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A cut that meets the faces of an earlier cut, or lies flush with the body, no longer fails with boolean::merge::p2::make_faceuse: no radial edge use classifies the face's edge use: the evaluator retries that failure with the closed tool split through the middle, and cuts the pieces in turn. The pieces partition the tool exactly, so the regularized result is the same; the merge only sees simpler operands.

Closes #16237. The same kernel limitation is reported in #15247; this is an evaluator-level retry, not a kernel fix, and the kernel issue stays open.

What happens

Pyro H Bracket at timeline marker 5, with Sketch3 profile 1 (solid.extrude: cut, direction negative, distance 80 mm, to the Body1 face at [5.684341886080802e-14, -56.05962522793294, 25.47609109319336]):

SMLib boolean: operation: solidcore: SmApiBoolean:
boolean::merge::p2::make_faceuse: no radial edge use classifies the face's edge use

The tool is a 65 x 36 mm rectangle from the x = 80 face to the x = 0 face, flush with the top and back faces. Its face is classified into the infinite region, whose boundary edge uses lie in the adjacent solid region, so find_radial_sector_between culls every candidate. Relaxing that cull lets the merge finish but produces an invalid body (coincident loops), so the evaluator instead splits the tool at its exact middle plane and cuts the two pieces one after the other.

Test model

examples/regressions/cut_flush_with_earlier_cut.json is the self-contained 6-step reduction. It is the Pyro H Bracket timeline without the rolled-back feature, and the last step is the failing cut. The final body is the block less the two-circle stadium and the rectangle:

• volume 80597.52280638895 mm3
• 11 faces, closed, validity() empty

How to test

CLI (the test model builds; without this PR it stops at step 6):

solidcraft-cli run examples/regressions/cut_flush_with_earlier_cut.json --quiet --results

CLI to a design for the GUI:

solidcraft-cli run examples/regressions/cut_flush_with_earlier_cut.json --save /tmp/cut-flush.sc
# open /tmp/cut-flush.sc in SolidCraft: Extrude3 builds, and the body reports 80597.523 mm3

MCP: replay the same script with tools.solidcraft.execute, or run the solid.extrude step above on the live Pyro H Bracket; it now returns a body instead of the make_faceuse error.

GUI on the live design: install/replace the build, open Pyro H Bracket.sc, and re-apply the cut to the x = 0 face; the feature builds and the timeline shows no error.

Evidence

• cargo test -p solidcraft-engine cut_flush_with_an_earlier_cut_builds_in_pieces - 1 passed
• cargo test -p solidcraft-engine boolean_regression_tests - 52 passed, 3 ignored
• cargo test -p solidcraft-doc - 759 passed, 2 ignored
• cargo clippy -p solidcraft-doc -p solidcraft-engine --all-targets -- -D warnings - clean
• cargo xtask wasm - 29 crates build for wasm32-unknown-unknown
• cargo xtask layers and cargo xtask mesh-decisions - clean
• cargo fmt --all -- --check - clean

Changes a default: no (only a cut that failed with this exact message takes the retry; existing successful cut results are unchanged).

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved reliability when applying certain cuts to existing geometry. A cut that previously failed in a specific sequence can now complete successfully, preserving the expected shape and volume.
  • Other Boolean operation failures continue to be reported as before.

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Walkthrough

The cut evaluation path now retries a targeted radial-sector Boolean failure by splitting the tool and applying the pieces in sequence. A regression fixture and test cover a cut sequence that previously triggered this failure.

Changes: Cut fallback and regression

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Recognize and retry eligible cut failures crates/doc/src/eval.rs	The cut path recognizes the targeted radial-sector error and retries eligible Cut operations with tool pieces split along the longest bounds axis. Retries stop at depth three; other failures and unavailable splits return the original error.
Replay and validate the cut sequence examples/regressions/cut_flush_with_earlier_cut.json, crates/engine/src/boolean_regression_tests.rs	The fixture records the block and successive cuts, including the final exact-regions cut. The regression test checks feature results, a valid single-shell body, and volume within 1e-3 of the expected value.

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

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: Low · previous review 30de9

The change makes a previously failing cut build by retrying with the tool split in two, and other failures behave as before. The remaining concern is architectural: the split-plane geometry is computed in the application layer rather than in the kernel layer. This is a bounded follow-up, not a likely runtime problem.

Security architecture risk: Minimal · up to 30de9

The retry is narrowly triggered and depth-limited. Failed attempts do not publish a partially completed cut, and existing target selection and cancellation checks remain in place. No introduced security-relevant architecture concern was established.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — Document-controlled geometry can cause additional split and cut work within the existing evaluation path. Target scope remains governed by existing component selection, named participants or an explicit wildcard that can select all bodies in the model; the retry itself does not broaden that selection.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The additional split and recursive cut operations retain the existing kernel cancellation gate. A cancellation error is not selected by the radial-sector retry predicate. A native Boolean operation already running is not interrupted by that gate.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Recovery has a fixed recursion-depth limit and stops early when no body remains. Cache identity and cache-after-success ordering are unchanged from the base, so repeated successful evaluation can reuse the completed result without caching failed intermediate cuts.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 inconclusive

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title names the main change: a cut flush with an earlier cut now retries in pieces rather than failing in make_faceuse. It matches the evaluator-level retry described in the summary and the linked…
Description check		The description follows the template. It opens with a plain-language change explanation, gives the problem and resulting behavior, and links issue #16237. It states 'Changes a default: no' with a reas…
Linked Issues check		Directly linked issue #16237 asks that the Pyro H Bracket cut build, or that the kernel refuse it with a typed reason. The reviewed change in crates/doc/src/eval.rs adds a retry in ModelBody::cut. For…
Out of Scope Changes check		The PR changes three areas. (1) crates/doc/src/eval.rs holds the cut retry. It is the direct implementation of #16237. (2) crates/engine/src/boolean_regression_tests.rs adds a regression test for the …

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The title names the main change: a cut flush with an earlier cut now retries in pieces rather than failing in make_faceuse. It matches the evaluator-level retry described in the summary and the linked issue #16237. The title is long at 102 characters, but it is specific and accurate.

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The description follows the template. It opens with a plain-language change explanation, gives the problem and resulting behavior, and links issue #16237. It states 'Changes a default: no' with a reason. It includes a detailed Validation section with commands, expected and measured values (volume 80597.52280638895 mm3, 11 faces), and test results. The template's Screenshots section is not filled in as a separate section. The description gives GUI verification steps but no screenshot or recording in the body. The objectives say a screenshot exists in a comment, not in the description. The template also asks for a 'Test change' line only when existing test expectations change. This PR only adds tests, so none is needed. The title line in the template is an HTML comment, so no title text is needed in the body.

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Directly linked issue #16237 asks that the Pyro H Bracket cut build, or that the kernel refuse it with a typed reason. The reviewed change in crates/doc/src/eval.rs adds a retry in ModelBody::cut. For BoolOp::Cut failures with the radial-sector message, the retry bisects the tool along its longest exact-bounds axis and cuts the two pieces in sequence. The retry is limited to depth < 3. Other Boolean failures propagate unchanged. This addresses the failing case at the evaluator level, which the issue allows. The added test crates/engine/src/boolean_regression_tests.rs (cut_flush_with_an_earlier_cut_builds_in_pieces) asserts successful feature results, a valid single-shell Body1, and volume within 1e-3 of the expected value. The fixture examples/regressions/cut_flush_with_earlier_cut.json provides a self-contained replay of the reported scenario. Evidence is the PR summary and the author-reported test runs. This assessment did not rerun the tests. The issue's own expected-behavior requirement, that a valid planar profile cut should not fail in the merge, is met by the retry path for this case. Kernel issue #15247 remains open and is not required by #16237.

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The PR changes three areas. (1) crates/doc/src/eval.rs holds the cut retry. It is the direct implementation of #16237. (2) crates/engine/src/boolean_regression_tests.rs adds a regression test for the same scenario. Tests support the objective. (3) examples/regressions/cut_flush_with_earlier_cut.json is the reduced reproduction model for the same scenario. Fixture data supports the test. The summary records no unrelated changes. The PR description notes that the unrelated solidcraft-ui-kit test failure is pre-existing and is not touched by this PR. No change lacks a connection to #16237.

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GUI verification on the local build (target/local, cargo xtask wasm and release build):

• Opened the saved test model (solidcraft-cli run examples/regressions/cut_flush_with_earlier_cut.json --save /tmp/cut-flush.sc) in the app. It reports 11 faces, one shell, closed, volume 80597.52280638895 mm3.
• The screenshot shows the built body with the rectangle cut open through the flush corner; the timeline has no failed feature.

Local cargo xtask ci gets through the crate checks and stops in an unrelated existing solidcraft-ui-kit test (menu::tests::checkable_menu_rows_keep_their_icon_in_both_states: Dropped TexturesDelta with 1 unapplied deltas). That test fails alone too on this base and does not touch solidcraft-doc or solidcraft-engine; the targeted doc/engine suites, clippy, fmt, wasm, layers and mesh-decisions checks all pass.

[bherbruck]

Thanks, the idea of retrying in pieces is sound and it only fires on cuts that fail today. Three things first:

1. is_radial_sector_failure decides the retry by matching the text of KernelError::Failed(String) for "make_faceuse" and "no radial edge use classifies". Please add a typed refusal in solidcore/.../boolean/merge/p2.rs, carried through KernelError, and match on that type.
2. Cutting the two halves in turn can leave a seam on the split plane (two coplanar faces or extra edges). The test only checks volume, validity and shell count. Please assert the 11 faces the description claims, and add a test that runs the split path on a cut that already works and checks that volume and face and edge counts match the single cut.
3. This is a kernel workaround living in crates/doc/src/eval.rs. It belongs in solidcore's Boolean as a fix or retry, so please file it under Combine: cutting a body with a tool that touches an earlier cut fails with "no radial edge use classifies the face's edge use" #15247 and move it there.

The regression test, the "Changes a default: no" line and the absence of any new flag are all fine.

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Line 165 computes a geometric midpoint in solidcraft-doc. The preceding dimension and longest-axis calculations also compute geometry in the application layer. Move these calculations into a kernel primitive in solidcore/crates/solidcore. If the split retry only sequences kernel calls, place that recipe in solidcore/crates/solidcore-ops.

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Move the split geometry calculations in the evaluation flow around `Plane::from_normal`, including dimension and longest-axis selection and midpoint computation, out of the application layer into a `solidcore` kernel primitive; place the split-retry sequence in `solidcore-ops` only if it merely orchestrates kernel calls, keeping `solidcraft-doc` as a consumer of solidcore rather than a geometry implementation.

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