top rounds weigh most. At n = 1000 (10 rounds) the new charge is about 3% of the old; at 1050–1300 (11 rounds) it is 38–47%.

Tests (new; no existing expectation changed)

• a_union_of_many_holes_takes_a_planar_boolean_per_chunk: 100 holes take 5 planar booleans (99 before), each circle exact in place (1e-12); overlapping squares still merge.
• a_chunked_union_charges_no_more_than_the_pairwise_union: on disjoint, crossing, heavily overlapping, a-hair-apart and a-hair-overlapping grids, at chunk sizes 32 and 4, it asserts:
  • new charge ≤ the old union's charge (the old algorithm is kept as a test reference);
  • chunk read-back complexities equal the old tree's nodes;
  • the same region count and area as the old union;
  • closed-form area and hole count where they exist.
• a_union_of_crossing_circles_is_their_closed_form_material: 100 circles 0.8 apart give 1 region, 81 holes and the closed-form area, at under the old charge.
• After the rebase onto fix(sheet): the flat pattern takes every cut-out in one planar boolean #15296: cargo test --profile ci -p solidcraft-doc --lib 755 passed; engine sheet tests 306 passed (including perforated_sheet_takes_a_thousand_round_holes and fix(sheet): the flat pattern takes every cut-out in one planar boolean #15296's a_flat_with_many_cutouts_cuts_them_in_one_planar_boolean).

Timing (indicative only: machine load 30–80 throughout)

cmd::sheet::tests::perforated_sheet_takes_a_thousand_round_holes, ci profile, pinned to P-cores, measured on the 11-12 single-call draft: main 182 s and 209 s, that draft 148 s and 77 s. This version adds one more read-back level (1,967 instead of 999 2D booleans for 1000 holes). In the probe, 1000 disjoint holes took 2.9 s against main's 13.0 s. The deciding comparison is the PR's CI job time against main's.

Gate

The full gate (case 4: crates/doc behaviour) ran on 6f49b5a, the head before the rebase onto #15296. Every step passed except craft-clippy: there was one chunks_exact_to_as_chunks lint in the new code.

• SolidCraft tests: known-failing: 15404 ran, 15388 pass, 16 known failing … no regression.
• solidcore: tests, clippy, wasm, rig and all goldens passed. Nothing under solidcore/ changed.
• The lint is fixed with as_chunks::<2>(), which does not change behaviour. After the fix, cargo clippy -p solidcraft-doc --all-targets -D warnings is clean and cargo fmt --all --check is clean.
• Post-rebase checks are as listed under Tests.

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• Performance
  • Large region unions are processed in chunks, reducing the number of planar boolean operations while preserving work-budget accounting.
• Tests
  • Added comparisons against the previous union approach for disjoint, overlapping, and near-touching regions.

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material_union now combines groups in chunks of 32, using one planar boolean per chunk. Tests compare chunked results and work charges with the former pairwise algorithm across several circle and square inputs.

Changes: Material union

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Chunked union implementation crates/doc/src/sheet.rs	material_union processes groups in chunks of 32, carries forward unpaired groups, charges work, and validates each result’s complexity. Test instrumentation records chunk counts and result complexities.
Union comparison tests crates/doc/src/sheet.rs	Test helpers and cases compare chunked unions with pairwise results across disjoint, crossing, overlapping, and near-touching inputs. The tests check work charges, region counts, areas, and holes.

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

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 74413

Uniting many large cut-outs can now fail with an invalid-input error even though the same sheet worked before this change. Split oversized chunks before calling the kernel, then this is ready to merge.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to 74413

The change preserves existing callers and geometry-size limits, but performs more intermediate operations between resource checks. Excessive resource consumption has not been demonstrated; worst-case CPU and memory containment for complex overlapping inputs remains uncertain.

Retained concerns

• Low · security · inferred: Chunking reduces fail-fast resource checkpoints: the base charged and validated each pairwise union, whereas the new path charges only first-round pairs and validates the result after the chunk's internal kernel rounds finish. Complex overlapping geometry may therefore consume more intermediate resources before rejection. Existing input limits mitigate this inferred containment risk; excessive CPU or memory consumption has not been demonstrated.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The established affected scope is geometry evaluation using material_union, including sheet intersection and pocket reconstruction. Resource pressure could affect the process performing that evaluation; shared-service, tenant, and deployment isolation were not established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — The potential availability path is complex document geometry entering an existing union caller, passing retained input limits, and generating expensive intermediate kernel unions before the next document-level checkpoint. This is a containment concern, not a demonstrated denial-of-service exploit or newly exposed remote entrypoint.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Budget subtraction uses checked arithmetic and occurs before each chunk's planar boolean. Initial geometry and completed chunk results are validated, but internal kernel union rounds do not receive the document's FlatWork accumulator.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — The kernel guard converts caught panics into errors, and boolean operations work on copies of their operands. These support failure containment, but do not by themselves establish a CPU or memory bound. Deeper cancellation behavior remains incompletely inspected.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Establish a conservative intermediate-work envelope for chunked unions, or retain enforceable checkpoints within their internal rounds. Validate that envelope using high-overlap geometry and measured CPU and memory consumption, rather than only comparing the new charge with the old charge.

Pre-merge checks: 5

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The title names the main change: material_union in sheet metal now unites cut-outs with one planar boolean per 32 groups instead of one per pair, matching the raw summary and the objectives. The title is specific and describes the primary behavior change. It omits the performance outcome and the scope limit, which the description covers, but it is accurate.

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The description follows the template's main sections: a plain-language change explanation, the required 'Changes a default: no' line, scope, validation evidence, and a gate/integration note. It explains the problem (pairwise unions cost 999 planar booleans for 1000 holes), the new behavior, and the tests. Gaps: the template's 'Screenshots of the behavior' section is absent. The change is a kernel-behaviour change without a user-visible UI effect, so the template allows omitting screenshots, but the author does not say so. The 'Integration status' section (upstream commit and PR status before handoff) is only partly covered by the gate and rebase notes. The description also uses internal shorthand such as 'the same pairwise tree', '#15296', and 'the 11-10 draft' without explaining them to a newcomer, which the template asks to avoid.

Resolution

Optionally add a line saying why no screenshots apply (no visible UI change), state the upstream commit and PR status at handoff under Integration status, and define or link the internal references (#15296, #10356, the 'draft') for readers who have not seen the chat.

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Status update: this PR is on hold as a draft. Our independent review found that charging chunks only for their first round makes the flat-work budget far weaker than the real work. Sending a whole chunk in one call also hits the 8192-segment cap where main doesn't.

The only code that can charge each union round honestly is the code that runs the rounds. So we're doing this in two stacked PRs:

1. SolidCraft's planar_regions_boolean switches to the existing solidcore_ops::prism implementation (RFC 0003 step 2.10), as a refactor proven equal on tests, goldens and probes. crates/kernel shrinks.
2. A per-union hook in ops lets material_union charge each real round, with the cap per round. That replaces the chunking here.

This PR will be rebuilt on (2) once (1) lands.

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Keep each chunk within the kernel's input limit.

Thirty-two identical 300-segment regions pass region_complexity with 9,600 total segments. This call then rejects the chunk: planar_regions_boolean permits at most 8,192 input segments. The former pairwise path could union the duplicates in smaller calls and reduce them before the next round. Split an oversized chunk before calling the kernel, even when its total passes the document limit. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Update the chunk-processing flow around planar_regions_boolean to split any chunk whose combined input exceeds the kernel’s 8,192-segment limit before invoking the kernel, even when it passes region_complexity. Preserve the existing behavior for chunks within the limit and continue processing split chunks so reducible regions can be combined in later rounds.

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Closing in favour of a better route. Every doc-only way to speed up material_union mis-charged the flat-work budget. Charging by summed input refused inputs that main builds. Charging chunks only for their first round left the guard nearly inert, and whole-chunk calls hit the 8192-segment cap.

The only honest charge is a per-round one, made inside the code that runs the rounds. So the work moves to #15475: SolidCraft's planar region booleans converge on solidcore_ops::prism (RFC 0003 step 2.10). An independent analysis will decide, class by class, which implementation is right where they differ. Today ops differs on 13,959 calls and refuses 2,702 that the kernel copy builds. Per-round charging, and the speed-up this PR was after, follow on top of that.

The findings and probes from this PR carry over.

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