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Change

Frame Member (the weldment command that sweeps a profile along sketch lines) assumes world +Z is up: a profile's y points as near +Z as each line allows, and lines along Z are the vertical members. A part drawn with Y up (as parts from many other tools are) gets every member turned 90° about its line, and its posts treated as horizontal rails, so each member needs its own angle to fix.

frame.member now takes up?: X|-X|Y|-Y|Z|-Z (default Z). With up: "Y", the profile's y points along world Y as far as each line allows, and lines along Y are the vertical members (their x along world X, or world Y when X is up). The axis is saved only when it is not Z, so existing designs open and build as before. The Frame Member dialog has an Up Axis row under Mirror (Z, Y, X, -Z, -Y, -X; Z by default) that sends up when it is not Z, and Edit Feature shows the member's own axis. Its label and translations are in assets/locales/pending/frame-member-up-axis.json; docs/frames.md lists the row and the parameter. The format note is crates/doc/src/format/pending/frame-member-up.rs.

Changes a default: no

Validation

• New test members_of_a_y_up_part_stand_on_y (engine, frame_tests.rs): an angle 60×40×5 along +X on XZ with up: "Y" has its 60 mm leg along −Z and its 40 mm leg along +Y; the axis is saved as "up": "Y" and reads back to the same body; a line along Y is a post; with no up (and with up: "Z") the result equals main's and nothing is saved; "y", "W", 1 and [0,1,0] are refused with the list of choices.
• New test member_axes_follow_the_up_axis (crates/doc/src/frame_tests.rs: every up axis gives square, right-handed axes; Z is the default; the saved spellings), existing member_axes calls pass UpAxis::Z, the schema tests and the dialog test the_up_axis_row_sets_and_keeps_the_members_up_axis (dialogs_frame_tests.rs: a new dialog is Z and sends no up; choosing Y sends up: "Y"; Edit Feature shows Y and keeps it through an edit; choosing Z again drops it).
• Static gates from cargo xtask ci: fmt, assets, icons, lists, skills, layers, ui-containers, mesh-decisions and licences pass; cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --profile ci -- -D warnings passes. cargo xtask shared stops on a SIGSEGV in solidcraft-viewport-gpu's tests on a build server with no GPU, the same on main; this PR does not touch those crates.
• cargo test --profile ci -p solidcraft-doc --lib -- frame feature_walk walk: 44 passed. -p solidcraft-engine --lib -- frame schema: 818 passed. -p solidcraft-ui-egui --lib -- dialogs_frame i18n: 117 passed. scripts/test-format-pending.sh: passes. cargo xtask wasm: 29 crates build for wasm32.
• After the dialog row was added: fmt, lists, skills, layers and ui-containers pass; cargo clippy --profile ci -p solidcraft-ui-egui -p solidcraft-engine -p solidcraft-doc --all-targets -- -D warnings passes; -p solidcraft-ui-egui --lib -- dialogs_frame i18n: 117 passed, including every_ui_label_literal_reaches_an_english_catalog_entry.

Screenshots of the behavior (when observable)

A frame drawn with Y up: a 1,000 × 600 floor of angle 60×40×5 on XZ and two 800 mm posts along Y. Seen from +Z, so world Y points up the page.

Before (main, no up): the members are placed for Z up, so the floor rails and the posts do not meet as drawn.

After (up: "Y"): the floor rails and the posts meet at the corners, with no angle on any member.

The dialog flow at 1280×720, uncropped (the posts of the same frame, picked in the view):

At 800×600, Edit Feature on the posts shows Up Axis Y; the rows and the list fit:

Integration status

Includes main up to fff3f98 (merged in, not rebased) and still merges cleanly with main at a7468ec; it carries the merged locate change (#15726), and up sits beside locate in the feature, the command and Edit Feature. Open frame PRs checked: #15729 (standard steel sizes) is merged and included; its lines and this change sit side by side. #15071 (rotate one member) also edits one line of eval_frame.rs next to this change, a small rebase for whichever merges second. #15706, #15782, #8608 and #8452 touch other parts.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Frame members can now use any signed world axis as their profile’s up direction, with Z remaining the default.
  • The selected direction is preserved when designs are saved and when frame members are edited.
• Bug Fixes
  • Older designs without a saved up direction continue to load using the default orientation.

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Walkthrough

Frame members now accept and save an optional world-axis up direction. Member-axis calculations use the selected direction. Editing a frame member preserves its non-Z up value.

Changes: Frame Member Up Axis

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Define up-axis behavior crates/doc/src/frame.rs, crates/doc/src/frame_tests.rs, crates/doc/src/walk.rs	Adds UpAxis for the six signed world axes. member_axes uses the selected axis when calculating member orientation. Tests cover axis orientations, defaults, serialization, and near-vertical directions.
Accept and store the up parameter crates/engine/src/schema/frame.rs, crates/engine/src/schema/frame_tests.rs, crates/engine/src/cmd/frame.rs, crates/engine/src/cmd/frame_tests.rs, crates/doc/src/document.rs, crates/doc/src/format/pending/frame-member-up.rs	Adds the optional up parameter to frame.member and the saved FrameMember feature. The parameter accepts the six signed world axes and defaults to Z. Tests cover validation, save and reopen behavior, and equivalence of the default and explicit Z.
Apply the up axis during evaluation crates/doc/src/eval_frame.rs	Carries the feature’s up axis in Layout and supplies it to member-axis calculations during evaluation and section lookup.
Preserve up axis when editing crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs_frame.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs_frame_tests.rs	Adds non-Z up values to frame-member edit parameters. A regression test checks that redefining a member retains its Y up value while applying a new angle.

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

Merge Risk: Low · up to 6918b

Frame members can now take a selectable up axis. The axis follows the component's own frame rather than the world frame the documentation describes, so members of a rotated component may not stand vertical in world coordinates. Default behavior and older designs are unaffected. Clarify the documented frame, or convert the axis into the component frame, before relying on this for rotated parts.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to 6918b

The change adds a tightly constrained orientation parameter while preserving the existing default and transaction behavior. No introduced security issue was identified. Compatibility deserves attention because older versions cannot apply non-default axes.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The changed input controls frame-member orientation in the document being modeled, reaching existing extrusion and section-query operations. The inspected flow introduces no additional privileged sink or cross-service authority; its direct effects are geometric bodies and their reconstructed sections.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Command parameters and persisted features use the same serde enum, constraining attacker-supplied axis values to six spellings. The existing command-enabled and host-command checks precede handler execution, and the handler independently rejects invalid axis values before mutation.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — The axis remains ordinary document state under the existing synchronous session transaction. Errors, caught panics and cancellation use snapshot rollback; successful commands enter document history, and undo/redo restore document snapshots. Redefinition validates a scratch replacement before updating the original feature slot, preserving feature identity without adding an axis-specific reservation or cleanup lifecycle.

Pre-merge checks: 5

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title names the main change: a Frame Member feature gains an optional world up axis so parts drawn with Y up work without per-member angles. The changeset matches this. It adds the UpAxis enum, th…
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.
Description check		The description follows the repository template closely. It has a Change section that explains the Frame Member up-axis feature and the default behavior. It has the required 'Changes a default: no' li…
Existing Defaults Unchanged		The PR changes no existing UX default. Its changes are additive. - Command: frame.member gains an optional up parameter. When it is absent or null, the code uses UpAxis::default(), which is …

Full details: Title check

Explanation

The title names the main change: a Frame Member feature gains an optional world up axis so parts drawn with Y up work without per-member angles. The changeset matches this. It adds the UpAxis enum, the frame.member up parameter, Y-up member placement, serialization that omits Z, and Edit Feature preservation. The title is specific and readable, so it passes.

Full details: Description check

Explanation

The description follows the repository template closely. It has a Change section that explains the Frame Member up-axis feature and the default behavior. It has the required 'Changes a default: no' line, which is correct because the default stays Z. It includes a Validation section with specific tests and results. It has a Screenshots section with before and after images and dialog flow images. It has an Integration status section that records the upstream merge state and the related open PRs. The description does not include a 'Test change' line, which the template requires only when existing test expectations change. The PR changes existing calls of member_axes to pass UpAxis::Z, but those are signature updates rather than changed expectations, so the omission is acceptable. The description is mostly complete and specific.

Full details: Existing Defaults Unchanged

Explanation

The PR changes no existing UX default. Its changes are additive. - Command: frame.member gains an optional up parameter. When it is absent or null, the code uses UpAxis::default(), which is Z (crates/engine/src/cmd/frame.rs:327; crates/doc/src/frame_tests.rs:307). Existing calls therefore keep their Z-up behavior. - Saved designs: the up field is written only when the axis is not Z. Existing documents without the field load with Z, so their saved content is unchanged. - Dialog: the new Up Axis row is added to the Frame Member dialog. Per the PR description and the dialog test, a new dialog starts at Z and sends no up. The existing rows, such as Mirror, are unchanged. - Internal API: member_axes gains a parameter. Existing callers pass UpAxis::Z. This is a code signature change, not a UX default. - Description: it states Changes a default: no. That matches the code. I found no changed shortcut, layout default, or preference. I did not check every dialog widget or shortcut in the diff. The verdict relies on the code evidence above, the PR description, and the summary. The PR does not change any geometry result for existing Z-up designs. The CodeRabbit finding about world versus component frame concerns geometry, which the check excludes.

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- Line 797: The `UpAxis` and `member_axes` documentation conflicts with the
component-frame behavior of `let world_up = up.up()`. Preserve existing axes,
including default `Z` on rotated components, by clarifying that `up` is
interpreted in the component frame; do not change the basis to world coordinates
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• crates/doc/src/document.rs
• crates/doc/src/eval_frame.rs
• crates/doc/src/format/pending/frame-member-up.rs
• crates/doc/src/frame.rs
• crates/doc/src/frame_tests.rs
• crates/doc/src/walk.rs
• crates/engine/src/cmd/frame.rs
• crates/engine/src/cmd/frame_tests.rs
• crates/engine/src/schema/frame.rs
• crates/engine/src/schema/frame_tests.rs
• crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs_frame.rs
• crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs_frame_tests.rs

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Document the up frame, or compute it in world coordinates.

The up documentation says the axis is a world direction. eval_frame.rs builds the member basis from segments in the feature's component frame, and body_world then places the body with the component transform. For a component with a rotated placement, up: "Y" therefore follows the component's Y axis, not world Y. The member is then not vertical in world Y, which contradicts the documented contract at frame.rs:309-311, frame.rs:337-338, and frame.rs:789-790.

The default Z uses the same path. Changing the basis to world coordinates for every up axis would also change default Z results on rotated components. frame-member-up.rs states that older designs keep their existing axes, so that change needs a separate decision.

Choose one of these:

• Keep the component-frame behavior and correct the UpAxis and member_axes docs to say the axis is in the component frame.
• Map up into the segment frame with the inverse of the component's rotation. Before doing this, check that default Z results on rotated components stay unchanged.

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The `UpAxis` and `member_axes` documentation conflicts with the component-frame behavior of `let world_up = up.up()`. Preserve existing axes, including default `Z` on rotated components, by clarifying that `up` is interpreted in the component frame; do not change the basis to world coordinates without establishing compatibility with those existing results.

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[bherbruck]

Thanks, this looks useful. Since it adds an option to the existing Frame Member dialog, could you add full-flow screenshots at 1280×720 (the dialog with the new Up axis option, then the result) plus one at a small window size? Then I'll take a look.

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Thanks for the review. Until now the Frame Member dialog had no control for the up axis (an edit only kept it), so 1b6fb5d adds one: an Up Axis row under Mirror with Z, Y, X, -Z, -Y and -X. Z is the default, and the dialog sends up only when it is not Z, so a member made from the dialog without touching it is the same as before. Edit Feature shows the member's own axis. The label and its translations are in assets/locales/pending/frame-member-up-axis.json, and docs/frames.md lists the row.

Screenshots at 1280x720, uncropped. The frame is drawn with Y up: a 1,000 × 600 floor on XZ (already built as angle members with up: "Y") and two 800 mm post lines along Y, picked in the view. Profile L-Angle 60 × 40 × 5, anchor Bottom Left.

1. The dialog scrolled to the new row, with its list open:
   
2. Up Axis set to Y; the preview updates to the Y-up placement:
   
3. The result after OK: the two posts stand at the corners of the floor, with no angle on any member:
   

Small window, 800x600:

4. Edit Feature on the posts shows Up Axis Y:
   
5. The same row with its list open:
   

At both sizes the new row lines up with the others and nothing clips or overlaps. At 1280x720 the dialog body already scrolled before this change (the L-Angle rows fill it), so the Up Axis row is reached by scrolling, like Angle and Mirror. At 800x600 the list of six axes opens fully inside the dialog, and OK and Cancel stay visible.

Checks on the new commit: fmt, lists, skills, layers and ui-containers pass; clippy with -D warnings passes for ui-egui, engine and doc; cargo test --profile ci -p solidcraft-ui-egui --lib -- dialogs_frame i18n passes (117), including the new the_up_axis_row_sets_and_keeps_the_members_up_axis and the label catalog check. The PR description is updated to match.

[bherbruck]

@Nathan-Dane could you review this one when you get a chance? It adds to the existing UI, so it needs your eye before it can merge.