fix(dxf): preserve 3D LEADER vertex elevations (#2245 ) (#2397 )

Co-authored-by: Zaxaerith <189452125+Zaxaerith@users.noreply.github.com>
wblock: write the source drawing's $INSUNITS and $MEASUREMENT (#2002 ) (#2023 )
2026-10-31 06:16:51 -06:00 · 2026-10-31 00:34:27 -07:00 · 2026-10-31 00:34:23 -07:00 · 2026-10-31 00:34:18 -07:00 · 2026-10-31 00:34:14 -07:00 · 2026-10-31 00:26:50 -07:00
535 changed files with 59016 additions and 30823 deletions
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# Minimum cargo-nextest for this repository: GHSA-vc25-qg58-w57c is fixed in 0.9.150 and CI
+# installs exactly that version, so an older nextest refuses to run (exit 92 REQUIRED_VERSION_NOT_MET).
+nextest-version = "0.9.150"
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+# Structural rules for the command-line code (RFC-0012): lint/ast-grep's rule tests, then a scan.
+# Seconds, no Rust build.
+name: ast-grep
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [main]
+    paths: ["lint/ast-grep/**", "apps/cadcraft-cli/src/**", "apps/cadcraft/src/launch_args.rs", "apps/cadcraft/src/main.rs", ".github/workflows/ast-grep.yml"]
+  pull_request:
+    paths: ["lint/ast-grep/**", "apps/cadcraft-cli/src/**", "apps/cadcraft/src/launch_args.rs", "apps/cadcraft/src/main.rs", ".github/workflows/ast-grep.yml"]
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
+concurrency:
+  group: ast-grep-${{ github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+jobs:
+  scan:
+    # Tracked at @main like the other shared workflows.
+    uses: storytold/craft-common-actions/.github/workflows/ast-grep.yml@main
+    with:
+      config: lint/ast-grep/sgconfig.yml
+      paths: apps/cadcraft-cli/src apps/cadcraft/src/launch_args.rs apps/cadcraft/src/main.rs
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ jobs:
    uses: storytold/craft-common-actions/.github/workflows/gate.yml@main
    with:
      # Same craft-fonts commit as release.yml.
-      craft-fonts-ref: 3d9ab3a132ed0eff457e424226a435a901da30d3
+      craft-fonts-ref: b076417b5880bd4154bd22f00695b1d28c6bea83
      timeout-minutes: 90
      packages: >-
        pkg-config libxkbcommon-dev libwayland-dev libx11-dev libxcb1-dev libxcursor-dev
@@ -29,4 +29,4 @@ jobs:
    # Intentionally tracked at @main (not SHA-pinned) so org-wide CI improvements, security fixes, and build optimizations propagate without PR churn across all craftapp repos.
    uses: storytold/craft-common-actions/.github/workflows/freebsd.yml@main
    with:
-      craft-fonts-ref: 3d9ab3a132ed0eff457e424226a435a901da30d3
+      craft-fonts-ref: b076417b5880bd4154bd22f00695b1d28c6bea83
@@ -21,3 +21,27 @@ jobs:
  lint:
    # Intentionally tracked at @main (not SHA-pinned) so org-wide CI improvements, security fixes, and build optimizations propagate without PR churn across all craftapp repos.
    uses: storytold/craft-common-actions/.github/workflows/packaging-lint.yml@main
+
+  windows-install-policy:
+    timeout-minutes: 10
+    name: Windows installation policy (no app build)
+    runs-on: windows-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7.0.1
+        with:
+          persist-credentials: false
+      - name: Install the pinned packaging toolchain
+        shell: pwsh
+        run: |
+          $tools = Join-Path $env:RUNNER_TEMP 'craft-install-policy-wix'
+          dotnet tool install --tool-path $tools wix --version 5.0.2
+          if ($LASTEXITCODE -ne 0) { throw 'WiX installation failed.' }
+          $tools >> $env:GITHUB_PATH
+          $policy = Get-Content -Raw -LiteralPath packaging/windows/install-policy.json | ConvertFrom-Json
+          foreach ($extension in @($policy.extensions)) {
+            & (Join-Path $tools 'wix.exe') extension add -g "WixToolset.$extension.wixext/5.0.2"
+            if ($LASTEXITCODE -ne 0) { throw "WiX extension $extension installation failed." }
+          }
+      - name: Build and check non-executable installer fixtures
+        shell: pwsh
+        run: ./packaging/windows/test-install-policy.ps1 -OutputDirectory (Join-Path $env:RUNNER_TEMP 'craft-install-policy-tests')
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ jobs:
    with:
      app-name: cadcraft
      app-title: CADCraft
-      craft-fonts-ref: 3d9ab3a132ed0eff457e424226a435a901da30d3
+      craft-fonts-ref: b076417b5880bd4154bd22f00695b1d28c6bea83
      version: ${{ inputs.version }}
    secrets:
      APPLE_CERTIFICATE: ${{ secrets.APPLE_CERTIFICATE }}
@@ -30,3 +30,5 @@ jobs:
    with:
      app-name: cadcraft
      app-dir: CADCraft
+      install-relative-path: Programs/ArtCraft/CADCraft
+      install-scope: perUser
@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@

 CADCraft is a clean-room, open-source, pure-Rust computer-aided design and drafting application targeting Autodesk AutoCAD parity — and superiority (speed, openness, agent control). It runs natively on macOS, Windows, Linux and FreeBSD, and on the web via WASM. Siblings with the same conventions: `../photocraft` (Photoshop-class), `../vectorcraft` (Illustrator), `../filmcraft` (Premiere), `../lightcraft` (Lightroom), `../pdfcraft` (Acrobat), `../effectcraft` (After Effects), `../designcraft` (InDesign).

-Standards and learnings shared across the crafting apps live in `../../craftrules` (or `storytold/craftrules`). Read its `AGENTS.md` at the start of a session, follow its standards, and contribute reusable learnings back there. Never code: repos don't share code.
-
 ## Start every session here
 1. Read `plan/STATUS.md` (current milestone, next task), then the task in `plan/execution-plan.md` and the relevant `plan/architecture.md` section. Behaviour reference: `plan/autocad/*` (`01-observed-ui.md` holds measured observations of the running reference app; `04-menu-tree.txt` the menu tree by name).
 2. Library decisions: `plan/adr/0001-geometry-libraries.md` (what we may depend on, what is rejected for licence reasons).
@@ -12,14 +10,14 @@ Standards and learnings shared across the crafting apps live in `../../craftrule
 `plan/` is gitignored (local only).

 ## Never crash
-People trust CADCraft with their drawings; a crash loses their work. **This outranks feature work.** Standard: [`craftrules/standards/never-crash.md`](https://github.com/storytold/craftrules/blob/main/standards/never-crash.md).
+People trust CADCraft with their drawings; a crash loses their work. **This outranks feature work.**
 - **No panics in non-test code:** no `unwrap()`, `expect()`, `panic!`, `unreachable!`, `todo!`, `unimplemented!`; no `unsafe` (`unsafe_code = "forbid"`).
 - **Errors are `Result<T, E>`** through the crate's error type and `?`. An unfinished feature returns an error or reports "not available yet"; it never panics.
 - **Input-derived numbers are hostile** (DXF/DWG files, command-line text, MCP/control params): `get()` not `[i]`, checked arithmetic, no NaN casts, cap input-sized allocations and loop counts.
 - **Bound recursion** (nested/cyclic block references: `MAX_BLOCK_DEPTH`).
- **Last-resort guard:** `Session::execute` and every step of an interactive command (its factory, `begin`, input, `prompt` and `preview`; `crates/engine/src/guard.rs`) run under `catch_unwind`; an escaped panic restores the drawing and reports an error.
- **Prove it:** every crash fix lands with a regression test (see `hostile_params_never_panic`, `hostile_dxf_does_not_panic`).
- Every production crate root carries `#![deny(clippy::unwrap_used, clippy::expect_used, clippy::panic, clippy::unimplemented, clippy::todo, clippy::unreachable)]`.
+- **Last-resort guard:** `Session::execute` and every step of an interactive command (its factory, `begin`, input, `prompt`, `preview` and the passes after it; `crates/engine/src/guard.rs`) run under `catch_unwind`; an escaped panic restores the drawing and reports an error. It does nothing on wasm, where a panic aborts.
+- **Prove it:** every crash fix lands with a regression test (see `crates/engine/tests/panic_hunt.rs` and `hostile_dxf_does_not_panic` in `crates/io/src/tests.rs`).
+- Every workspace crate manifest carries `[lints] workspace = true` to inherit `[workspace.lints]`; every production crate root carries `#![deny(clippy::unwrap_used, clippy::expect_used, clippy::panic, clippy::unimplemented, clippy::todo, clippy::unreachable)]`.

 ## Non-negotiables
 - **Clean-room.** AutoCAD is installed on the dev machine and may be *observed* black-box: run it, use its UI with synthetic drawings, take screenshots (by window id) stored only under `plan/autocad/screenshots/` (never committed). **Never** read, disassemble or copy anything inside the AutoCAD bundle (names/listings only); never copy Autodesk fonts (SHX), hatch patterns (`.pat`), linetypes (`.lin`), templates, CUI/PGP files, icons, artwork or help text; never commit files produced by AutoCAD. File formats come from public specifications (Autodesk's published DXF Reference, the Open Design Alliance's public DWG specification) and our own synthetic tests. Never copy or link GPL/LGPL/AGPL code (LibreDWG, LibreCAD, QCAD, FreeCAD's planegcs, SolveSpace, OpenCASCADE) — don't even read their sources.
@@ -47,22 +45,24 @@ People trust CADCraft with their drawings; a crash loses their work. **This outr
 - Parallel agents: separate `CARGO_TARGET_DIR` per agent; edit only the crates you own; delete your target dir when done (disk).

 ## Roadmap
-`ROADMAP.md` (committed) is the one-page summary: stage, parity numbers, estimates. It follows craftrules' `standards/progress-docs.md`: the assessment is `docs/target-app-parity.md`, the work list `docs/gaps.md` (pick work from its top rows), milestones `docs/roadmap.md`, deep checklists `docs/geometry-parity.md`, `docs/ui-parity.md`, `docs/file-format-parity.md`, `docs/hardware-parity.md`, `docs/localization-parity.md`. When work lands, update the affected rows and the docs' status lines and revision history. `cargo xtask parity` regenerates the menu-breadth checklist in `docs/parity-checklist.md`.
+`ROADMAP.md` (committed) is the one-page summary: stage, parity numbers, estimates. The assessment is `docs/target-app-parity.md`, the work list `docs/gaps.md` (pick work from its top rows), milestones `docs/roadmap.md`, deep checklists `docs/geometry-parity.md`, `docs/ui-parity.md`, `docs/file-format-parity.md`, `docs/hardware-parity.md`, `docs/localization-parity.md`. PRs don't edit these docs: name the affected rows in the PR description, and maintainers update the rows, status lines and revision history in batches, which keeps open PRs from conflicting. `cargo xtask parity` regenerates the menu-breadth checklist in `docs/parity-checklist.md`.

 ## Contributor credits (About window)

 - About ▸ Contributors/Models are compiled into the binary from `contributors/contributors.json`
-  (commit stats; generated, never hand-edit) and `contributors/people.toml` (names people chose for
+  (commit stats; never hand-edit) and `contributors/people.toml` (names people chose for
  themselves). See `docs/contributors.md`.
 - **Agents working for a contributor:** when you prepare a PR, check whether your human's GitHub
  username has a `[people.<username>]` entry in `contributors/people.toml`. If not, ask them once
  whether they want to be credited by more than their username: a real name, a display name, and/or
  their public GitHub profile name (`sync_github_name = true`). If yes, add **only their own** entry
-  (copy the template at the top of the file, or run
-  `python3 ../../craftrules/scripts/contributors.py --add-me . --real-name "…" --sync-github-name`)
+  (copy the template at the top of the file)
  and include it in their PR, committed as them. If no, change nothing: they are credited as
  `@username` anyway.
 - Never add, edit, guess or copy anyone else's entry or name (not from git config, commit authors or
  GitHub profiles). Never hand-edit `contributors.json`.
- Maintainers refresh the stats with `python3 ../../craftrules/scripts/contributors.py .` (it also
-  re-verifies who wrote each `people.toml` entry; `--check` only verifies).
+
+## CI workflows
+- Workflows in `.github/workflows/` call the shared workflows in [`storytold/craft-common-actions`](https://github.com/storytold/craft-common-actions) at `@main`, with their inputs and secrets. No other jobs: if no shared workflow does what's needed, it doesn't go here.
+- Don't add or change CI in a feature or fix PR. If the existing workflows can't build or test a change, link an existing craft-common-actions issue or PR, or open a new issue, or a PR only for a small fix that is safe for every app and does not increase CI time.
+- Some workflow files here still run their own jobs. Don't add to them. Moving a job into craft-common-actions is its own task, never part of another PR, and the job stays here until a shared workflow runs it.
@@ -23,6 +23,11 @@ Generated-in-code assets are original and have no file to list:

 | Asset | Author | Source | Licence | Notes |
 |---|---|---|---|---|
+| `epaint_default_fonts::EGUI_ICONS`, `epaint_default_fonts::EMOJI_ICON` (dependency font inputs) | John Slegers | [egui 173cc737](https://github.com/storytold/egui/tree/6d518fc799681571963842f95b55a6b68431b15a/crates/epaint_default_fonts/fonts), [emoji-icon-font](https://github.com/jslegers/emoji-icon-font) | MIT (Copyright (c) 2014 John Slegers; full upstream text in `NOTICE`) | egui-icons.ttf is the five-glyph subset; emoji-icon-font.ttf is the full monochrome fallback. Registered by the production default font definitions; dependency assets unmodified here, no font file copied into this repository. |
+| `krilla 0.8.2 / icc/sGrey-v2-magic.icc` (dependency-embedded) | Clinton Ingram | [craft-libs 9f89fe8 vendor/krilla/icc/sGrey-v2-magic.icc](https://github.com/storytold/craft-libs/blob/9f89fe8f6d72ab4db4cc06f186381a6a254463ab/vendor/krilla/icc/sGrey-v2-magic.icc) (Krilla 0.8.2 upstream 3ffdf0588cf98050aad6edba51ca70162e1fb5b5) | CC0-1.0 | Embedded by the pinned PDF writer (`craft-pdf` 0.1.0, Krilla 0.8.2); unmodified dependency asset, no file copied into this repository. SHA-256 `4110169287e5f1b5149ca9f1da1814d32943905bba8030e849d1a3b729a19481`. |
+| `krilla 0.8.2 / icc/sGrey-v4.icc` (dependency-embedded) | Clinton Ingram | [craft-libs 9f89fe8 vendor/krilla/icc/sGrey-v4.icc](https://github.com/storytold/craft-libs/blob/9f89fe8f6d72ab4db4cc06f186381a6a254463ab/vendor/krilla/icc/sGrey-v4.icc) (Krilla 0.8.2 upstream 3ffdf0588cf98050aad6edba51ca70162e1fb5b5) | CC0-1.0 | Embedded by the pinned PDF writer (`craft-pdf` 0.1.0, Krilla 0.8.2); unmodified dependency asset, no file copied into this repository. SHA-256 `00c0f94e09127520a17dc0e1d9264b5702081d96dbdb1549ee88e3631ce42a9d`. |
+| `krilla 0.8.2 / icc/sRGB-v2-magic.icc` (dependency-embedded) | Clinton Ingram | [craft-libs 9f89fe8 vendor/krilla/icc/sRGB-v2-magic.icc](https://github.com/storytold/craft-libs/blob/9f89fe8f6d72ab4db4cc06f186381a6a254463ab/vendor/krilla/icc/sRGB-v2-magic.icc) (Krilla 0.8.2 upstream 3ffdf0588cf98050aad6edba51ca70162e1fb5b5) | CC0-1.0 | Embedded by the pinned PDF writer (`craft-pdf` 0.1.0, Krilla 0.8.2); unmodified dependency asset, no file copied into this repository. SHA-256 `af4efe28f6d311799865f325ba39184a2e978b113ca74124d60af7de22b105f4`. |
+| `krilla 0.8.2 / icc/sRGB-v4.icc` (dependency-embedded) | Clinton Ingram | [craft-libs 9f89fe8 vendor/krilla/icc/sRGB-v4.icc](https://github.com/storytold/craft-libs/blob/9f89fe8f6d72ab4db4cc06f186381a6a254463ab/vendor/krilla/icc/sRGB-v4.icc) (Krilla 0.8.2 upstream 3ffdf0588cf98050aad6edba51ca70162e1fb5b5) | CC0-1.0 | Embedded by the pinned PDF writer (`craft-pdf` 0.1.0, Krilla 0.8.2); unmodified dependency asset, no file copied into this repository. SHA-256 `c56e1685d888f5edb92fe07f2750f387f8fe8e91b32ff8fb0b56bfbbb9458353`. |
 | `assets/app-icon/hicolor/128x128/apps/ai.storyteller.cadcraft.png` | CADCraft contributors | generated from `assets/app-icon/cadcraft-1024.png` | MIT OR Apache-2.0 | Linux hicolor icon |
 | `assets/app-icon/hicolor/16x16/apps/ai.storyteller.cadcraft.png` | CADCraft contributors | generated from `assets/app-icon/cadcraft-1024.png` | MIT OR Apache-2.0 | Linux hicolor icon |
 | `assets/app-icon/hicolor/24x24/apps/ai.storyteller.cadcraft.png` | CADCraft contributors | generated from `assets/app-icon/cadcraft-1024.png` | MIT OR Apache-2.0 | Linux hicolor icon |
@@ -43,14 +48,14 @@ Generated-in-code assets are original and have no file to list:
 | `docs/images/ui-apartment.png` | CADCraft contributors | screenshot of CADCraft itself (examples/apartment.dxf) | MIT OR Apache-2.0 | Original; no Autodesk UI |
 | `docs/images/ui-layout.png` | CADCraft contributors | screenshot of CADCraft itself (a layout of examples/apartment.dxf) | MIT OR Apache-2.0 | Original; no Autodesk UI |
 | `docs/images/ui-bracket.png` | CADCraft contributors | screenshot of CADCraft itself (sample drawing generated in code) | MIT OR Apache-2.0 | Original; no Autodesk UI |
-| `docs/brand/artcraft-logo-white.png` | ArtCraft Team | storytold/craftrules `assets/brand/` | ArtCraft brand terms (`docs/brand/LICENSE-brand.txt`) | Trademark, not open source |
-| `docs/brand/artcraft-logo-white.svg` | ArtCraft Team | storytold/craftrules `assets/brand/` | ArtCraft brand terms (`docs/brand/LICENSE-brand.txt`) | Trademark, not open source |
-| `docs/brand/artcraft-logo.png` | ArtCraft Team | storytold/craftrules `assets/brand/` | ArtCraft brand terms (`docs/brand/LICENSE-brand.txt`) | Trademark, not open source |
-| `docs/brand/artcraft-logo.svg` | ArtCraft Team | storytold/craftrules `assets/brand/` | ArtCraft brand terms (`docs/brand/LICENSE-brand.txt`) | Trademark, not open source |
-| `docs/brand/artcraft-mark-black.png` | ArtCraft Team | storytold/craftrules `assets/brand/` | ArtCraft brand terms (`docs/brand/LICENSE-brand.txt`) | Trademark, not open source |
-| `docs/brand/artcraft-mark-black.svg` | ArtCraft Team | storytold/craftrules `assets/brand/` | ArtCraft brand terms (`docs/brand/LICENSE-brand.txt`) | Trademark, not open source |
-| `docs/brand/artcraft-mark.png` | ArtCraft Team | storytold/craftrules `assets/brand/` | ArtCraft brand terms (`docs/brand/LICENSE-brand.txt`) | Trademark, not open source |
-| `docs/brand/artcraft-mark.svg` | ArtCraft Team | storytold/craftrules `assets/brand/` | ArtCraft brand terms (`docs/brand/LICENSE-brand.txt`) | Trademark, not open source |
+| `docs/brand/artcraft-logo-white.png` | ArtCraft Team | ArtCraft brand kit | ArtCraft brand terms (`docs/brand/LICENSE-brand.txt`) | Trademark, not open source |
+| `docs/brand/artcraft-logo-white.svg` | ArtCraft Team | ArtCraft brand kit | ArtCraft brand terms (`docs/brand/LICENSE-brand.txt`) | Trademark, not open source |
+| `docs/brand/artcraft-logo.png` | ArtCraft Team | ArtCraft brand kit | ArtCraft brand terms (`docs/brand/LICENSE-brand.txt`) | Trademark, not open source |
+| `docs/brand/artcraft-logo.svg` | ArtCraft Team | ArtCraft brand kit | ArtCraft brand terms (`docs/brand/LICENSE-brand.txt`) | Trademark, not open source |
+| `docs/brand/artcraft-mark-black.png` | ArtCraft Team | ArtCraft brand kit | ArtCraft brand terms (`docs/brand/LICENSE-brand.txt`) | Trademark, not open source |
+| `docs/brand/artcraft-mark-black.svg` | ArtCraft Team | ArtCraft brand kit | ArtCraft brand terms (`docs/brand/LICENSE-brand.txt`) | Trademark, not open source |
+| `docs/brand/artcraft-mark.png` | ArtCraft Team | ArtCraft brand kit | ArtCraft brand terms (`docs/brand/LICENSE-brand.txt`) | Trademark, not open source |
+| `docs/brand/artcraft-mark.svg` | ArtCraft Team | ArtCraft brand kit | ArtCraft brand terms (`docs/brand/LICENSE-brand.txt`) | Trademark, not open source |

 ## Interface translations

@@ -60,6 +65,7 @@ Generated-in-code assets are original and have no file to list:
 | `crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/de.tsv` | the CADCraft contributors | Original German translations of CADCraft English strings | MIT OR Apache-2.0 (`LICENSE-MIT`, `LICENSE-APACHE`) | No proprietary localization resources copied |
 | `crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/es.tsv` | @PedroGuille | Original Spanish translations of CADCraft English strings | MIT OR Apache-2.0 (`LICENSE-MIT`, `LICENSE-APACHE`) | No proprietary localization resources copied |
 | `crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/pt_br.tsv` | @WladmirJunior | Original Brazilian Portuguese translations of CADCraft English strings | MIT OR Apache-2.0 (`LICENSE-MIT`, `LICENSE-APACHE`) | No proprietary localization resources copied |
+| `crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/bs.tsv` | Nine (@nine-codes) with Claude Code (AI-assisted) | Original Bosnian translations of CADCraft English strings, shared with storytold/craft-i18n `locales/bs/` | MIT OR Apache-2.0 (`LICENSE-MIT`, `LICENSE-APACHE`) | No proprietary localization resources copied; not yet reviewed by a native speaker |
 | `crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/cs.tsv` | @Losminek (AI-assisted) | Original Czech translations of CADCraft English strings | MIT OR Apache-2.0 (`LICENSE-MIT`, `LICENSE-APACHE`) | No proprietary localization resources copied |
 | `crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/ru.tsv` | @pechnikov2026-star | Original Russian translations of CADCraft English strings | MIT OR Apache-2.0 (`LICENSE-MIT`, `LICENSE-APACHE`) | No proprietary localization resources copied |
 | `crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/fr.tsv` | @pechnikov2026-star | Original French translations of CADCraft English strings | MIT OR Apache-2.0 (`LICENSE-MIT`, `LICENSE-APACHE`) | No proprietary localization resources copied |
@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@

 CADCraft is a clean-room, open-source, pure-Rust computer-aided design and drafting application targeting Autodesk AutoCAD parity — and superiority (speed, openness, agent control). It runs natively on macOS, Windows, Linux and FreeBSD, and on the web via WASM. Siblings with the same conventions: `../photocraft` (Photoshop-class), `../vectorcraft` (Illustrator), `../filmcraft` (Premiere), `../lightcraft` (Lightroom), `../pdfcraft` (Acrobat), `../effectcraft` (After Effects), `../designcraft` (InDesign).

-Standards and learnings shared across the crafting apps live in `../../craftrules` (or `storytold/craftrules`). Read its `AGENTS.md` at the start of a session, follow its standards, and contribute reusable learnings back there. Never code: repos don't share code.
-
 ## Start every session here
 1. Read `plan/STATUS.md` (current milestone, next task), then the task in `plan/execution-plan.md` and the relevant `plan/architecture.md` section. Behaviour reference: `plan/autocad/*` (`01-observed-ui.md` holds measured observations of the running reference app; `04-menu-tree.txt` the menu tree by name).
 2. Library decisions: `plan/adr/0001-geometry-libraries.md` (what we may depend on, what is rejected for licence reasons).
@@ -12,14 +10,14 @@ Standards and learnings shared across the crafting apps live in `../../craftrule
 `plan/` is gitignored (local only).

 ## Never crash
-People trust CADCraft with their drawings; a crash loses their work. **This outranks feature work.** Standard: [`craftrules/standards/never-crash.md`](https://github.com/storytold/craftrules/blob/main/standards/never-crash.md).
+People trust CADCraft with their drawings; a crash loses their work. **This outranks feature work.**
 - **No panics in non-test code:** no `unwrap()`, `expect()`, `panic!`, `unreachable!`, `todo!`, `unimplemented!`; no `unsafe` (`unsafe_code = "forbid"`).
 - **Errors are `Result<T, E>`** through the crate's error type and `?`. An unfinished feature returns an error or reports "not available yet"; it never panics.
 - **Input-derived numbers are hostile** (DXF/DWG files, command-line text, MCP/control params): `get()` not `[i]`, checked arithmetic, no NaN casts, cap input-sized allocations and loop counts.
 - **Bound recursion** (nested/cyclic block references: `MAX_BLOCK_DEPTH`).
- **Last-resort guard:** `Session::execute` and every step of an interactive command (its factory, `begin`, input, `prompt` and `preview`; `crates/engine/src/guard.rs`) run under `catch_unwind`; an escaped panic restores the drawing and reports an error.
- **Prove it:** every crash fix lands with a regression test (see `hostile_params_never_panic`, `hostile_dxf_does_not_panic`).
- Every production crate root carries `#![deny(clippy::unwrap_used, clippy::expect_used, clippy::panic, clippy::unimplemented, clippy::todo, clippy::unreachable)]`.
+- **Last-resort guard:** `Session::execute` and every step of an interactive command (its factory, `begin`, input, `prompt`, `preview` and the passes after it; `crates/engine/src/guard.rs`) run under `catch_unwind`; an escaped panic restores the drawing and reports an error. It does nothing on wasm, where a panic aborts.
+- **Prove it:** every crash fix lands with a regression test (see `crates/engine/tests/panic_hunt.rs` and `hostile_dxf_does_not_panic` in `crates/io/src/tests.rs`).
+- Every workspace crate manifest carries `[lints] workspace = true` to inherit `[workspace.lints]`; every production crate root carries `#![deny(clippy::unwrap_used, clippy::expect_used, clippy::panic, clippy::unimplemented, clippy::todo, clippy::unreachable)]`.

 ## Non-negotiables
 - **Clean-room.** AutoCAD is installed on the dev machine and may be *observed* black-box: run it, use its UI with synthetic drawings, take screenshots (by window id) stored only under `plan/autocad/screenshots/` (never committed). **Never** read, disassemble or copy anything inside the AutoCAD bundle (names/listings only); never copy Autodesk fonts (SHX), hatch patterns (`.pat`), linetypes (`.lin`), templates, CUI/PGP files, icons, artwork or help text; never commit files produced by AutoCAD. File formats come from public specifications (Autodesk's published DXF Reference, the Open Design Alliance's public DWG specification) and our own synthetic tests. Never copy or link GPL/LGPL/AGPL code (LibreDWG, LibreCAD, QCAD, FreeCAD's planegcs, SolveSpace, OpenCASCADE) — don't even read their sources.
@@ -46,4 +44,9 @@ People trust CADCraft with their drawings; a crash loses their work. **This outr
 - Parallel agents: separate `CARGO_TARGET_DIR` per agent; edit only the crates you own; delete your target dir when done (disk).

 ## Roadmap
-`ROADMAP.md` (committed) is the one-page summary: stage, parity numbers, estimates. It follows craftrules' `standards/progress-docs.md`: the assessment is `docs/target-app-parity.md`, the work list `docs/gaps.md` (pick work from its top rows), milestones `docs/roadmap.md`, deep checklists `docs/geometry-parity.md`, `docs/ui-parity.md`, `docs/file-format-parity.md`, `docs/hardware-parity.md`, `docs/localization-parity.md`. When work lands, update the affected rows and the docs' status lines and revision history. `cargo xtask parity` regenerates the menu-breadth checklist in `docs/parity-checklist.md`.
+`ROADMAP.md` (committed) is the one-page summary: stage, parity numbers, estimates. The assessment is `docs/target-app-parity.md`, the work list `docs/gaps.md` (pick work from its top rows), milestones `docs/roadmap.md`, deep checklists `docs/geometry-parity.md`, `docs/ui-parity.md`, `docs/file-format-parity.md`, `docs/hardware-parity.md`, `docs/localization-parity.md`. PRs don't edit these docs: name the affected rows in the PR description, and maintainers update the rows, status lines and revision history in batches, which keeps open PRs from conflicting. `cargo xtask parity` regenerates the menu-breadth checklist in `docs/parity-checklist.md`.
+
+## CI workflows
+- Workflows in `.github/workflows/` call the shared workflows in [`storytold/craft-common-actions`](https://github.com/storytold/craft-common-actions) at `@main`, with their inputs and secrets. No other jobs: if no shared workflow does what's needed, it doesn't go here.
+- Don't add or change CI in a feature or fix PR. If the existing workflows can't build or test a change, link an existing craft-common-actions issue or PR, or open a new issue, or a PR only for a small fix that is safe for every app and does not increase CI time.
+- Some workflow files here still run their own jobs. Don't add to them. Moving a job into craft-common-actions is its own task, never part of another PR, and the job stays here until a shared workflow runs it.
@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@ members = ["crates/*", "apps/*", "xtask"]
 # default-members

 [workspace.package]
-version = "0.12.0"
+version = "0.15.1"
 edition = "2024"
 license = "MIT OR Apache-2.0"
-rust-version = "1.90"
+rust-version = "1.95"
 repository = "https://github.com/storytold/cadcraft"

 [workspace.dependencies]
@@ -25,13 +25,17 @@ cadcraft-engine = { path = "crates/engine" }
 cadcraft-ui-egui = { path = "crates/ui-egui" }
 cadcraft-mcp = { path = "crates/mcp" }
 # Which paths stored in a drawing (xrefs, data links) may be opened.
-craft-docpath = { version = "0.1.0", git = "https://github.com/storytold/craft-libs", rev = "6e7f28518dd1cb57e1624bdc269c3c14316b13ae" }
+craft-docpath = { version = "0.1.0", git = "https://github.com/storytold/craft-libs", rev = "92d392cff132eaf53e13afff77f38b5c11b73aa0" }
 # PDF writing (krilla) for plots, and reading them back in tests. The root patches below pin
 # craft-pdf's patched backends to the same revision (Cargo ignores dependency-local patches).
-craft-pdf = { version = "=0.1.0", git = "https://github.com/storytold/craft-libs", rev = "6e7f28518dd1cb57e1624bdc269c3c14316b13ae", default-features = false }
+craft-pdf = { version = "=0.1.0", git = "https://github.com/storytold/craft-libs", rev = "92d392cff132eaf53e13afff77f38b5c11b73aa0", default-features = false }
+clap = { version = "4", features = ["derive", "env"] }
+clap_complete = "4.6.11"
+clap_mangen = { version = "0.3.3", features = ["env"] }

 # foundation
 thiserror = "2"
+same-file = "1"
 serde = { version = "1", features = ["derive", "rc"] }
 serde_json = { version = "1", features = ["float_roundtrip"] }
 log = "0.4"
@@ -53,26 +57,28 @@ encoding_rs = "0.8.35"
 quick-xml = "0.42"

 # ui
-craft-ui = { version = "0.1.0", git = "https://github.com/storytold/craft-libs", rev = "6e7f28518dd1cb57e1624bdc269c3c14316b13ae", features = ["serde"] }
-egui = "0.36"
-egui_kittest = "0.36"
-eframe = { version = "0.36", default-features = false }
-egui-wgpu = "0.36"
+craft-ui = { version = "0.1.0", git = "https://github.com/storytold/craft-libs", rev = "92d392cff132eaf53e13afff77f38b5c11b73aa0", features = ["serde"] }
+craft-window = { version = "0.1.0", git = "https://github.com/storytold/craft-libs", rev = "92d392cff132eaf53e13afff77f38b5c11b73aa0", features = ["egui"] }
+egui = { version = "0.37", default-features = false, features = ["default_fonts", "monochrome_emoji_fonts"] }
+egui_kittest = "0.37"
+eframe = { version = "0.37", default-features = false }
+egui-wgpu = "0.37"
+# Monotonic time on native and web (performance.now on wasm).
+web-time = "1.1"
+# craft-update: app-specific pretend versions apply to startup and manual checks.
+craft-update = { git = "https://github.com/storytold/craft-libs", version = "=0.1.0", rev = "c5a1cbfb5f9049f9270955caffb5bee5997aebf7", features = ["egui"] }
 rfd = "0.17"
 arboard = { version = "3.6", default-features = false }

-[patch.crates-io]
-krilla = { version = "=0.8.2", git = "https://github.com/storytold/craft-libs", rev = "6e7f28518dd1cb57e1624bdc269c3c14316b13ae" }
-hayro-syntax = { git = "https://github.com/storytold/craft-libs", rev = "6e7f28518dd1cb57e1624bdc269c3c14316b13ae" }
-hayro-jbig2 = { git = "https://github.com/storytold/craft-libs", rev = "6e7f28518dd1cb57e1624bdc269c3c14316b13ae" }
-
 [workspace.lints.rust]
 unsafe_code = "forbid"

 [workspace.lints.clippy]
+cognitive_complexity = "deny"
+too_many_arguments = "deny"
+wildcard_imports = "deny"
 dbg_macro = "warn"
 todo = "warn"
-too_many_arguments = "allow"
 type_complexity = "allow"

 [profile.dev.package."*"]
@@ -88,3 +94,27 @@ opt-level = 3
 lto = "thin"
 codegen-units = 16
 debug = 0
+
+# PDF backends for craft-pdf: pinned to the same reviewed craft-libs revision as craft-pdf itself
+# (Cargo ignores dependency-local patches).
+[patch.crates-io]
+krilla = { version = "=0.8.2", git = "https://github.com/storytold/craft-libs", rev = "92d392cff132eaf53e13afff77f38b5c11b73aa0" }
+hayro-syntax = { git = "https://github.com/storytold/craft-libs", rev = "92d392cff132eaf53e13afff77f38b5c11b73aa0" }
+hayro-jbig2 = { git = "https://github.com/storytold/craft-libs", rev = "92d392cff132eaf53e13afff77f38b5c11b73aa0" }
+
+# Keep the complete egui family and native event bridge on reviewed fork commits.
+ecolor = { git = "https://github.com/storytold/egui.git", rev = "6d518fc799681571963842f95b55a6b68431b15a" }
+emath = { git = "https://github.com/storytold/egui.git", rev = "6d518fc799681571963842f95b55a6b68431b15a" }
+epaint = { git = "https://github.com/storytold/egui.git", rev = "6d518fc799681571963842f95b55a6b68431b15a" }
+epaint_default_fonts = { git = "https://github.com/storytold/egui.git", rev = "6d518fc799681571963842f95b55a6b68431b15a" }
+egui = { git = "https://github.com/storytold/egui.git", rev = "6d518fc799681571963842f95b55a6b68431b15a" }
+egui-winit = { git = "https://github.com/storytold/egui.git", rev = "6d518fc799681571963842f95b55a6b68431b15a" }
+egui-wgpu = { git = "https://github.com/storytold/egui.git", rev = "6d518fc799681571963842f95b55a6b68431b15a" }
+egui_glow = { git = "https://github.com/storytold/egui.git", rev = "6d518fc799681571963842f95b55a6b68431b15a" }
+egui_extras = { git = "https://github.com/storytold/egui.git", rev = "6d518fc799681571963842f95b55a6b68431b15a" }
+egui_kittest = { git = "https://github.com/storytold/egui.git", rev = "6d518fc799681571963842f95b55a6b68431b15a" }
+egui_system_font_provider = { git = "https://github.com/storytold/egui.git", rev = "6d518fc799681571963842f95b55a6b68431b15a" }
+eframe = { git = "https://github.com/storytold/egui.git", rev = "6d518fc799681571963842f95b55a6b68431b15a" }
+egui_demo_lib = { git = "https://github.com/storytold/egui.git", rev = "6d518fc799681571963842f95b55a6b68431b15a" }
+egui_inspection = { git = "https://github.com/storytold/egui.git", rev = "6d518fc799681571963842f95b55a6b68431b15a" }
+winit = { git = "https://github.com/storytold/winit.git", rev = "a517b3846ee8457d84ee4975110bfda6797c44dc" }
@@ -15,10 +15,36 @@ Mozilla Public License 2.0 and is used unmodified as a separate library (crates/
 is available from crates.io and the repository above.


-None: every bundled asset is original to CADCraft (icons, drafting font, hatch patterns and
-linetypes are drawn or defined in code). The per-file list is in ATTRIBUTION.md. Builds made with
-the optional craft-fonts input (CRAFT_FONTS_DIR) embed the fonts listed in its ATTRIBUTION.md,
-each under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
+CADCraft's icons, drafting font, hatch patterns and linetypes are drawn or defined in code.
+The UI also bundles the egui font inputs described below. The per-file list is in ATTRIBUTION.md.
+Builds made with the optional craft-fonts input (CRAFT_FONTS_DIR) embed the fonts listed in its
+ATTRIBUTION.md, each under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

 CADCraft is an independent project and is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by
 Autodesk, Inc. AutoCAD and DWG are trademarks of Autodesk, Inc.
+
+
+The PDF writer in the pinned craft-pdf 0.1.0 / Krilla 0.8.2 dependency embeds four Compact ICC
+Profiles by Clinton Ingram, under CC0-1.0. They are unmodified dependency assets; no profile file
+is copied into this repository. Per-file sources and SHA-256 hashes are in ATTRIBUTION.md.
+Source: https://github.com/LaurenzV/krilla/tree/3ffdf0588cf98050aad6edba51ca70162e1fb5b5/crates/krilla/icc
+(pinned through https://github.com/storytold/craft-libs/tree/9f89fe8f6d72ab4db4cc06f186381a6a254463ab/vendor/krilla/icc).
+CC0 1.0 Universal: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
+Pinned licence text: https://github.com/storytold/craft-libs/blob/9f89fe8f6d72ab4db4cc06f186381a6a254463ab/vendor/krilla/icc/LICENSE
+
+The UI's egui-icons.ttf subset and emoji-icon-font.ttf fallback are provided by epaint_default_fonts
+and registered through egui's default font definitions. They derive from emoji-icon-font by
+John Slegers, under the MIT License. The subset and full face share the following upstream notice.
+Source: https://github.com/storytold/egui/tree/6d518fc799681571963842f95b55a6b68431b15a/crates/epaint_default_fonts/fonts
+Original: https://github.com/jslegers/emoji-icon-font
+The following text is reproduced verbatim from emoji-icon-font-mit-license.txt:
+
+MIT License
+
+Copyright (c) 2014 John Slegers
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
@@ -123,8 +123,7 @@ numbers):

 ## Quick start

-Desktop and web UI builds require Rust 1.95 or later. The core workspace's declared minimum
-remains Rust 1.90.
+CADCraft requires Rust 1.95 or later.

 ```sh
 git clone https://github.com/storytold/cadcraft
@@ -197,7 +196,7 @@ crashed survives the next start. The file stops growing at 16 MiB. `--version` w

 | Variable | Effect |
 |---|---|
-| `CADCRAFT_CONFIG_DIR` | Use this directory instead of the platform settings directory (the log goes to its `logs/`) |
+| `CADCRAFT_CONFIG_DIR` | Use this directory instead of the platform settings directory (the log goes to its `logs/`); empty means no settings folder (no log file, autosave, workspace or plotters) |
 | `RUST_LOG` | Log levels for standard error and the log file. Default: `info` for CADCraft's own crates, `warn` for everything else. env_logger-style directives replace that, e.g. `RUST_LOG=debug`, `RUST_LOG=warn,cadcraft_io=trace` or `RUST_LOG=info,wgpu_core=warn`; a directive ending in `*` covers every target starting with it (`cadcraft*=debug`). `cadcraft_engine=debug` also logs every command-line message. |

 The logger is `apps/cadcraft/src/logging.rs`; the web build logs to the browser console instead.
@@ -239,6 +238,9 @@ MCP tools include `command_line` (type at the prompt), `execute` (any command wi
 To run LISP routines, scripts and alias files, or to drive CADCraft from your own programs, see
 [docs/customization.md](docs/customization.md).

+`cadcraft-cli --help` documents every subcommand and flag; exit codes, streams, environment
+variables and its RFC-0012 conventions are in [docs/cli.md](docs/cli.md).
+
 ## Architecture

 ```text
@@ -312,6 +314,7 @@ See [ROADMAP.md](ROADMAP.md) for the stage, measured parity and the estimate of
 Installers and executables are code-signed.

 The installer adds CADCraft to the Start menu and asks whether to add a desktop shortcut too (unticked by default). For a silent install with the desktop shortcut: `msiexec /i cadcraft-<ver>-windows-x64.msi /qn DESKTOPSHORTCUT=1`.
+A silent install is per-user by default; add `ALLUSERS=1`, from an elevated terminal or deployment tool, for an all-users install.

 **If the app doesn't open on Windows:** the desktop app initializes only DirectX 12 by default.
 Letting wgpu also create an OpenGL instance can crash some graphics drivers (AMD's
@@ -125,8 +125,8 @@ Ranked; detail and the full beta checklist in [docs/roadmap.md](docs/roadmap.md)
 | 2026-10-12 | HATCHEDIT refuses an explicit bad `scale` or `angle` before it edits anything, so a rejected request leaves the drawing, undo and redo as they were (#724) |
 | 2026-10-10 | Merged main: Ukrainian interface (#36, first string catalog), Dynamic Input pointer boxes with Tab and relative entry (#60), press-drag selection windows (#63), WIPEOUT and hatch gradients kept through DXF/DWG save (#147, #162), SETVAR DIM* as style overrides (#129), UNITS dialog (#38), close-window save prompt (#47), DIMANGULAR on circles (#20), cargo fmt fixed on main. UI/UX 40% → 43% (dynamic input 15% → 45%), localization 3% → 5%; ready for real work ≈ 37% → 38% (weighted 37.2% → 37.7%), mainstream 27% → 28%, essentials 45% → 46%. Beta is now ~37 points away; hours unchanged within rounding. |
 | 2026-10-10 | Added mainstream practitioner (≈ 27%) and essentials user (≈ 45%) numbers; ready for real work unchanged at ≈ 37%. User evidence: 2 praise comments, 0 "switched from AutoCAD" reports, 27 of 37 open issues on the core path. |
-| 2026-10-10 | Stage re-normalized from alpha to **pre-alpha** under the craftrules core-workflow gate: drafting with tracking, blocks, plotting and lossless DWG save fail; dimensioning passes. Alpha is ≈ 125–190 h away. |
-| 2026-10-10 | Full re-measure against AutoCAD 2027 for Mac in the craftrules progress-docs format: menu breadth 245/491 (50%), ready for real work ≈ 37%, stage alpha. Remaining estimates rose (≈ 570 h → 1,300–2,100 h) on new evidence: behaviour audits found tracking/extension/parallel snaps and dynamic input are not real, saves drop unmodelled content, DWG saves as R2000, and the old estimate had no localization, ecosystem, stability, platform or AI rows. New docs: target-app-parity, gaps, roadmap, architecture, localization, file-format, hardware, UI and geometry parity; `docs/parity.md` became `docs/parity-checklist.md`. |
+| 2026-10-10 | Stage re-normalized from alpha to **pre-alpha** under the core-workflow gate: drafting with tracking, blocks, plotting and lossless DWG save fail; dimensioning passes. Alpha is ≈ 125–190 h away. |
+| 2026-10-10 | Full re-measure against AutoCAD 2027 for Mac: menu breadth 245/491 (50%), ready for real work ≈ 37%, stage alpha. Remaining estimates rose (≈ 570 h → 1,300–2,100 h) on new evidence: behaviour audits found tracking/extension/parallel snaps and dynamic input are not real, saves drop unmodelled content, DWG saves as R2000, and the old estimate had no localization, ecosystem, stability, platform or AI rows. New docs: target-app-parity, gaps, roadmap, architecture, localization, file-format, hardware, UI and geometry parity; `docs/parity.md` became `docs/parity-checklist.md`. |
 | 2026-10-10 | About 60 community PRs merged in a day: DXF fidelity (transparency, LWPOLYLINE elevation, frozen VP layers, dimension text rotation, arc-length dims, non-ASCII escapes), CJK font fallback, Save/Don't Save on close, Light/System themes, F2 history, trackpad pan, Linux XWayland drag-and-drop, correctness fixes across draw/modify/constraints. Release v0.4.0. |
 | 2026-10-08 | Releases v0.1.0–v0.3.0: Flatpak, AppImage updates, signed macOS universal, Windows x64/x86/arm64, Linux, FreeBSD and web builds. |
 | 2026-10-07 | Old assessment: menu breadth 233/491 (47%), ≈ 29% weighted parity, 2D drafting ≈ 55%, ≈ 570 h remaining; milestones as reported then: M1 ~85%, M2 ~65%, M3 ~75%, M4 ~50%, M5 ~35%, M6 ~55%, M7 ~55%, M8 ~20%, M9 ~60%, M10 ~70%, M11 0%, M12 ~25%, M13 ~10%. |
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ Ranked; detail and the full beta checklist in [docs/roadmap.md](docs/roadmap.md)
 | 2026-10-10 | minor | Readiness-by-audience table with hours to ~95% for each number |
 | 2026-10-10 | minor | Mainstream practitioner and essentials user headline numbers |
 | 2026-10-10 | minor | Stage alpha → pre-alpha under the core-workflow gate; banner, why, headline row |
-| 2026-10-10 | major | Restructured to the progress-docs standard (stage, two numbers, dimensions, features, languages, upcoming, log); full re-measure; milestone detail moved to docs/roadmap.md, parity assessment to docs/target-app-parity.md |
+| 2026-10-10 | major | Progress docs restructured (stage, two numbers, dimensions, features, languages, upcoming, log); full re-measure; milestone detail moved to docs/roadmap.md, parity assessment to docs/target-app-parity.md |
 | 2026-10-07 | major | Alpha checklist, milestone table, ≈ 29% weighted parity estimate |

 ## Shared UI workspace integration
@@ -6,6 +6,14 @@ edition.workspace = true
 license.workspace = true
 publish = false

+[lib]
+name = "cadcraft_cli"
+path = "src/lib.rs"
+
+[[bin]]
+name = "cadcraft-cli"
+path = "src/main.rs"
+
 [lints]
 workspace = true

@@ -14,4 +22,13 @@ cadcraft-engine = { workspace = true }
 cadcraft-io = { workspace = true }
 cadcraft-mcp = { workspace = true }
 cadcraft-render = { workspace = true }
+clap = { workspace = true }
+same-file = { workspace = true }
 serde_json = { workspace = true }
+thiserror = { workspace = true }
+
+[dev-dependencies]
+# Shell completions and man pages (examples/man-and-completions.rs, for the Linux packages); not
+# in the binary.
+clap_complete = { workspace = true }
+clap_mangen = { workspace = true }
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+//! Writes cadcraft-cli's shell completions ([`clap_complete`]: bash, zsh, fish, elvish,
+//! PowerShell) and man pages ([`clap_mangen`]: `cadcraft-cli.1` and one per subcommand, such as
+//! `cadcraft-cli-convert.1`) into a directory. The Linux packages ship them
+//! (`packaging/linux/package.sh`):
+//!
+//! ```sh
+//! cargo run -p cadcraft-cli --example man-and-completions -- <out-dir>
+//! ```
+
+use std::path::Path;
+use std::process::ExitCode;
+
+use clap::ValueEnum;
+use clap_complete::Shell;
+
+fn main() -> ExitCode {
+    let mut args = std::env::args_os().skip(1);
+    let (Some(dir), None) = (args.next(), args.next()) else {
+        eprintln!("usage: man-and-completions <out-dir>");
+        return ExitCode::from(2);
+    };
+    let dir = Path::new(&dir);
+    match generate(dir) {
+        Ok(()) => ExitCode::SUCCESS,
+        Err(e) => {
+            eprintln!("error: {}: {e}", dir.display());
+            ExitCode::FAILURE
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+pub(crate) fn generate(dir: &Path) -> std::io::Result<()> {
+    std::fs::create_dir_all(dir)?;
+    let mut cmd = cadcraft_cli::command();
+    for &shell in Shell::value_variants() {
+        clap_complete::generate_to(shell, &mut cmd, "cadcraft-cli", dir)?;
+    }
+    // A fresh command: `clap_complete::generate_to` built `cmd`, adding the `help` subcommand,
+    // which `clap_mangen` would otherwise give pages of its own (`cadcraft-cli-help-convert.1`).
+    clap_mangen::generate_to(cadcraft_cli::command(), dir)
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,786 @@
+//! The command line, as clap types. Values are parsed into their types here and the relations
+//! between flags are checked, so a bad value or combination is a usage error (exit 2) naming the
+//! flag, before any work starts; the handlers receive typed values only. A flag a subcommand
+//! doesn't take is a usage error too, so a typo can't be silently ignored. A value flag never takes
+//! the next flag as its value: a value starting with `-` is written `--save=-out.dxf` (or
+//! `./-out.dxf`).
+
+use std::ffi::{OsStr, OsString};
+use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
+
+use cadcraft_engine::geom::{Bounds2, Vec2};
+use cadcraft_io::Format;
+use cadcraft_mcp::args::{blank_env_is_unset, name_env_vars};
+use clap::builder::{OsStringValueParser, PathBufValueParser, TypedValueParser};
+use clap::error::ErrorKind;
+use clap::parser::ValueSource;
+use clap::{ArgAction, ArgGroup, ArgMatches, Args, CommandFactory, FromArgMatches, Parser, Subcommand, ValueEnum};
+use serde_json::Value;
+
+/// Help text that names the formats of `list`, built once from [`Format::READ`] or [`Format::WRITE`]
+/// so it can't drift from what the code accepts.
+fn with_formats(cell: &'static std::sync::OnceLock<String>, before: &str, list: &[Format], after: &str) -> &'static str {
+    cell.get_or_init(|| format!("{before}({}){after}", Format::list(list)))
+}
+
+/// The drawing an input argument names.
+fn read_help() -> &'static str {
+    static C: std::sync::OnceLock<String> = std::sync::OnceLock::new();
+    with_formats(&C, "The drawing to read ", Format::READ, "")
+}
+
+fn open_help() -> &'static str {
+    static C: std::sync::OnceLock<String> = std::sync::OnceLock::new();
+    with_formats(&C, "Drawings to open ", Format::READ, "")
+}
+
+fn write_help() -> &'static str {
+    static C: std::sync::OnceLock<String> = std::sync::OnceLock::new();
+    with_formats(&C, "The file to write; its extension picks the format ", Format::WRITE, "")
+}
+
+fn save_help() -> &'static str {
+    static C: std::sync::OnceLock<String> = std::sync::OnceLock::new();
+    with_formats(&C, "Save the drawing to this file; its extension picks the format ", Format::WRITE, "")
+}
+
+fn export_help() -> &'static str {
+    static C: std::sync::OnceLock<String> = std::sync::OnceLock::new();
+    with_formats(&C, "Export the drawing to this file; its extension picks the format ", Format::WRITE, "")
+}
+
+fn convert_about() -> &'static str {
+    static C: std::sync::OnceLock<String> = std::sync::OnceLock::new();
+    with_formats(&C, "Convert a drawing; OUT's extension picks the format ", Format::WRITE, "")
+}
+
+fn convert_long_about() -> &'static str {
+    static C: std::sync::OnceLock<String> = std::sync::OnceLock::new();
+    C.get_or_init(|| {
+        format!(
+            "{}\n\nImage output (png 2400x1600, svg, pdf) shows model space, fitted to the drawing extents unless\n--window or --view says otherwise.",
+            convert_about()
+        )
+    })
+}
+
+/// cadcraft-cli: headless CADCraft
+#[derive(Parser)]
+#[command(name = "cadcraft-cli", version = cadcraft_engine::build_version(), arg_required_else_help = true)]
+pub(crate) struct Cli {
+    #[command(subcommand)]
+    pub(crate) command: Command,
+}
+
+#[derive(Subcommand)]
+pub(crate) enum Command {
+    Info(InfoArgs),
+    Convert(ConvertArgs),
+    Run(RunArgs),
+    Commands(CommandsArgs),
+    Mcp(McpArgs),
+    Perf(PerfArgs),
+    Sample(SampleArgs),
+}
+
+/// Print a drawing's summary as JSON
+#[derive(Args)]
+pub(crate) struct InfoArgs {
+    #[arg(help = read_help())]
+    pub(crate) file: PathBuf,
+    /// One line of JSON instead of pretty-printed
+    #[arg(long)]
+    pub(crate) compact: bool,
+}
+
+/// Convert a drawing; OUT's extension picks the format
+#[derive(Args)]
+#[command(about = convert_about(), long_about = convert_long_about())]
+pub(crate) struct ConvertArgs {
+    #[arg(value_name = "IN", help = read_help())]
+    pub(crate) input: PathBuf,
+    #[arg(value_name = "OUT", help = write_help())]
+    pub(crate) output: PathBuf,
+    #[command(flatten)]
+    pub(crate) framing: FramingArgs,
+    /// Allow an output that is an input file, replacing the original
+    #[arg(long)]
+    pub(crate) in_place: bool,
+    #[command(flatten)]
+    pub(crate) settings: Settings,
+}
+
+/// The settings the desktop app reads from its environment, for the subcommands that draw or run
+/// commands. A variable is the flag's fallback; an empty one counts as unset, except
+/// `CADCRAFT_CONFIG_DIR`.
+#[derive(Args)]
+#[command(next_help_heading = "Settings")]
+pub(crate) struct Settings {
+    /// The settings folder; plotter configurations are in its `plotters` folder (default: the
+    /// platform's settings folder). An empty value means no settings folder
+    // Not RFC-0012 rule 1.7's "an empty variable counts as unset": an empty value is the
+    // documented way to run with no settings folder (isolated runs, tests), and it predates the
+    // CLI port. Keep it out of any blanket treatment of empty variables.
+    #[arg(long, value_name = "DIR", env = "CADCRAFT_CONFIG_DIR", value_parser = OsStringValueParser::new().map(PathBuf::from))]
+    pub(crate) config_dir: Option<PathBuf>,
+    /// The font that replaces a missing one (FONTALT)
+    #[arg(long, value_name = "FONT", env = "CADCRAFT_FONTALT")]
+    pub(crate) fontalt: Option<String>,
+    /// The fonts tried, in order, for characters a font lacks, comma-separated (FONTFALLBACK)
+    #[arg(long, value_name = "FONTS", env = "CADCRAFT_FONTFALLBACK")]
+    pub(crate) fontfallback: Option<String>,
+}
+
+impl Settings {
+    /// Install the settings for this run; an unset one is the default. An empty or blank
+    /// `--config-dir` is no settings folder.
+    pub(crate) fn apply(&self) {
+        cadcraft_engine::settings_dir::set(self.settings_dir());
+        cadcraft_engine::fonts::ttf::set_font_alt(self.fontalt.as_deref().unwrap_or(""));
+        cadcraft_engine::fonts::ttf::set_fallback_fonts(self.fontfallback.as_deref().unwrap_or(""));
+    }
+
+    /// The settings folder: `--config-dir`, else the platform's; `None` when the flag is empty or
+    /// blank.
+    fn settings_dir(&self) -> Option<PathBuf> {
+        match &self.config_dir {
+            Some(dir) if dir.to_str().is_some_and(|d| d.trim().is_empty()) => None,
+            Some(dir) => Some(dir.clone()),
+            None => cadcraft_engine::settings_dir::platform(|k| std::env::var_os(k)),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+// What part of model space an image shows: shared by `convert` and `run`.
+#[derive(Args)]
+pub(crate) struct FramingArgs {
+    /// Show this rectangle (drawing units, x0<x1, y0<y1), centred and scaled to fit the image
+    /// without distortion. A negative x0 needs the `=` form: --window=-10,0,10,5
+    #[arg(long, value_name = "x0,y0,x1,y1", value_parser = parse_window, conflicts_with = "view")]
+    pub(crate) window: Option<Bounds2>,
+    /// What part of model space the image shows (case-insensitive)
+    #[arg(long, value_name = "extents|current", value_enum, ignore_case = true)]
+    pub(crate) view: Option<ViewMode>,
+}
+
+/// `--view`.
+#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq, ValueEnum)]
+pub(crate) enum ViewMode {
+    /// Always fit the drawing extents
+    Extents,
+    /// The current view, as last set by zoom, pan or view.set (a freshly opened drawing's view is
+    /// its extents plus a 10% margin)
+    Current,
+}
+
+/// Open drawings (or start a new one), run scripts and commands in order, save or export the result
+///
+/// Drawings open in the order given, and the last one is current; without any, a new imperial
+/// drawing is used. --script, --script-file and --cmd steps run in the order given, and each
+/// --cmd prints its JSON result on one line (JSON lines); a command with no result prints nothing.
+/// An image --export (png 2400x1600, svg, pdf) shows model space:
+/// the current view if the steps changed it (zoom, pan, view.set…), otherwise the drawing
+/// extents, unless --window or --view says otherwise.
+#[derive(Args)]
+#[command(group(ArgGroup::new("framing").args(["window", "view"]).multiple(true).requires("export")))]
+#[command(after_long_help = r#"--cmd chaining:
+  A --cmd parameter value of exactly "{last}" is replaced with the last object handle an
+  earlier --cmd in the same run returned, so a command can act on what the previous one made:
+    --cmd 'mview {"p1":[20,20],"p2":[200,150]}'        prints {"viewports":["100"]}
+    --cmd 'viewport.set {"handle":"{last}","scale":1}' changes viewport 100
+  It works in any parameter, at any depth (e.g. "handles":["{last}"]); every other string is
+  passed unchanged. With no earlier returned handle the run fails and says so."#)]
+pub(crate) struct RunArgs {
+    #[arg(value_name = "FILE", help = open_help())]
+    pub(crate) files: Vec<PathBuf>,
+    /// Open the built-in sample drawing
+    #[arg(long)]
+    pub(crate) sample: bool,
+    /// Start a new metric drawing
+    #[arg(long)]
+    pub(crate) metric: bool,
+    /// Command-line script text to run (`\n` separates lines)
+    #[arg(long, value_name = "TEXT", action = ArgAction::Append)]
+    pub(crate) script: Vec<String>,
+    /// A script file (.scr) to run
+    #[arg(long, value_name = "F.scr", action = ArgAction::Append)]
+    pub(crate) script_file: Vec<PathBuf>,
+    /// An engine command and its JSON parameters (default {}); see "--cmd chaining" in --help
+    #[arg(long, value_name = "id {json}", action = ArgAction::Append, value_parser = cmd_step)]
+    pub(crate) cmd: Vec<CmdStep>,
+    #[arg(long, value_name = "OUT.dxf", help = save_help())]
+    pub(crate) save: Option<PathBuf>,
+    #[arg(long, value_name = "OUT.png", help = export_help())]
+    pub(crate) export: Option<PathBuf>,
+    #[command(flatten)]
+    pub(crate) framing: FramingArgs,
+    /// Allow an output that is an input file, replacing the original
+    #[arg(long)]
+    pub(crate) in_place: bool,
+    #[command(flatten)]
+    pub(crate) settings: Settings,
+    /// The drawings, in command-line order, set by [`parse`].
+    #[arg(skip)]
+    pub(crate) drawings: Vec<Drawing>,
+    /// The steps, in command-line order, set by [`parse`].
+    #[arg(skip)]
+    pub(crate) steps: Vec<Step>,
+}
+
+/// A drawing `run` opens.
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq)]
+pub(crate) enum Drawing {
+    File(PathBuf),
+    Sample,
+    Metric,
+}
+
+/// A `--script`, `--script-file` or `--cmd` of `run`.
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq)]
+pub(crate) enum Step {
+    Script(String),
+    ScriptFile(PathBuf),
+    Cmd(CmdStep),
+}
+
+/// `--cmd 'id {json}'`: an engine command and its parameters. `{last}` placeholders are filled in
+/// when it runs.
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq)]
+pub(crate) struct CmdStep {
+    pub(crate) id: String,
+    pub(crate) params: Value,
+}
+
+/// Print the command catalog as JSON
+#[derive(Args)]
+pub(crate) struct CommandsArgs {
+    /// Only the commands whose id or label contains this text (case-insensitive)
+    pub(crate) filter: Option<String>,
+    /// One line of JSON instead of pretty-printed
+    #[arg(long)]
+    pub(crate) compact: bool,
+}
+
+/// Run the MCP server on stdio: a headless drawing session, or a bridge to the running app
+#[derive(Args)]
+pub(crate) struct McpArgs {
+    /// Bridge to the app's control channel (its --control port, e.g. 127.0.0.1:7979)
+    #[arg(long, value_name = "HOST:PORT", value_parser = connect_addr)]
+    pub(crate) connect: Option<String>,
+    /// Reach the app at the first call instead of at startup, so the server can start before the
+    /// app is open
+    #[arg(long, requires = "connect")]
+    pub(crate) lazy: bool,
+    /// Like --lazy, and a call that finds nothing at HOST:PORT opens the app with that control
+    /// port first (macOS)
+    #[arg(long, requires = "connect")]
+    pub(crate) launch: bool,
+    #[command(flatten)]
+    pub(crate) settings: Settings,
+}
+
+/// Time the engine on a synthetic N-entity drawing (default 200000), or the canvas display-list
+/// build of a drawing, zoomed in step by step
+#[derive(Args)]
+pub(crate) struct PerfArgs {
+    /// An entity count (clamped to 1-20000000), or a drawing to time
+    #[arg(value_name = "N|FILE", value_parser = PathBufValueParser::new().map(perf_target))]
+    pub(crate) target: Option<PerfTarget>,
+}
+
+/// What `perf` times.
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq)]
+pub(crate) enum PerfTarget {
+    /// A synthetic drawing with this many entities, within [`MAX_PERF_COUNT`].
+    Count(usize),
+    File(PathBuf),
+}
+
+/// The largest synthetic drawing `perf` builds.
+const MAX_PERF_COUNT: usize = 20_000_000;
+
+/// `perf N|FILE`: a value that reads as a count is one, clamped to 1..=[`MAX_PERF_COUNT`] so `perf
+/// 0` still times something; anything else is a drawing.
+fn perf_target(p: PathBuf) -> PerfTarget {
+    match p.to_str().and_then(|t| t.parse::<usize>().ok()) {
+        Some(n) => PerfTarget::Count(n.clamp(1, MAX_PERF_COUNT)),
+        None => PerfTarget::File(p),
+    }
+}
+
+/// Write a built-in sample drawing
+#[derive(Args)]
+pub(crate) struct SampleArgs {
+    /// Which sample
+    #[arg(value_name = "bracket|floorplan", value_enum)]
+    pub(crate) name: SampleName,
+    #[arg(value_name = "OUT", help = write_help())]
+    pub(crate) output: PathBuf,
+    #[command(flatten)]
+    pub(crate) settings: Settings,
+}
+
+/// `sample`'s drawings.
+#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq, ValueEnum)]
+pub(crate) enum SampleName {
+    Bracket,
+    #[value(alias = "floor")]
+    Floorplan,
+}
+
+/// What part of model space an image export shows.
+#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq)]
+pub(crate) enum Framing {
+    /// `run`: the current view if the commands changed it, else the extents. `convert`: extents.
+    Auto,
+    Extents,
+    Current,
+    Window(Bounds2),
+}
+
+/// Why a `--window` value is refused: clap prints it after the flag and its value (exit 2).
+#[derive(Debug, thiserror::Error)]
+pub(crate) enum WindowError {
+    #[error("expected four numbers x0,y0,x1,y1")]
+    NeedsFour,
+    #[error("{name} must be a finite number, got `{value}`")]
+    NotFinite { name: &'static str, value: String },
+    #[error("need x0 < x1 and y0 < y1 (lower-left corner first)")]
+    Order,
+    #[error(transparent)]
+    Limits(#[from] cadcraft_io::IoError),
+}
+
+/// Why a value is refused: clap prints it after the flag and its value (exit 2).
+#[derive(Debug, thiserror::Error)]
+pub(crate) enum ValueError {
+    #[error("expected HOST:PORT (the app's --control port, e.g. 127.0.0.1:7979)")]
+    Connect,
+    #[error("expected a command id, then optionally its JSON parameters")]
+    CmdId,
+    #[error(transparent)]
+    CmdJson(#[from] serde_json::Error),
+}
+
+/// Why `parse` refuses flags clap accepted: clap prints it as a usage error (exit 2).
+#[derive(Debug, thiserror::Error)]
+enum UsageError {
+    /// The framing flags choose what an image shows; a drawing file has nothing to frame.
+    #[error("{flag} only applies to image output (png, svg, pdf), not `{}`", .out.display())]
+    FramingNeedsImage { flag: &'static str, out: PathBuf },
+    /// The output is one of the input files, so writing it would replace the original.
+    #[error("{} is an input file, so the result would replace the original: choose another output, or pass --in-place to overwrite it", .0.display())]
+    OutIsInput(PathBuf),
+}
+
+impl UsageError {
+    fn into_clap(self, cmd: &mut clap::Command) -> clap::Error {
+        let kind = match self {
+            Self::FramingNeedsImage { .. } | Self::OutIsInput(_) => ErrorKind::ArgumentConflict,
+        };
+        cmd.error(kind, self)
+    }
+}
+
+/// Parse `--window x0,y0,x1,y1` (min corner first). Hostile values are errors, never panics.
+pub(crate) fn parse_window(text: &str) -> Result<Bounds2, WindowError> {
+    let parts: Vec<&str> = text.split(',').map(str::trim).collect();
+    let [x0, y0, x1, y1] = parts.as_slice() else {
+        return Err(WindowError::NeedsFour);
+    };
+    let num = |name: &'static str, v: &str| -> Result<f64, WindowError> {
+        match v.parse::<f64>() {
+            Ok(n) if n.is_finite() => Ok(n),
+            _ => Err(WindowError::NotFinite { name, value: v.to_string() }),
+        }
+    };
+    let (x0, y0, x1, y1) = (num("x0", x0)?, num("y0", y0)?, num("x1", x1)?, num("y1", y1)?);
+    if !(x0 < x1 && y0 < y1) {
+        return Err(WindowError::Order);
+    }
+    let w = Bounds2 { min: Vec2::new(x0, y0), max: Vec2::new(x1, y1) };
+    cadcraft_io::check_window(&w)?;
+    Ok(w)
+}
+
+/// `run --cmd 'id {json}'`: the id up to the first space, then JSON parameters (default `{}`).
+/// Whether they suit the command is the command's to say.
+fn cmd_step(s: &str) -> Result<CmdStep, ValueError> {
+    let (id, json) = s.split_once(' ').unwrap_or((s, "{}"));
+    if id.is_empty() {
+        return Err(ValueError::CmdId);
+    }
+    Ok(CmdStep { id: id.to_string(), params: serde_json::from_str(json)? })
+}
+
+impl FramingArgs {
+    /// The framing `--window` or `--view` asks for (clap refuses both together).
+    pub(crate) fn framing(&self) -> Framing {
+        match (self.window, self.view) {
+            (Some(w), _) => Framing::Window(w),
+            (None, Some(ViewMode::Extents)) => Framing::Extents,
+            (None, Some(ViewMode::Current)) => Framing::Current,
+            (None, None) => Framing::Auto,
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// The framing flag given, if any.
+    fn flag(&self) -> Option<&'static str> {
+        if self.window.is_some() {
+            Some("--window")
+        } else if self.view.is_some() {
+            Some("--view")
+        } else {
+            None
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/// A framing flag given with an output that isn't an image (the extension decides). `run` without
+/// `--export` is clap's `requires` error.
+fn framing_error(cli: &Cli) -> Option<UsageError> {
+    let (framing, out): (&FramingArgs, Option<&Path>) = match &cli.command {
+        Command::Convert(c) => (&c.framing, Some(&c.output)),
+        Command::Run(r) => (&r.framing, r.export.as_deref()),
+        _ => return None,
+    };
+    let (flag, out) = (framing.flag()?, out?);
+    (!cadcraft_io::is_image(out)).then(|| UsageError::FramingNeedsImage { flag, out: out.to_path_buf() })
+}
+
+/// An output that is the same file as an input, without `--in-place`. An output that doesn't exist
+/// can't be an input, and an I/O error in the comparison is left to the open or write that follows.
+fn out_is_input(cli: &Cli) -> Option<UsageError> {
+    let same = |input: &Path, out: &Path| out.exists() && same_file::is_same_file(input, out).unwrap_or(false);
+    match &cli.command {
+        Command::Convert(c) if !c.in_place && same(&c.input, &c.output) => Some(UsageError::OutIsInput(c.output.clone())),
+        Command::Run(r) if !r.in_place => {
+            let inputs = r.drawings.iter().filter_map(|d| if let Drawing::File(f) = d { Some(f) } else { None });
+            let inputs: Vec<&PathBuf> = inputs.collect();
+            [&r.save, &r.export].into_iter().flatten().find(|out| inputs.iter().any(|i| same(i, out))).map(|out| UsageError::OutIsInput(out.clone()))
+        }
+        _ => None,
+    }
+}
+
+/// The backend `cadcraft-cli mcp` serves from.
+#[derive(Debug, PartialEq, Eq)]
+pub(crate) enum McpTarget {
+    /// An in-process drawing session (no `--connect`).
+    Headless,
+    /// The running app's control channel at `HOST:PORT`; `lazy`: reached at the first call;
+    /// `launch`: opened then if it isn't running.
+    Connect { addr: String, lazy: bool, launch: bool },
+}
+
+impl McpArgs {
+    pub(crate) fn target(&self) -> McpTarget {
+        match &self.connect {
+            // `--launch` connects at the first call too (the app opens then).
+            Some(addr) => McpTarget::Connect { addr: addr.clone(), lazy: self.lazy || self.launch, launch: self.launch },
+            None => McpTarget::Headless,
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/// `mcp --connect`: an empty, flag-like or port-less address is an error, never a silent fall back
+/// to a headless session (#103). The host is not resolved here.
+fn connect_addr(s: &str) -> Result<String, ValueError> {
+    let s = s.trim();
+    let valid = !s.starts_with('-')
+        && s.rsplit_once(':').is_some_and(|(host, port)| {
+            let host = host.strip_prefix('[').and_then(|h| h.strip_suffix(']')).unwrap_or(host);
+            !host.is_empty() && port.parse::<u16>().is_ok()
+        });
+    if valid { Ok(s.to_string()) } else { Err(ValueError::Connect) }
+}
+
+/// The values of `id` with their command-line indices.
+fn indexed<'a, T: Clone + Send + Sync + 'static>(m: &'a ArgMatches, id: &str) -> impl Iterator<Item = (usize, &'a T)> {
+    let at = m.indices_of(id).into_iter().flatten();
+    let values = m.try_get_many::<T>(id).ok().flatten().into_iter().flatten();
+    at.zip(values)
+}
+
+/// The command-line index of flag `id`, when it was given.
+fn flag_index(m: &ArgMatches, id: &str) -> Option<usize> {
+    if m.value_source(id) == Some(ValueSource::CommandLine) { m.indices_of(id).and_then(Iterator::last) } else { None }
+}
+
+/// `run`'s drawings and steps back in command-line order: clap keeps each flag's values apart,
+/// their indices say how they interleave.
+fn run_order(m: &ArgMatches) -> (Vec<Drawing>, Vec<Step>) {
+    let mut drawings: Vec<(usize, Drawing)> = indexed(m, "files").map(|(i, f): (_, &PathBuf)| (i, Drawing::File(f.clone()))).collect();
+    drawings.extend(flag_index(m, "sample").map(|i| (i, Drawing::Sample)));
+    drawings.extend(flag_index(m, "metric").map(|i| (i, Drawing::Metric)));
+    drawings.sort_by_key(|d| d.0);
+    let mut steps: Vec<(usize, Step)> = indexed(m, "script").map(|(i, s): (_, &String)| (i, Step::Script(s.clone()))).collect();
+    steps.extend(indexed(m, "script_file").map(|(i, s): (_, &PathBuf)| (i, Step::ScriptFile(s.clone()))));
+    steps.extend(indexed(m, "cmd").map(|(i, c): (_, &CmdStep)| (i, Step::Cmd(c.clone()))));
+    steps.sort_by_key(|s| s.0);
+    (drawings.into_iter().map(|d| d.1).collect(), steps.into_iter().map(|s| s.1).collect())
+}
+
+/// Parse the arguments (without the binary name). clap reads them as `OsString`s: a path need not
+/// be valid Unicode, text must. A bare `--help` or `-h` is help even after a mistake on the same
+/// line (`run --script --help`): clap reports the mistake first.
+pub(crate) fn parse(args: &[OsString]) -> Result<Cli, clap::Error> {
+    parse_with(command(|k| std::env::var_os(k)), args)
+}
+
+/// The command line. An empty or blank variable counts as unset, except `CADCRAFT_CONFIG_DIR`:
+/// empty means no settings folder. `var` looks a variable up.
+fn command(var: impl Fn(&OsStr) -> Option<OsString> + Copy) -> clap::Command {
+    let blank = move |a: clap::Arg| if a.get_id() == "config_dir" { a } else { blank_env_is_unset(a, var) };
+    Cli::command().mut_args(blank).mut_subcommands(|s| s.mut_args(blank))
+}
+
+/// [`parse`] with `cmd` from [`command`]; a bad value from a variable is a usage error naming the
+/// variable.
+fn parse_with(mut cmd: clap::Command, args: &[OsString]) -> Result<Cli, clap::Error> {
+    let argv = std::iter::once(OsString::from("cadcraft-cli")).chain(args.iter().cloned());
+    let matches = match cmd.try_get_matches_from_mut(argv) {
+        // `use_stderr`: a real error, not the help `-h` asked for (a retry would make it `--help`).
+        Err(e) if e.use_stderr() && args.iter().take_while(|a| *a != "--").any(|a| *a == "--help" || *a == "-h") => {
+            let help = [OsString::from("cadcraft-cli"), args.first().cloned().unwrap_or_default(), OsString::from("--help")];
+            return Err(cmd.try_get_matches_from_mut(help).err().unwrap_or(e));
+        }
+        matches => matches.map_err(|e| name_env_vars(e, &cmd, args))?,
+    };
+    let mut cli = Cli::from_arg_matches(&matches)?;
+    if let (Command::Run(r), Some((_, m))) = (&mut cli.command, matches.subcommand()) {
+        (r.drawings, r.steps) = run_order(m);
+    }
+    if let Some(e) = framing_error(&cli).or_else(|| out_is_input(&cli)) {
+        if let Some(sub) = matches.subcommand_name().and_then(|n| cmd.find_subcommand_mut(n)) {
+            return Err(e.into_clap(sub));
+        }
+        return Err(e.into_clap(&mut cmd));
+    }
+    Ok(cli)
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+    use serde_json::json;
+
+    fn parse_args(a: &[&str]) -> Result<Cli, clap::Error> {
+        parse(&a.iter().map(OsString::from).collect::<Vec<_>>())
+    }
+
+    fn mcp(a: &[&str]) -> Result<McpTarget, clap::Error> {
+        let args: Vec<&str> = std::iter::once("mcp").chain(a.iter().copied()).collect();
+        match parse_args(&args)?.command {
+            Command::Mcp(m) => Ok(m.target()),
+            _ => panic!("{a:?} is not mcp"),
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Every file argument's help names each format of the list it uses.
+    #[test]
+    fn help_names_every_format() {
+        let cli = Cli::command();
+        let help = |sub: &str, arg: &str| {
+            let a = cli.find_subcommand(sub).and_then(|c| c.get_arguments().find(|a| a.get_id() == arg)).expect("argument exists");
+            a.get_help().map(|h| h.to_string()).unwrap_or_default()
+        };
+        let cases: [(&str, &str, &[Format]); 8] = [
+            ("info", "file", Format::READ),
+            ("convert", "input", Format::READ),
+            ("convert", "output", Format::WRITE),
+            ("run", "files", Format::READ),
+            ("run", "save", Format::WRITE),
+            ("run", "export", Format::WRITE),
+            ("sample", "output", Format::WRITE),
+            ("convert", "", Format::WRITE),
+        ];
+        for (sub, arg, list) in cases {
+            let text = if arg.is_empty() {
+                cli.find_subcommand(sub).and_then(|c| c.get_about()).map(|a| a.to_string()).unwrap_or_default()
+            } else {
+                help(sub, arg)
+            };
+            for f in list {
+                assert!(text.contains(f.extension()), "`{sub} {arg}` help `{text}` lacks {}", f.extension());
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn mcp_without_connect_is_headless() {
+        assert_eq!(mcp(&[]).unwrap(), McpTarget::Headless);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn mcp_connect_with_address_selects_remote() {
+        let to = |addr: &str, lazy, launch| McpTarget::Connect { addr: addr.into(), lazy, launch };
+        assert_eq!(mcp(&["--connect", "127.0.0.1:7979"]).unwrap(), to("127.0.0.1:7979", false, false));
+        assert_eq!(mcp(&["--connect", " localhost:7979 "]).unwrap(), to("localhost:7979", false, false));
+        assert_eq!(mcp(&["--lazy", "--connect", "localhost:7979"]).unwrap(), to("localhost:7979", true, false));
+        assert_eq!(mcp(&["--connect", "localhost:7979", "--launch"]).unwrap(), to("localhost:7979", true, true));
+        assert_eq!(mcp(&["--connect", "[::1]:7979"]).unwrap(), to("[::1]:7979", false, false));
+        // Without an app to reach they mean nothing: never a headless session.
+        for flag in ["--lazy", "--launch"] {
+            assert_eq!(mcp(&[flag]).unwrap_err().kind(), clap::error::ErrorKind::MissingRequiredArgument, "{flag}");
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn mcp_connect_without_address_is_an_error_not_headless() {
+        for bad in [
+            &["--connect"][..],
+            &["--connect", ""],
+            &["--connect", "  "],
+            &["--connect=-v"],
+            &["--connect", "example.com"],
+            &["--connect", ":7979"],
+            &["--connect", "host:99999"],
+            &["--connect", "[]:1"],
+        ] {
+            let r = mcp(bad);
+            let Err(e) = r else { panic!("{bad:?} should be rejected, got {r:?}") };
+            assert_eq!(e.exit_code(), 2, "{bad:?}");
+            assert!(e.to_string().contains("--connect <HOST:PORT>"), "{bad:?}: {e}");
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn mcp_rejects_unknown_and_repeated_arguments() {
+        assert!(mcp(&["--conect", "127.0.0.1:7979"]).is_err());
+        assert!(mcp(&["127.0.0.1:7979"]).is_err());
+        // clap names the unknown flag, not the value it left missing.
+        for flag in ["--foo", "-v"] {
+            assert_eq!(mcp(&["--connect", flag]).unwrap_err().kind(), clap::error::ErrorKind::UnknownArgument, "{flag}");
+        }
+        assert!(mcp(&["--connect", "127.0.0.1:1", "--connect", "127.0.0.1:2"]).is_err());
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn run_keeps_command_line_order() {
+        let args =
+            ["run", "a.dxf", "--script", "S1", "--metric", "--cmd", "c1", "b.dxf", "--script-file", "f.scr", "--sample", "--cmd", "c2 {\"n\":1}"];
+        let Command::Run(r) = parse_args(&args).unwrap().command else { panic!("not run") };
+        let file = |f: &str| Drawing::File(f.into());
+        let cmd = |id: &str, params| Step::Cmd(CmdStep { id: id.into(), params });
+        assert_eq!(r.drawings, [file("a.dxf"), Drawing::Metric, file("b.dxf"), Drawing::Sample]);
+        assert_eq!(r.steps, [Step::Script("S1".into()), cmd("c1", json!({})), Step::ScriptFile("f.scr".into()), cmd("c2", json!({"n": 1}))]);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn cmd_values() {
+        assert_eq!(cmd_step("line").unwrap(), CmdStep { id: "line".into(), params: json!({}) });
+        assert_eq!(cmd_step("line [1]").unwrap(), CmdStep { id: "line".into(), params: json!([1]) });
+        for bad in ["", " {}", "line {bad json", "line "] {
+            assert!(cmd_step(bad).is_err(), "`{bad}` should be rejected");
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn perf_targets() {
+        let target = |a: &[&str]| -> Option<PerfTarget> {
+            let args: Vec<&str> = std::iter::once("perf").chain(a.iter().copied()).collect();
+            let Command::Perf(p) = parse_args(&args).unwrap().command else { panic!("not perf") };
+            p.target
+        };
+        assert_eq!(target(&[]), None);
+        assert_eq!(target(&["5"]), Some(PerfTarget::Count(5)));
+        assert_eq!(target(&["0"]), Some(PerfTarget::Count(1)));
+        assert_eq!(target(&["999999999"]), Some(PerfTarget::Count(MAX_PERF_COUNT)));
+        assert_eq!(target(&["a.dxf"]), Some(PerfTarget::File("a.dxf".into())));
+        assert_eq!(target(&["1e3"]), Some(PerfTarget::File("1e3".into())));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn framing_options() {
+        let framing = |out: &str, a: &[&str]| -> Result<Framing, clap::Error> {
+            let args: Vec<&str> = ["convert", "a.dxf", out].iter().chain(a).copied().collect();
+            let Command::Convert(c) = parse_args(&args)?.command else { panic!("not convert") };
+            Ok(c.framing.framing())
+        };
+        let b = |x0, y0, x1, y1| Bounds2::new(Vec2::new(x0, y0), Vec2::new(x1, y1));
+        assert_eq!(framing("b.png", &[]).unwrap(), Framing::Auto);
+        assert_eq!(framing("b.png", &["--view", "extents"]).unwrap(), Framing::Extents);
+        assert_eq!(framing("b.png", &["--view", "CURRENT"]).unwrap(), Framing::Current);
+        assert_eq!(framing("b.png", &["--window", "0,0,2,1"]).unwrap(), Framing::Window(b(0.0, 0.0, 2.0, 1.0)));
+        assert_eq!(framing("b.dxf", &[]).unwrap(), Framing::Auto);
+        let kind = |out: &str, a: &[&str]| framing(out, a).map(|_| ()).unwrap_err().kind();
+        assert_eq!(kind("b.png", &["--view", "selection"]), ErrorKind::InvalidValue);
+        assert_eq!(kind("b.png", &["--window", "0,0,2,1", "--view", "extents"]), ErrorKind::ArgumentConflict);
+        assert_eq!(kind("b.dxf", &["--view", "extents"]), ErrorKind::ArgumentConflict);
+        assert_eq!(kind("b.dxf", &["--window", "0,0,2,1"]), ErrorKind::ArgumentConflict);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn window_parses() {
+        let b = |x0, y0, x1, y1| Bounds2::new(Vec2::new(x0, y0), Vec2::new(x1, y1));
+        assert_eq!(parse_window("0,0,30,20").unwrap(), b(0.0, 0.0, 30.0, 20.0));
+        assert_eq!(parse_window(" -5.5, -1e3 ,2e3,4 ").unwrap(), b(-5.5, -1000.0, 2000.0, 4.0));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn hostile_window_is_an_error() {
+        for w in [
+            "",
+            "1,2,3",
+            "1,2,3,4,5",
+            "a,0,1,1",
+            "NaN,0,1,1",
+            "0,0,inf,1",
+            "0,0,1e400,1",
+            "0,0,0,1",
+            "0,0,1,0",
+            "5,0,1,1",
+            "0,5,1,1",
+            "-1e300,-1e300,1e300,1e300",
+            "0,0,1e-12,1e-12",
+        ] {
+            assert!(parse_window(w).is_err(), "`{w}` should be rejected");
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// The subcommands that draw or run commands take the settings flags; the others refuse them.
+    #[test]
+    fn settings_flags() {
+        let Command::Convert(c) =
+            parse_args(&["convert", "a.dxf", "b.png", "--config-dir", "/p", "--fontalt", "Noto Sans", "--fontfallback="]).unwrap().command
+        else {
+            panic!("not convert")
+        };
+        assert_eq!(c.settings.config_dir, Some(PathBuf::from("/p")));
+        assert_eq!((c.settings.fontalt.as_deref(), c.settings.fontfallback.as_deref()), (Some("Noto Sans"), Some("")));
+        for empty in ["--config-dir=", "--config-dir= "] {
+            let Command::Run(r) = parse_args(&["run", "--sample", empty]).unwrap().command else { panic!("not run") };
+            assert_eq!(r.settings.settings_dir(), None, "`{empty}` is no settings folder");
+        }
+        let Command::Convert(c) = parse_args(&["convert", "a.dxf", "b.png", "--config-dir", "/p"]).unwrap().command else { panic!("not convert") };
+        assert_eq!(c.settings.settings_dir(), Some(PathBuf::from("/p")));
+        assert!(parse_args(&["sample", "bracket", "b.dxf", "--fontalt", "x"]).is_ok());
+        assert!(parse_args(&["mcp", "--config-dir", "/p"]).is_ok());
+        assert!(parse_args(&["info", "a.dxf", "--config-dir", "/p"]).is_err());
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn blank_variables_count_as_unset_except_the_config_dir() {
+        let cmd = command(|_| Some("".into()));
+        for sub in cmd.get_subcommands().filter(|s| s.get_arguments().any(|a| a.get_id() == "fontalt")) {
+            let env = |id: &str| sub.get_arguments().find(|a| a.get_id() == id).and_then(|a| a.get_env());
+            assert_eq!((env("fontalt"), env("fontfallback")), (None, None), "{}", sub.get_name());
+            assert_eq!(env("config_dir"), Some(OsStr::new("CADCRAFT_CONFIG_DIR")), "{}", sub.get_name());
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// `--fontalt` falls back to `PATH` and rejects every value here, as a bad value from a
+    /// variable would; tests can't set a variable (`set_var` is unsafe).
+    #[test]
+    fn a_bad_value_from_a_variable_names_the_variable() {
+        // Cargo sets CARGO_PKG_NAME for every test binary, so the variable always has a value.
+        let reject = clap::builder::PossibleValuesParser::new(["never"]);
+        let cmd = || Cli::command().mut_subcommand("sample", |s| s.mut_arg("fontalt", |a| a.env("CARGO_PKG_NAME").value_parser(reject.clone())));
+        let args = |a: &[&str]| a.iter().map(OsString::from).collect::<Vec<_>>();
+        let text = parse_with(cmd(), &args(&["sample"])).err().map(|e| e.to_string()).unwrap_or_default();
+        assert!(text.contains("for 'CARGO_PKG_NAME'") && !text.contains("--fontalt"), "{text}");
+        let text = parse_with(cmd(), &args(&["sample", "--fontalt", "x"])).err().map(|e| e.to_string()).unwrap_or_default();
+        assert!(text.contains("--fontalt"), "{text}");
+    }
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+use super::args::CommandsArgs;
+use super::error::Result;
+use super::output::Streams;
+use cadcraft_engine::Session;
+use serde_json::Value;
+
+pub(crate) fn commands(a: &CommandsArgs, io: &mut Streams) -> Result {
+    let s = Session::new();
+    let f = a.filter.as_ref().map(|x| x.to_ascii_lowercase());
+    let v: Vec<Value> = cadcraft_engine::command_specs()
+        .iter()
+        .filter(|c| f.as_ref().is_none_or(|f| c.id.contains(f.as_str()) || c.label.to_ascii_lowercase().contains(f.as_str())))
+        .map(|c| serde_json::to_value(c.info(&s)).unwrap_or_default())
+        .collect();
+    io.json(&Value::Array(v), a.compact);
+    Ok(())
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+use super::args::ConvertArgs;
+use super::error::Result;
+use super::output::{Streams, export_framed, export_window, skipped_message, undrawn_message};
+use super::{open, unicode};
+use cadcraft_engine::Session;
+
+pub(crate) fn convert(a: &ConvertArgs, io: &mut Streams) -> Result {
+    let i = unicode(&a.input)?;
+    let framing = a.framing.framing();
+    let mut s = Session::empty();
+    open(&mut s, &a.input)?;
+    if let Some(m) = skipped_message(s.doc()?, i) {
+        io.errln(format_args!("{m}"));
+    }
+    if cadcraft_io::is_image(&a.output)
+        && let Some(m) = undrawn_message(s.doc()?, i)
+    {
+        io.errln(format_args!("{m}"));
+    }
+    let window = export_window(&s, framing, None)?;
+    export_framed(&s, &a.output, window, io)
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+use crate::output::OutputError;
+use crate::perf::PerfError;
+use crate::run::RunError;
+
+/// Why a subcommand failed: printed as `error: {e}`, exit 1.
+#[derive(Debug, thiserror::Error)]
+pub(crate) enum CliError {
+    #[error(transparent)]
+    Engine(#[from] cadcraft_engine::EngineError),
+    #[error(transparent)]
+    Doc(#[from] cadcraft_engine::doc::DocError),
+    #[error(transparent)]
+    Format(#[from] cadcraft_io::IoError),
+    #[error(transparent)]
+    Io(#[from] std::io::Error),
+    #[error(transparent)]
+    Run(#[from] RunError),
+    #[error(transparent)]
+    Output(#[from] OutputError),
+    #[error(transparent)]
+    Perf(#[from] PerfError),
+    /// The engine and io crates take file names as text.
+    #[error("{}: the file name is not valid Unicode", .0.display())]
+    NotUnicode(std::path::PathBuf),
+    #[error("cannot connect to {addr}: {source}")]
+    McpConnect { addr: String, source: std::io::Error },
+}
+
+pub(crate) type Result<T = (), E = CliError> = std::result::Result<T, E>;
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+use super::args::InfoArgs;
+use super::error::Result;
+use super::open;
+use super::output::Streams;
+use cadcraft_engine::Session;
+use serde_json::json;
+
+pub(crate) fn info(a: &InfoArgs, io: &mut Streams) -> Result {
+    let mut s = Session::empty();
+    open(&mut s, &a.file)?;
+    let v = s.execute("drawing.inspect", &json!({ "entities": false }))?;
+    io.json(&v, a.compact);
+    Ok(())
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,315 @@
+//! `cadcraft-cli`: headless CADCraft. The subcommands and their options are the clap types in
+//! `args.rs`; `cadcraft-cli --help` lists them.
+#![deny(clippy::unwrap_used, clippy::expect_used, clippy::panic, clippy::unimplemented, clippy::todo, clippy::unreachable)]
+
+use std::ffi::OsString;
+use std::io::Write;
+
+use cadcraft_engine::Session;
+use serde_json::json;
+
+mod args;
+mod commands;
+mod convert;
+mod error;
+mod info;
+mod mcp;
+mod output;
+mod perf;
+mod run;
+mod sample;
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+use args::Framing;
+use args::{Command, parse};
+use clap::CommandFactory;
+use commands::commands;
+use convert::convert;
+use error::Result;
+use info::info;
+use mcp::mcp;
+use output::Streams;
+#[cfg(test)]
+use output::{export_window, model_views, write_atomic};
+use perf::perf;
+use run::run_cmds;
+#[cfg(test)]
+use run::{fill_last, returned_handle};
+use sample::sample;
+
+fn install_io() {
+    cadcraft_engine::cmd::file::set_io(cadcraft_engine::cmd::file::IoHooks {
+        read: |b, name| cadcraft_io::read(b, name).map_err(|e| e.to_string()),
+        write: |d, name| cadcraft_io::write(d, name).map_err(|e| e.to_string()),
+        plot: Some(|d, space, opts| cadcraft_io::plotter::plot(d, space, opts).map_err(|e| e.to_string())),
+    });
+    cadcraft_engine::cmd::file::set_write_as(|d, name, o| {
+        cadcraft_io::write_with(d, name, &cadcraft_io::SaveOptions { version: o.version, binary: o.binary }).map_err(|e| e.to_string())
+    });
+    // AutoLISP's entget, entmake and entmod see entities as DXF groups.
+    cadcraft_engine::cmd::file::set_entity_codec(cadcraft_engine::cmd::file::EntityCodec {
+        groups: cadcraft_io::entity_groups,
+        entity: cadcraft_io::entity_from_groups,
+    });
+}
+
+/// `path` as text, for the engine and io calls that take a file name as a string.
+fn unicode(path: &std::path::Path) -> Result<&str> {
+    path.to_str().ok_or_else(|| error::CliError::NotUnicode(path.to_path_buf()))
+}
+
+fn open(s: &mut Session, path: &std::path::Path) -> Result {
+    s.execute("open", &json!({ "path": unicode(path)? }))?;
+    Ok(())
+}
+
+/// The command line's clap definition, for generating shell completions and man pages.
+pub fn command() -> clap::Command {
+    args::Cli::command()
+}
+
+/// Run the CLI on its arguments (without the program name). Returns the process exit code (0 ok,
+/// 1 failure, 2 usage). clap reads the arguments as they are: a value that is not valid Unicode
+/// is a usage error, never a panic as with `std::env::args()`.
+pub fn run<I, T>(args: I, out: &mut dyn Write, err: &mut dyn Write) -> i32
+where
+    I: IntoIterator<Item = T>,
+    T: Into<OsString>,
+{
+    let args: Vec<OsString> = args.into_iter().map(Into::into).collect();
+    // Help and `--version` (`help`, `-h`, `<subcommand> --help`, `-V`) come back as errors too,
+    // for `out`, exit 0: the subcommand never runs.
+    let cli = match parse(&args) {
+        Ok(cli) => cli,
+        Err(e) => {
+            let to: &mut dyn Write = if e.use_stderr() { err } else { out };
+            return match write!(to, "{}", e.render()) {
+                Err(w) if w.kind() != std::io::ErrorKind::BrokenPipe => {
+                    let _ = writeln!(err, "error: can't write the output: {w}");
+                    1
+                }
+                _ => e.exit_code(),
+            };
+        }
+    };
+    // The engine's hooks are set-once, so installing them on every call is harmless.
+    install_io();
+    match &cli.command {
+        Command::Convert(a) => a.settings.apply(),
+        Command::Run(a) => a.settings.apply(),
+        Command::Mcp(a) => a.settings.apply(),
+        Command::Sample(a) => a.settings.apply(),
+        Command::Info(_) | Command::Commands(_) | Command::Perf(_) => {}
+    }
+    let mut io = Streams::new(out, err);
+    let result = match &cli.command {
+        Command::Info(a) => info(a, &mut io),
+        Command::Convert(a) => convert(a, &mut io),
+        Command::Run(a) => run_cmds(a, &mut io),
+        Command::Commands(a) => commands(a, &mut io),
+        Command::Mcp(a) => mcp(a),
+        Command::Perf(a) => perf(a.target.as_ref(), &mut io),
+        Command::Sample(a) => sample(a, &mut io),
+    };
+    let mut code = 0;
+    if let Err(e) = result {
+        io.errln(format_args!("error: {e}"));
+        code = 1;
+    }
+    io.finish();
+    if io.stdout_failed() { 1 } else { code }
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+    use cadcraft_engine::doc::Space;
+    use cadcraft_engine::geom::{Bounds2, Vec2};
+
+    fn scratch_dir(tag: &str) -> std::path::PathBuf {
+        let dir = std::env::temp_dir().join(format!("cadcraft-cli-{tag}-{}", std::process::id()));
+        let _ = std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir);
+        std::fs::create_dir_all(&dir).expect("create scratch dir");
+        dir
+    }
+
+    struct FailingWriter(std::io::ErrorKind);
+
+    impl Write for FailingWriter {
+        fn write(&mut self, _: &[u8]) -> std::io::Result<usize> {
+            Err(self.0.into())
+        }
+        fn flush(&mut self) -> std::io::Result<()> {
+            Ok(())
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_failed_write_of_help_exits_1_unless_the_pipe_is_closed() {
+        let mut err = Vec::new();
+        assert_eq!(run(["--help"], &mut FailingWriter(std::io::ErrorKind::StorageFull), &mut err), 1);
+        assert!(String::from_utf8_lossy(&err).starts_with("error: "));
+        assert_eq!(run(["--help"], &mut FailingWriter(std::io::ErrorKind::BrokenPipe), &mut Vec::new()), 0);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn write_atomic_replaces_file_and_leaves_no_staging_files() {
+        let dir = scratch_dir("replace");
+        let out = dir.join("a.dxf");
+        write_atomic(&out, b"old").expect("create");
+        write_atomic(&out, b"new").expect("overwrite");
+        assert_eq!(std::fs::read(&out).expect("read"), b"new");
+        assert_eq!(std::fs::read_dir(&dir).expect("list").count(), 1);
+        let _ = std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn write_atomic_failure_keeps_destination_and_cleans_up() {
+        let dir = scratch_dir("fail");
+        let out = dir.join("target");
+        std::fs::create_dir(&out).expect("dir as destination");
+        std::fs::write(out.join("keep"), b"x").expect("seed");
+        assert!(write_atomic(&out, b"new").is_err());
+        assert_eq!(std::fs::read(out.join("keep")).expect("kept"), b"x");
+        assert_eq!(std::fs::read_dir(&dir).expect("list").count(), 1);
+        let _ = std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir);
+    }
+
+    fn b(x0: f64, y0: f64, x1: f64, y1: f64) -> Bounds2 {
+        Bounds2::new(Vec2::new(x0, y0), Vec2::new(x1, y1))
+    }
+
+    fn sample_session() -> Session {
+        let mut s = Session::empty();
+        s.open_drawing(cadcraft_engine::sample::default_sample(), "Bracket", None);
+        s
+    }
+
+    fn view_box(svg: &str) -> String {
+        let i = svg.find("viewBox=\"").map(|i| i + 9).unwrap_or(0);
+        svg[i..].split('"').next().unwrap_or("").to_string()
+    }
+
+    fn assert_near(a: Bounds2, e: Bounds2) {
+        let d = (a.min - e.min).len().max((a.max - e.max).len());
+        assert!(d < 1e-9, "{a:?} != {e:?}");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn last_placeholder_takes_the_previous_handle() {
+        let mut s = sample_session();
+        let r = s.execute("line", &json!({"points": [[0, 0], [10, 0]]})).unwrap();
+        let h = returned_handle(&s, &r).expect("LINE returns its handle");
+        assert_eq!(fill_last(&json!({"handle": "{last}"}), Some(h)).unwrap(), json!({"handle": h.hex()}));
+        // Nested, as in a selection list.
+        assert_eq!(fill_last(&json!({"handles": ["{last}", "1"]}), Some(h)).unwrap(), json!({"handles": [h.hex(), "1"]}));
+        // Only the exact token: a name or a sentence that merely contains it stays as written.
+        for p in [json!("last"), json!("{last} "), json!({"name": "last"})] {
+            assert_eq!(fill_last(&p, Some(h)).unwrap(), p);
+        }
+        // Nothing returned yet: an error, not a token passed to the command as a bad handle.
+        assert!(fill_last(&json!({"handle": "{last}"}), None).unwrap_err().to_string().contains("{last}"));
+    }
+
+    /// Handles are read from a result by looking the strings up in the drawing: counts and names
+    /// are not mistaken for handles, and `mview`'s `viewports` works like `handle`/`handles`.
+    #[test]
+    fn returned_handle_reads_only_real_handles() {
+        let mut s = Session::empty();
+        s.new_drawing(false);
+        s.execute("layout.set", &json!({"name": "Layout1"})).unwrap();
+        let r = s.execute("mview", &json!({"p1": [20, 20], "p2": [200, 150]})).unwrap();
+        let h = returned_handle(&s, &r).expect("mview returns its viewport handle");
+        assert!(r["viewports"].as_array().is_some_and(|a| a.iter().any(|v| v.as_str() == Some(h.hex().as_str()))), "{r}");
+        assert_eq!(returned_handle(&s, &json!({"changed": 3, "name": "A1"})), None);
+        // The most recent of several.
+        let a = s.execute("line", &json!({"points": [[0, 0], [1, 0]]})).unwrap();
+        let b = s.execute("line", &json!({"points": [[0, 0], [2, 0]]})).unwrap();
+        let (ha, hb) = (returned_handle(&s, &a).unwrap(), returned_handle(&s, &b).unwrap());
+        assert_eq!(returned_handle(&s, &json!({"handles": [ha.hex(), hb.hex()]})), Some(hb));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn default_framing_is_extents() {
+        // convert: nothing ran, always the extents.
+        let s = sample_session();
+        assert_eq!(export_window(&s, Framing::Auto, None).unwrap(), None);
+        // run: commands that leave the view alone keep the extents framing.
+        let mut s = sample_session();
+        let before = model_views(&s);
+        s.script("LINE 0,0 10,10\n\n").unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(export_window(&s, Framing::Auto, Some(&before)).unwrap(), None);
+        // A fresh drawing too.
+        let mut s = Session::empty();
+        s.new_drawing(false);
+        let before = model_views(&s);
+        s.execute("circle", &json!({"center": [0, 0], "radius": 5})).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(export_window(&s, Framing::Auto, Some(&before)).unwrap(), None);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn zoom_window_frames_export() {
+        let mut s = sample_session();
+        let before = model_views(&s);
+        s.execute("zoom", &json!({"mode": "window", "p1": [0, 0], "p2": [30, 20]})).unwrap();
+        let w = export_window(&s, Framing::Auto, Some(&before)).unwrap().unwrap();
+        // The CLI viewport is 3:2, so a 3:2 window is shown exactly.
+        assert_near(w, b(0.0, 0.0, 30.0, 20.0));
+        assert_eq!(export_window(&s, Framing::Current, Some(&before)).unwrap(), Some(w));
+        // --view extents and --window override the zoom.
+        assert_eq!(export_window(&s, Framing::Extents, Some(&before)).unwrap(), None);
+        let explicit = b(1.0, 1.0, 2.0, 2.0);
+        assert_eq!(export_window(&s, Framing::Window(explicit), Some(&before)).unwrap(), Some(explicit));
+        // A taller window keeps its height; the 3:2 image adds room left and right.
+        s.execute("zoom", &json!({"mode": "center", "center": [5, 5], "height": 4})).unwrap();
+        assert_near(export_window(&s, Framing::Auto, Some(&before)).unwrap().unwrap(), b(2.0, 3.0, 8.0, 7.0));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn zoom_object_frames_the_selection() {
+        let mut s = sample_session();
+        let before = model_views(&s);
+        // The smallest entity with an area, selected then framed with ZOOM Object.
+        let d = s.doc().unwrap();
+        let bounds = |e: &cadcraft_engine::doc::Entity| cadcraft_engine::doc::entity_bounds(d, e, 0);
+        let e = d
+            .model
+            .iter()
+            .filter(|e| bounds(e).width() > 0.0 && bounds(e).height() > 0.0)
+            .min_by(|a, b| bounds(a).width().total_cmp(&bounds(b).width()))
+            .unwrap();
+        let (h, eb, ext) = (e.handle, bounds(e), d.extents(&Space::Model));
+        s.set_selection(vec![h]);
+        s.execute("zoom", &json!({"mode": "object"})).unwrap();
+        let w = export_window(&s, Framing::Auto, Some(&before)).unwrap().unwrap();
+        assert!(w.contains(eb.min) && w.contains(eb.max));
+        assert!(w.width() < ext.width() && w.height() < ext.height(), "{w:?} vs extents {ext:?}");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn run_export_honours_zoom() {
+        let dir = std::env::temp_dir().join(format!("cadcraft-cli-165-{}", std::process::id()));
+        std::fs::create_dir_all(&dir).unwrap();
+        let path = |n: &str| dir.join(n).to_string_lossy().to_string();
+        let run_svg = |extra: &[&str], out: &str| -> String {
+            let mut args: Vec<String> = ["run", "--sample"].iter().chain(extra).map(|a| a.to_string()).collect();
+            args.extend(["--export".to_string(), path(out)]);
+            assert_eq!(run(args, &mut Vec::new(), &mut Vec::new()), 0);
+            std::fs::read_to_string(path(out)).unwrap()
+        };
+        let base = run_svg(&[], "base.svg");
+        let zoomed = run_svg(&["--cmd", r#"zoom {"mode":"window","p1":[0,0],"p2":[30,20]}"#], "zoom.svg");
+        let window = run_svg(&["--window", "0,0,30,20"], "window.svg");
+        let forced = run_svg(&["--cmd", r#"zoom {"mode":"window","p1":[0,0],"p2":[30,20]}"#, "--view", "extents"], "forced.svg");
+        assert_ne!(view_box(&zoomed), view_box(&base));
+        assert_eq!(view_box(&zoomed), "0 0 30.000000 20.000000");
+        assert_eq!(zoomed, window);
+        assert_eq!(forced, base);
+        // Hostile --window: a usage error, nothing written.
+        let mut err = Vec::new();
+        assert_eq!(run(["run", "--sample", "--window", "0,0,NaN,1", "--export", &path("bad.png")], &mut Vec::new(), &mut err), 2);
+        assert!(String::from_utf8_lossy(&err).contains("--window"));
+        assert!(!dir.join("bad.png").exists());
+        let _ = std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir);
+    }
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+use super::args::{McpArgs, McpTarget};
+use super::error::{CliError, Result};
+
+pub(crate) fn mcp(a: &McpArgs) -> Result {
+    let backend: Box<dyn cadcraft_mcp::Backend> = match a.target() {
+        McpTarget::Connect { addr, lazy: true, launch } => Box::new(cadcraft_mcp::Remote::lazy(&addr, launch)),
+        McpTarget::Connect { addr, .. } => match cadcraft_mcp::Remote::connect(&addr) {
+            Ok(r) => Box::new(r),
+            Err(source) => return Err(CliError::McpConnect { addr, source }),
+        },
+        McpTarget::Headless => Box::new(cadcraft_mcp::Headless::default()),
+    };
+    let stdin = std::io::stdin();
+    let stdout = std::io::stdout();
+    cadcraft_mcp::Server::new(backend).serve(stdin.lock(), stdout.lock())?;
+    Ok(())
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,177 @@
+use super::args::Framing;
+use super::error::Result;
+use cadcraft_engine::doc::Space;
+use cadcraft_engine::geom::{Bounds2, Vec2};
+use cadcraft_engine::{Session, View};
+use std::io::Write;
+use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
+
+/// The process's output streams. A write to stdout that fails never stops the program: once
+/// stdout has failed, later output is dropped and the work goes on, so the rest of `run` (later
+/// `--cmd` results, `--save`, `--export`) still happens and `cadcraft-cli run … --save out.dxf |
+/// head` keeps the drawing. A reader that stopped early (a closed pipe, `cadcraft-cli commands |
+/// head`) is not an error, as in ripgrep; any other write error is reported once on stderr and
+/// makes the exit status 1.
+pub(crate) struct Streams<'a> {
+    out: &'a mut dyn Write,
+    err: &'a mut dyn Write,
+    /// Set once a write to `out` has failed; later output is dropped.
+    gone: bool,
+    /// Set when `out` failed for a reason other than a closed reader.
+    failed: bool,
+}
+
+impl<'a> Streams<'a> {
+    pub(crate) fn new(out: &'a mut dyn Write, err: &'a mut dyn Write) -> Self {
+        Streams { out, err, gone: false, failed: false }
+    }
+
+    /// Write a line to stdout.
+    pub(crate) fn outln(&mut self, args: std::fmt::Arguments) {
+        if !self.gone
+            && let Err(e) = writeln!(self.out, "{args}")
+        {
+            self.out_failed(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Write `v` to stdout: pretty-printed, or on one line with `compact` (`--compact`).
+    pub(crate) fn json(&mut self, v: &serde_json::Value, compact: bool) {
+        if compact {
+            self.outln(format_args!("{v}"));
+        } else {
+            self.outln(format_args!("{v:#}"));
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Write a line to stderr. A failing stderr has nowhere to report to, so it is ignored.
+    pub(crate) fn errln(&mut self, args: std::fmt::Arguments) {
+        let _ = writeln!(self.err, "{args}");
+    }
+
+    /// Flush stdout (a pipe that closed during buffered output surfaces here).
+    pub(crate) fn finish(&mut self) {
+        if !self.gone
+            && let Err(e) = self.out.flush()
+        {
+            self.out_failed(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Whether stdout failed for a reason other than a closed reader: the exit status is 1.
+    pub(crate) fn stdout_failed(&self) -> bool {
+        self.failed
+    }
+
+    fn out_failed(&mut self, e: std::io::Error) {
+        if std::mem::replace(&mut self.gone, true) || e.kind() == std::io::ErrorKind::BrokenPipe {
+            return;
+        }
+        self.errln(format_args!("cadcraft-cli: can't write to stdout: {e}"));
+        self.failed = true;
+    }
+}
+
+/// Why writing or framing an output failed.
+#[derive(Debug, thiserror::Error)]
+pub(crate) enum OutputError {
+    #[error("--view current: the drawing has no model-space view")]
+    NoModelView,
+    #[error("{}: {source}", path.display())]
+    Write { path: PathBuf, source: std::io::Error },
+}
+
+/// The model-space view of every open drawing, by drawing id (to tell whether commands changed it).
+pub(crate) fn model_views(s: &Session) -> Vec<(u64, Option<View>)> {
+    s.docs.iter().map(|st| (st.uid, st.views.iter().find(|(sp, _)| *sp == Space::Model).map(|(_, v)| *v))).collect()
+}
+
+/// The active drawing's current model-space view as a rectangle with the viewport's aspect ratio
+/// (the CLI viewport is 3:2 like the PNG export, so the image shows exactly this view).
+fn current_window(s: &Session) -> Option<Bounds2> {
+    let st = s.state().ok()?;
+    let v = st.views.iter().find(|(sp, _)| *sp == Space::Model).map(|(_, v)| *v)?;
+    let (w, h) = s.viewport_px;
+    let half = Vec2::new(v.height * w / h.max(1.0), v.height) * 0.5;
+    Some(Bounds2::new(v.center - half, v.center + half))
+}
+
+/// The window an image export shows, or `None` to fit the extents. `before` is [`model_views`]
+/// taken before the commands ran (`None` for `convert`, where nothing ran).
+pub(crate) fn export_window(s: &Session, framing: Framing, before: Option<&[(u64, Option<View>)]>) -> Result<Option<Bounds2>, OutputError> {
+    match framing {
+        Framing::Window(w) => Ok(Some(w)),
+        Framing::Extents => Ok(None),
+        Framing::Current => current_window(s).map(Some).ok_or(OutputError::NoModelView),
+        Framing::Auto => {
+            let Some(before) = before else { return Ok(None) };
+            let Ok(st) = s.state() else { return Ok(None) };
+            let now = model_views(s);
+            let was = before.iter().find(|(uid, _)| *uid == st.uid);
+            let is = now.iter().find(|(uid, _)| *uid == st.uid);
+            // Only a view the commands changed counts; a drawing opened by the commands keeps
+            // the extents framing.
+            match (was, is) {
+                (Some(a), Some(b)) if a.1 != b.1 => Ok(current_window(s)),
+                _ => Ok(None),
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/// Write `bytes` to `out` through the engine's atomic writer (an exclusively created sibling file
+/// renamed over `out`), so a failed or interrupted write leaves the previous file untouched. An
+/// existing `out` is resolved first: the rename would otherwise replace a symlink with a file and
+/// leave the file it points to (`--in-place` through a link) unchanged.
+pub(crate) fn write_atomic(out: &Path, bytes: &[u8]) -> Result<(), OutputError> {
+    let target = std::fs::canonicalize(out).unwrap_or_else(|_| out.to_path_buf());
+    cadcraft_engine::atomic_write::write_atomic(&target, bytes).map_err(|source| OutputError::Write { path: out.to_path_buf(), source })
+}
+
+pub(crate) fn export(s: &Session, out: &Path, io: &mut Streams) -> Result {
+    export_framed(s, out, None, io)
+}
+
+pub(crate) fn export_framed(s: &Session, out: &Path, window: Option<Bounds2>, io: &mut Streams) -> Result {
+    let d = s.doc()?;
+    let bytes = cadcraft_io::write_framed(d, out, window)?;
+    write_atomic(out, &bytes)?;
+    io.errln(format_args!("wrote {} ({} bytes)", out.display(), bytes.len()));
+    if cadcraft_engine::cmd::file::drops_unknown(out) {
+        let lost = cadcraft_engine::cmd::file::not_saved(d);
+        if let Some(m) = cadcraft_engine::cmd::file::not_saved_message(&lost) {
+            io.errln(format_args!("{m}"));
+        }
+    }
+    Ok(())
+}
+
+/// The warning for the model-space entities of `path` an image can't show, by type (those kept
+/// as unknown objects, `Proxy` in `info`), or `None` when there are none.
+pub(crate) fn undrawn_message(d: &cadcraft_engine::doc::Drawing, path: &str) -> Option<String> {
+    let mut types: std::collections::BTreeMap<&str, usize> = std::collections::BTreeMap::new();
+    for e in d.model.iter() {
+        if let cadcraft_engine::doc::EntityKind::Unknown(u) = &e.kind {
+            let n = types.entry(u.dxf_type.as_str()).or_insert(0);
+            *n = n.saturating_add(1);
+        }
+    }
+    let n = types.values().fold(0usize, |a, n| a.saturating_add(*n));
+    if n == 0 {
+        return None;
+    }
+    let list: Vec<String> = types.iter().map(|(t, n)| format!("{t}: {n}")).collect();
+    let entities = if n == 1 { "entity" } else { "entities" };
+    Some(format!("{path}: {n} {entities} not drawn ({})", list.join(", ")))
+}
+
+/// The warning for the records of `path` the reader could not place, or `None` when there are none.
+pub(crate) fn skipped_message(d: &cadcraft_engine::doc::Drawing, path: &str) -> Option<String> {
+    let n = d.skipped_records.values().fold(0usize, |a, n| a.saturating_add(*n));
+    if n == 0 {
+        return None;
+    }
+    let list: Vec<String> = d.skipped_records.iter().map(|(section, n)| format!("{section}: {n}")).collect();
+    let records = if n == 1 { "record" } else { "records" };
+    Some(format!("{path}: {n} {records} could not be read and are left out ({})", list.join(", ")))
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,196 @@
+use super::args::PerfTarget;
+use super::error::Result;
+use super::open;
+use super::output::Streams;
+use cadcraft_engine::Session;
+
+/// Why `perf` cannot run.
+#[derive(Debug, thiserror::Error)]
+pub(crate) enum PerfError {
+    #[error("perf: the drawing is empty")]
+    EmptyDrawing,
+}
+
+/// Small deterministic generator (xorshift64*) so perf runs are repeatable without a dependency.
+struct Rng(u64);
+
+impl Rng {
+    fn next(&mut self) -> f64 {
+        self.0 ^= self.0 >> 12;
+        self.0 ^= self.0 << 25;
+        self.0 ^= self.0 >> 27;
+        (self.0.wrapping_mul(0x2545_F491_4F6C_DD1D) >> 11) as f64 / (1u64 << 53) as f64
+    }
+    fn range(&mut self, lo: f64, hi: f64) -> f64 {
+        lo + (hi - lo) * self.next()
+    }
+}
+
+/// A synthetic drawing with `n` mixed entities (lines, circles, arcs, polylines, text) spread
+/// over a square whose side grows with sqrt(n), so density stays constant.
+fn synthetic(n: usize, side: f64) -> Result<cadcraft_engine::doc::Drawing, cadcraft_engine::doc::DocError> {
+    use cadcraft_engine::doc::{self as d, Common, EntityKind, Space};
+    use cadcraft_engine::geom::{PolyVertex, Vec2, Vec3};
+    let mut dr = d::Drawing::new_imperial();
+    let mut r = Rng(0x9E37_79B9_7F4A_7C15);
+    let v3 = |x: f64, y: f64| Vec3::new(x, y, 0.0);
+    for i in 0..n {
+        let (x, y) = (r.range(0.0, side), r.range(0.0, side));
+        let s = r.range(0.5, 8.0);
+        let kind = match i % 5 {
+            0 => EntityKind::Line(d::Line { a: v3(x, y), b: v3(x + r.range(-s, s), y + r.range(-s, s)) }),
+            1 => EntityKind::Circle(d::Circle { center: v3(x, y), radius: s * 0.5 }),
+            2 => EntityKind::Arc(d::Arc { center: v3(x, y), radius: s * 0.5, start: r.range(0.0, 3.0), end: r.range(3.2, 6.2) }),
+            3 => EntityKind::LwPolyline(d::LwPolyline {
+                vertices: (0..6)
+                    .map(|k| PolyVertex {
+                        p: Vec2::new(x + f64::from(k) * s * 0.3, y + r.range(-s, s) * 0.3),
+                        bulge: if k == 2 { 0.4 } else { 0.0 },
+                        start_width: 0.0,
+                        end_width: 0.0,
+                    })
+                    .collect(),
+                closed: i % 2 == 0,
+                const_width: 0.0,
+                elevation: 0.0,
+                plinegen: false,
+            }),
+            _ => EntityKind::Text(d::Text {
+                insert: v3(x, y),
+                align_pt: None,
+                height: s * 0.2,
+                value: format!("T{i}"),
+                rotation: 0.0,
+                width_factor: 1.0,
+                oblique: 0.0,
+                style: "Standard".into(),
+                halign: d::HAlign::Left,
+                valign: d::VAlign::Baseline,
+            }),
+        };
+        dr.add(&Space::Model, Common::default(), kind)?;
+    }
+    Ok(dr)
+}
+
+/// `perf FILE`: the display list built as the canvas builds it (a 1600 x 1000 px view at the
+/// drawing's centre: tolerance, dash level of detail and view window from the zoom band), at
+/// zoom extents and zoomed in 4x at a time, next to the full-detail build plots use.
+fn perf_file(path: &std::path::Path, io: &mut Streams) -> Result {
+    use cadcraft_engine::geom::{Bounds2, Vec2};
+    use cadcraft_engine::render::{Options, build};
+    use std::time::Instant;
+    let ms = |t: Instant| t.elapsed().as_secs_f64() * 1000.0;
+    let mut s = Session::empty();
+    let t = Instant::now();
+    open(&mut s, path)?;
+    let open_ms = ms(t);
+    let st = s.state()?;
+    let (d, space) = (&st.doc, &st.space);
+    let ext = d.extents(space);
+    let size = ext.width().max(ext.height());
+    if ext.is_empty() || !(size.is_finite() && size > 0.0) {
+        return Err(PerfError::EmptyDrawing.into());
+    }
+    io.outln(format_args!("open {open_ms:.0} ms, {} entities, extents {:.1} x {:.1}", d.entity_count(), ext.width(), ext.height()));
+    io.outln(format_args!("{:>8} {:>10} {:>10}", "zoom", "build ms", "prims"));
+    let mut finest = Options::default();
+    for k in 0..5 {
+        let zoom = 4f64.powi(k);
+        let h = size / zoom;
+        let pixel = 2f64.powi((h / 1000.0).max(1e-300).log2().floor() as i32);
+        let half = Vec2::new(h * 0.8, h * 0.5);
+        let visible = Bounds2::new(ext.center() - half, ext.center() + half);
+        let screen = Options { tolerance: pixel * 0.5, min_dash: pixel * 2.0, view: Some(visible.expand(h * 0.8)), ..Default::default() };
+        let t = Instant::now();
+        let n = build(d, space, &screen).prims.len();
+        io.outln(format_args!("{:>7}x {:>10.1} {n:>10}", zoom, ms(t)));
+        finest = screen;
+    }
+    // Plots: every pattern line, everywhere (last, so its large list doesn't weigh on the above).
+    let t = Instant::now();
+    let n = build(d, space, &Options { min_dash: 0.0, view: None, ..finest }).prims.len();
+    io.outln(format_args!("{:>8} {:>10.1} {n:>10}", "full", ms(t)));
+    Ok(())
+}
+
+pub(crate) fn perf(target: Option<&PerfTarget>, io: &mut Streams) -> Result {
+    use cadcraft_engine::doc::Space;
+    use cadcraft_engine::geom::{Bounds2, Vec2};
+    use cadcraft_engine::{select, snap};
+    use std::time::Instant;
+    let n = match target {
+        Some(PerfTarget::File(path)) => return perf_file(path, io),
+        Some(PerfTarget::Count(n)) => *n,
+        None => 200_000,
+    };
+    let side = (n as f64).sqrt() * 10.0;
+    let mut rows: Vec<(String, f64, String)> = Vec::new();
+    let ms = |t: Instant| t.elapsed().as_secs_f64() * 1000.0;
+
+    let t = Instant::now();
+    let d = synthetic(n, side)?;
+    rows.push(("build synthetic drawing".into(), ms(t), format!("{n} entities")));
+
+    // Display list at a 1600 px wide "zoom extents" view (tolerance = half a pixel).
+    let px = side / 1600.0;
+    let opts = cadcraft_engine::render::Options { tolerance: px * 0.5, min_dash: px * 2.0, ..Default::default() };
+    let t = Instant::now();
+    let list = cadcraft_engine::render::build(&d, &Space::Model, &opts);
+    rows.push(("display list build".into(), ms(t), format!("{} prims, {} segments", list.prims.len(), list.segment_count())));
+
+    // Hit testing on a zoomed-in view (aperture = 5 px at 0.02 units/px).
+    let ap = 0.1;
+    let mut r = Rng(42);
+    let pts: Vec<Vec2> = (0..1000).map(|_| Vec2::new(r.range(0.0, side), r.range(0.0, side))).collect();
+    let t = Instant::now();
+    let first = select::pick(&d, &Space::Model, pts.first().copied().unwrap_or(Vec2::ZERO), ap);
+    rows.push(("first pick (incl. index build)".into(), ms(t), format!("{first:?}")));
+    let t = Instant::now();
+    let hits = pts.iter().filter(|p| select::pick(&d, &Space::Model, **p, ap).is_some()).count();
+    let total = ms(t);
+    rows.push(("pick x1000".into(), total, format!("{hits} hits, {:.3} ms/pick", total / 1000.0)));
+
+    // One edit, then a pick: only the touched chunk is re-indexed.
+    let mut edited = d.clone();
+    if let Some(h) = edited.model.last().map(|e| e.handle) {
+        edited.model.modify(h, |e| e.common.layer = "0".into());
+    }
+    let t = Instant::now();
+    let _ = select::pick(&edited, &Space::Model, pts.first().copied().unwrap_or(Vec2::ZERO), ap);
+    rows.push(("pick after one edit (incremental re-index)".into(), ms(t), String::new()));
+
+    let mut sel = 0usize;
+    let t = Instant::now();
+    for k in 0..20 {
+        let c = Vec2::new(r.range(0.0, side), r.range(0.0, side));
+        let half = side * 0.05;
+        sel += select::select_window(&d, &Space::Model, Bounds2::new(c - Vec2::new(half, half), c + Vec2::new(half, half)), k % 2 == 1).len();
+    }
+    rows.push(("window/crossing select x20 (10% side)".into(), ms(t), format!("{sel} selected")));
+
+    let t = Instant::now();
+    let fence: Vec<Vec2> = (0..4).map(|_| Vec2::new(r.range(0.0, side), r.range(0.0, side))).collect();
+    let fsel = select::select_fence(&d, &Space::Model, &fence).len();
+    rows.push(("fence select (3 legs)".into(), ms(t), format!("{fsel} selected")));
+
+    let osmode = snap::mode::END | snap::mode::MID | snap::mode::CEN | snap::mode::QUA | snap::mode::INT;
+    let t = Instant::now();
+    let snaps = pts.iter().filter(|p| snap::osnap(&d, &Space::Model, **p, ap * 2.0, osmode, None, false).is_some()).count();
+    let total = ms(t);
+    rows.push(("osnap x1000".into(), total, format!("{snaps} hits, {:.3} ms/query", total / 1000.0)));
+
+    let t = Instant::now();
+    let bytes = cadcraft_io::write(&d, "perf.dxf")?;
+    rows.push(("DXF write".into(), ms(t), format!("{:.1} MB", bytes.len() as f64 / 1e6)));
+    let t = Instant::now();
+    let back = cadcraft_io::read(&bytes, "perf.dxf")?;
+    rows.push(("DXF read".into(), ms(t), format!("{} entities", back.entity_count())));
+
+    io.outln(format_args!("{:<40} {:>12}  notes", "operation", "ms"));
+    io.outln(format_args!("{}", "-".repeat(80)));
+    for (name, t, note) in rows {
+        io.outln(format_args!("{name:<40} {t:>12.2}  {note}"));
+    }
+    Ok(())
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,223 @@
+use super::args::{CmdStep, Drawing, RunArgs, Step};
+use super::error::Result;
+use super::open;
+use super::output::{Streams, export, export_framed, export_window, model_views};
+use cadcraft_engine::Session;
+use cadcraft_engine::doc::Handle;
+use serde_json::Value;
+
+/// A `--cmd` parameter value of exactly `{last}` is filled in with the last object handle an
+/// earlier `--cmd` in the same run returned: `mview` answers `{"viewports":["100"]}`, so
+/// `viewport.set {"handle":"{last}","scale":1}` changes viewport 100. Any other string is passed
+/// through unchanged, and `--script` text is never rewritten.
+const LAST_HANDLE: &str = "{last}";
+
+/// Why a `run` step fails.
+#[derive(Debug, thiserror::Error)]
+pub(crate) enum RunError {
+    #[error("{}: {source}", .path.display())]
+    ReadScript { path: std::path::PathBuf, source: std::io::Error },
+    #[error("--cmd {id}: {source}")]
+    CmdLast { id: String, source: NoLastHandle },
+}
+
+/// A `{last}` placeholder with no handle to fill in.
+#[derive(Debug, PartialEq, thiserror::Error)]
+#[error("`{{last}}` needs an earlier --cmd in this run to have returned a handle")]
+pub(crate) struct NoLastHandle;
+
+/// How deep [`result_handles`] walks a command result (results are the engine's own JSON).
+const RESULT_DEPTH: usize = 16;
+
+/// Result keys whose values are object references: the engine's result convention for handles.
+/// A handle can be a string (`handle`, `viewport`, `insert`…) or a list of them (`handles`,
+/// `viewports`, `members`…). Every other field may hold a user-defined name, a message or a
+/// count, and is never read as a handle — a group named `100` is a name, not object `100`.
+fn handle_field(key: &str) -> bool {
+    matches!(
+        key,
+        "handle"
+            | "handles"
+            | "viewport"
+            | "viewports"
+            | "boundary"
+            | "clip"
+            | "insert"
+            | "members"
+            | "source"
+            | "objects"
+            | "entities"
+            | "selection"
+            | "parts"
+            | "refs"
+            | "matches"
+            | "line"
+            | "arc"
+            | "blocks"
+    )
+}
+
+/// Collect the handles of `v`, a value under a handle field: a handle string, an array of them,
+/// or objects that carry handle fields of their own (`entities`, `parts`).
+fn collect_result_handles(s: &Session, v: &Value, depth: usize, out: &mut Vec<Handle>) {
+    if depth > RESULT_DEPTH {
+        return;
+    }
+    match v {
+        Value::String(t) => {
+            if let Some(h) = Handle::parse_hex(t)
+                && s.doc().is_ok_and(|d| d.entity(h).is_some())
+            {
+                out.push(h);
+            }
+        }
+        Value::Array(a) => a.iter().for_each(|x| collect_result_handles(s, x, depth + 1, out)),
+        Value::Object(m) => {
+            for (k, x) in m {
+                if handle_field(k) {
+                    collect_result_handles(s, x, depth + 1, out);
+                } else {
+                    find_result_handles(s, x, depth + 1, out);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        _ => {}
+    }
+}
+
+/// Find handle fields nested in containers that are not handles themselves (`groups` in
+/// `groups.list`, whose members are handles): strings here are names, never references.
+fn find_result_handles(s: &Session, v: &Value, depth: usize, out: &mut Vec<Handle>) {
+    if depth > RESULT_DEPTH {
+        return;
+    }
+    match v {
+        Value::Array(a) => a.iter().for_each(|x| find_result_handles(s, x, depth + 1, out)),
+        Value::Object(m) => {
+            for (k, x) in m {
+                if handle_field(k) {
+                    collect_result_handles(s, x, depth + 1, out);
+                } else {
+                    find_result_handles(s, x, depth + 1, out);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        _ => {}
+    }
+}
+
+/// The object handles a command result mentions, in the order it lists them. A handle-only result
+/// (a handle string or an array of them) counts as it is; otherwise only handle fields do.
+fn result_handles(s: &Session, v: &Value, depth: usize, out: &mut Vec<Handle>) {
+    match v {
+        Value::String(_) => collect_result_handles(s, v, depth, out),
+        Value::Array(a) if a.iter().all(Value::is_string) => collect_result_handles(s, v, depth, out),
+        Value::Array(_) | Value::Object(_) => find_result_handles(s, v, depth, out),
+        _ => {}
+    }
+}
+
+/// The last handle `r` returned: what a later `{last}` stands for.
+pub(crate) fn returned_handle(s: &Session, r: &Value) -> Option<Handle> {
+    let mut hs = Vec::new();
+    result_handles(s, r, 0, &mut hs);
+    hs.last().copied()
+}
+
+/// The active drawing's identity ([`cadcraft_engine::DocState::uid`]): a handle is only meaningful
+/// in the drawing it came from, and `new`, `open`, `document.switch` and `close` can make another
+/// drawing current.
+fn active_drawing(s: &Session) -> Option<u64> {
+    s.docs.get(s.active).map(|st| st.uid)
+}
+
+/// Every `{last}` in `p`, at any depth, replaced by `h`. With no handle to fill in it is an
+/// error, never a token reaching the command as a (bad) handle.
+pub(crate) fn fill_last(p: &Value, h: Option<Handle>) -> Result<Value, NoLastHandle> {
+    match p {
+        Value::String(t) if t.as_str() == LAST_HANDLE => match h {
+            Some(h) => Ok(Value::String(h.hex())),
+            None => Err(NoLastHandle),
+        },
+        Value::Array(a) => a.iter().map(|x| fill_last(x, h)).collect::<Result<Vec<_>, _>>().map(Value::Array),
+        Value::Object(m) => {
+            m.iter().map(|(k, x)| Ok((k.clone(), fill_last(x, h)?))).collect::<Result<serde_json::Map<String, Value>, _>>().map(Value::Object)
+        }
+        other => Ok(other.clone()),
+    }
+}
+
+/// A step ready to run: script text, or a command.
+enum Ready<'a> {
+    Script(String),
+    Cmd(&'a CmdStep),
+}
+
+pub(crate) fn run_cmds(a: &RunArgs, io: &mut Streams) -> Result {
+    let framing = a.framing.framing();
+    let (save, export_to) = (a.save.as_deref(), a.export.as_deref());
+    let mut s = Session::empty();
+    for d in &a.drawings {
+        match d {
+            Drawing::File(f) => open(&mut s, f)?,
+            Drawing::Sample => {
+                s.open_drawing(cadcraft_engine::sample::default_sample(), "Bracket", None);
+            }
+            Drawing::Metric => {
+                s.new_drawing(true);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    let mut steps: Vec<Ready> = Vec::new();
+    for step in &a.steps {
+        steps.push(match step {
+            Step::Script(text) => Ready::Script(text.replace("\\n", "\n")),
+            Step::ScriptFile(p) => Ready::Script(std::fs::read_to_string(p).map_err(|source| RunError::ReadScript { path: p.clone(), source })?),
+            Step::Cmd(c) => Ready::Cmd(c),
+        });
+    }
+    if s.docs.is_empty() {
+        s.new_drawing(false);
+    }
+    let before = model_views(&s);
+    let mut last_handle: Option<Handle> = None;
+    for step in steps {
+        // A handle belongs to the drawing that returned it: if this step makes another drawing
+        // current (`new`, `open`, `document.switch`, `close`, or a script running one of them),
+        // the remembered handle is stale. A handle the step itself returns is taken afterwards,
+        // so it is a handle of the drawing it made current.
+        let drawing = active_drawing(&s);
+        match step {
+            Ready::Script(body) => {
+                s.script(&body)?;
+                if active_drawing(&s) != drawing {
+                    last_handle = None;
+                }
+            }
+            Ready::Cmd(CmdStep { id, params }) => {
+                let params = fill_last(params, last_handle).map_err(|source| RunError::CmdLast { id: id.clone(), source })?;
+                let r = s.execute(id, &params)?;
+                if active_drawing(&s) != drawing {
+                    last_handle = None;
+                }
+                if let Some(h) = returned_handle(&s, &r) {
+                    last_handle = Some(h);
+                }
+                if !r.is_null() {
+                    io.outln(format_args!("{r}"));
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    for l in &s.log {
+        io.errln(format_args!("{l}"));
+    }
+    if let Some(p) = save {
+        export(&s, p, io)?;
+    }
+    if let Some(p) = export_to {
+        let window = if cadcraft_io::is_image(p) { export_window(&s, framing, Some(&before))? } else { None };
+        export_framed(&s, p, window, io)?;
+    }
+    Ok(())
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+use super::args::{SampleArgs, SampleName};
+use super::error::Result;
+use super::output::{Streams, write_atomic};
+
+pub(crate) fn sample(a: &SampleArgs, io: &mut Streams) -> Result {
+    let d = match a.name {
+        SampleName::Bracket => cadcraft_engine::sample::bracket(),
+        SampleName::Floorplan => cadcraft_engine::sample::floor_plan(),
+    };
+    let bytes = cadcraft_io::write(&d, &a.output)?;
+    write_atomic(&a.output, &bytes)?;
+    io.errln(format_args!("wrote {} ({} bytes)", a.output.display(), bytes.len()));
+    Ok(())
+}
@@ -1,23 +1,23 @@
 //! `--help` is a request, not a failure (#1525): it goes to stdout with exit 0, like `--version`.
-//! Bare `cadcraft-cli` keeps reporting on stderr with exit 1.
+//! Bare `cadcraft-cli` is a usage error: the help on stderr, exit 2.

 use std::process::Command;

 #[test]
-fn help_flags_print_usage_to_stdout_and_exit_zero() {
+fn help_flags_print_help_to_stdout_and_exit_zero() {
    for args in [&["--help"][..], &["-h"], &["help"]] {
        let out = Command::new(env!("CARGO_BIN_EXE_cadcraft-cli")).args(args).output().expect("run cadcraft-cli");
        assert!(out.status.success(), "{args:?}: {:?}", out.status);
        let stdout = String::from_utf8_lossy(&out.stdout);
-        assert!(stdout.starts_with("usage:"), "{args:?}: {stdout:?}");
+        assert!(stdout.starts_with("cadcraft-cli: headless CADCraft\n"), "{args:?}: {stdout:?}");
        assert!(String::from_utf8_lossy(&out.stderr).is_empty(), "{args:?}: stderr should be empty");
    }
 }

 #[test]
-fn bare_invocation_still_reports_on_stderr() {
+fn bare_invocation_reports_on_stderr() {
    let out = Command::new(env!("CARGO_BIN_EXE_cadcraft-cli")).output().expect("run cadcraft-cli");
-    assert_eq!(out.status.code(), Some(1));
-    assert!(out.stdout.is_empty(), "bare invocation keeps its usage on stderr");
-    assert!(String::from_utf8_lossy(&out.stderr).starts_with("usage:"));
+    assert_eq!(out.status.code(), Some(2));
+    assert!(out.stdout.is_empty(), "bare invocation keeps its help on stderr");
+    assert!(String::from_utf8_lossy(&out.stderr).starts_with("cadcraft-cli: headless CADCraft\n"));
 }
@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@ mod help;
 mod mcp_connect;
 mod skipped_records;
 mod undrawn_entities;
+mod usage;
@@ -33,12 +33,15 @@ fn replies(out: &Output) -> Vec<Value> {
 #[test]
 fn connect_without_address_fails_before_serving() {
    let input = format!("{INIT}\n{CIRCLE}\n");
-    for args in [&["--connect"][..], &["--connect", ""], &["--connect", "--foo"]] {
+    // clap names an unknown flag rather than the value it left missing.
+    for (args, named) in
+        [(&["--connect"][..], "--connect <HOST:PORT>"), (&["--connect", ""], "--connect <HOST:PORT>"), (&["--connect", "--foo"], "'--foo'")]
+    {
        let out = mcp(args, &input);
-        assert!(!out.status.success(), "{args:?} must exit non-zero");
+        assert_eq!(out.status.code(), Some(2), "{args:?} is a usage error");
        assert!(out.stdout.is_empty(), "{args:?} must not answer MCP requests: {}", String::from_utf8_lossy(&out.stdout));
        let err = String::from_utf8_lossy(&out.stderr);
-        assert!(err.contains("--connect needs HOST:PORT"), "{args:?}: {err}");
+        assert!(err.contains(named), "{args:?}: {err}");
    }
 }

@@ -0,0 +1,950 @@
+//! The command line's behaviour: exit codes, streams and messages for help requests, unknown and
+//! malformed options, value flags in both spellings, repeats and arity. Every case goes through
+//! `invoke`, so the table rows are the record of what each input does. Usage errors are clap's
+//! (exit 2, stderr); a subcommand's own failures are `error: …` with exit 1.
+
+use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
+
+struct Invoke {
+    code: i32,
+    stdout: String,
+    stderr: String,
+}
+
+fn invoke(args: &[&str]) -> Invoke {
+    let (mut out, mut err) = (Vec::new(), Vec::new());
+    let code = cadcraft_cli::run(args, &mut out, &mut err);
+    Invoke { code, stdout: String::from_utf8_lossy(&out).into_owned(), stderr: String::from_utf8_lossy(&err).into_owned() }
+}
+
+/// What a stream holds.
+#[derive(Clone, Copy)]
+enum Expect {
+    Empty,
+    /// The first line equals this.
+    Line(&'static str),
+    /// The first line starts with this.
+    Starts(&'static str),
+}
+
+use Expect::{Empty, Line, Starts};
+
+struct Case {
+    name: &'static str,
+    args: &'static [&'static str],
+    code: i32,
+    stdout: Expect,
+    stderr: Expect,
+}
+
+const fn case(name: &'static str, args: &'static [&'static str], code: i32, stdout: Expect, stderr: Expect) -> Case {
+    Case { name, args, code, stdout, stderr }
+}
+
+/// A scratch directory holding `b.dxf` (the bracket sample) and `s.scr` (a one-line script).
+struct Scratch(PathBuf);
+
+impl Scratch {
+    fn new(tag: &str) -> Scratch {
+        let dir = std::env::temp_dir().join(format!("cc-cli-usage-{tag}-{}", std::process::id()));
+        std::fs::create_dir_all(&dir).expect("create scratch dir");
+        let b = dir.join("b.dxf");
+        let r = invoke(&["sample", "bracket", b.to_str().expect("utf-8 path")]);
+        assert_eq!(r.code, 0, "{}", r.stderr);
+        std::fs::write(dir.join("s.scr"), "LINE 0,0 1,1\n").expect("write script");
+        Scratch(dir)
+    }
+
+    /// Replaces `{dir}` with the scratch directory and `{b}` with the sample drawing.
+    fn expand(&self, text: &str) -> String {
+        let dir = self.0.to_str().expect("utf-8 path");
+        text.replace("{b}", &Path::new(dir).join("b.dxf").to_string_lossy()).replace("{dir}", dir)
+    }
+}
+
+impl Drop for Scratch {
+    fn drop(&mut self) {
+        let _ = std::fs::remove_dir_all(&self.0);
+    }
+}
+
+fn check(what: &str, stream: &str, got: &str, expect: Expect, scratch: &Scratch) {
+    let first = got.lines().next().unwrap_or("");
+    match expect {
+        Empty => assert!(got.is_empty(), "{what}: {stream} should be empty, got {got:?}"),
+        Line(l) => assert_eq!(first, scratch.expand(l), "{what}: {stream}"),
+        Starts(p) => assert!(first.starts_with(&scratch.expand(p)), "{what}: {stream} should start with {p:?}, got {first:?}"),
+    }
+}
+
+fn run_cases(tag: &str, cases: &[Case]) {
+    let scratch = Scratch::new(tag);
+    for c in cases {
+        let args: Vec<String> = c.args.iter().map(|a| scratch.expand(a)).collect();
+        let args: Vec<&str> = args.iter().map(String::as_str).collect();
+        let what = format!("{}: {args:?}", c.name);
+        let r = invoke(&args);
+        assert_eq!(r.code, c.code, "{what}: exit code (stderr {:?})", r.stderr);
+        check(&what, "stdout", &r.stdout, c.stdout, &scratch);
+        check(&what, "stderr", &r.stderr, c.stderr, &scratch);
+    }
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn top_level_requests() {
+    run_cases(
+        "top",
+        &[
+            case("--help", &["--help"], 0, Line("cadcraft-cli: headless CADCraft"), Empty),
+            case("-h", &["-h"], 0, Line("cadcraft-cli: headless CADCraft"), Empty),
+            case("help", &["help"], 0, Line("cadcraft-cli: headless CADCraft"), Empty),
+            case("--version", &["--version"], 0, Starts("cadcraft-cli "), Empty),
+            case("-V", &["-V"], 0, Starts("cadcraft-cli "), Empty),
+            case("version is not a subcommand", &["version"], 2, Empty, Line("error: unrecognized subcommand 'version'")),
+            case("bare", &[], 2, Empty, Line("cadcraft-cli: headless CADCraft")),
+            case("unknown subcommand", &["foo"], 2, Empty, Line("error: unrecognized subcommand 'foo'")),
+            case("unknown top-level flag", &["--bogus"], 2, Empty, Line("error: unexpected argument '--bogus' found")),
+            case("empty subcommand", &[""], 2, Empty, Line("error: unrecognized subcommand ''")),
+        ],
+    );
+}
+
+/// Each subcommand's help, from `--help`, `-h` or `help <subcommand>`: its first line is the
+/// subcommand's summary.
+#[test]
+fn subcommand_help_requests() {
+    run_cases(
+        "subhelp",
+        &[
+            case("info --help", &["info", "--help"], 0, Line("Print a drawing's summary as JSON"), Empty),
+            case("info -h", &["info", "-h"], 0, Line("Print a drawing's summary as JSON"), Empty),
+            case(
+                "convert --help",
+                &["convert", "--help"],
+                0,
+                Line("Convert a drawing; OUT's extension picks the format (dxf, dwg, dwt, svg, png, pdf)"),
+                Empty,
+            ),
+            case(
+                "convert -h",
+                &["convert", "-h"],
+                0,
+                Line("Convert a drawing; OUT's extension picks the format (dxf, dwg, dwt, svg, png, pdf)"),
+                Empty,
+            ),
+            case(
+                "run --help",
+                &["run", "--help"],
+                0,
+                Line("Open drawings (or start a new one), run scripts and commands in order, save or export the result"),
+                Empty,
+            ),
+            case(
+                "run -h",
+                &["run", "-h"],
+                0,
+                Line("Open drawings (or start a new one), run scripts and commands in order, save or export the result"),
+                Empty,
+            ),
+            case("commands --help", &["commands", "--help"], 0, Line("Print the command catalog as JSON"), Empty),
+            case(
+                "mcp --help",
+                &["mcp", "--help"],
+                0,
+                Line("Run the MCP server on stdio: a headless drawing session, or a bridge to the running app"),
+                Empty,
+            ),
+            case(
+                "perf --help",
+                &["perf", "--help"],
+                0,
+                Line(
+                    "Time the engine on a synthetic N-entity drawing (default 200000), or the canvas display-list build of a drawing, zoomed in step by step",
+                ),
+                Empty,
+            ),
+            case("sample --help", &["sample", "--help"], 0, Line("Write a built-in sample drawing"), Empty),
+            case(
+                "help run",
+                &["help", "run"],
+                0,
+                Line("Open drawings (or start a new one), run scripts and commands in order, save or export the result"),
+                Empty,
+            ),
+            case("help info", &["help", "info"], 0, Line("Print a drawing's summary as JSON"), Empty),
+            case(
+                "help after a flag missing its value",
+                &["run", "--sample", "--script", "--help"],
+                0,
+                Line("Open drawings (or start a new one), run scripts and commands in order, save or export the result"),
+                Empty,
+            ),
+            case(
+                "help after an unknown flag",
+                &["run", "--bogus", "--help"],
+                0,
+                Line("Open drawings (or start a new one), run scripts and commands in order, save or export the result"),
+                Empty,
+            ),
+            case("help after an extra argument", &["info", "{b}", "extra", "-h"], 0, Line("Print a drawing's summary as JSON"), Empty),
+            case("--help after -- is a file name", &["run", "--", "--help"], 1, Empty, Starts("error: invalid parameters for `open`: --help:")),
+            case("run --version", &["run", "--version"], 2, Empty, Line("error: unexpected argument '--version' found")),
+            case("info --version", &["info", "--version"], 2, Empty, Line("error: unexpected argument '--version' found")),
+        ],
+    );
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn unknown_flags_on_every_subcommand() {
+    run_cases(
+        "unknown",
+        &[
+            case("info", &["info", "{b}", "--bogus"], 2, Empty, Line("error: unexpected argument '--bogus' found")),
+            case("info, flag first", &["info", "--bogus", "{b}"], 2, Empty, Line("error: unexpected argument '--bogus' found")),
+            case("info, short flag", &["info", "-x"], 2, Empty, Line("error: unexpected argument '-x' found")),
+            case("info, a file name starting with - after --", &["info", "--", "-x"], 1, Empty, Starts("error: invalid parameters for `open`: -x:")),
+            case("convert", &["convert", "{b}", "{dir}/o.svg", "--bogus"], 2, Empty, Line("error: unexpected argument '--bogus' found")),
+            case("run", &["run", "--sample", "--bogus"], 2, Empty, Line("error: unexpected argument '--bogus' found")),
+            case("run, flag first", &["run", "--bogus"], 2, Empty, Line("error: unexpected argument '--bogus' found")),
+            case("commands", &["commands", "--bogus"], 2, Empty, Line("error: unexpected argument '--bogus' found")),
+            case("commands -- ends the options", &["commands", "--"], 0, Line("["), Empty),
+            case("mcp", &["mcp", "--bogus"], 2, Empty, Line("error: unexpected argument '--bogus' found")),
+            case("mcp positional", &["mcp", "extra"], 2, Empty, Line("error: unexpected argument 'extra' found")),
+            case("perf", &["perf", "--bogus"], 2, Empty, Line("error: unexpected argument '--bogus' found")),
+            case("sample", &["sample", "--bogus"], 2, Empty, Line("error: unexpected argument '--bogus' found")),
+            case("sample after name", &["sample", "bracket", "--bogus"], 2, Empty, Line("error: unexpected argument '--bogus' found")),
+        ],
+    );
+}
+
+/// `--x=v` is a spelling of `--x v`, and the one a value starting with `-` needs.
+#[test]
+fn value_flags_in_both_forms() {
+    run_cases(
+        "forms",
+        &[
+            case("--window v", &["convert", "{b}", "{dir}/w1.svg", "--window", "0,0,100,100"], 0, Empty, Starts("wrote {dir}/w1.svg (")),
+            case("--window=v", &["convert", "{b}", "{dir}/w2.svg", "--window=0,0,100,100"], 0, Empty, Starts("wrote {dir}/w2.svg (")),
+            case(
+                "run --window v",
+                &["run", "--sample", "--window", "0,0,100,100", "--export", "{dir}/w3.svg"],
+                0,
+                Empty,
+                Starts("wrote {dir}/w3.svg ("),
+            ),
+            case(
+                "run --window=v",
+                &["run", "--sample", "--window=0,0,100,100", "--export", "{dir}/w4.svg"],
+                0,
+                Empty,
+                Starts("wrote {dir}/w4.svg ("),
+            ),
+            case("--view v", &["convert", "{b}", "{dir}/v1.svg", "--view", "extents"], 0, Empty, Starts("wrote {dir}/v1.svg (")),
+            case("--view=v", &["convert", "{b}", "{dir}/v2.svg", "--view=extents"], 0, Empty, Starts("wrote {dir}/v2.svg (")),
+            case("run --view v", &["run", "--sample", "--view", "current", "--export", "{dir}/v3.svg"], 0, Empty, Starts("wrote {dir}/v3.svg (")),
+            case("run --view=v", &["run", "--sample", "--view=extents", "--export={dir}/v4.svg"], 0, Empty, Starts("wrote {dir}/v4.svg (")),
+            case("--script v", &["run", "--sample", "--script", "LINE 0,0 1,1"], 0, Empty, Line("Command: LINE")),
+            case("--script=v", &["run", "--sample", "--script=LINE 0,0 1,1"], 0, Empty, Line("Command: LINE")),
+            case("--script-file v", &["run", "--sample", "--script-file", "{dir}/s.scr"], 0, Empty, Starts("Command: LINE")),
+            case("--script-file=v", &["run", "--sample", "--script-file={dir}/s.scr"], 0, Empty, Starts("Command: LINE")),
+            case("--cmd v", &["run", "--sample", "--cmd", "nosuch"], 1, Empty, Line("error: unknown command `nosuch`")),
+            case("--cmd=v", &["run", "--sample", "--cmd=nosuch"], 1, Empty, Line("error: unknown command `nosuch`")),
+            case("--cmd=-v", &["run", "--sample", "--cmd=-x"], 1, Empty, Line("error: unknown command `-x`")),
+            case("--save v", &["run", "--sample", "--save", "{dir}/s1.dxf"], 0, Empty, Starts("wrote {dir}/s1.dxf (")),
+            case("--save=v", &["run", "--sample", "--save={dir}/s2.dxf"], 0, Empty, Starts("wrote {dir}/s2.dxf (")),
+            case("--export v", &["run", "--sample", "--export", "{dir}/e1.svg"], 0, Empty, Starts("wrote {dir}/e1.svg (")),
+            case("--export=v", &["run", "--sample", "--export={dir}/e2.svg"], 0, Empty, Starts("wrote {dir}/e2.svg (")),
+            case(
+                "--window=-v: negative coordinates need =",
+                &["convert", "{b}", "{dir}/w5.svg", "--window=-1000,-1000,1000,1000"],
+                0,
+                Empty,
+                Starts("wrote {dir}/w5.svg ("),
+            ),
+            case(
+                "--window -v: a value starting with - is a flag",
+                &["convert", "{b}", "{dir}/w6.svg", "--window", "-1000,-1000,1000,1000"],
+                2,
+                Empty,
+                Line("error: unexpected argument '-1' found"),
+            ),
+            case("--connect v", &["mcp", "--connect", "127.0.0.1:1"], 1, Empty, Starts("error: cannot connect to 127.0.0.1:1:")),
+            case("--connect=v", &["mcp", "--connect=127.0.0.1:1"], 1, Empty, Starts("error: cannot connect to 127.0.0.1:1:")),
+        ],
+    );
+}
+
+/// A value flag at the end of the arguments, or followed by another flag, is missing its value:
+/// a flag is never taken as a value.
+#[test]
+fn flags_missing_their_value() {
+    run_cases(
+        "missing",
+        &[
+            case(
+                "convert --window last",
+                &["convert", "{b}", "{dir}/o.svg", "--window"],
+                2,
+                Empty,
+                Line("error: a value is required for '--window <x0,y0,x1,y1>' but none was supplied"),
+            ),
+            case(
+                "convert --view last",
+                &["convert", "{b}", "{dir}/o.svg", "--view"],
+                2,
+                Empty,
+                Line("error: a value is required for '--view <extents|current>' but none was supplied"),
+            ),
+            case(
+                "convert --window then flag",
+                &["convert", "{b}", "{dir}/o.svg", "--window", "--view", "extents"],
+                2,
+                Empty,
+                Line("error: a value is required for '--window <x0,y0,x1,y1>' but none was supplied"),
+            ),
+            case(
+                "convert --view then flag",
+                &["convert", "{b}", "{dir}/o.svg", "--view", "--window", "0,0,1,1"],
+                2,
+                Empty,
+                Line("error: a value is required for '--view <extents|current>' but none was supplied"),
+            ),
+            case(
+                "run --window last",
+                &["run", "--sample", "--window"],
+                2,
+                Empty,
+                Line("error: a value is required for '--window <x0,y0,x1,y1>' but none was supplied"),
+            ),
+            case(
+                "run --view last",
+                &["run", "--sample", "--view"],
+                2,
+                Empty,
+                Line("error: a value is required for '--view <extents|current>' but none was supplied"),
+            ),
+            case(
+                "run --script last",
+                &["run", "--sample", "--script"],
+                2,
+                Empty,
+                Line("error: a value is required for '--script <TEXT>' but none was supplied"),
+            ),
+            case(
+                "run --script then flag",
+                &["run", "--sample", "--script", "--sample"],
+                2,
+                Empty,
+                Line("error: a value is required for '--script <TEXT>' but none was supplied"),
+            ),
+            case(
+                "run --script-file last",
+                &["run", "--script-file"],
+                2,
+                Empty,
+                Line("error: a value is required for '--script-file <F.scr>' but none was supplied"),
+            ),
+            case(
+                "run --script-file then flag",
+                &["run", "--sample", "--script-file", "--sample"],
+                2,
+                Empty,
+                Line("error: a value is required for '--script-file <F.scr>' but none was supplied"),
+            ),
+            case(
+                "run --cmd last",
+                &["run", "--sample", "--cmd"],
+                2,
+                Empty,
+                Line("error: a value is required for '--cmd <id {json}>' but none was supplied"),
+            ),
+            case(
+                "run --cmd then flag",
+                &["run", "--sample", "--cmd", "--sample"],
+                2,
+                Empty,
+                Line("error: a value is required for '--cmd <id {json}>' but none was supplied"),
+            ),
+            case(
+                "run --save last",
+                &["run", "--sample", "--save"],
+                2,
+                Empty,
+                Line("error: a value is required for '--save <OUT.dxf>' but none was supplied"),
+            ),
+            case(
+                "run --export last",
+                &["run", "--sample", "--export"],
+                2,
+                Empty,
+                Line("error: a value is required for '--export <OUT.png>' but none was supplied"),
+            ),
+            case(
+                "mcp --connect last",
+                &["mcp", "--connect"],
+                2,
+                Empty,
+                Line("error: a value is required for '--connect <HOST:PORT>' but none was supplied"),
+            ),
+            case(
+                "mcp --connect then flag",
+                &["mcp", "--connect", "--lazy"],
+                2,
+                Empty,
+                Line("error: a value is required for '--connect <HOST:PORT>' but none was supplied"),
+            ),
+            case(
+                "mcp --connect empty",
+                &["mcp", "--connect", " "],
+                2,
+                Empty,
+                Line("error: invalid value ' ' for '--connect <HOST:PORT>': expected HOST:PORT (the app's --control port, e.g. 127.0.0.1:7979)"),
+            ),
+            case(
+                "mcp --connect without a port",
+                &["mcp", "--connect", "example.com"],
+                2,
+                Empty,
+                Line(
+                    "error: invalid value 'example.com' for '--connect <HOST:PORT>': expected HOST:PORT (the app's --control port, e.g. 127.0.0.1:7979)",
+                ),
+            ),
+            case(
+                "mcp --connect port out of range",
+                &["mcp", "--connect", "host:99999"],
+                2,
+                Empty,
+                Line(
+                    "error: invalid value 'host:99999' for '--connect <HOST:PORT>': expected HOST:PORT (the app's --control port, e.g. 127.0.0.1:7979)",
+                ),
+            ),
+            case(
+                "mcp --connect=-v",
+                &["mcp", "--connect=-v"],
+                2,
+                Empty,
+                Line("error: invalid value '-v' for '--connect <HOST:PORT>': expected HOST:PORT (the app's --control port, e.g. 127.0.0.1:7979)"),
+            ),
+        ],
+    );
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn repeated_and_combined_flags() {
+    run_cases(
+        "repeat",
+        &[
+            case(
+                "--save twice",
+                &["run", "--sample", "--save", "{dir}/a.dxf", "--save", "{dir}/b2.dxf"],
+                2,
+                Empty,
+                Line("error: the argument '--save <OUT.dxf>' cannot be used multiple times"),
+            ),
+            case(
+                "--export twice",
+                &["run", "--sample", "--export", "{dir}/x1.svg", "--export", "{dir}/x2.svg"],
+                2,
+                Empty,
+                Line("error: the argument '--export <OUT.png>' cannot be used multiple times"),
+            ),
+            case(
+                "--window twice",
+                &["run", "--sample", "--window", "0,0,1,1", "--window", "0,0,2,2", "--export", "{dir}/ww.svg"],
+                2,
+                Empty,
+                Line("error: the argument '--window <x0,y0,x1,y1>' cannot be used multiple times"),
+            ),
+            case(
+                "convert --window twice",
+                &["convert", "{b}", "{dir}/cw.svg", "--window", "0,0,1,1", "--window", "0,0,2,2"],
+                2,
+                Empty,
+                Line("error: the argument '--window <x0,y0,x1,y1>' cannot be used multiple times"),
+            ),
+            case(
+                "--view twice, different",
+                &["run", "--sample", "--view", "extents", "--view", "current", "--export", "{dir}/vv.svg"],
+                2,
+                Empty,
+                Line("error: the argument '--view <extents|current>' cannot be used multiple times"),
+            ),
+            case(
+                "--view twice, same",
+                &["run", "--sample", "--view", "extents", "--view", "extents", "--export", "{dir}/vs.svg"],
+                2,
+                Empty,
+                Line("error: the argument '--view <extents|current>' cannot be used multiple times"),
+            ),
+            case("--sample twice", &["run", "--sample", "--sample"], 2, Empty, Line("error: the argument '--sample' cannot be used multiple times")),
+            case("--metric twice", &["run", "--metric", "--metric"], 2, Empty, Line("error: the argument '--metric' cannot be used multiple times")),
+            case(
+                "--lazy twice",
+                &["mcp", "--connect", "127.0.0.1:1", "--lazy", "--lazy"],
+                2,
+                Empty,
+                Line("error: the argument '--lazy' cannot be used multiple times"),
+            ),
+            case(
+                "--launch twice",
+                &["mcp", "--connect", "127.0.0.1:1", "--launch", "--launch"],
+                2,
+                Empty,
+                Line("error: the argument '--launch' cannot be used multiple times"),
+            ),
+            case(
+                "--script, --script-file and --cmd repeat",
+                &[
+                    "run",
+                    "--sample",
+                    "--script",
+                    "LINE 0,0 1,1",
+                    "--script",
+                    "LINE 0,0 2,2",
+                    "--script-file",
+                    "{dir}/s.scr",
+                    "--script-file",
+                    "{dir}/s.scr",
+                ],
+                0,
+                Empty,
+                Starts("Command: LINE"),
+            ),
+            case(
+                "--window and --view",
+                &["run", "--sample", "--window", "0,0,1,1", "--view", "extents", "--export", "{dir}/wv.svg"],
+                2,
+                Empty,
+                Line("error: the argument '--window <x0,y0,x1,y1>' cannot be used with '--view <extents|current>'"),
+            ),
+            case(
+                "convert --window and --view",
+                &["convert", "{b}", "{dir}/cwv.svg", "--window", "0,0,1,1", "--view", "extents"],
+                2,
+                Empty,
+                Line("error: the argument '--window <x0,y0,x1,y1>' cannot be used with '--view <extents|current>'"),
+            ),
+            case(
+                "--view is case-insensitive",
+                &["run", "--sample", "--view", "EXTENTS", "--export", "{dir}/vu.svg"],
+                0,
+                Empty,
+                Starts("wrote {dir}/vu.svg ("),
+            ),
+            case(
+                "--connect twice",
+                &["mcp", "--connect", "127.0.0.1:1", "--connect", "127.0.0.1:2"],
+                2,
+                Empty,
+                Line("error: the argument '--connect <HOST:PORT>' cannot be used multiple times"),
+            ),
+            case("--lazy without --connect", &["mcp", "--lazy"], 2, Empty, Line("error: the following required arguments were not provided:")),
+            case("--launch without --connect", &["mcp", "--launch"], 2, Empty, Line("error: the following required arguments were not provided:")),
+            case("--sample --metric: both accepted", &["run", "--sample", "--metric"], 0, Empty, Empty),
+            case("--sample and a file", &["run", "--sample", "{b}"], 0, Empty, Empty),
+            case("two files", &["run", "{b}", "{b}"], 0, Empty, Empty),
+            case(
+                "--window without export",
+                &["run", "--sample", "--window", "0,0,1,1"],
+                2,
+                Empty,
+                Line("error: the following required arguments were not provided:"),
+            ),
+            case(
+                "--view without export",
+                &["run", "--sample", "--view", "current"],
+                2,
+                Empty,
+                Line("error: the following required arguments were not provided:"),
+            ),
+            case(
+                "--window with a dxf output",
+                &["convert", "{b}", "{dir}/o.dxf", "--window", "0,0,1,1"],
+                2,
+                Empty,
+                Line("error: --window only applies to image output (png, svg, pdf), not `{dir}/o.dxf`"),
+            ),
+            case(
+                "--view with a dxf output",
+                &["convert", "{b}", "{dir}/o.dxf", "--view", "extents"],
+                2,
+                Empty,
+                Line("error: --view only applies to image output (png, svg, pdf), not `{dir}/o.dxf`"),
+            ),
+            case(
+                "run --window with a dxf export",
+                &["run", "--sample", "--window", "0,0,1,1", "--export", "{dir}/o.dxf"],
+                2,
+                Empty,
+                Line("error: --window only applies to image output (png, svg, pdf), not `{dir}/o.dxf`"),
+            ),
+            case(
+                "run --view with a dxf export",
+                &["run", "--sample", "--view", "current", "--export", "{dir}/o.dxf"],
+                2,
+                Empty,
+                Line("error: --view only applies to image output (png, svg, pdf), not `{dir}/o.dxf`"),
+            ),
+        ],
+    );
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn arity_and_positional_arguments() {
+    run_cases(
+        "arity",
+        &[
+            case("info without a file", &["info"], 2, Empty, Line("error: the following required arguments were not provided:")),
+            case("info with two files", &["info", "{b}", "extra"], 2, Empty, Line("error: unexpected argument 'extra' found")),
+            case("info missing file", &["info", "missing.dxf"], 1, Empty, Starts("error: invalid parameters for `open`: missing.dxf:")),
+            case("convert with no files", &["convert"], 2, Empty, Line("error: the following required arguments were not provided:")),
+            case("convert with one file", &["convert", "{b}"], 2, Empty, Line("error: the following required arguments were not provided:")),
+            case(
+                "convert with three files",
+                &["convert", "{b}", "{dir}/o.svg", "{dir}/x.svg"],
+                2,
+                Empty,
+                Line("error: unexpected argument '{dir}/x.svg' found"),
+            ),
+            case("run missing file", &["run", "missing.dxf"], 1, Empty, Starts("error: invalid parameters for `open`: missing.dxf:")),
+            case("commands, no match", &["commands", "zzzznomatch"], 0, Line("[]"), Empty),
+            case(
+                "commands with an extra argument",
+                &["commands", "zzzznomatch", "extra"],
+                2,
+                Empty,
+                Line("error: unexpected argument 'extra' found"),
+            ),
+            case("sample without arguments", &["sample"], 2, Empty, Line("error: the following required arguments were not provided:")),
+            case("sample without an output", &["sample", "bracket"], 2, Empty, Line("error: the following required arguments were not provided:")),
+            case(
+                "sample with a bad name",
+                &["sample", "nosuch", "{dir}/o.dxf"],
+                2,
+                Empty,
+                Line("error: invalid value 'nosuch' for '<bracket|floorplan>'"),
+            ),
+            case(
+                "sample names are case-sensitive",
+                &["sample", "Bracket", "{dir}/o.dxf"],
+                2,
+                Empty,
+                Line("error: invalid value 'Bracket' for '<bracket|floorplan>'"),
+            ),
+            case(
+                "sample with an empty output",
+                &["sample", "bracket", ""],
+                2,
+                Empty,
+                Line("error: a value is required for '<OUT>' but none was supplied"),
+            ),
+            case("info with an empty file name", &["info", ""], 2, Empty, Line("error: a value is required for '<FILE>' but none was supplied")),
+            case("perf with an empty file name", &["perf", ""], 2, Empty, Line("error: a value is required for '[N|FILE]' but none was supplied")),
+            case(
+                "sample with an extra argument",
+                &["sample", "bracket", "{dir}/sx.dxf", "extra"],
+                2,
+                Empty,
+                Line("error: unexpected argument 'extra' found"),
+            ),
+            case("sample floor alias", &["sample", "floor", "{dir}/sf.dxf"], 0, Empty, Starts("wrote {dir}/sf.dxf (")),
+            case("sample with a bad extension", &["sample", "bracket", "{dir}/o.xyz"], 1, Empty, Line("error: unsupported file type `xyz`")),
+            case("perf with a word", &["perf", "abc"], 1, Empty, Starts("error: invalid parameters for `open`: abc:")),
+            case("perf with a negative number", &["perf", "-5"], 2, Empty, Line("error: unexpected argument '-5' found")),
+            case("perf with a missing file", &["perf", "missing.dxf"], 1, Empty, Starts("error: invalid parameters for `open`: missing.dxf:")),
+            case("perf 1", &["perf", "1"], 0, Starts("operation"), Empty),
+            case("perf 0 is raised to 1", &["perf", "0"], 0, Starts("operation"), Empty),
+            case("perf with two counts", &["perf", "1", "2"], 2, Empty, Line("error: unexpected argument '2' found")),
+        ],
+    );
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn bad_values() {
+    run_cases(
+        "values",
+        &[
+            case(
+                "--view sideways",
+                &["convert", "{b}", "{dir}/o.svg", "--view", "sideways"],
+                2,
+                Empty,
+                Line("error: invalid value 'sideways' for '--view <extents|current>'"),
+            ),
+            case(
+                "run --view sideways",
+                &["run", "--sample", "--view", "sideways"],
+                2,
+                Empty,
+                Line("error: invalid value 'sideways' for '--view <extents|current>'"),
+            ),
+            case(
+                "--view sideways before the output check",
+                &["convert", "{b}", "{dir}/o.dxf", "--view", "sideways"],
+                2,
+                Empty,
+                Line("error: invalid value 'sideways' for '--view <extents|current>'"),
+            ),
+            case(
+                "--window 3 numbers",
+                &["convert", "{b}", "{dir}/o.svg", "--window", "1,2,3"],
+                2,
+                Empty,
+                Line("error: invalid value '1,2,3' for '--window <x0,y0,x1,y1>': expected four numbers x0,y0,x1,y1"),
+            ),
+            case(
+                "--window 5 numbers",
+                &["convert", "{b}", "{dir}/o.svg", "--window", "1,2,3,4,5"],
+                2,
+                Empty,
+                Line("error: invalid value '1,2,3,4,5' for '--window <x0,y0,x1,y1>': expected four numbers x0,y0,x1,y1"),
+            ),
+            case(
+                "--window reversed",
+                &["convert", "{b}", "{dir}/o.svg", "--window", "3,3,1,1"],
+                2,
+                Empty,
+                Line("error: invalid value '3,3,1,1' for '--window <x0,y0,x1,y1>': need x0 < x1 and y0 < y1 (lower-left corner first)"),
+            ),
+            case(
+                "--window not numbers",
+                &["convert", "{b}", "{dir}/o.svg", "--window", "a,b,c,d"],
+                2,
+                Empty,
+                Line("error: invalid value 'a,b,c,d' for '--window <x0,y0,x1,y1>': x0 must be a finite number, got `a`"),
+            ),
+            case(
+                "--window NaN",
+                &["convert", "{b}", "{dir}/o.svg", "--window", "NaN,0,1,1"],
+                2,
+                Empty,
+                Line("error: invalid value 'NaN,0,1,1' for '--window <x0,y0,x1,y1>': x0 must be a finite number, got `NaN`"),
+            ),
+            case(
+                "--window too large",
+                &["convert", "{b}", "{dir}/o.svg", "--window", "0,0,1e13,1"],
+                2,
+                Empty,
+                Line("error: invalid value '0,0,1e13,1' for '--window <x0,y0,x1,y1>': export window: coordinates must lie within ±1e12"),
+            ),
+            case(
+                "run --window 3 numbers",
+                &["run", "--sample", "--window", "1,2,3", "--export", "{dir}/o.svg"],
+                2,
+                Empty,
+                Line("error: invalid value '1,2,3' for '--window <x0,y0,x1,y1>': expected four numbers x0,y0,x1,y1"),
+            ),
+            case(
+                "run --window reversed",
+                &["run", "--sample", "--window", "3,3,1,1", "--export", "{dir}/o.svg"],
+                2,
+                Empty,
+                Line("error: invalid value '3,3,1,1' for '--window <x0,y0,x1,y1>': need x0 < x1 and y0 < y1 (lower-left corner first)"),
+            ),
+            case(
+                "--cmd bad json",
+                &["run", "--sample", "--cmd", "line {bad json"],
+                2,
+                Empty,
+                Line("error: invalid value 'line {bad json' for '--cmd <id {json}>': key must be a string at line 1 column 2"),
+            ),
+            case(
+                "--cmd bad json after a good step: nothing runs",
+                &["run", "--sample", "--cmd", "line {\"points\":[[0,0],[1,1]]}", "--cmd", "line {"],
+                2,
+                Empty,
+                Starts("error: invalid value 'line {' for '--cmd <id {json}>': "),
+            ),
+            case(
+                "--cmd without an id",
+                &["run", "--sample", "--cmd", " {}"],
+                2,
+                Empty,
+                Line("error: invalid value ' {}' for '--cmd <id {json}>': expected a command id, then optionally its JSON parameters"),
+            ),
+            case(
+                "--cmd empty",
+                &["run", "--sample", "--cmd="],
+                2,
+                Empty,
+                Line("error: invalid value '' for '--cmd <id {json}>': expected a command id, then optionally its JSON parameters"),
+            ),
+            case("--cmd unknown id", &["run", "--sample", "--cmd", "nosuch"], 1, Empty, Line("error: unknown command `nosuch`")),
+            case(
+                "--cmd {last} with no earlier handle",
+                &["run", "--sample", "--cmd", "erase {\"handles\":[\"{last}\"]}"],
+                1,
+                Empty,
+                Line("error: --cmd erase: `{last}` needs an earlier --cmd in this run to have returned a handle"),
+            ),
+            case("--script-file missing", &["run", "--sample", "--script-file", "missing.scr"], 1, Empty, Starts("error: missing.scr:")),
+        ],
+    );
+}
+
+/// `mcp` serves on the process's real stdin and stdout, so the headless server runs through the
+/// binary, with a closed stdin.
+#[test]
+fn mcp_headless_with_a_closed_stdin() {
+    let out = std::process::Command::new(env!("CARGO_BIN_EXE_cadcraft-cli"))
+        .arg("mcp")
+        .stdin(std::process::Stdio::null())
+        .output()
+        .expect("run cadcraft-cli");
+    assert_eq!(out.status.code(), Some(0));
+    assert!(out.stdout.is_empty() && out.stderr.is_empty());
+}
+
+/// A drawing to open whose name isn't valid Unicode reaches the handler as a path; the engine opens
+/// files by text name, so it is refused there (exit 1), naming the file. Text that isn't Unicode is
+/// a usage error.
+#[cfg(unix)]
+#[test]
+fn non_unicode_arguments() {
+    use std::ffi::OsString;
+    use std::os::unix::ffi::OsStringExt;
+    let invoke_os = |args: Vec<OsString>| {
+        let (mut out, mut err) = (Vec::new(), Vec::new());
+        let code = cadcraft_cli::run(args, &mut out, &mut err);
+        assert!(out.is_empty());
+        (code, String::from_utf8_lossy(&err).into_owned())
+    };
+    let latin1 = || OsString::from_vec(b"caf\xe9.dxf".to_vec());
+    let (code, err) = invoke_os(vec![OsString::from("info"), latin1()]);
+    assert_eq!(code, 1);
+    assert_eq!(err.lines().next(), Some("error: caf\u{FFFD}.dxf: the file name is not valid Unicode"));
+    let (code, err) = invoke_os(vec![OsString::from("run"), OsString::from("--sample"), OsString::from("--cmd"), latin1()]);
+    assert_eq!(code, 2);
+    assert!(err.starts_with("error: invalid UTF-8 was detected"), "{err}");
+}
+
+/// An output name that isn't valid Unicode is written as given: only its extension picks the format.
+#[cfg(unix)]
+#[test]
+fn non_unicode_output_names() {
+    use std::ffi::OsString;
+    use std::os::unix::ffi::OsStringExt;
+    let s = Scratch::new("nonunicode-out");
+    let latin1 = |ext: &str| {
+        let mut n = b"caf\xe9.".to_vec();
+        n.extend_from_slice(ext.as_bytes());
+        s.0.join(OsString::from_vec(n))
+    };
+    let run = |args: Vec<OsString>| {
+        let (mut out, mut err) = (Vec::new(), Vec::new());
+        let code = cadcraft_cli::run(args, &mut out, &mut err);
+        (code, String::from_utf8_lossy(&err).into_owned())
+    };
+    let b = s.0.join("b.dxf");
+    let cases: [(Vec<OsString>, std::path::PathBuf); 3] = [
+        (vec!["sample".into(), "bracket".into(), latin1("dxf").into()], latin1("dxf")),
+        (vec!["convert".into(), b.clone().into(), latin1("svg").into()], latin1("svg")),
+        (vec!["run".into(), "--sample".into(), "--save".into(), latin1("dwg").into()], latin1("dwg")),
+    ];
+    for (args, path) in cases {
+        let (code, err) = run(args.clone());
+        assert_eq!(code, 0, "{args:?}: {err}");
+        assert!(path.exists(), "{path:?}");
+        assert!(std::fs::metadata(&path).expect("stat output").len() > 0, "{path:?}");
+    }
+    // An input with such a name is still refused.
+    let (code, err) = run(vec!["info".into(), latin1("dxf").into()]);
+    assert_eq!(code, 1);
+    assert!(err.contains("not valid Unicode"), "{err}");
+}
+
+/// An output that is an input file is refused before any work (exit 2, the input untouched) unless
+/// `--in-place` allows it; the same file under another spelling counts, another existing file doesn't.
+#[test]
+fn output_that_replaces_an_input() {
+    let s = Scratch::new("inplace");
+    let dir = s.0.to_str().expect("utf-8 path").to_string();
+    let b = format!("{dir}/b.dxf");
+    let original = std::fs::read(&b).expect("read input");
+    std::fs::create_dir_all(format!("{dir}/sub")).expect("create sub");
+    let dotted = format!("{dir}/sub/../b.dxf");
+    #[allow(unused_mut)]
+    let mut spellings = vec![b.clone(), dotted];
+    #[cfg(unix)]
+    {
+        let link = format!("{dir}/link.dxf");
+        std::os::unix::fs::symlink(&b, &link).expect("symlink");
+        spellings.push(link);
+    }
+    for out in &spellings {
+        for args in [vec!["convert", &b, out], vec!["run", &b, "--save", out], vec!["run", &b, "--export", out]] {
+            let r = invoke(&args);
+            assert_eq!(r.code, 2, "{args:?}: {}", r.stderr);
+            assert!(r.stdout.is_empty(), "{args:?}");
+            assert!(r.stderr.starts_with(&format!("error: {out} is an input file")), "{args:?}: {}", r.stderr);
+            assert!(r.stderr.contains("--in-place"), "{args:?}: {}", r.stderr);
+            assert_eq!(std::fs::read(&b).expect("read input"), original, "{args:?}: input changed");
+        }
+    }
+
+    // Another existing file is replaced as before.
+    let other = format!("{dir}/other.dxf");
+    std::fs::write(&other, "x").expect("write other");
+    let r = invoke(&["convert", &b, &other]);
+    assert_eq!(r.code, 0, "{}", r.stderr);
+    assert_ne!(std::fs::read(&other).expect("read other"), b"x");
+
+    // --in-place allows it, for each spelling and flag: the input itself is rewritten, and a
+    // symlink stays a link to it.
+    let line = "line {\"points\":[[0,0],[1,1]]}";
+    let lines = |p: &str| std::fs::read_to_string(p).expect("read input").lines().filter(|l| l.trim_end() == "LINE").count();
+    let before = lines(&b);
+    for out in &spellings {
+        std::fs::write(&b, &original).expect("restore input");
+        let r = invoke(&["convert", &b, out, "--in-place"]);
+        assert_eq!(r.code, 0, "convert {out}: {}", r.stderr);
+        assert_eq!(lines(&b), before, "convert {out} keeps the drawing");
+        for flag in ["--save", "--export"] {
+            std::fs::write(&b, &original).expect("restore input");
+            let r = invoke(&["run", &b, "--cmd", line, "--in-place", flag, out]);
+            assert_eq!(r.code, 0, "{flag} {out}: {}", r.stderr);
+            assert_eq!(lines(&b), before + 1, "{flag} {out}: the input gains the line");
+        }
+    }
+    #[cfg(unix)]
+    {
+        let link = format!("{dir}/link.dxf");
+        assert!(std::fs::symlink_metadata(&link).expect("stat link").file_type().is_symlink(), "{link} is still a symlink");
+    }
+
+    // An output that doesn't exist yet is never an input.
+    let new = format!("{dir}/new.dxf");
+    let r = invoke(&["run", &b, "--save", &new]);
+    assert_eq!(r.code, 0, "{}", r.stderr);
+    assert!(std::path::Path::new(&new).is_file(), "{new} written");
+}
+
+/// JSON results are pretty-printed; `--compact` puts each on one line (RFC-0012 rule 1.3). `run`
+/// prints one line per `--cmd` result either way.
+#[test]
+fn json_output_is_pretty_unless_compact() {
+    let s = Scratch::new("compact");
+    let b = format!("{}/b.dxf", s.0.to_str().expect("utf-8 path"));
+    for args in [&["info", b.as_str()][..], &["commands", "ellipse"]] {
+        let help = invoke(&[args[0], "--help"]);
+        assert!(
+            help.stdout.contains("--compact") && help.stdout.contains("One line of JSON instead of pretty-printed"),
+            "{} --help: {}",
+            args[0],
+            help.stdout
+        );
+        let pretty = invoke(args);
+        assert_eq!(pretty.code, 0, "{args:?}: {}", pretty.stderr);
+        assert!(pretty.stdout.lines().count() > 1, "{args:?} is pretty-printed: {}", pretty.stdout);
+        let compact = invoke(&[args, &["--compact"]].concat());
+        assert_eq!(compact.code, 0, "{args:?} --compact: {}", compact.stderr);
+        assert_eq!(compact.stdout.lines().count(), 1, "{args:?} --compact is one line: {}", compact.stdout);
+        let a: serde_json::Value = serde_json::from_str(&pretty.stdout).expect("pretty JSON");
+        let c: serde_json::Value = serde_json::from_str(&compact.stdout).expect("compact JSON");
+        assert_eq!(a, c, "{args:?}: same JSON either way");
+    }
+    let r = invoke(&["run", "--sample", "--cmd", "drawing.inspect", "--cmd", "drawing.inspect"]);
+    assert_eq!(r.code, 0, "{}", r.stderr);
+    assert_eq!(r.stdout.lines().count(), 2, "one line per --cmd result: {}", r.stdout);
+    assert_eq!(invoke(&["run", "--sample", "--compact"]).code, 2, "run takes no --compact");
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+//! The clap definition is consistent, and `examples/man-and-completions.rs` writes every shell's
+//! completions and every man page under the names `packaging/linux/package.sh` installs.
+
+// The example itself, so the test runs its code; its `main` is unused here.
+#[allow(dead_code)]
+#[path = "../examples/man-and-completions.rs"]
+mod example;
+
+#[test]
+fn command_is_consistent() {
+    cadcraft_cli::command().debug_assert();
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn the_example_writes_the_files_the_packages_install() {
+    let dir = std::path::Path::new(env!("CARGO_TARGET_TMPDIR")).join(format!("man-and-completions-{}", std::process::id()));
+    let _ = std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir);
+    example::generate(&dir).unwrap();
+
+    let mut written: Vec<String> = std::fs::read_dir(&dir).unwrap().map(|e| e.unwrap().file_name().into_string().unwrap()).collect();
+    written.sort();
+    let completions = ["cadcraft-cli.bash", "_cadcraft-cli", "cadcraft-cli.fish", "cadcraft-cli.elv", "_cadcraft-cli.ps1"];
+    let subcommands = ["info", "convert", "run", "commands", "mcp", "perf", "sample"];
+    let mut expected: Vec<String> = completions.map(String::from).into();
+    expected.push("cadcraft-cli.1".into());
+    expected.extend(subcommands.iter().map(|s| format!("cadcraft-cli-{s}.1")));
+    expected.sort();
+    assert_eq!(written, expected);
+    std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir).unwrap();
+}
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ description = "CADCraft in the browser (eframe web runner, WebGPU with WebGL2 fa
 version.workspace = true
 edition.workspace = true
 license.workspace = true
+rust-version = "1.95"
 publish = false

 [lints]
@@ -26,7 +27,7 @@ serde_json = { workspace = true }
 web-sys = { version = "0.3", features = ["HtmlInputElement", "FileList", "File"] }

 [target.'cfg(target_arch = "wasm32")'.dependencies]
-eframe = { workspace = true, features = ["persistence", "default_fonts", "wgpu", "accesskit"] }
+eframe = { workspace = true, features = ["persistence", "wgpu", "accesskit"] }
 wasm-bindgen = "0.2"
 wasm-bindgen-futures = "0.4"
 web-sys = { version = "0.3", features = ["Window", "Document", "Element", "HtmlElement", "HtmlCanvasElement", "HtmlAnchorElement", "Location", "Navigator", "Blob", "BlobPropertyBag", "Url", "MessageEvent", "UrlSearchParams", "MediaQueryList"] }
@@ -95,7 +95,8 @@ impl Bridge {
        }
    }

-    /// After each frame: tell the parent when unsaved changes appear or go away.
+    /// After each logic callback (including a hidden tab's): tell the parent when unsaved changes
+    /// appear or go away. `DirtyReport` suppresses duplicates, so this is idempotent.
    pub fn report_dirty(&self, app: &CadApp, reported: &DirtyReport) {
        let dirty = app.session.docs.iter().any(|d| d.is_dirty());
        if reported.0.get() != Some(dirty) && self.send(&[("type", "cadcraft:dirty".into()), ("dirty", dirty.into())]) {
@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ pub mod download;
 #[cfg(target_arch = "wasm32")]
 mod host;

+#[cfg(any(target_arch = "wasm32", test))]
+mod panel_layout;
+
 #[cfg(target_arch = "wasm32")]
 mod web {
    use cadcraft_engine::Session;
@@ -41,33 +44,45 @@ mod web {
        /// document title when it changed (so the tab and an embedding page name the open
        /// drawing), and reports unsaved changes to that page.
        fn logic(&mut self, ctx: &egui::Context, _frame: &mut eframe::Frame) {
-            self.1.take_dropped(ctx);
+            // Background reads are consume-based and run on hidden ticks too. Dropped files are
+            // input and are read from `ui` only.
            self.1.drain(&mut self.0);
            self.0.system_animations = self.3.as_ref().map(|reduced| !reduced.matches());
            self.0.logic(ctx);
            let drawing = self.0.session.state().ok();
            crate::push_title(&mut self.4, drawing.map(|d| d.title.as_str()), drawing.is_some_and(|d| d.is_dirty()), set_page_title);
+            // `DirtyReport` suppresses duplicates, so reporting after every logic callback
+            // (including a hidden tab's) is idempotent and keeps the parent's guard current.
            if let Some((bridge, reported)) = &self.2 {
                bridge.report_dirty(&self.0, reported);
            }
        }
+        /// Forward raw input to the web `CadApp` and capture Tab at the command line.
        fn raw_input_hook(&mut self, ctx: &egui::Context, raw: &mut egui::RawInput) {
-            self.0.raw_input_hook(raw);
+            self.0.raw_input_hook(ctx, raw);
            cadcraft_ui_egui::cmdline::capture_tab(ctx, raw);
        }
-        /// Preferences (interface theme and language) survive reloads; egui state is not kept.
+        /// Preferences and validated panel placement survive reloads; egui memory is not kept.
        fn save(&mut self, storage: &mut dyn eframe::Storage) {
            storage.set_string(cadcraft_ui_egui::options::PROFILE_KEY, self.0.profile_json());
            storage.set_string(cadcraft_ui_egui::PREFS_KEY, self.0.prefs_json());
+            match crate::panel_layout::save(&self.0.ui) {
+                Ok(layout) => storage.set_string(crate::panel_layout::KEY, layout),
+                Err(error) => log::warn!("panel layout was not saved: {error}"),
+            }
        }
        fn persist_egui_memory(&self) -> bool {
            false
        }
+        /// On the first pass consume files dropped on the page, then delegate drawing to `CadApp::ui`.
        fn ui(&mut self, ui: &mut egui::Ui, _frame: &mut eframe::Frame) {
-            self.0.ui(ui);
-            if let Some((bridge, reported)) = &self.2 {
-                bridge.report_dirty(&self.0, reported);
+            let first_pass = ui.ctx().current_pass_index() == 0;
+            if first_pass {
+                // `take_dropped` consumes the raw list; a second pass or hidden tick cannot
+                // re-read the same file.
+                self.1.take_dropped(ui.ctx());
            }
+            self.0.ui(ui);
        }
    }

@@ -152,6 +167,11 @@ mod web {
                        if let Some(prefs) = cc.storage.and_then(|s| s.get_string(cadcraft_ui_egui::PREFS_KEY)) {
                            app.load_prefs(&prefs);
                        }
+                        if let Some(layout) = cc.storage.and_then(|s| s.get_string(crate::panel_layout::KEY))
+                            && let Err(error) = crate::panel_layout::restore(&mut app.ui, &layout)
+                        {
+                            log::warn!("panel layout was not restored: {error}");
+                        }
                        // `?cpu`: no render state for the app, so the canvas draws with egui shapes.
                        if !crate::wants_cpu(&query())
                            && let Some(rs) = &cc.wgpu_render_state
@@ -0,0 +1,104 @@
+//! Browser panel layout storage, independent of drawings and native workspace files.
+
+use cadcraft_ui_egui::{UiState, docking};
+use serde_json::{Value, json};
+
+#[cfg(target_arch = "wasm32")]
+pub const KEY: &str = "cadcraft.panel-layout";
+const MAX_BYTES: usize = 64 * 1024;
+
+/// Serialize only validated panel placement and visibility, with a bounded record size.
+pub fn save(ui: &UiState) -> Result<String, String> {
+    docking::validate(&ui.docking)?;
+    let saved = json!({
+        "version": docking::LAYOUT_VERSION,
+        "docking": ui.docking,
+        "showToolsets": ui.show_toolsets,
+        "showPalettes": ui.show_palettes,
+    })
+    .to_string();
+    if saved.len() > MAX_BYTES {
+        return Err("panel layout exceeds 64 KiB".into());
+    }
+    Ok(saved)
+}
+
+/// Validate the entire optional record before changing any UI field.
+pub fn restore(ui: &mut UiState, saved: &str) -> Result<(), String> {
+    if saved.len() > MAX_BYTES {
+        return Err("panel layout exceeds 64 KiB".into());
+    }
+    let value: Value = serde_json::from_str(saved).map_err(|error| error.to_string())?;
+    if value.get("version").and_then(Value::as_u64) != Some(u64::from(docking::LAYOUT_VERSION)) {
+        return Err("unsupported panel layout version".into());
+    }
+    let workspace: docking::Workspace =
+        serde_json::from_value(value.get("docking").cloned().ok_or("missing panel layout")?).map_err(|error| error.to_string())?;
+    docking::validate(&workspace)?;
+    let tools = value.get("showToolsets").and_then(Value::as_bool).ok_or("invalid Tool Sets visibility")?;
+    let palettes = value.get("showPalettes").and_then(Value::as_bool).ok_or("invalid palette visibility")?;
+    ui.docking = workspace;
+    ui.show_toolsets = tools;
+    ui.show_palettes = palettes;
+    Ok(())
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+    use cadcraft_engine::Session;
+    use cadcraft_ui_egui::{CadApp, Services};
+
+    #[test]
+    fn floating_and_hidden_panels_survive_storage_without_replacing_drawing_state() {
+        let mut source = CadApp::new(Session::default(), Services::default());
+        source.run("ui.dock", json!({"operation":"float","panel":"toolSets","rect":[120,90,340,410]})).unwrap();
+        source.run("ui.dock", json!({"operation":"close","panel":"properties"})).unwrap();
+        let saved = save(&source.ui).unwrap();
+        let mut destination = CadApp::new(Session::default(), Services::default());
+        destination.session.start("line").unwrap();
+        let before = destination.session.doc().unwrap().clone();
+        restore(&mut destination.ui, &saved).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(destination.ui.docking, source.ui.docking);
+        assert_eq!(destination.ui.show_toolsets, source.ui.show_toolsets);
+        assert_eq!(destination.ui.show_palettes, source.ui.show_palettes);
+        assert_eq!(destination.session.running.as_ref().map(|command| command.id.as_str()), Some("line"));
+        assert_eq!(destination.session.doc().unwrap(), &before);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn malformed_or_unsupported_storage_is_rejected_atomically() {
+        let mut ui = UiState::default();
+        let before = serde_json::to_value(&ui).unwrap();
+        let valid: Value = serde_json::from_str(&save(&ui).unwrap()).unwrap();
+        for (field, bad) in [
+            ("version", json!(0)),
+            ("version", json!(docking::LAYOUT_VERSION + 1)),
+            ("docking", json!({})),
+            ("showToolsets", json!("false")),
+            ("showPalettes", Value::Null),
+        ] {
+            let mut invalid = valid.clone();
+            invalid[field] = bad;
+            assert!(restore(&mut ui, &invalid.to_string()).is_err());
+            assert_eq!(serde_json::to_value(&ui).unwrap(), before);
+        }
+        for invalid in ["not json".to_string(), " ".repeat(MAX_BYTES + 1)] {
+            assert!(restore(&mut ui, &invalid).is_err());
+            assert_eq!(serde_json::to_value(&ui).unwrap(), before);
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn storage_cannot_remove_the_document_view() {
+        let mut ui = UiState::default();
+        let before = serde_json::to_value(&ui).unwrap();
+        let mut invalid = ui.clone();
+        invalid.docking.layout.root = None;
+        assert!(save(&invalid).is_err());
+        let mut record: Value = serde_json::from_str(&save(&ui).unwrap()).unwrap();
+        record["docking"] = serde_json::to_value(&invalid.docking).unwrap();
+        assert!(restore(&mut ui, &record.to_string()).is_err());
+        assert_eq!(serde_json::to_value(&ui).unwrap(), before);
+    }
+}
@@ -68,8 +68,9 @@ impl Inbox {
    }

    /// Read the files dropped on the page this frame (eframe hands them over unread on the web).
+    /// The list is taken, not cloned: a later pass or hidden tick must not read the same drop.
    pub fn take_dropped(&self, ctx: &egui::Context) {
-        for f in ctx.input(|i| i.raw.dropped_files.clone()) {
+        for f in ctx.input_mut(|i| std::mem::take(&mut i.raw.dropped_files)) {
            if let Some(file) = f.web_file() {
                self.read(file.clone());
            }
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ description = "CADCraft desktop app"
 version.workspace = true
 edition.workspace = true
 license.workspace = true
+rust-version = "1.95"
 publish = false
 default-run = "cadcraft"

@@ -16,10 +17,12 @@ cadcraft-ui-egui = { workspace = true }
 cadcraft-io = { workspace = true }
 # For the shared per-session control-token helper (control_server.rs authentication).
 cadcraft-mcp = { workspace = true }
-eframe = { workspace = true, features = ["default_fonts", "wgpu", "accesskit", "wayland", "x11", "links", "persistence"] }
+eframe = { workspace = true, features = ["clipboard", "wgpu", "accesskit", "wayland", "x11", "links", "persistence"] }
 egui = { workspace = true }
 serde_json = { workspace = true }
 log = { workspace = true }
+clap = { workspace = true }
+thiserror = { workspace = true }
 chrono = { workspace = true }

 [build-dependencies]
@@ -33,10 +36,16 @@ winit = { version = "0.30", default-features = false, features = ["x11"] }
 zbus = { version = "=5.19.0", default-features = false, features = ["async-io", "blocking-api"] }

 [target.'cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))'.dependencies]
+# Floating panels open in their own OS windows on the desktop; the web build keeps them in the page.
+craft-ui = { workspace = true, features = ["native-windows"] }
+craft-update = { workspace = true }
 rfd = { workspace = true }
 sys-locale = "0.3"

 [target.'cfg(target_os = "macos")'.dependencies]
+# `title_bar::sync_movable`: AppKit's title-band drag leaves the window still under the row's
+# controls and under floating panels.
+craft-window = { workspace = true }
 muda = { version = "0.21", default-features = false }
 # View ▸ Accessibility ▸ Animation Effects ▸ Use System Setting: the system's Reduce motion
 # (system_animations.rs). Already in Cargo.lock through muda.
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 //! ([`Limits`]): simultaneous connections, request line length, queued requests, and how long a
 //! socket may sit idle or blocked on a write.

-use std::io::{BufRead, BufReader, ErrorKind, Read, Write};
+use std::io::{BufRead, BufReader, ErrorKind, Write};
 use std::net::{TcpListener, TcpStream};
 use std::sync::Arc;
 use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicUsize, Ordering};
@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@ struct Limits {
    max_clients: usize,
    /// Longest request line in bytes (newline excluded); a longer one closes the connection.
    max_line: usize,
+    /// Request-line bytes buffered at once across all connections; a request that would pass it
+    /// is refused with an error reply.
+    total_bytes: usize,
    /// Requests waiting for the app at once; more are answered `busy`.
    queue: usize,
    /// How long a connection may go without sending a byte before it is closed.
@@ -40,6 +43,8 @@ impl Default for Limits {
            max_clients: 16,
            // Generous, so requests that carry whole drawings or images as base64 still fit.
            max_line: 256 * 1024 * 1024,
+            // Room for one maximal request plus smaller ones, not `max_clients` maximal ones.
+            total_bytes: 512 * 1024 * 1024,
            queue: 64,
            idle_timeout: Duration::from_secs(600),
            write_timeout: Duration::from_secs(30),
@@ -106,6 +111,7 @@ impl Drop for Slot {
 /// Accept clients within the connection limit and give each worker the same session token.
 fn accept_loop(listener: TcpListener, tx: SyncSender<ControlRequest>, ctx: egui::Context, limits: Limits, token: Arc<String>) {
    let open = Arc::new(AtomicUsize::new(0));
+    let budget = Budget::new(limits.total_bytes);
    for mut stream in accepted(listener.incoming(), || std::thread::sleep(ACCEPT_RETRY)) {
        let _ = stream.set_write_timeout(Some(limits.write_timeout));
        if open.fetch_add(1, Ordering::SeqCst) >= limits.max_clients {
@@ -117,39 +123,102 @@ fn accept_loop(listener: TcpListener, tx: SyncSender<ControlRequest>, ctx: egui:
        let tx = tx.clone();
        let ctx = ctx.clone();
        let token = Arc::clone(&token);
+        let budget = budget.clone();
        let _ = std::thread::Builder::new().spawn(move || {
            let _slot = slot;
-            serve(stream, &tx, &ctx, limits, &token);
+            serve(stream, &tx, &ctx, limits, &token, budget);
        });
    }
 }

-/// Read one `\n`-terminated line of at most `max` bytes into `buf` (newline stripped).
-/// `Ok(false)` at end of stream; `Err` when the line is too long or the read fails.
-fn read_bounded_line(reader: &mut impl BufRead, buf: &mut Vec<u8>, max: usize) -> Result<bool, String> {
+/// A total-bytes budget for request lines buffered across all connections, so
+/// [`Limits::max_clients`] peers can't each hold a [`Limits::max_line`] line at once (#1925).
+#[derive(Clone, Debug)]
+struct Budget {
+    used: Arc<AtomicUsize>,
+    total: usize,
+}
+
+impl Budget {
+    fn new(total: usize) -> Self {
+        Self { used: Arc::new(AtomicUsize::new(0)), total }
+    }
+
+    /// Reserve `n` more bytes, or `false` (nothing reserved) when that would pass the total.
+    fn reserve(&self, n: usize) -> bool {
+        self.used.try_update(Ordering::SeqCst, Ordering::SeqCst, |u| u.checked_add(n).filter(|&t| t <= self.total)).is_ok()
+    }
+}
+
+/// Bytes a connection holds from the [`Budget`] for its current request line; given back when the
+/// next line starts or the connection ends.
+struct Held {
+    budget: Budget,
+    bytes: usize,
+}
+
+impl Held {
+    fn new(budget: Budget) -> Self {
+        Self { budget, bytes: 0 }
+    }
+
+    fn release(&mut self) {
+        self.budget.used.fetch_sub(self.bytes, Ordering::SeqCst);
+        self.bytes = 0;
+    }
+}
+
+impl Drop for Held {
+    fn drop(&mut self) {
+        self.release();
+    }
+}
+
+/// Read one `\n`-terminated line of at most `max` bytes into `buf` (newline stripped), charging
+/// the bytes buffered to `held`. `Ok(false)` at end of stream; `Err` when the line is too long,
+/// the shared budget is used up, or the read fails.
+fn read_bounded_line(reader: &mut impl BufRead, buf: &mut Vec<u8>, max: usize, held: &mut Held) -> Result<bool, String> {
    buf.clear();
-    // `take` bounds the bytes buffered for one line: a peer can't make us allocate more than `max`.
-    let limit = u64::try_from(max).unwrap_or(u64::MAX).saturating_add(1);
-    let n = reader.take(limit).read_until(b'\n', buf).map_err(|e| match e.kind() {
-        // The idle timeout ran out (Windows reports it as TimedOut, Unix as WouldBlock).
-        ErrorKind::TimedOut | ErrorKind::WouldBlock => "request line not completed in time; closing the connection".to_string(),
-        _ => e.to_string(),
-    })?;
-    if n == 0 {
-        return Ok(false);
-    }
-    if buf.last() == Some(&b'\n') {
-        buf.pop();
-        if buf.last() == Some(&b'\r') {
+    held.release();
+    // A line is at most `max` bytes plus its newline; never buffer more than that.
+    let cap = max.saturating_add(1);
+    loop {
+        let chunk = match reader.fill_buf() {
+            Ok(c) => c,
+            Err(e) if e.kind() == ErrorKind::Interrupted => continue,
+            Err(e) => {
+                return Err(match e.kind() {
+                    // The idle timeout ran out (Windows reports it as TimedOut, Unix as WouldBlock).
+                    ErrorKind::TimedOut | ErrorKind::WouldBlock => "request line not completed in time; closing the connection".to_string(),
+                    _ => e.to_string(),
+                });
+            }
+        };
+        if chunk.is_empty() {
+            // End of stream: nothing read, or a last line without a newline.
+            return Ok(!buf.is_empty());
+        }
+        let line_end = chunk.iter().position(|&b| b == b'\n').map(|i| i + 1);
+        let n = line_end.unwrap_or(chunk.len()).min(cap.saturating_sub(buf.len()));
+        buf.extend_from_slice(chunk.get(..n).unwrap_or(chunk));
+        reader.consume(n);
+        // The chunk is already buffered (a few KiB), so it is added before it is charged: a
+        // refusal still leaves `buf` non-empty and the connection gets an error reply.
+        if !held.budget.reserve(n) {
+            return Err("too many large requests in flight; try again later".to_string());
+        }
+        held.bytes += n;
+        if buf.last() == Some(&b'\n') {
            buf.pop();
+            if buf.last() == Some(&b'\r') {
+                buf.pop();
+            }
+            return Ok(true);
+        }
+        if buf.len() > max {
+            return Err(format!("request line longer than {max} bytes; closing the connection"));
        }
-        return Ok(true);
    }
-    if buf.len() > max {
-        return Err(format!("request line longer than {max} bytes; closing the connection"));
-    }
-    // Last line without a newline, then end of stream.
-    Ok(true)
 }

 /// One request line, parsed.
@@ -204,7 +273,7 @@ fn is_http_request_line(text: &str) -> bool {

 /// Serve bounded JSON lines, authenticating each request before enqueueing it for the UI.
 /// Invalid credentials close the connection; queue and reply limits report whether a request ran.
-fn serve(stream: TcpStream, tx: &SyncSender<ControlRequest>, ctx: &egui::Context, limits: Limits, token: &str) {
+fn serve(stream: TcpStream, tx: &SyncSender<ControlRequest>, ctx: &egui::Context, limits: Limits, token: &str, budget: Budget) {
    if stream.set_read_timeout(Some(limits.idle_timeout)).is_err() || stream.set_write_timeout(Some(limits.write_timeout)).is_err() {
        return;
    }
@@ -212,8 +281,9 @@ fn serve(stream: TcpStream, tx: &SyncSender<ControlRequest>, ctx: &egui::Context
    let mut out = stream;
    let mut reader = BufReader::new(read);
    let mut buf = Vec::new();
+    let mut held = Held::new(budget);
    loop {
-        let reject = match read_bounded_line(&mut reader, &mut buf, limits.max_line) {
+        let reject = match read_bounded_line(&mut reader, &mut buf, limits.max_line, &mut held) {
            Ok(false) => break,
            // Nothing of a line arrived (idle timeout, or the peer is gone): close without a word.
            // A line nobody asked for would be read as the reply to the client's next request.
@@ -264,6 +334,7 @@ fn serve(stream: TcpStream, tx: &SyncSender<ControlRequest>, ctx: &egui::Context
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
    use super::*;
+    use std::io::Read;

    /// A failed accept is followed by a wait before the next one, so a listener that keeps
    /// failing does not spin, and the connections around the failures still come through.
@@ -281,13 +352,13 @@ mod tests {
    fn lines_are_read_up_to_the_limit() {
        let mut buf = Vec::new();
        let mut input: &[u8] = b"aaaaaaaaaa\nbb\r\ncc";
-        assert_eq!(read_bounded_line(&mut input, &mut buf, 10), Ok(true));
+        assert_eq!(read_bounded_line(&mut input, &mut buf, 10, &mut held()), Ok(true));
        assert_eq!(buf, b"aaaaaaaaaa", "a line exactly at the limit is accepted");
-        assert_eq!(read_bounded_line(&mut input, &mut buf, 10), Ok(true));
+        assert_eq!(read_bounded_line(&mut input, &mut buf, 10, &mut held()), Ok(true));
        assert_eq!(buf, b"bb", "CRLF is stripped");
-        assert_eq!(read_bounded_line(&mut input, &mut buf, 10), Ok(true));
+        assert_eq!(read_bounded_line(&mut input, &mut buf, 10, &mut held()), Ok(true));
        assert_eq!(buf, b"cc", "a last line without a newline is still read");
-        assert_eq!(read_bounded_line(&mut input, &mut buf, 10), Ok(false), "then end of stream");
+        assert_eq!(read_bounded_line(&mut input, &mut buf, 10, &mut held()), Ok(false), "then end of stream");
    }

    #[test]
@@ -295,11 +366,15 @@ mod tests {
        let mut buf = Vec::new();
        let long = [b'x'; 100];
        let mut input: &[u8] = &long;
-        assert!(read_bounded_line(&mut input, &mut buf, 10).is_err());
+        assert!(read_bounded_line(&mut input, &mut buf, 10, &mut held()).is_err());
        assert!(buf.len() <= 11, "at most limit + 1 bytes are buffered, got {}", buf.len());
        assert_eq!(input.len(), 100 - 11, "the rest of the line is left unread");
    }

+    fn held() -> Held {
+        Held::new(Budget::new(usize::MAX))
+    }
+
    fn short() -> Limits {
        Limits {
            queue: 1,
@@ -414,6 +489,40 @@ mod tests {
        drop(rx);
    }

+    /// Connections can't together buffer more request-line bytes than the budget: a second large
+    /// request is refused with an error reply while the first still holds its bytes (#1925).
+    #[test]
+    fn requests_past_the_total_budget_are_refused() {
+        let (addr, _rx) = serve_with(Limits { max_line: 1000, total_bytes: 300, idle_timeout: Duration::from_secs(5), ..short() });
+        // The first peer sends 200 bytes of an unfinished line and keeps the connection open.
+        let mut first = TcpStream::connect(addr).unwrap();
+        first.write_all(&[b'a'; 200]).unwrap();
+        std::thread::sleep(Duration::from_millis(200));
+        // The second would take 200 more, past the 300 byte total.
+        let mut second = TcpStream::connect(addr).unwrap();
+        second.set_read_timeout(Some(Duration::from_secs(5))).unwrap();
+        second.write_all(&[b'b'; 200]).unwrap();
+        let mut line = String::new();
+        BufReader::new(second).read_line(&mut line).unwrap();
+        let v: Value = serde_json::from_str(&line).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(v["ok"], json!(false));
+        assert!(v["error"].as_str().unwrap_or("").contains("too many large requests"), "{line}");
+        drop(first);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn the_budget_is_given_back_when_the_connection_ends() {
+        let budget = Budget::new(100);
+        {
+            let mut h = Held::new(budget.clone());
+            let mut buf = Vec::new();
+            let mut input: &[u8] = &[b'x'; 80];
+            assert_eq!(read_bounded_line(&mut input, &mut buf, 1000, &mut h), Ok(true));
+            assert!(!budget.reserve(30), "80 of 100 bytes are held");
+        }
+        assert!(budget.reserve(100), "all given back on drop");
+    }
+
    /// Replies on one authenticated connection preserve the ID of each request.
    #[test]
    fn requests_are_answered_with_their_ids() {
@@ -0,0 +1,172 @@
+//! The `CADCRAFT_*` variables of the desktop app, read once at startup into [`Env`] and passed on
+//! from there; no library crate reads them. `--help` lists them from [`VARS`]. `--control`'s
+//! fallback, `CADCRAFT_CONTROL_PORT`, is clap's (see `launch_args`).
+
+use std::ffi::OsString;
+use std::fmt::Write as _;
+use std::path::PathBuf;
+
+use cadcraft_ui_egui::switch::Switch;
+
+const CONFIG_DIR: &str = "CADCRAFT_CONFIG_DIR";
+const LOCALE: &str = "CADCRAFT_LOCALE";
+const VSYNC: &str = "CADCRAFT_VSYNC";
+const WAYLAND: &str = "CADCRAFT_WAYLAND";
+const NO_NATIVE_MENU: &str = "CADCRAFT_NO_NATIVE_MENU";
+const SYSTEM_CURSOR: &str = "CADCRAFT_SYSTEM_CURSOR";
+const FONTALT: &str = "CADCRAFT_FONTALT";
+const FONTFALLBACK: &str = "CADCRAFT_FONTFALLBACK";
+
+/// Every variable [`Env`] reads, with its `--help` line.
+pub(crate) const VARS: &[(&str, &str)] = &[
+    (CONFIG_DIR, "the settings folder (logs, autosave, workspace, plotters); empty means no settings folder"),
+    (LOCALE, "the interface language, instead of the system's"),
+    (VSYNC, "1 presents with vsync, 0 without it (default: without on Linux and BSD)"),
+    (WAYLAND, "1 keeps the native Wayland backend instead of XWayland; 0 or unset is off"),
+    (NO_NATIVE_MENU, "macOS: 1 keeps the menus inside the window; 0 or unset is off"),
+    (SYSTEM_CURSOR, "1 uses the system cursor instead of the drawn crosshair; 0 or unset is off"),
+    (FONTALT, "the font that replaces a missing one"),
+    (FONTFALLBACK, "the fonts tried, in order, for characters a font lacks"),
+];
+
+/// The process environment, read once at startup. A blank variable counts as unset, except
+/// `CADCRAFT_CONFIG_DIR`.
+#[derive(Debug, PartialEq)]
+pub(crate) struct Env {
+    /// The settings folder (logs, autosave, workspace, plotters): `CADCRAFT_CONFIG_DIR`; else, when
+    /// that is unset, the platform's (`cadcraft_engine::settings_dir::platform`). `None`: no
+    /// folder, because the variable is empty or blank (the way to run without one) or the
+    /// platform has none.
+    pub(crate) config_dir: Option<PathBuf>,
+    /// The interface language, instead of the system's.
+    pub(crate) locale: Option<String>,
+    /// Present with vsync (default: off on Linux and BSD, on elsewhere).
+    pub(crate) vsync: Switch,
+    /// Keep the native Wayland backend instead of XWayland.
+    #[cfg_attr(not(all(unix, not(target_os = "macos"))), allow(dead_code))]
+    pub(crate) wayland: Switch,
+    /// macOS: keep the menus inside the window.
+    #[cfg_attr(not(target_os = "macos"), allow(dead_code))]
+    pub(crate) no_native_menu: Switch,
+    /// Use the system cursor instead of the drawn crosshair.
+    pub(crate) system_cursor: Switch,
+    /// FONTALT at startup.
+    pub(crate) font_alt: Option<String>,
+    /// FONTFALLBACK at startup.
+    pub(crate) font_fallback: Option<String>,
+}
+
+impl Env {
+    pub(crate) fn read() -> Env {
+        Env::from_vars(|k| std::env::var_os(k))
+    }
+
+    /// [`Env::read`] with `var` looking a variable up.
+    pub(crate) fn from_vars(var: impl Fn(&str) -> Option<OsString>) -> Env {
+        let text = |k: &str| var(k).and_then(|v| v.into_string().ok()).filter(|v| !v.trim().is_empty());
+        let switch = |k: &str| Switch::parse(k, var(k).map(|v| v.to_string_lossy().into_owned()).as_deref());
+        Env {
+            config_dir: match var(CONFIG_DIR) {
+                Some(dir) if dir.to_str().is_some_and(|d| d.trim().is_empty()) => None,
+                Some(dir) => Some(PathBuf::from(dir)),
+                None => cadcraft_engine::settings_dir::platform(&var),
+            },
+            locale: text(LOCALE),
+            vsync: switch(VSYNC),
+            wayland: switch(WAYLAND),
+            no_native_menu: switch(NO_NATIVE_MENU),
+            system_cursor: switch(SYSTEM_CURSOR),
+            font_alt: text(FONTALT),
+            font_fallback: text(FONTFALLBACK),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/// The `--help` section that lists [`VARS`].
+pub(crate) fn help() -> String {
+    let width = VARS.iter().map(|(name, _)| name.len()).max().unwrap_or(0) + 3;
+    VARS.iter().fold(String::from("Environment:"), |mut help, (name, line)| {
+        let _ = write!(help, "\n  {name:<width$}{line}");
+        help
+    })
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+    use std::cell::RefCell;
+
+    fn env<'a>(vars: &'a [(&'a str, &'a str)]) -> impl Fn(&str) -> Option<OsString> + 'a {
+        move |k| vars.iter().find(|(n, _)| *n == k).map(|(_, v)| OsString::from(v))
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn every_variable_read_is_in_the_help_and_every_listed_one_is_read() {
+        let asked = RefCell::new(Vec::new());
+        Env::from_vars(|k| {
+            asked.borrow_mut().push(k.to_owned());
+            None
+        });
+        let ours: Vec<String> = asked.into_inner().into_iter().filter(|k| k.starts_with("CADCRAFT_")).collect();
+        let help = help();
+        let unset = Env::from_vars(|_| None);
+        for k in &ours {
+            assert!(VARS.iter().any(|(name, _)| name == k), "{k} is read but not in VARS");
+        }
+        for (name, line) in VARS {
+            assert!(ours.iter().any(|k| k == name), "{name} is in VARS but not read");
+            assert_ne!(Env::from_vars(env(&[(name, "1")])), unset, "{name} sets no field");
+            assert!(help.lines().any(|l| l.trim_start().starts_with(name) && l.ends_with(line)), "{help}");
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn values_are_read_and_blank_ones_are_unset() {
+        let vars = [
+            (CONFIG_DIR, "/private/cc"),
+            ("HOME", "/home/u"),
+            ("XDG_CONFIG_HOME", "/x"),
+            ("APPDATA", "C:\\a"),
+            (LOCALE, "cs-CZ"),
+            (VSYNC, " On "),
+            (WAYLAND, "0"),
+            (NO_NATIVE_MENU, "yes"),
+            (SYSTEM_CURSOR, "maybe"),
+            (FONTALT, "Noto Sans"),
+            (FONTFALLBACK, "Vazirmatn, msjh.ttc"),
+        ];
+        let read = Env::from_vars(env(&vars));
+        assert_eq!(
+            read,
+            Env {
+                config_dir: Some(PathBuf::from("/private/cc")),
+                locale: Some("cs-CZ".into()),
+                vsync: Switch::On,
+                wayland: Switch::Off,
+                no_native_menu: Switch::On,
+                system_cursor: Switch::Default,
+                font_alt: Some("Noto Sans".into()),
+                font_fallback: Some("Vazirmatn, msjh.ttc".into()),
+            }
+        );
+        let blank = vars.map(|(k, _)| (k, if k == FONTALT { "  " } else { "" }));
+        let read = Env::from_vars(env(&blank));
+        assert_eq!(read.config_dir, None, "an empty variable means no directory, not the working directory");
+        assert_eq!((read.locale, read.font_alt, read.font_fallback), (None, None, None));
+        assert_eq!([read.vsync, read.wayland, read.no_native_menu, read.system_cursor], [Switch::Default; 4]);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn config_dir_unset_is_the_platform_folder_set_is_that_folder_blank_is_none() {
+        let platform = [("HOME", "/home/u"), ("XDG_CONFIG_HOME", "/x"), ("APPDATA", "C:\\a")];
+        let expected = cadcraft_engine::settings_dir::platform(env(&platform));
+        assert!(expected.is_some());
+        assert_eq!(Env::from_vars(env(&platform)).config_dir, expected);
+        let set = [platform.as_slice(), &[(CONFIG_DIR, "/private/cc")]].concat();
+        assert_eq!(Env::from_vars(env(&set)).config_dir, Some(PathBuf::from("/private/cc")));
+        for blank in ["", "  "] {
+            let vars = [platform.as_slice(), &[(CONFIG_DIR, blank)]].concat();
+            assert_eq!(Env::from_vars(env(&vars)).config_dir, None, "{blank:?} means no settings folder, not the platform's");
+        }
+    }
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,158 @@
+//! The desktop app's command line, as clap types: `cadcraft --help` comes from these doc comments
+//! and its Environment section from [`crate::env::VARS`], so the help and the parsers can't disagree. Anything they don't declare is a usage error naming
+//! it (exit status 2), so a typo such as `--sampel` doesn't open the window and then fail to open
+//! the flag as a file; so is a flag without its value, a repeated flag and a bad port, from the
+//! flag or from `CADCRAFT_CONTROL_PORT`. A value never starts with `-`, and a file whose name
+//! starts with `-` goes after `--`.
+
+use std::ffi::OsString;
+use std::path::PathBuf;
+
+use cadcraft_mcp::args::{blank_env_is_unset, name_env_vars};
+use clap::{Command, CommandFactory, FromArgMatches, Parser};
+
+/// Opens CADCraft with the given files
+#[derive(Parser)]
+#[command(name = "cadcraft", version = cadcraft_engine::build_version(), after_help = crate::env::help())]
+pub(crate) struct LaunchArgs {
+    /// Files to open. Put `--` before a name that starts with `-`
+    pub(crate) files: Vec<PathBuf>,
+    /// Start the localhost JSON-lines control server on this port
+    // allow_negative_numbers makes `--control -1` a bad value rather than a missing one.
+    #[arg(long, value_name = "PORT", env = "CADCRAFT_CONTROL_PORT", value_parser = control_port, allow_negative_numbers = true)]
+    pub(crate) control: Option<u16>,
+    /// Open with the sample drawing
+    #[arg(long)]
+    pub(crate) sample: bool,
+}
+
+/// The command line. An empty or blank variable counts as unset.
+pub(crate) fn command() -> Command {
+    LaunchArgs::command().mut_args(|a| blank_env_is_unset(a, |k| std::env::var_os(k)))
+}
+
+/// Parse the launch arguments (without the binary name) with `cmd`, from [`command`]. Old macOS
+/// passes a process serial number (`-psn_…`) when launched from Finder: it is dropped first, unless
+/// it comes after `--`. A bad value from a variable is a usage error naming the variable.
+pub(crate) fn parse(mut cmd: Command, args: impl IntoIterator<Item = OsString>) -> Result<LaunchArgs, clap::Error> {
+    let mut options = true;
+    let args: Vec<OsString> = args
+        .into_iter()
+        .filter(|a| {
+            options &= a != "--";
+            !(options && a.to_str().is_some_and(|s| s.starts_with("-psn_")))
+        })
+        .collect();
+    let argv = std::iter::once(OsString::from("cadcraft")).chain(args.iter().cloned());
+    let matches = cmd.try_get_matches_from_mut(argv).map_err(|e| name_env_vars(e, &cmd, &args))?;
+    LaunchArgs::from_arg_matches(&matches)
+}
+
+/// A control port, for clap's `value_parser`: `--control` and `CADCRAFT_CONTROL_PORT`, which may
+/// carry spaces.
+fn control_port(s: &str) -> Result<u16, NotAPort> {
+    s.trim().parse().map_err(|_| NotAPort)
+}
+
+/// A [`control_port`] value that isn't a port.
+#[derive(Debug, PartialEq, Eq, thiserror::Error)]
+#[error("expected a port, 0-65535")]
+struct NotAPort;
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+    use clap::error::ErrorKind;
+
+    /// Parse without the variables, so one exported where the tests run can't change them.
+    fn parse_args(args: &[&str]) -> Result<LaunchArgs, clap::Error> {
+        parse(command().mut_args(|a| a.env(None::<&str>)), args.iter().map(OsString::from))
+    }
+
+    fn usage_error(args: &[&str]) -> String {
+        let Err(e) = parse_args(args) else { panic!("{args:?} parsed") };
+        assert_eq!(e.exit_code(), 2, "{args:?}: {e}");
+        e.to_string()
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn values_are_parsed() {
+        let parsed = parse_args(&["--control", " 50494 ", "--sample", "a.dxf", "b.dwg"]).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!((parsed.control, parsed.sample), (Some(50494), true));
+        assert_eq!(parsed.files, [PathBuf::from("a.dxf"), PathBuf::from("b.dwg")]);
+        let parsed = parse_args(&[]).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!((parsed.control, parsed.sample, parsed.files.len()), (None, false, 0));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn control_port_rejects_unparseable_values_naming_them() {
+        for bad in ["78787", "-1", "abc", "99999999999999999999"] {
+            assert!(usage_error(&["--control", bad]).contains(&format!("invalid value '{bad}' for '--control <PORT>'")), "{bad}");
+        }
+        assert!(usage_error(&["--control="]).contains("invalid value '' for '--control <PORT>'"));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn usage_errors_exit_2() {
+        assert!(usage_error(&["--sampel"]).contains("unexpected argument '--sampel'"));
+        assert!(usage_error(&["--control"]).contains("a value is required for '--control <PORT>'"));
+        // A following flag is never taken as the value.
+        assert!(usage_error(&["--control", "--sample"]).contains("a value is required for '--control <PORT>'"));
+        assert!(usage_error(&["--sample", "--sample"]).contains("cannot be used multiple times"));
+        assert!(usage_error(&["--control", "1", "--control", "2"]).contains("cannot be used multiple times"));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn version_stops_parsing() {
+        let e = parse_args(&["-V", "--control"]).err().unwrap();
+        assert_eq!((e.kind(), e.exit_code()), (ErrorKind::DisplayVersion, 0));
+        assert_eq!(e.to_string(), format!("{}\n", crate::version_string()));
+        let e = parse_args(&["--version", "--bogus"]).err().unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(e.kind(), ErrorKind::DisplayVersion);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn help_stops_parsing_and_double_dash_ends_options() {
+        let e = parse_args(&["-h", "--sampel", "--control"]).err().unwrap();
+        assert_eq!((e.kind(), e.exit_code()), (ErrorKind::DisplayHelp, 0));
+        let help = parse_args(&["--help"]).err().unwrap().to_string();
+        assert!(help.contains("--control <PORT>") && help.contains("CADCRAFT_CONFIG_DIR"), "{help}");
+
+        assert!(usage_error(&["--sampel", "--", "--help"]).contains("unexpected argument '--sampel'"));
+        let parsed = parse_args(&["a.dxf", "--", "--help", "-x"]).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(parsed.files, ["a.dxf", "--help", "-x"].map(PathBuf::from));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_finder_process_serial_number_is_dropped() {
+        let parsed = parse_args(&["-psn_0_12345", "a.dxf"]).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(parsed.files, [PathBuf::from("a.dxf")]);
+        let parsed = parse_args(&["--", "-psn_x.dxf"]).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(parsed.files, [PathBuf::from("-psn_x.dxf")]);
+    }
+
+    /// A name that isn't valid Unicode is kept as given.
+    #[cfg(unix)]
+    #[test]
+    fn non_unicode_file_names_are_kept() {
+        use std::os::unix::ffi::OsStringExt as _;
+        let latin1 = OsString::from_vec(b"caf\xe9.dxf".to_vec());
+        let parsed = parse(command().mut_args(|a| a.env(None::<&str>)), [latin1.clone(), OsString::from("b.dxf")]).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(parsed.files, [PathBuf::from(&latin1), PathBuf::from("b.dxf")]);
+    }
+
+    /// `--control` falls back to `PATH` here instead of `CADCRAFT_CONTROL_PORT`: `PATH` is set
+    /// wherever the tests run and is never a port, and tests can't set a variable (`set_var` is
+    /// unsafe).
+    #[test]
+    fn the_flag_wins_over_its_variable_and_a_bad_value_names_the_variable() {
+        let Some(path) = std::env::var_os("PATH").filter(|p| !p.is_empty()) else { return };
+        let path_fallback = || command().mut_args(|a| a.env(None::<&str>)).mut_arg("control", |a| a.env("PATH"));
+        let e = parse(path_fallback(), []).err().unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(e.exit_code(), 2);
+        let text = e.to_string();
+        assert!(text.contains(&format!("invalid value '{}' for 'PATH'", path.to_string_lossy())), "{text}");
+        assert!(!text.contains("--control <PORT>'"), "{text}");
+        assert_eq!(parse(path_fallback(), ["--control", "7"].map(OsString::from)).unwrap().control, Some(7));
+    }
+}
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 //! Without a logger every `log::warn!`/`log::error!`/`log::info!` in the workspace (a broken app
 //! icon, the GPU canvas set-up, the control server) vanished. A launch from a desktop menu has no
 //! terminal, so the file is what a bug report can attach: `<settings dir>/logs/cadcraft.log`
-//! (`CADCRAFT_CONFIG_DIR`, or the platform settings directory; see `config_dir` in `main.rs`).
+//! (`CADCRAFT_CONFIG_DIR`, or the platform settings directory; empty means none; see `env.rs`).
 //! Each start moves the previous log to `cadcraft.1.log` (and that one to `.2`), so the log of a
 //! run that crashed survives the next launch.
 //!
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 //! CADCraft desktop app.
 //!
-//! Usage: `cadcraft [--control <port>] [--sample] [files…]`
+//! Usage: `cadcraft [--control <port>] [--sample] [files…]` (`cadcraft --help` lists the rest; see [`launch_args`])
 //!
 //! `--control <port>` (or `CADCRAFT_CONTROL_PORT`) starts a localhost JSON-lines control server:
 //! `{"id":1,"method":"cmdline.input","params":{"text":"circle 0,0 5"}}` → `{"id":1,"ok":true,…}`.
@@ -10,14 +10,16 @@
 //! present mode (`CADCRAFT_VSYNC=0` selects that elsewhere); see `cadcraft_ui_egui::gpu::surface_config`.
 //!
 //! `log` records go to standard error and `<settings dir>/logs/cadcraft.log` (`RUST_LOG` sets the
-//! levels); see [`logging`] and [`config_dir`].
+//! levels); see [`logging`]. The `CADCRAFT_*` variables are read once, at startup; see [`env`].
 #![cfg_attr(all(target_os = "windows", not(debug_assertions)), windows_subsystem = "windows")]
 #![deny(clippy::unwrap_used, clippy::expect_used, clippy::panic, clippy::unimplemented, clippy::todo, clippy::unreachable)]

 mod control_server;
 mod desktop_theme;
+mod env;
 #[cfg(any(target_os = "windows", test))]
 mod graphics;
+mod launch_args;
 mod logging;
 #[cfg(target_os = "macos")]
 mod native_menu;
@@ -26,6 +28,7 @@ mod system_animations;
 mod workspace;

 use cadcraft_engine::Session;
+use cadcraft_ui_egui::switch::Switch;
 use cadcraft_ui_egui::{CadApp, Services, i18n};

 struct App {
@@ -39,11 +42,25 @@ struct App {
    workspace_error: Option<String>,
    #[cfg(target_os = "macos")]
    native_menu: Option<native_menu::NativeMenu>,
+    /// `CADCRAFT_NO_NATIVE_MENU`: the menus stay inside the window.
+    #[cfg(target_os = "macos")]
+    menus_in_window: bool,
+    /// The `movable` flag last set on the main window.
+    #[cfg(target_os = "macos")]
+    movable: Option<bool>,
 }

 impl App {
-    fn persist_workspace(&mut self, final_attempt: bool) {
-        let result = if final_attempt { self.workspace.save_on_exit(&self.cad.ui) } else { self.workspace.save_if_changed(&self.cad.ui) };
+    /// `ctx` is `None` only for the final attempt at exit.
+    fn persist_workspace(&mut self, ctx: Option<&egui::Context>) {
+        let result = match ctx {
+            None => self.workspace.save_on_exit(&self.cad.ui),
+            Some(ctx) => self.workspace.save_if_changed(&self.cad.ui, std::time::Instant::now()).map(|wait| {
+                if let Some(wait) = wait {
+                    ctx.request_repaint_after(wait);
+                }
+            }),
+        };
        if let Err(error) = result {
            if self.workspace_error.as_ref() != Some(&error) {
                eprintln!("CADCraft workspace: {error}");
@@ -65,37 +82,49 @@ fn follow_desktop(raw: &mut egui::RawInput, desktop: Option<egui::Theme>) {
 }

 impl eframe::App for App {
+    /// eframe logic callback: syncs the OS animation setting and runs `CadApp::logic`; when the pass index is 0 (the first pass or a hidden tick) it also installs/polls the macOS native menu, polls the spacemouse and persists the workspace; a quit request closes the viewport.
    fn logic(&mut self, ctx: &egui::Context, _frame: &mut eframe::Frame) {
-        #[cfg(target_os = "macos")]
-        {
-            if self.native_menu.is_none() && std::env::var_os("CADCRAFT_NO_NATIVE_MENU").is_none() {
-                self.native_menu = Some(native_menu::NativeMenu::install(&mut self.cad));
-            }
-            if let Some(m) = &mut self.native_menu {
-                m.poll(&mut self.cad, ctx);
-            }
-        }
        self.cad.system_animations = self.system_animations.current();
+        // Consume control/open/screenshot queues and time-based autosave, including hidden ticks.
        self.cad.logic(ctx);
-        self.spacemouse.poll(&mut self.cad, ctx);
-        self.persist_workspace(false);
+        // Host frame work runs here, once per frame, and so also on a hidden logic-only tick (which
+        // never reaches `App::ui`): native menus stay current, the spacemouse still navigates and a
+        // workspace changed while hidden is persisted. `current_pass_index()` is zero on the first
+        // pass and on every hidden tick, and non-zero on later passes of a multi-pass frame.
+        if ctx.current_pass_index() == 0 {
+            #[cfg(target_os = "macos")]
+            {
+                if self.native_menu.is_none() && !self.menus_in_window {
+                    self.native_menu = Some(native_menu::NativeMenu::install(&mut self.cad, ctx));
+                }
+                if let Some(m) = &mut self.native_menu {
+                    m.poll(&mut self.cad, ctx);
+                }
+            }
+            self.spacemouse.poll(&mut self.cad, ctx);
+            // After `cad.logic`, so a control command's workspace change is saved in the same frame.
+            self.persist_workspace(Some(ctx));
+        }
        if std::mem::take(&mut self.cad.quit_requested) {
            ctx.send_viewport_cmd(egui::ViewportCommand::Close);
        }
    }
+    /// Apply the desktop-theme fallback, forward raw input to `CadApp`, and capture Tab at the command line.
    fn raw_input_hook(&mut self, ctx: &egui::Context, raw: &mut egui::RawInput) {
        follow_desktop(raw, self.desktop_theme.current());
-        self.cad.raw_input_hook(raw);
+        self.cad.raw_input_hook(ctx, raw);
        cadcraft_ui_egui::cmdline::capture_tab(ctx, raw);
    }
    fn ui(&mut self, ui: &mut egui::Ui, _frame: &mut eframe::Frame) {
        self.cad.ui(ui);
-        self.persist_workspace(false);
+        #[cfg(target_os = "macos")]
+        craft_window::title_bar::sync_movable(ui.ctx(), &mut self.movable);
    }
    /// A normal exit: the workspace is saved, and this run's autosave files are not needed (a
    /// crash leaves them for recovery).
    fn on_exit(&mut self) {
-        self.persist_workspace(true);
+        self.persist_workspace(None);
+        self.cad.cancel_screenshots();
        self.cad.shutdown_autosave();
    }
    /// Preferences (the interface theme) survive restarts; window and egui state are not kept.
@@ -165,30 +194,6 @@ fn filters_for_save(name: &str) -> [(&'static str, &'static str); 6] {
    filters
 }

-/// The per-user settings directory (it holds `logs/` and `autosave/`): `CADCRAFT_CONFIG_DIR` if set, else
-/// `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/cadcraft` or `~/.config/cadcraft` on Linux and the BSDs,
-/// `~/Library/Application Support/CADCraft` on macOS, `%APPDATA%\CADCraft` on Windows.
-fn config_dir() -> Option<std::path::PathBuf> {
-    config_dir_from(|k| std::env::var_os(k))
-}
-
-/// [`config_dir`] with the environment passed in (`var` looks a variable up). An empty variable
-/// counts as unset, so a blank value never means the working directory.
-fn config_dir_from(var: impl Fn(&str) -> Option<std::ffi::OsString>) -> Option<std::path::PathBuf> {
-    let set = |k: &str| var(k).filter(|v| !v.is_empty()).map(std::path::PathBuf::from);
-    if let Some(dir) = set("CADCRAFT_CONFIG_DIR") {
-        return Some(dir);
-    }
-    if cfg!(target_os = "macos") {
-        set("HOME").map(|h| h.join("Library/Application Support/CADCraft"))
-    } else if cfg!(windows) {
-        set("APPDATA").map(|a| a.join("CADCraft"))
-    } else {
-        // The XDG spec ignores a relative XDG_CONFIG_HOME.
-        set("XDG_CONFIG_HOME").filter(|p| p.is_absolute()).or_else(|| set("HOME").map(|h| h.join(".config"))).map(|c| c.join("cadcraft"))
-    }
-}
-
 const APP_ID: &str = "ai.storyteller.cadcraft";

 /// Stencil bits of the window's render pass (see `NativeOptions::stencil_buffer`).
@@ -204,68 +209,49 @@ fn app_icon() -> Option<egui::IconData> {
 }

 fn version_string() -> String {
-    let sha = option_env!("CADCRAFT_BUILD_SHA").unwrap_or("dev");
-    format!("cadcraft {} ({sha})", env!("CARGO_PKG_VERSION"))
-}
-
-/// The control port from `--control <port>` or `CADCRAFT_CONTROL_PORT` (`source`); a value that is
-/// not a port is logged and ignored instead of silently starting no control channel.
-fn control_port_from(source: &str, value: Option<String>) -> Option<u16> {
-    let value = value?;
-    let port = value.trim().parse().ok();
-    if port.is_none() {
-        log::warn!("{source}: {value:?} is not a port number; the control channel is off");
-    }
-    port
-}
-
-/// `--control` followed by `value`: a bare `--control` (last argument) keeps the port already
-/// read from `CADCRAFT_CONTROL_PORT` (`current`) instead of turning the control channel off.
-fn control_flag(current: Option<u16>, value: Option<String>) -> Option<u16> {
-    if value.is_some() {
-        return control_port_from("--control", value);
-    }
-    match current {
-        Some(port) => log::warn!("--control: no port given; using CADCRAFT_CONTROL_PORT ({port})"),
-        None => log::warn!("--control: no port given; the control channel is off"),
-    }
-    current
+    format!("cadcraft {}", cadcraft_engine::build_version())
 }

+/// Parse CLI options (`--control`, `--sample`, files, `--version`), install logging and I/O hooks, build the services and app, and run eframe.
 fn main() -> eframe::Result {
    // First, so every start-up record is captured; see `logging`.
    let logger = logging::install();
-    // lossy, so a value that is not Unicode is reported like any other bad port instead of ignored
-    let mut control_port =
-        control_port_from("CADCRAFT_CONTROL_PORT", std::env::var_os("CADCRAFT_CONTROL_PORT").map(|p| p.to_string_lossy().into_owned()));
-    let mut files = Vec::new();
-    let mut sample = false;
-    let mut args = std::env::args().skip(1);
-    while let Some(a) = args.next() {
-        match a.as_str() {
-            "--control" => control_port = control_flag(control_port, args.next()),
-            "--sample" => sample = true,
-            "--version" | "-V" => {
-                println!("{}", version_string());
-                return Ok(());
-            }
-            _ => files.push(a),
+    // The update helper relaunches this binary after a self-update; it runs and exits here.
+    #[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
+    if let Some(done) = craft_update::self_update::finish(&cadcraft_ui_egui::UPDATE_APP, &std::env::args_os().skip(1).collect::<Vec<_>>()) {
+        if let Err(e) = done {
+            eprintln!("CADCraft update helper failed: {e}");
+            std::process::exit(1);
        }
+        return Ok(());
    }
+    // `--help` and `--version` print to standard output and exit 0. A usage error (an unknown or
+    // repeated flag, a missing or bad value, a bad CADCRAFT_CONTROL_PORT) names the argument on
+    // standard error and exits 2 before the window opens.
+    let launch = launch_args::parse(launch_args::command(), std::env::args_os().skip(1)).unwrap_or_else(|e| e.exit());
+    let vars = env::Env::read();
+    let (control_port, sample, files) = (launch.control, launch.sample, launch.files);
    // The log file lives under the settings directory; opened after the arguments, so `--version`
    // leaves no file behind. Records logged until now are written to it first.
    if let Some(logger) = logger {
-        match config_dir().map(|d| logger.attach_dir(&d.join(logging::LOG_DIR))) {
+        match vars.config_dir.as_ref().map(|d| logger.attach_dir(&d.join(logging::LOG_DIR))) {
            Some(Ok(path)) => log::info!("{} ({} {}), log file {}", version_string(), std::env::consts::OS, std::env::consts::ARCH, path.display()),
            Some(Err(e)) => log::warn!("no log file: {e}"),
            None => {
                logger.stderr_only();
-                log::warn!("no log file: no settings directory (set CADCRAFT_CONFIG_DIR)");
+                log::warn!("no log file: no settings directory (an empty CADCRAFT_CONFIG_DIR turns it off)");
            }
        }
    }
    install_io();
-    let surface = cadcraft_ui_egui::gpu::surface_config(std::env::var("CADCRAFT_VSYNC").ok().as_deref(), cfg!(all(unix, not(target_os = "macos"))));
+    cadcraft_engine::settings_dir::set(vars.config_dir.clone());
+    if let Some(name) = &vars.font_alt {
+        cadcraft_engine::fonts::ttf::set_font_alt(name);
+    }
+    if let Some(list) = &vars.font_fallback {
+        cadcraft_engine::fonts::ttf::set_fallback_fonts(list);
+    }
+    let surface = cadcraft_ui_egui::gpu::surface_config(vars.vsync, cfg!(all(unix, not(target_os = "macos"))));
    let mut options = eframe::NativeOptions {
        // The crosshair is drawn by the app: present without a queue on Linux/BSD, where X11
        // swapchains hold two frames back under vsync (`CADCRAFT_VSYNC=1` restores vsync).
@@ -280,6 +266,9 @@ fn main() -> eframe::Result {
            .with_title_shown(false)
            .with_app_id(APP_ID),
        persist_window: false,
+        // CADCraft installs its own capped font chain (`theme::install_fonts`); never run
+        // system-font discovery as a hidden fallback.
+        system_font_fallback: false,
        // A stencil buffer clips the contents of clipped layout viewports on the GPU.
        stencil_buffer: STENCIL_BITS,
        ..Default::default()
@@ -305,7 +294,7 @@ fn main() -> eframe::Result {
    // manager showed a "no" cursor. Run through XWayland when it's there; CADCRAFT_WAYLAND=1
    // keeps the native Wayland backend.
    #[cfg(all(unix, not(target_os = "macos")))]
-    if std::env::var_os("DISPLAY").is_some() && std::env::var_os("CADCRAFT_WAYLAND").is_none() {
+    if std::env::var_os("DISPLAY").is_some() && vars.wayland != Switch::On {
        options.event_loop_builder = Some(Box::new(|b| {
            use winit::platform::x11::EventLoopBuilderExtX11;
            b.with_x11();
@@ -316,15 +305,16 @@ fn main() -> eframe::Result {
        options,
        Box::new(move |cc| {
            let mut app = CadApp::new(Session::empty(), services());
-            let (workspace, restored, workspace_error) = workspace::Workspace::load();
+            let (workspace, restored, workspace_error) = workspace::Workspace::load(vars.config_dir.as_deref());
            if let Some(ui) = restored {
                app.ui = ui;
            }
+            app.set_system_cursor_default(vars.system_cursor == Switch::On);
            if let Some(error) = &workspace_error {
                eprintln!("CADCraft workspace: {error}");
                app.set_status(error);
            }
-            app.system_languages = std::env::var("CADCRAFT_LOCALE").map(|s| vec![s]).unwrap_or_else(|_| sys_locale::get_locales().collect());
+            app.system_languages = vars.locale.map(|s| vec![s]).unwrap_or_else(|| sys_locale::get_locales().collect());
            // The user profile (Options): drafting settings, selection sizes, drawing-area colours.
            if let Some(profile) = cc.storage.and_then(|s| s.get_string(cadcraft_ui_egui::options::PROFILE_KEY)) {
                app.load_profile(&profile);
@@ -336,8 +326,9 @@ fn main() -> eframe::Result {
                cadcraft_ui_egui::autosave::load_prefs(&prefs);
            }
            // Autosave files (SAVEFILEPATH) default to `<settings dir>/autosave`.
-            if let Some(dir) = config_dir() {
+            if let Some(dir) = &vars.config_dir {
                app.enable_autosave(&dir.join("autosave"));
+                app.enable_update_check();
                // Startup LISP (acad.lsp, acaddoc.lsp) is read from `<settings>/support`; the
                // folder is made so it is there to put them in.
                let support = dir.join("support");
@@ -381,6 +372,10 @@ fn main() -> eframe::Result {
                workspace_error,
                #[cfg(target_os = "macos")]
                native_menu: None,
+                #[cfg(target_os = "macos")]
+                menus_in_window: vars.no_native_menu == Switch::On,
+                #[cfg(target_os = "macos")]
+                movable: None,
            }))
        }),
    )
@@ -388,13 +383,7 @@ fn main() -> eframe::Result {

 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
-    use super::{config_dir_from, control_flag, control_port_from, filters_for_save, follow_desktop};
-    use std::ffi::OsString;
-    use std::path::PathBuf;
-
-    fn env<'a>(vars: &'a [(&'a str, &'a str)]) -> impl Fn(&str) -> Option<OsString> + 'a {
-        move |k| vars.iter().find(|(n, _)| *n == k).map(|(_, v)| OsString::from(v))
-    }
+    use super::{filters_for_save, follow_desktop};

    #[test]
    fn save_dialog_offers_dwg_with_the_drawing_format_first() {
@@ -412,59 +401,6 @@ mod tests {
        }
    }

-    #[test]
-    fn control_port_values_that_are_not_ports_are_ignored() {
-        assert_eq!(control_port_from("--control", Some("7979".into())), Some(7979));
-        assert_eq!(control_port_from("--control", Some(" 7979 ".into())), Some(7979));
-        assert_eq!(control_port_from("--control", None), None);
-        for bad in ["", "abc", "-1", "65536", "99999999999999999999", "\u{0}"] {
-            assert_eq!(control_port_from("--control", Some(bad.into())), None, "{bad:?}");
-        }
-    }
-
-    #[test]
-    fn control_without_a_port_keeps_the_environment_port() {
-        // `CADCRAFT_CONTROL_PORT=47321 cadcraft --control` (#844)
-        assert_eq!(control_flag(Some(47321), None), Some(47321));
-        assert_eq!(control_flag(None, None), None);
-        // A port given on the command line still wins over the variable.
-        assert_eq!(control_flag(Some(47321), Some("7979".into())), Some(7979));
-        assert_eq!(control_flag(Some(47321), Some("abc".into())), None);
-    }
-
-    #[test]
-    fn the_override_variable_wins_and_empty_values_are_unset() {
-        let vars = [("CADCRAFT_CONFIG_DIR", "/tmp/cc"), ("HOME", "/home/u"), ("XDG_CONFIG_HOME", "/x"), ("APPDATA", "C:\\a")];
-        assert_eq!(config_dir_from(env(&vars)), Some(PathBuf::from("/tmp/cc")));
-        let empty = [("CADCRAFT_CONFIG_DIR", ""), ("HOME", ""), ("XDG_CONFIG_HOME", ""), ("APPDATA", "")];
-        assert_eq!(config_dir_from(env(&empty)), None, "no usable variable means no directory, not the working directory");
-        assert_eq!(config_dir_from(env(&[])), None);
-    }
-
-    #[cfg(all(unix, not(target_os = "macos")))]
-    #[test]
-    fn linux_and_bsd_follow_xdg_config_home() {
-        assert_eq!(config_dir_from(env(&[("XDG_CONFIG_HOME", "/x"), ("HOME", "/home/u")])), Some(PathBuf::from("/x/cadcraft")));
-        assert_eq!(config_dir_from(env(&[("HOME", "/home/u")])), Some(PathBuf::from("/home/u/.config/cadcraft")));
-        // The XDG spec says a relative XDG_CONFIG_HOME is ignored.
-        assert_eq!(config_dir_from(env(&[("XDG_CONFIG_HOME", "rel"), ("HOME", "/home/u")])), Some(PathBuf::from("/home/u/.config/cadcraft")));
-    }
-
-    #[cfg(target_os = "macos")]
-    #[test]
-    fn macos_uses_application_support() {
-        assert_eq!(config_dir_from(env(&[("HOME", "/Users/u")])), Some(PathBuf::from("/Users/u/Library/Application Support/CADCraft")));
-    }
-
-    #[cfg(windows)]
-    #[test]
-    fn windows_uses_appdata() {
-        assert_eq!(
-            config_dir_from(env(&[("APPDATA", "C:\\Users\\u\\AppData\\Roaming")])),
-            Some(PathBuf::from("C:\\Users\\u\\AppData\\Roaming").join("CADCraft"))
-        );
-    }
-
    /// View ▸ Theme ▸ System on Linux: winit reports no theme, so the desktop's answer stands in;
    /// without one (or where winit answers and the desktop doesn't) the input is left alone.
    #[test]
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@

 use std::collections::HashMap;
 use std::str::FromStr;
+use std::sync::mpsc;

 use cadcraft_ui_egui::menus::{self, Entry};
 use cadcraft_ui_egui::{CadApp, i18n};
@@ -15,10 +16,14 @@ pub struct NativeMenu {
    submenus: Vec<(String, Submenu)>,
    predefined: Vec<(&'static str, PredefinedMenuItem)>,
    language: &'static str,
+    /// Monotonic time of the last enablement refresh. `NEG_INFINITY` makes the first poll refresh
+    /// immediately: `now_ms` starts near zero, so the old `0.0` sentinel suppressed the first
+    /// ~300 ms of menu enablement.
    last_refresh: f64,
    /// The recent files File ▸ Open Recent lists now (it is rebuilt when they change).
    recent: Vec<String>,
    counter: usize,
+    events: mpsc::Receiver<MenuEvent>,
 }

 /// Accelerator for "Cmd+Shift+S" (modifier-less shortcuts stay in the app so typing works).
@@ -30,7 +35,16 @@ fn accel(sc: &str) -> Option<Accelerator> {
 }

 impl NativeMenu {
-    pub fn install(app: &mut CadApp) -> Self {
+    /// Build and register the macOS menu (app menu, Settings and the translated command tree); returns the state holding item ids and submenus.
+    pub fn install(app: &mut CadApp, ctx: &egui::Context) -> Self {
+        // A menu choice (or its shortcut, such as Cmd+W) is no window event, so winit would not
+        // wake the app for it: the handler does, and the choice runs in the next frame.
+        let (sender, events) = mpsc::channel();
+        let wake = ctx.clone();
+        MenuEvent::set_event_handler(Some(move |event| {
+            let _ = sender.send(event);
+            wake.request_repaint();
+        }));
        let menu = Menu::new();
        let mut items = HashMap::new();
        let language = app.language();
@@ -66,7 +80,17 @@ impl NativeMenu {
            submenus.push((title, sub));
        }
        menu.init_for_nsapp();
-        Self { _menu: menu, items, submenus, predefined, language, last_refresh: 0.0, recent: app.ui.recent_files.clone(), counter }
+        Self {
+            _menu: menu,
+            items,
+            submenus,
+            predefined,
+            language,
+            last_refresh: f64::NEG_INFINITY,
+            recent: app.ui.recent_files.clone(),
+            counter,
+            events,
+        }
    }

    /// Rebuild File ▸ Open Recent after a drawing was opened or the list was cleared: the native
@@ -87,13 +111,14 @@ impl NativeMenu {
        build(&sub, &menus::recent_entries(app), &mut self.items, &mut self.submenus, &mut self.counter, self.language);
    }

+    /// Drain queued menu events into commands (Discord opens externally), rebuild Open Recent, retranslate on a language change and refresh enablement when 300 ms have elapsed.
    pub fn poll(&mut self, app: &mut CadApp, ctx: &egui::Context) {
-        while let Ok(ev) = MenuEvent::receiver().try_recv() {
+        while let Ok(ev) = self.events.try_recv() {
            if let Some((cmd, _, _)) = self.items.get(ev.id.as_ref()) {
                if cmd == "ui.discord" {
                    ctx.open_url(egui::OpenUrl::new_tab("https://discord.gg/artcraft"));
                } else {
-                    menus::activate(app, &cmd.clone());
+                    menus::activate_native(app, ctx, &cmd.clone());
                }
                ctx.request_repaint();
            }
@@ -113,17 +138,25 @@ impl NativeMenu {
            }
        }
        let now = cadcraft_ui_egui::now_ms();
-        if now - self.last_refresh < 300.0 {
+        if !refresh_due(now, self.last_refresh) {
            return;
        }
        self.last_refresh = now;
+        let typing = menus::text_field_window(ctx).is_some();
        for (cmd, _, item) in self.items.values() {
-            let en = cadcraft_engine::find_command(cmd).is_none_or(|c| (c.enabled)(&app.session).is_ok());
+            let en = (typing && menus::edits_text(cmd)) || cadcraft_engine::find_command(cmd).is_none_or(|c| (c.enabled)(&app.session).is_ok());
            item.set_enabled(en);
        }
    }
 }

+/// The periodic enablement refresh is due every 300 ms. Split out so the first-poll sentinel is
+/// testable without a macOS menu: `now_ms` starts near zero, so a `0.0` initial value would
+/// suppress the first refresh for 300 ms.
+fn refresh_due(now: f64, last_refresh: f64) -> bool {
+    now - last_refresh >= 300.0
+}
+
 fn build(
    parent: &Submenu,
    entries: &[Entry],
@@ -150,3 +183,17 @@ fn build(
        }
    }
 }
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::refresh_due;
+
+    /// `refresh_due` treats `NEG_INFINITY` as due at any finite time and `0.0` as due once 300 ms have elapsed; `install` initializes a fresh menu with `last_refresh = NEG_INFINITY`.
+    #[test]
+    fn the_first_poll_refreshes_immediately() {
+        assert!(refresh_due(0.5, f64::NEG_INFINITY), "a fresh menu refreshes on its first poll");
+        assert!(!refresh_due(0.5, 0.0), "the old 0.0 sentinel delayed the first refresh");
+        assert!(!refresh_due(299.9, 0.0));
+        assert!(refresh_due(300.0, 0.0));
+    }
+}
@@ -1,15 +1,18 @@
 //! Native workspace preferences. Drawing data and transient dialogs never enter this file.

-use std::ffi::OsString;
 use std::fs::{self, File, OpenOptions};
 use std::io::{Read, Write};
 use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
 use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicU64, Ordering};
+use std::time::{Duration, Instant};

 use cadcraft_ui_egui::UiState;
 use serde_json::{Value, json};

 const MAX_BYTES: u64 = 64 * 1024;
+/// Dragging a floating window changes its rect every frame; writes (each with an fsync) are
+/// spaced at least this far apart, and the newest state is written when the interval ends.
+const MIN_WRITE_INTERVAL: Duration = Duration::from_millis(500);
 static TEMP_SEQUENCE: AtomicU64 = AtomicU64::new(0);

 pub struct Workspace {
@@ -17,18 +20,7 @@ pub struct Workspace {
    last_attempt: Option<Value>,
    read_failed: bool,
    pending_write_error: Option<String>,
-}
-
-fn config_dir_from(platform: &str, get: impl Fn(&str) -> Option<OsString>) -> Option<PathBuf> {
-    if let Some(root) = get("CADCRAFT_CONFIG_DIR") {
-        return (!root.is_empty()).then(|| PathBuf::from(root));
-    }
-    let nonempty = |key| get(key).filter(|value| !value.is_empty()).map(PathBuf::from);
-    match platform {
-        "macos" => nonempty("HOME").map(|home| home.join("Library/Application Support/CADCraft")),
-        "windows" => nonempty("APPDATA").map(|root| root.join("CADCraft")),
-        _ => nonempty("XDG_CONFIG_HOME").map(|root| root.join("cadcraft")).or_else(|| nonempty("HOME").map(|home| home.join(".config/cadcraft"))),
-    }
+    last_write: Option<Instant>,
 }

 fn snapshot(ui: &UiState) -> Result<Value, String> {
@@ -44,6 +36,7 @@ fn snapshot(ui: &UiState) -> Result<Value, String> {
    }
    Ok(json!({
        "docking": ui.docking,
+        "dockingVersion": cadcraft_ui_egui::docking::LAYOUT_VERSION,
        "showToolsets": ui.show_toolsets,
        "showPalettes": ui.show_palettes,
        "showToolbar": ui.show_toolbar,
@@ -80,10 +73,16 @@ fn read(path: &Path) -> Result<Option<UiState>, String> {
        value.get("workspace").filter(|value| value.is_object()).ok_or_else(|| format!("{}: missing workspace object", path.display()))?;
    // Dock schemas can evolve independently of the other saved workspace preferences.
    // Recover only this optional field; runtime UiState deserialization remains strict.
+    // A layout from before the current shape (split frames, saved without `dockingVersion`)
+    // gives way to the default, its hidden panels with it.
    let mut fields = workspace.clone();
-    let docking = fields.as_object_mut().and_then(|fields| fields.remove("docking"));
+    let (docking, version) = match fields.as_object_mut() {
+        Some(fields) => (fields.remove("docking"), fields.remove("dockingVersion")),
+        None => (None, None),
+    };
+    let current = version.and_then(|version| version.as_u64()).is_some_and(|version| version >= u64::from(cadcraft_ui_egui::docking::LAYOUT_VERSION));
    let mut ui: UiState = serde_json::from_value(fields).map_err(|error| format!("{}: invalid workspace: {error}", path.display()))?;
-    if let Some(docking) = docking
+    if let Some(docking) = docking.filter(|_| current)
        && let Ok(docking) = serde_json::from_value::<cadcraft_ui_egui::docking::Workspace>(docking)
        && cadcraft_ui_egui::docking::validate(&docking).is_ok()
    {
@@ -127,8 +126,9 @@ fn write(path: &Path, workspace: &Value) -> Result<(), String> {
 }

 impl Workspace {
-    pub fn load() -> (Self, Option<UiState>, Option<String>) {
-        Self::at(config_dir_from(std::env::consts::OS, |key| std::env::var_os(key)).map(|root| root.join("workspace.json")))
+    /// The workspace file in the settings directory `config_dir`; without one nothing is kept.
+    pub fn load(config_dir: Option<&Path>) -> (Self, Option<UiState>, Option<String>) {
+        Self::at(config_dir.map(|root| root.join("workspace.json")))
    }

    fn at(path: Option<PathBuf>) -> (Self, Option<UiState>, Option<String>) {
@@ -136,44 +136,54 @@ impl Workspace {
        match result {
            Ok(ui) => {
                let initial = ui.as_ref().cloned().unwrap_or_default();
-                (Self { path, last_attempt: snapshot(&initial).ok(), read_failed: false, pending_write_error: None }, ui, None)
+                (Self { path, last_attempt: snapshot(&initial).ok(), read_failed: false, pending_write_error: None, last_write: None }, ui, None)
            }
            Err(error) => (
-                Self { path, last_attempt: None, read_failed: true, pending_write_error: None },
+                Self { path, last_attempt: None, read_failed: true, pending_write_error: None, last_write: None },
                None,
                Some(format!("Workspace could not be restored; its file was left unchanged. {error}")),
            ),
        }
    }

-    pub fn save_if_changed(&mut self, ui: &UiState) -> Result<(), String> {
-        let Some(path) = &self.path else { return Ok(()) };
+    /// Writes `ui` if it differs from the last state written. `Ok(Some(wait))` means a change
+    /// is held back by [`MIN_WRITE_INTERVAL`]; call again after `wait` to write it.
+    pub fn save_if_changed(&mut self, ui: &UiState, now: Instant) -> Result<Option<Duration>, String> {
+        let Some(path) = &self.path else { return Ok(None) };
        if self.read_failed {
            // Preserve a corrupt, oversized or newer-version file until the user repairs it.
-            return Ok(());
+            return Ok(None);
        }
        let value = snapshot(ui)?;
        if self.last_attempt.as_ref() == Some(&value) {
-            return self.pending_write_error.clone().map_or(Ok(()), Err);
+            return self.pending_write_error.clone().map_or(Ok(None), Err);
+        }
+        if let Some(wait) = self.last_write.and_then(|last| MIN_WRITE_INTERVAL.checked_sub(now.saturating_duration_since(last)))
+            && !wait.is_zero()
+        {
+            return Ok(Some(wait));
        }
        // Keep a failed state's warning without retrying disk I/O every rendered frame.
        self.last_attempt = Some(value.clone());
+        self.last_write = Some(now);
        let result = write(path, &value);
        self.pending_write_error = result.as_ref().err().cloned();
-        result
+        result.map(|()| None)
    }

    pub fn save_on_exit(&mut self, ui: &UiState) -> Result<(), String> {
        if self.pending_write_error.is_some() {
            self.last_attempt = None;
        }
-        self.save_if_changed(ui)
+        self.last_write = None;
+        self.save_if_changed(ui, Instant::now()).map(|_| ())
    }
 }

 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
    use super::*;
+    use std::ffi::OsString;

    fn temp_dir() -> PathBuf {
        let sequence = TEMP_SEQUENCE.fetch_add(1, Ordering::Relaxed);
@@ -184,20 +194,18 @@ mod tests {

    #[test]
    fn profile_override_isolated_or_explicitly_disabled() {
-        let get = |key: &str| match key {
-            "CADCRAFT_CONFIG_DIR" => Some(OsString::from("/private/test-state")),
-            "HOME" | "APPDATA" | "XDG_CONFIG_HOME" => Some(OsString::from("/unrelated-user-profile")),
-            _ => None,
+        let vars = |config: Option<&'static str>| {
+            move |key: &str| match key {
+                "CADCRAFT_CONFIG_DIR" => config.map(OsString::from),
+                "HOME" | "APPDATA" | "XDG_CONFIG_HOME" => Some(OsString::from("/unrelated-user-profile")),
+                _ => None,
+            }
        };
-        for platform in ["macos", "windows", "linux", "freebsd"] {
-            assert_eq!(config_dir_from(platform, get), Some(PathBuf::from("/private/test-state")));
-            assert_eq!(config_dir_from(platform, |key| if key == "CADCRAFT_CONFIG_DIR" { Some(OsString::new()) } else { get(key) }), None);
-        }
-        assert_eq!(
-            config_dir_from("linux", |key| (key == "XDG_CONFIG_HOME").then(|| OsString::from("/config"))),
-            Some(PathBuf::from("/config/cadcraft"))
-        );
-        assert_eq!(config_dir_from("macos", |_| None), None);
+        let dir = |config| crate::env::Env::from_vars(vars(config)).config_dir;
+        assert_eq!(dir(Some("/private/test-state")), Some(PathBuf::from("/private/test-state")));
+        assert_eq!(dir(Some("")), None);
+        let (_, restored, error) = Workspace::load(dir(Some("")).as_deref());
+        assert!(restored.is_none() && error.is_none(), "no settings folder, no workspace file");
    }

    #[test]
@@ -216,7 +224,7 @@ mod tests {
            start_tab: true,
            ..Default::default()
        };
-        first.save_if_changed(&ui).unwrap();
+        first.save_if_changed(&ui, Instant::now()).unwrap();
        let bytes = fs::read(&path).unwrap();
        let value: Value = serde_json::from_slice(&bytes).unwrap();
        assert!(value["workspace"].get("dialog").is_none());
@@ -229,37 +237,42 @@ mod tests {
        let mut transient_only = ui.clone();
        transient_only.dialog = None;
        transient_only.start_tab = false;
-        first.save_if_changed(&transient_only).unwrap();
+        first.save_if_changed(&transient_only, Instant::now()).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(fs::read(&path).unwrap(), bytes);
        fs::remove_dir_all(directory).unwrap();
    }

    #[test]
-    fn docked_floating_and_hidden_panels_survive_native_workspace_file_reload() {
-        use cadcraft_ui_egui::docking::{Panel, permissions};
+    fn dock_columns_floating_and_hidden_panels_survive_native_workspace_file_reload() {
+        use cadcraft_ui_egui::docking::{LAYOUT_VERSION, Panel, permissions, reveal_panel};
        let directory = temp_dir();
        let path = directory.join("workspace.json");
        let (mut store, _, _) = Workspace::at(Some(path.clone()));
        let mut ui = UiState::default();
        let mut app = cadcraft_ui_egui::CadApp::new(cadcraft_engine::Session::default(), Default::default());
-        app.run("ui.dock", json!({"operation":"float", "panel":"layers", "rect":[120,90,340,410]})).unwrap();
+        app.run("ui.dock", json!({"operation":"move", "panel":"layers", "target":"properties", "zone":"left"})).unwrap();
+        app.run("ui.dock", json!({"operation":"float", "panel":"properties", "rect":[120,90,340,410]})).unwrap();
        ui.docking = app.ui.docking;
        ui.docking.set_visible(Panel::ToolSets, false, None, permissions).unwrap();
        ui.show_toolsets = false;
-        store.save_if_changed(&ui).unwrap();
+        store.save_if_changed(&ui, Instant::now()).unwrap();
+        let saved: Value = serde_json::from_slice(&fs::read(&path).unwrap()).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(saved["workspace"]["dockingVersion"], json!(LAYOUT_VERSION));
        let (_, reloaded, error) = Workspace::at(Some(path));
        assert!(error.is_none());
        let mut reloaded = reloaded.unwrap();
        assert_eq!(serde_json::to_value(&reloaded.docking).unwrap(), serde_json::to_value(&ui.docking).unwrap());
-        reloaded.docking.set_visible(Panel::ToolSets, true, None, permissions).unwrap();
-        assert!(reloaded.docking.layout.contains(&Panel::ToolSets));
+        assert!(!reloaded.show_toolsets);
+        reveal_panel(&mut reloaded.docking, Panel::ToolSets).unwrap();
+        let tools = reloaded.docking.layout.location(&Panel::ToolSets).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(serde_json::to_value(&tools.group).unwrap()["column"]["side"], json!("Start"), "{tools:?}");
        assert_eq!(reloaded.docking.layout.floating[0].rect, [120.0, 90.0, 340.0, 410.0]);
        fs::remove_dir_all(directory).unwrap();
    }

    #[test]
-    fn version_one_docking_file_still_loads() {
-        use cadcraft_ui_egui::docking::{Panel, reveal_panel};
+    fn split_frame_layout_file_loads_as_the_dock_default_with_its_other_settings() {
+        use cadcraft_ui_egui::docking::default_workspace;
        // Written as CADCraft 0.7 writes it: craft-ui's v1 layout with no docking version, a
        // floating window as one `{panels, active, rect}` group, Tool Sets closed.
        let file = r#"{"version":1,"workspace":{
@@ -271,28 +284,18 @@ mod tests {
                    "floating":[{"panels":["layers","externalReferences"],"active":1,"rect":[120.0,90.0,340.0,410.0]}]},
                "hidden":[["toolSets",{"floating":null,"anchor":"canvas","placement":{"Split":"Left"},
                    "size":{"FixedFirst":220.0},"stack":null,"sibling":["canvas","properties"]}]]},
-            "showToolsets":false,"showPalettes":true,"toolsetTab":"Modeling","historyLines":4}}"#;
+            "showToolsets":false,"showPalettes":true,"showToolbar":false,"toolsetTab":"Modeling","historyLines":4}}"#;
        let directory = temp_dir();
        let path = directory.join("workspace.json");
        fs::write(&path, file).unwrap();
        let (_, restored, error) = Workspace::at(Some(path));
        assert!(error.is_none(), "{error:?}");
-        let mut ui = restored.unwrap();
+        let ui = restored.unwrap();
        assert_eq!(ui.toolset_tab, "Modeling");
-        let docking = &ui.docking;
-        assert_eq!(docking.layout.floating.len(), 1);
-        let window = &docking.layout.floating[0];
-        assert_eq!(window.rect, [120.0, 90.0, 340.0, 410.0]);
-        assert_eq!(serde_json::to_value(&window.root).unwrap(), json!({"Tabs":{"panels":["layers","externalReferences"],"active":1}}));
-        assert_eq!(
-            serde_json::to_value(&docking.layout.root).unwrap()["Split"]["second"],
-            json!({"Stack":{"entries":[{"panel":"properties","open":false,"height":null}]}})
-        );
-        assert!(!docking.layout.contains(&Panel::ToolSets));
-        reveal_panel(&mut ui.docking, Panel::ToolSets).unwrap();
-        let tools = ui.docking.layout.location(&Panel::ToolSets).unwrap();
-        assert_eq!(tools.anchor, Some(Panel::Canvas));
-        assert_eq!(serde_json::to_value((&tools.placement, &tools.size)).unwrap(), json!([{"Split":"Left"}, {"FixedFirst":220.0}]));
+        assert_eq!(ui.history_lines, 4);
+        assert!(!ui.show_toolsets && ui.show_palettes && !ui.show_toolbar);
+        assert_eq!(ui.docking.layout, default_workspace().layout);
+        assert!(ui.docking.hidden.is_empty(), "{:?}", ui.docking.hidden);
        fs::remove_dir_all(directory).unwrap();
    }

@@ -311,7 +314,7 @@ mod tests {
            let (mut store, ui, error) = Workspace::at(Some(path.clone()));
            assert!(ui.is_none());
            assert!(error.as_deref().is_some_and(|error| error.contains("left unchanged")));
-            store.save_if_changed(&UiState { show_palettes: false, ..Default::default() }).unwrap();
+            store.save_if_changed(&UiState { show_palettes: false, ..Default::default() }, Instant::now()).unwrap();
            assert_eq!(fs::read(&path).unwrap(), bytes);
        }
        fs::remove_dir_all(directory).unwrap();
@@ -326,7 +329,8 @@ mod tests {
            json!({"layout":false,"hidden":[]}),
            json!({"layout":{"root":null,"floating":[]},"hidden":[["futurePanel",{}]]}),
        ] {
-            let workspace = json!({"showToolbar":false,"showPalettes":false,"toolsetTab":"Modeling", "collapsedGroups":["Draw"], "historyLines":7,"docking":docking});
+            let workspace = json!({"showToolbar":false,"showPalettes":false,"toolsetTab":"Modeling", "collapsedGroups":["Draw"], "historyLines":7,"docking":docking,
+                "dockingVersion":cadcraft_ui_egui::docking::LAYOUT_VERSION});
            assert!(serde_json::from_value::<UiState>(workspace.clone()).is_err(), "runtime state must stay strict");
            fs::write(&path, serde_json::to_vec(&json!({"version":1,"workspace":workspace})).unwrap()).unwrap();
            let (_, restored, error) = Workspace::at(Some(path.clone()));
@@ -342,16 +346,41 @@ mod tests {
        fs::remove_dir_all(directory).unwrap();
    }

+    #[test]
+    fn rapid_changes_are_written_once_per_interval_with_the_newest_state() {
+        let directory = temp_dir();
+        let path = directory.join("workspace.json");
+        let (mut store, _, _) = Workspace::at(Some(path.clone()));
+        let start = Instant::now();
+        let mut ui = UiState { history_lines: 1, ..Default::default() };
+        assert_eq!(store.save_if_changed(&ui, start).unwrap(), None);
+        // A drag: a new state every frame, none of them written until the interval ends.
+        for (frame, lines) in (2..=5).enumerate() {
+            ui.history_lines = lines;
+            let now = start + Duration::from_millis(16 * (frame as u64 + 1));
+            let wait = store.save_if_changed(&ui, now).unwrap();
+            assert_eq!(wait, Some(MIN_WRITE_INTERVAL - (now - start)));
+        }
+        assert_eq!(read(&path).unwrap().unwrap().history_lines, 1);
+        assert_eq!(store.save_if_changed(&ui, start + MIN_WRITE_INTERVAL).unwrap(), None);
+        assert_eq!(read(&path).unwrap().unwrap().history_lines, 5);
+        ui.history_lines = 6;
+        assert!(store.save_if_changed(&ui, start + MIN_WRITE_INTERVAL).unwrap().is_some());
+        store.save_on_exit(&ui).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(read(&path).unwrap().unwrap().history_lines, 6);
+        fs::remove_dir_all(directory).unwrap();
+    }
+
    #[test]
    fn invalid_update_cannot_replace_last_good_workspace() {
        let directory = temp_dir();
        let path = directory.join("workspace.json");
        let (mut store, _, _) = Workspace::at(Some(path.clone()));
        let mut ui = UiState { show_palettes: false, ..Default::default() };
-        store.save_if_changed(&ui).unwrap();
+        store.save_if_changed(&ui, Instant::now()).unwrap();
        let good = fs::read(&path).unwrap();
        ui.collapsed_groups = vec!["x".repeat(257)];
-        assert!(store.save_if_changed(&ui).is_err());
+        assert!(store.save_if_changed(&ui, Instant::now()).is_err());
        assert_eq!(fs::read(&path).unwrap(), good);
        fs::remove_dir_all(directory).unwrap();
    }
@@ -364,9 +393,9 @@ mod tests {
        // Simulate a destination becoming unavailable after startup.
        fs::create_dir(&path).unwrap();
        let ui = UiState { show_palettes: false, ..Default::default() };
-        let first_error = store.save_if_changed(&ui).unwrap_err();
+        let first_error = store.save_if_changed(&ui, Instant::now()).unwrap_err();
        fs::remove_dir(&path).unwrap();
-        assert_eq!(store.save_if_changed(&ui).unwrap_err(), first_error);
+        assert_eq!(store.save_if_changed(&ui, Instant::now()).unwrap_err(), first_error);
        assert!(!path.exists(), "ordinary frames must not retry disk writes");
        store.save_on_exit(&ui).unwrap();
        assert!(!read(&path).unwrap().unwrap().show_palettes);
@@ -2,3 +2,7 @@ allow-unwrap-in-tests = true
 allow-expect-in-tests = true
 allow-panic-in-tests = true
 allow-indexing-slicing-in-tests = true
+disallowed-types = [
+    { path = "egui::ComboBox", reason = "use craft_ui::ComboBox: egui's combo box menu can't grow back while open (egui#5225)" },
+]
+cognitive-complexity-threshold = 30
@@ -1,13 +1,10 @@
-# Contributor names for the About window (craftrules standards/contributors.md).
+# Contributor names for the About window.
 #
 # Everyone who contributes is credited by GitHub username automatically. Anything more is up to
 # you: add YOUR OWN entry below, in your own PR (commit it yourself). Never add someone else; a
 # maintainer may add a person only when that person asked, recording where in consent_source.
 #
-# Easiest: python3 ../../craftrules/scripts/contributors.py --add-me . \
-#            [--real-name "Ada Lovelace"] [--display-name "Ada"] [--sync-github-name]
-#
-# Or copy this block, replacing your-github-username (every field is optional):
+# Copy this block, replacing your-github-username (every field is optional):
 #
 #   [people.your-github-username]
 #   real_name = "Your Name"        # shown when the viewer picks "Real name"
@@ -91,3 +88,11 @@ sync_github_name = false
 real_name = "Robert Lee"
 sync_github_name = true

+[people.2ez4gcx]
+real_name = "Doan Huynh Huu Khuong"
+display_name = "Doan Huynh Huu Khuong"
+sync_github_name = false
+
+
+[people.dylanmtaylor]
+sync_github_name = true
@@ -52,15 +52,11 @@ fn collect(d: &Drawing, handles: &[Handle]) -> Geo {
                    g.curves.push((GeomRef::whole(h), ga.center, a.radius));
                }
            }
-            EntityKind::Circle(c) => {
-                if c.center.is_finite() && c.radius.is_finite() {
-                    g.curves.push((GeomRef::whole(h), c.center.xy(), c.radius));
-                }
+            EntityKind::Circle(c) if c.center.is_finite() && c.radius.is_finite() => {
+                g.curves.push((GeomRef::whole(h), c.center.xy(), c.radius));
            }
-            EntityKind::Point(p) => {
-                if p.p.is_finite() {
-                    g.points.push((GeomRef::whole(h), p.p.xy()));
-                }
+            EntityKind::Point(p) if p.p.is_finite() => {
+                g.points.push((GeomRef::whole(h), p.p.xy()));
            }
            EntityKind::LwPolyline(p) => {
                let n = p.vertices.len();
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ mod budget_tests {
            aux_init: Vec::new(),
            aux: 0,
        };
-        let comp = Comp { model, built: vec![endpoint], weights: vec![1.0; 2], tol: 1e-9 };
+        let comp = Comp { model, built: vec![endpoint], weights: vec![1.0; 2], held: Vec::new(), tol: 1e-9 };
        assert!(analyse(&comp).dof.is_none());
    }
 }
@@ -81,6 +81,12 @@ pub struct SolveOptions {
    pub keep: Vec<Handle>,
    /// Entities that should take up the change.
    pub prefer_move: Vec<Handle>,
+    /// Points held where they are for this solve, as a Fix would hold them (the grip an edit
+    /// just put down): see [`edited_points`].
+    pub hold: Vec<GeomRef>,
+    /// Where a Fix on a derived point (by constraint id) holds it, instead of where the point is
+    /// now: see [`moved_anchors`].
+    pub anchors: Vec<(u32, Vec2)>,
 }

 #[derive(Clone, Debug, Default, PartialEq, Serialize)]
@@ -205,12 +211,19 @@ pub(crate) struct Comp {
    pub(crate) model: Model,
    pub(crate) built: Vec<Built>,
    weights: Vec<f64>,
+    /// Parameters of the points held by [`SolveOptions::hold`].
+    held: Vec<usize>,
    tol: f64,
 }

 impl Comp {
    fn locks(&self, skip: Option<usize>) -> Vec<bool> {
        let mut locked = vec![false; self.model.x0.len()];
+        for &j in &self.held {
+            if let Some(l) = locked.get_mut(j) {
+                *l = true;
+            }
+        }
        for (i, b) in self.built.iter().enumerate() {
            if Some(i) == skip || b.form != Form::Lock {
                continue;
@@ -245,7 +258,30 @@ impl Comp {
            return Err(SolveError::TooLarge);
        }
        let f = |x: &[f64], out: &mut Vec<f64>| self.eval(x, out, skip);
-        Ok(lm::solve(&f, &self.model.x0, &free, &self.weights, self.tol, MAX_ITER))
+        let mut o = lm::solve(&f, &self.model.x0, &free, &self.weights, self.tol, MAX_ITER);
+        // A solution the ellipses would be stored differently from (axes swapped, minor axis
+        // mirrored) holds only if the constraints still hold on the stored form: a constraint on
+        // an axis end by index does not.
+        if o.converged && !self.model.storable(&o.x) {
+            let mut out = Vec::new();
+            match self.model.stored_form(&o.x) {
+                Some(mut xc) => {
+                    // Contact parameters are positions along the curves: they follow the stored form.
+                    for b in self.built.iter().filter(|b| b.form == Form::Contact) {
+                        for (k, r) in b.refs.iter().enumerate() {
+                            if let (Some(&t), Some(slot)) = (o.x.get(b.aux + k), xc.get_mut(b.aux + k)) {
+                                *slot = self.model.stored_t(&o.x, r.handle, t);
+                            }
+                        }
+                    }
+                    self.eval(&xc, &mut out, skip);
+                    o.converged = lm::max_abs(&out) <= self.tol;
+                    o.x = xc;
+                }
+                None => o.converged = false,
+            }
+        }
+        Ok(o)
    }
    /// Constraint ids in conflict (each one whose removal makes the rest solvable).
    fn conflicts(&self, x_failed: &[f64]) -> Vec<u32> {
@@ -322,6 +358,56 @@ fn components<'a>(cons: &[&'a Constraint]) -> Vec<Vec<&'a Constraint>> {
    groups.into_values().collect()
 }

+/// The solver weight of each unknown of `model`: kept handles weigh more, preferred-to-move ones
+/// less, angles and ratios by size², and contact parameters move freely.
+fn solver_weights(model: &Model, opts: &SolveOptions) -> Vec<f64> {
+    let mut weights = vec![1.0; model.x0.len()];
+    for s in &model.slots {
+        let w = if opts.keep.contains(&s.handle) {
+            1e4
+        } else if opts.prefer_move.contains(&s.handle) {
+            1e-2
+        } else {
+            1.0
+        };
+        for j in s.off..s.off + s.len {
+            if let Some(slot) = weights.get_mut(j) {
+                *slot = w;
+            }
+        }
+        for (j, f) in slot_scales(model, s) {
+            if let Some(slot) = weights.get_mut(j) {
+                *slot *= f;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    // Contact parameters move freely.
+    let geo = model.slots.iter().map(|s| s.off + s.len).max().unwrap_or(0);
+    for w in weights.iter_mut().skip(geo) {
+        *w = 1e-3;
+    }
+    weights
+}
+
+/// Per-unknown factors for the angles and ratios of one slot: size², so that the movement of
+/// points is what is minimised.
+fn slot_scales(model: &Model, s: &model::Slot) -> Vec<(usize, f64)> {
+    let sq = |j: usize| model.x0.get(j).map_or(1.0, |r| (r * r).max(1e-6));
+    match s.shape {
+        model::Shape::Arc => vec![(s.off + 3, sq(s.off + 2)), (s.off + 4, sq(s.off + 2))],
+        model::Shape::Ellipse { arc } => {
+            let a2 = (sq(s.off + 2) + sq(s.off + 3)).max(1e-6);
+            let mut v = vec![(s.off + 4, a2)];
+            if arc {
+                v.extend([(s.off + 5, a2), (s.off + 6, a2)]);
+            }
+            v
+        }
+        model::Shape::Insert { .. } => vec![(s.off + 2, model.rigid_extent2(s.handle).max(1.0))],
+        _ => Vec::new(),
+    }
+}
+
 /// Build the component systems. Constraints that cannot be interpreted are returned as skipped.
 pub(crate) fn build(d: &Drawing, cons: &[&Constraint], opts: &SolveOptions) -> Result<(Vec<Comp>, Vec<(u32, String)>), SolveError> {
    let mut members_left = model::MAX_RIGID_WORK;
@@ -346,55 +432,24 @@ pub(crate) fn build_budgeted(
        for c in group {
            let target = if c.kind.is_dimensional() { constraint_value(&mut e, c)? } else { 0.0 };
            match interpret(c, &mut model, target) {
-                Ok(b) => built.push(b),
+                Ok(mut b) => {
+                    if let Form::Anchor(_) = b.form
+                        && let Some(&(_, a)) = opts.anchors.iter().find(|(id, _)| *id == c.id)
+                    {
+                        b.form = Form::Anchor(a);
+                    }
+                    built.push(b);
+                }
                Err(msg) => skipped.push((c.id, msg)),
            }
        }
        if built.is_empty() {
            continue;
        }
-        let mut weights = vec![1.0; model.x0.len()];
-        for s in &model.slots {
-            let w = if opts.keep.contains(&s.handle) {
-                1e4
-            } else if opts.prefer_move.contains(&s.handle) {
-                1e-2
-            } else {
-                1.0
-            };
-            for j in s.off..s.off + s.len {
-                if let Some(slot) = weights.get_mut(j) {
-                    *slot = w;
-                }
-            }
-            // Angles and ratios: weight by size² so the movement of points is what is minimised.
-            let sq = |j: usize| model.x0.get(j).map_or(1.0, |r| (r * r).max(1e-6));
-            let scaled: Vec<(usize, f64)> = match s.shape {
-                model::Shape::Arc => vec![(s.off + 3, sq(s.off + 2)), (s.off + 4, sq(s.off + 2))],
-                model::Shape::Ellipse { arc } => {
-                    let a2 = (sq(s.off + 2) + sq(s.off + 3)).max(1e-6);
-                    let mut v = vec![(s.off + 4, a2)];
-                    if arc {
-                        v.extend([(s.off + 5, a2), (s.off + 6, a2)]);
-                    }
-                    v
-                }
-                model::Shape::Insert { .. } => vec![(s.off + 2, model.rigid_extent2(s.handle).max(1.0))],
-                _ => Vec::new(),
-            };
-            for (j, f) in scaled {
-                if let Some(slot) = weights.get_mut(j) {
-                    *slot *= f;
-                }
-            }
-        }
-        // Contact parameters move freely.
-        let geo = model.slots.iter().map(|s| s.off + s.len).max().unwrap_or(0);
-        for w in weights.iter_mut().skip(geo) {
-            *w = 1e-3;
-        }
+        let weights = solver_weights(&model, opts);
+        let held = opts.hold.iter().filter_map(|r| model.lock_indices(r)).flatten().collect();
        let tol = scale_tol(&model.x0);
-        comps.push(Comp { model, built, weights, tol });
+        comps.push(Comp { model, built, weights, held, tol });
    }
    Ok((comps, skipped))
 }
@@ -445,6 +500,9 @@ pub fn residuals(d: &Drawing) -> Vec<(u32, Option<f64>)> {
 /// A Fix keeps no position of its own: the solver locks the parameters at their current values.
 /// Without this, an edit that moves a fixed point (a grip drag) would carry the lock along with
 /// it. Only Fixes that already existed in `before`, on objects of the same shape, are restored.
+/// An object held by a Fix on a derived point (a line's midpoint, an arc's end) has nothing to
+/// lock: when the edit only moved it (MOVE), it is put back whole, so it is not reshaped to bring
+/// the point back.
 pub fn restore_fixed(d: &mut Drawing, before: &Drawing) -> bool {
    let refs: Vec<GeomRef> = d
        .constraints
@@ -461,10 +519,21 @@ pub fn restore_fixed(d: &mut Drawing, before: &Drawing) -> bool {
    let mut changed = false;
    for r in &refs {
        let same_shape = matches!((now.slot(r.handle), old.slot(r.handle)), (Some(a), Some(b)) if a.shape == b.shape);
-        let (Some(i), Some(j)) = (now.lock_indices(r), old.lock_indices(r)) else { continue };
        if !same_shape {
            continue;
        }
+        let (Some(i), Some(j)) = (now.lock_indices(r), old.lock_indices(r)) else {
+            if let (Some(a), Some(b)) = (now.slot(r.handle), old.slot(r.handle))
+                && translated(&now, &old, r.handle)
+                && let (Some(dst), Some(src)) = (x.get_mut(a.off..a.off + a.len), old.x0.get(b.off..b.off + b.len))
+            {
+                for (v, &w) in dst.iter_mut().zip(src) {
+                    *v = w;
+                }
+                changed = true;
+            }
+            continue;
+        };
        for (i, j) in i.into_iter().zip(j) {
            if let (Some(slot), Some(&v)) = (x.get_mut(i), old.x0.get(j))
                && *slot != v
@@ -480,6 +549,88 @@ pub fn restore_fixed(d: &mut Drawing, before: &Drawing) -> bool {
    changed
 }

+/// The parameters of `h`'s points (see [`Model::point_refs`]) in `m`, as (x, y) pairs.
+fn point_params(m: &Model, h: Handle) -> Vec<(usize, usize)> {
+    m.point_refs(h)
+        .iter()
+        .filter_map(|r| m.lock_indices(r))
+        .flat_map(|ix| ix.as_chunks::<2>().0.iter().map(|&[x, y]| (x, y)).collect::<Vec<_>>())
+        .collect()
+}
+
+/// Is `h` in `now` its shape in `old` moved by one vector, and nothing else?
+fn translated(now: &Model, old: &Model, h: Handle) -> bool {
+    let (Some(a), Some(b)) = (now.slot(h), old.slot(h)) else { return false };
+    let (Some(xa), Some(xb)) = (now.x0.get(a.off..a.off + a.len), old.x0.get(b.off..b.off + b.len)) else { return false };
+    let tol = scale_tol(xb) * 10.0;
+    let pts: Vec<(usize, usize)> =
+        point_params(old, h).into_iter().filter_map(|(i, j)| Some((i.checked_sub(b.off)?, j.checked_sub(b.off)?))).collect();
+    let delta = |(i, j): (usize, usize)| Some(Vec2::new(xa.get(i)? - xb.get(i)?, xa.get(j)? - xb.get(j)?));
+    let Some(v) = pts.first().and_then(|&p| delta(p)) else { return false };
+    if v.len() <= tol || !pts.iter().all(|&p| delta(p).is_some_and(|d| d.near(v, tol))) {
+        return false;
+    }
+    (0..xb.len())
+        .filter(|k| !pts.iter().any(|&(i, j)| *k == i || *k == j))
+        .all(|k| matches!((xa.get(k), xb.get(k)), (Some(p), Some(q)) if (p - q).abs() <= tol))
+}
+
+/// The points of `h` (its ends, centre or vertices) the edit from `before` to `d` moved, when it
+/// moved some of them but not all: the grip that was dragged, to pass as [`SolveOptions::hold`] so
+/// it stays where it was put and the rest of the object takes up the constraints. Empty when the
+/// object kept its points or moved them all.
+pub fn edited_points(d: &Drawing, before: &Drawing, h: Handle) -> Vec<GeomRef> {
+    let (now, old) = (Model::build(d, &[h]), Model::build(before, &[h]));
+    if !matches!((now.slot(h), old.slot(h)), (Some(a), Some(b)) if a.shape == b.shape) {
+        return Vec::new();
+    }
+    let tol = scale_tol(&old.x0) * 10.0;
+    let refs = now.point_refs(h);
+    let moved: Vec<GeomRef> = refs
+        .iter()
+        .filter(|r| matches!((now.lock_indices(r), old.lock_indices(r)), (Some(i), Some(j)) if i.iter().zip(&j).any(|(&i, &j)| matches!((now.x0.get(i), old.x0.get(j)), (Some(p), Some(q)) if (p - q).abs() > tol))))
+        .copied()
+        .collect();
+    if moved.len() == refs.len() { Vec::new() } else { moved }
+}
+
+/// Where `before` had each derived point held by a Fix (a line's midpoint, an arc's end), for the
+/// Fixes whose point has moved since, to pass as [`SolveOptions::anchors`].
+///
+/// A Fix on a derived point anchors it where it is when the system is built, and
+/// [`restore_fixed`] has no parameters to put back: without this, an edit that moves the point
+/// would leave the Fix satisfied at the new place.
+pub fn moved_anchors(d: &Drawing, before: &Drawing) -> Vec<(u32, Vec2)> {
+    let fixes: Vec<(u32, GeomRef)> = d
+        .constraints
+        .iter()
+        .filter(|c| c.kind == ConstraintKind::Fix && before.constraints.contains(c))
+        .filter_map(|c| match c.refs.as_slice() {
+            [r] => Some((c.id, *r)),
+            _ => None,
+        })
+        .collect();
+    if fixes.is_empty() {
+        return Vec::new();
+    }
+    let handles: Vec<Handle> = fixes.iter().map(|(_, r)| r.handle).collect();
+    let (now, old) = (Model::build(d, &handles), Model::build(before, &handles));
+    let tol = scale_tol(&old.x0);
+    let mut out = Vec::new();
+    for (id, r) in fixes {
+        let same_shape = matches!((now.slot(r.handle), old.slot(r.handle)), (Some(a), Some(b)) if a.shape == b.shape);
+        if !same_shape || now.lock_indices(&r).is_some() {
+            continue;
+        }
+        if let (Some(p), Some(a)) = (now.point(&now.x0, &r), old.point(&old.x0, &r))
+            && !p.near(a, tol)
+        {
+            out.push((id, a));
+        }
+    }
+    out
+}
+
 /// True when every interpretable constraint holds at the current geometry.
 pub fn all_satisfied(d: &Drawing) -> bool {
    let handles: Vec<Handle> = d.constraints.iter().flat_map(|c| c.refs.iter().map(|r| r.handle)).collect();
@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ pub const MAX_RIGID_POINTS: usize = 256;
 const MAX_RIGID_MEMBERS: usize = 100_000;
 /// Shared across every model built for one analysis request.
 pub(crate) const MAX_RIGID_WORK: usize = 1_000_000;
+/// How far past 1 a solved ellipse ratio may land by rounding and still be stored as 1.
+const RATIO_TOL: f64 = 1e-9;

 #[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq, Eq)]
 pub(crate) enum Shape {
@@ -189,6 +191,77 @@ impl Model {
        Self::build_budgeted(d, handles, &mut members_left)
    }

+    /// Add the parameters of one supported entity to `m`, and return its shape; `None` when it is
+    /// left out (too large, degenerate or unsupported).
+    fn add_params(m: &mut Model, d: &Drawing, h: Handle, kind: &EntityKind, off: usize, members_left: &mut usize) -> Option<Shape> {
+        let shape = match kind {
+            EntityKind::Line(l) => {
+                m.x0.extend([l.a.x, l.a.y, l.b.x, l.b.y]);
+                Shape::Line
+            }
+            EntityKind::Circle(c) => {
+                m.x0.extend([c.center.x, c.center.y, c.radius]);
+                Shape::Circle
+            }
+            EntityKind::Arc(a) => {
+                m.x0.extend([a.center.x, a.center.y, a.radius, a.start, a.end]);
+                Shape::Arc
+            }
+            EntityKind::LwPolyline(p) => {
+                if p.vertices.len() < 2 || off + p.vertices.len() * 2 > MAX_PARAMS {
+                    return None;
+                }
+                for v in &p.vertices {
+                    m.x0.extend([v.p.x, v.p.y]);
+                }
+                Shape::Poly { n: p.vertices.len(), closed: p.closed }
+            }
+            EntityKind::Point(p) => {
+                m.x0.extend([p.p.x, p.p.y]);
+                Shape::Point
+            }
+            EntityKind::Ellipse(el) => {
+                let ell = cadcraft_geom::Ellipse { center: el.center.xy(), major: el.major.xy(), ratio: el.ratio, start: el.start, end: el.end };
+                let arc = !ell.is_full();
+                m.x0.extend([el.center.x, el.center.y, el.major.x, el.major.y, el.ratio]);
+                if arc {
+                    m.x0.extend([el.start, el.end]);
+                }
+                Shape::Ellipse { arc }
+            }
+            EntityKind::Spline(sp) => {
+                let fit = fit_mode(sp);
+                let pts = if fit { &sp.fit } else { &sp.control };
+                let n = pts.len();
+                if !(2..=MAX_SPLINE_POINTS).contains(&n) || off + n * 2 > MAX_PARAMS || (!fit && !sp.is_valid()) {
+                    return None;
+                }
+                for p in pts {
+                    m.x0.extend([p.x, p.y]);
+                }
+                // Fit points interpolate exactly, so the curve's ends are the first and last
+                // fit point; a control polygon's ends are its first and last points when the
+                // knots are clamped.
+                let ends = !sp.closed && (fit || (clamped(sp, false) && clamped(sp, true)));
+                // Missing weights default to 1 in eval; only excess weights are unused.
+                let mut kept = sp.clone();
+                kept.weights.truncate(kept.control.len());
+                m.splines.insert(h, kept);
+                Shape::Spline { n, fit, ends }
+            }
+            EntityKind::Insert(ins) => {
+                let base = Vec2::new(ins.insert.x, ins.insert.y);
+                let pts: Vec<Vec2> = rigid_points_budgeted(d, ins, members_left).into_iter().map(|p| (p - base).rotate(-ins.rotation)).collect();
+                m.x0.extend([ins.insert.x, ins.insert.y, ins.rotation]);
+                let n = pts.len();
+                m.rigid.insert(h, pts);
+                Shape::Insert { n }
+            }
+            _ => return None,
+        };
+        Some(shape)
+    }
+
    /// Build solver parameters for supported entities while sharing rigid-member sampling work with other models.
    pub(crate) fn build_budgeted(d: &Drawing, handles: &[Handle], members_left: &mut usize) -> Model {
        let mut m = Model::default();
@@ -198,71 +271,7 @@ impl Model {
            }
            let Some(e) = d.entity(h) else { continue };
            let off = m.x0.len();
-            let shape = match &e.kind {
-                EntityKind::Line(l) => {
-                    m.x0.extend([l.a.x, l.a.y, l.b.x, l.b.y]);
-                    Shape::Line
-                }
-                EntityKind::Circle(c) => {
-                    m.x0.extend([c.center.x, c.center.y, c.radius]);
-                    Shape::Circle
-                }
-                EntityKind::Arc(a) => {
-                    m.x0.extend([a.center.x, a.center.y, a.radius, a.start, a.end]);
-                    Shape::Arc
-                }
-                EntityKind::LwPolyline(p) => {
-                    if p.vertices.len() < 2 || off + p.vertices.len() * 2 > MAX_PARAMS {
-                        continue;
-                    }
-                    for v in &p.vertices {
-                        m.x0.extend([v.p.x, v.p.y]);
-                    }
-                    Shape::Poly { n: p.vertices.len(), closed: p.closed }
-                }
-                EntityKind::Point(p) => {
-                    m.x0.extend([p.p.x, p.p.y]);
-                    Shape::Point
-                }
-                EntityKind::Ellipse(el) => {
-                    let ell = cadcraft_geom::Ellipse { center: el.center.xy(), major: el.major.xy(), ratio: el.ratio, start: el.start, end: el.end };
-                    let arc = !ell.is_full();
-                    m.x0.extend([el.center.x, el.center.y, el.major.x, el.major.y, el.ratio]);
-                    if arc {
-                        m.x0.extend([el.start, el.end]);
-                    }
-                    Shape::Ellipse { arc }
-                }
-                EntityKind::Spline(sp) => {
-                    let fit = fit_mode(sp);
-                    let pts = if fit { &sp.fit } else { &sp.control };
-                    let n = pts.len();
-                    if !(2..=MAX_SPLINE_POINTS).contains(&n) || off + n * 2 > MAX_PARAMS || (!fit && !sp.is_valid()) {
-                        continue;
-                    }
-                    for p in pts {
-                        m.x0.extend([p.x, p.y]);
-                    }
-                    // Fit points interpolate exactly, so the curve's ends are the first and last
-                    // fit point; a control polygon's ends are its first and last points when the
-                    // knots are clamped.
-                    let ends = !sp.closed && (fit || (clamped(sp, false) && clamped(sp, true)));
-                    // Missing weights default to 1 in eval; only excess weights are unused.
-                    let mut kept = sp.clone();
-                    kept.weights.truncate(kept.control.len());
-                    m.splines.insert(h, kept);
-                    Shape::Spline { n, fit, ends }
-                }
-                EntityKind::Insert(ins) => {
-                    let base = Vec2::new(ins.insert.x, ins.insert.y);
-                    let pts: Vec<Vec2> = rigid_points_budgeted(d, ins, members_left).into_iter().map(|p| (p - base).rotate(-ins.rotation)).collect();
-                    m.x0.extend([ins.insert.x, ins.insert.y, ins.rotation]);
-                    let n = pts.len();
-                    m.rigid.insert(h, pts);
-                    Shape::Insert { n }
-                }
-                _ => continue,
-            };
+            let Some(shape) = Self::add_params(&mut m, d, h, &e.kind, off, members_left) else { continue };
            if m.x0.len() > MAX_PARAMS || m.x0.get(off..).unwrap_or(&[]).iter().any(|v| !v.is_finite()) {
                m.x0.truncate(off);
                continue;
@@ -477,6 +486,18 @@ impl Model {
        }
    }

+    /// The points of an object a Fix locks directly (ends, centre, vertices, insertion point).
+    pub fn point_refs(&self, h: Handle) -> Vec<GeomRef> {
+        let Some(s) = self.slot(h) else { return Vec::new() };
+        let at = |sub: Sub| GeomRef { handle: h, sub };
+        match s.shape {
+            Shape::Line => vec![at(Sub::Start), at(Sub::End)],
+            Shape::Point => vec![at(Sub::Whole)],
+            Shape::Circle | Shape::Arc | Shape::Ellipse { .. } | Shape::Insert { .. } => vec![at(Sub::Center)],
+            Shape::Poly { n, .. } | Shape::Spline { n, .. } => (0..n).filter_map(|i| u32::try_from(i).ok()).map(|i| at(Sub::Vertex(i))).collect(),
+        }
+    }
+
    /// Parameters a Fix on this reference locks directly. `None` when the reference is a derived
    /// point (fixed through a residual instead).
    pub fn lock_indices(&self, r: &GeomRef) -> Option<Vec<usize>> {
@@ -504,6 +525,57 @@ impl Model {
        Some(v)
    }

+    /// Can `write_back` store `x` as it is? An ellipse keeps 0 < ratio <= 1, its major axis the
+    /// longer one: a solution past that is stored with its axes swapped or its minor axis
+    /// mirrored (see [`Model::stored_form`]), which renumbers the axis ends.
+    pub fn storable(&self, x: &[f64]) -> bool {
+        self.slots.iter().all(|s| match s.shape {
+            Shape::Ellipse { .. } => x.get(s.off + 4).is_some_and(|r| *r > 0.0 && *r <= 1.0 + RATIO_TOL),
+            _ => true,
+        })
+    }
+
+    /// `x` with every ellipse re-expressed as [`Model::write_back`] stores it (the same curve with
+    /// the major axis the longer one, a full ellipse's negative ratio made positive), so the
+    /// constraints can be checked against what would be stored. `None` when an elliptical arc has
+    /// a negative ratio or an ellipse a zero one.
+    pub fn stored_form(&self, x: &[f64]) -> Option<Vec<f64>> {
+        let mut xc = x.to_vec();
+        for s in &self.slots {
+            let Shape::Ellipse { arc } = s.shape else { continue };
+            let o = s.off;
+            let mut ratio = *x.get(o + 4)?;
+            if ratio < 0.0 && !arc {
+                ratio = -ratio;
+            }
+            if ratio <= 0.0 {
+                return None;
+            }
+            if ratio > 1.0 + RATIO_TOL {
+                let major = p2(x, o + 2)?.perp() * ratio;
+                *xc.get_mut(o + 2)? = major.x;
+                *xc.get_mut(o + 3)? = major.y;
+                ratio = 1.0 / ratio;
+                if arc {
+                    *xc.get_mut(o + 5)? -= std::f64::consts::FRAC_PI_2;
+                    *xc.get_mut(o + 6)? -= std::f64::consts::FRAC_PI_2;
+                }
+            }
+            *xc.get_mut(o + 4)? = ratio;
+        }
+        Some(xc)
+    }
+
+    /// The parameter `stored_form` gives the point at parameter `t` on ellipse `h` (unchanged for
+    /// any other object): `-t` where a negative ratio was made positive, a quarter turn back where
+    /// the axes were swapped.
+    pub fn stored_t(&self, x: &[f64], h: Handle, t: f64) -> f64 {
+        let Some(s) = self.slot(h) else { return t };
+        let (Shape::Ellipse { .. }, Some(&ratio)) = (s.shape, x.get(s.off + 4)) else { return t };
+        let (t, ratio) = if ratio < 0.0 { (-t, -ratio) } else { (t, ratio) };
+        if ratio > 1.0 + RATIO_TOL { t - std::f64::consts::FRAC_PI_2 } else { t }
+    }
+
    /// Write solved parameters back. Returns the handles that moved.
    pub fn write_back(&self, d: &mut Drawing, x: &[f64]) -> Vec<Handle> {
        let mut moved = Vec::new();
@@ -572,8 +644,9 @@ impl Model {
                            [a, b] if arc => (*a, *b),
                            _ => (el.start, el.end),
                        };
-                        // Keep the stored form: the major axis is the longer one.
-                        if ratio > 1.0 {
+                        // Keep the stored form: the major axis is the longer one. `storable` lets a
+                        // solved ratio exceed 1 only by rounding: that is a circle, not a swap.
+                        if ratio > 1.0 + RATIO_TOL {
                            major = major.perp() * ratio;
                            ratio = 1.0 / ratio;
                            if arc {
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 use cadcraft_doc::{Constraint, ConstraintKind, DistAxis, GeomRef};
 use cadcraft_geom::Vec2;

-use crate::curves::circle_at;
+use crate::curves::{Ell, circle_at};
 use crate::model::Model;

 /// Contact parameter samples per curve when guessing where two curves touch.
@@ -205,42 +205,7 @@ impl Built {
                };
                b.rows = 1;
            }
-            K::Tangent | K::Smooth => {
-                if n != 2 {
-                    return need("two objects");
-                }
-                if c.refs.iter().any(|r| m.is_spline(r)) {
-                    return Self::spline_form(b, m, x);
-                }
-                b.rows = 1;
-                if let (Some((a, bb)), Some((cc, _))) = (ln(0), ci(1)) {
-                    b.form = Form::LC { swap: false };
-                    b.sign = sgn(dir_n(a, bb).cross(cc - a));
-                } else if let (Some((a, bb)), Some((cc, _))) = (ln(1), ci(0)) {
-                    b.form = Form::LC { swap: true };
-                    b.sign = sgn(dir_n(a, bb).cross(cc - a));
-                } else if let (Some((c1, r1)), Some((c2, r2))) = (ci(0), ci(1)) {
-                    b.form = Form::CC;
-                    // sign > 0: external tangency; < 0: internal.
-                    let d = c1.dist(c2);
-                    b.sign = if d >= r1.abs().max(r2.abs()) { 1.0 } else { -1.0 };
-                    b.target = sgn(r1 - r2);
-                } else if let (Some((a, bb)), Some(e)) = (ln(0), el(1)) {
-                    b.form = Form::LE { swap: false };
-                    b.sign = sgn(dir_n(a, bb).cross(e.c - a));
-                } else if let (Some((a, bb)), Some(e)) = (ln(1), el(0)) {
-                    b.form = Form::LE { swap: true };
-                    b.sign = sgn(dir_n(a, bb).cross(e.c - a));
-                } else if (ci(0).is_some() || el(0).is_some()) && (ci(1).is_some() || el(1).is_some()) {
-                    b.form = Form::Contact;
-                    b.rows = 3;
-                    b.aux_init = b.contact_guess(m, x).ok_or_else(|| format!("{} could not find where the curves touch", c.kind.name()))?;
-                } else if ln(0).is_some() && ln(1).is_some() && c.kind == K::Smooth {
-                    b.form = Form::LL;
-                } else {
-                    return need("a line and a circle/arc/ellipse, two curves, or a spline end and a curve");
-                }
-            }
+            K::Tangent | K::Smooth => return Self::tangent_form(b, c, m, x),
            K::Symmetric => {
                if n != 3 || ln(2).is_none() {
                    return need("two objects and a symmetry line");
@@ -347,154 +312,8 @@ impl Built {
        out.resize(start + self.rows, 0.0);
    }

-    fn eval_inner(&self, m: &Model, x: &[f64], out: &mut Vec<f64>) -> Option<()> {
-        use ConstraintKind as K;
-        let r = |i: usize| self.refs.get(i);
-        let pt = |i: usize| m.point(x, r(i)?);
-        let ln = |i: usize| m.line(x, r(i)?);
-        let ci = |i: usize| m.circle(x, r(i)?);
-        let el = |i: usize| m.ellipse(x, r(i)?);
-        match (self.kind, self.form) {
-            (_, Form::Lock) => {}
-            (_, Form::PE { swap }) => {
-                let (p, e) = if swap { (pt(1)?, el(0)?) } else { (pt(0)?, el(1)?) };
-                out.push(e.on(p));
-            }
-            (_, Form::LE { swap }) => {
-                let ((a, b), e) = if swap { (ln(1)?, el(0)?) } else { (ln(0)?, el(1)?) };
-                let d = dir_n(a, b);
-                out.push(self.sign * d.cross(e.c - a) - e.support(d.perp()));
-            }
-            (_, Form::Contact) => {
-                let (p0, d0) = self.curve_at(m, x, 0, *x.get(self.aux)?)?;
-                let (p1, d1) = self.curve_at(m, x, 1, *x.get(self.aux + 1)?)?;
-                out.extend([p0.x - p1.x, p0.y - p1.y, d0.normalized().cross(d1.normalized())]);
-            }
-            (_, Form::EndOn { spline, at_end }) => {
-                let f = m.end_frame(x, r(spline)?, at_end)?;
-                let o = 1 - spline.min(1);
-                if let Some((a, b)) = ln(o) {
-                    let d = dir_n(a, b);
-                    out.extend([d.cross(f.p - a), f.t.cross(d)]);
-                } else if let Some((c, rad)) = ci(o) {
-                    out.extend([f.p.dist(c) - rad, f.t.dot(dir_n(c, f.p))]);
-                } else {
-                    let e = el(o)?;
-                    out.extend([e.on(f.p), f.t.dot(e.normal(f.p))]);
-                }
-            }
-            (_, Form::Join { a_end, b_end, g2 }) => {
-                // Orient both so the first curve runs into the joint and the second out of it.
-                let fa = m.end_frame(x, r(0)?, a_end)?;
-                let fb = m.end_frame(x, r(1)?, b_end)?;
-                let fa = if a_end { fa } else { fa.reversed() };
-                let fb = if b_end { fb.reversed() } else { fb };
-                out.extend([fa.p.x - fb.p.x, fa.p.y - fb.p.y, fa.t.cross(fb.t)]);
-                if g2 {
-                    out.push(fa.k - fb.k);
-                }
-            }
-            (_, Form::Anchor(a)) => {
-                let p = pt(0)?;
-                out.extend([p.x - a.x, p.y - a.y]);
-            }
-            (K::Coincident, Form::PP) => {
-                let (p, q) = (pt(0)?, pt(1)?);
-                out.extend([p.x - q.x, p.y - q.y]);
-            }
-            (K::Coincident, Form::PL { swap }) => {
-                let (p, (a, b)) = if swap { (pt(1)?, ln(0)?) } else { (pt(0)?, ln(1)?) };
-                out.push(dir_n(a, b).cross(p - a));
-            }
-            (K::Coincident, Form::PC { swap }) => {
-                let (p, (c, rad)) = if swap { (pt(1)?, ci(0)?) } else { (pt(0)?, ci(1)?) };
-                out.push(p.dist(c) - rad);
-            }
-            (K::Horizontal | K::Vertical, f) => {
-                let (a, b) = if f == Form::L1 { ln(0).or_else(|| el(0).map(|e| (e.c - e.mj, e.c + e.mj)))? } else { (pt(0)?, pt(1)?) };
-                out.push(if self.kind == K::Horizontal { a.y - b.y } else { a.x - b.x });
-            }
-            (K::Parallel | K::Smooth, Form::LL) => {
-                let ((a1, b1), (a2, b2)) = (ln(0)?, ln(1)?);
-                out.push(dir_n(a1, b1).cross(dir_n(a2, b2)));
-            }
-            (K::Perpendicular, _) => {
-                let ((a1, b1), (a2, b2)) = (ln(0)?, ln(1)?);
-                out.push(dir_n(a1, b1).dot(dir_n(a2, b2)));
-            }
-            (K::Collinear, _) => {
-                let ((a1, b1), (a2, b2)) = (ln(0)?, ln(1)?);
-                let d = dir_n(a1, b1);
-                out.extend([d.cross(a2 - a1), d.cross(b2 - a1)]);
-            }
-            (K::Concentric, _) => {
-                let center = |i: usize| ci(i).map(|(c, _)| c).or_else(|| el(i).map(|e| e.c)).or_else(|| pt(i));
-                let (p, q) = (center(0)?, center(1)?);
-                out.extend([p.x - q.x, p.y - q.y]);
-            }
-            (K::Equal, Form::LL) => {
-                let ((a1, b1), (a2, b2)) = (ln(0)?, ln(1)?);
-                out.push(a1.dist(b1) - a2.dist(b2));
-            }
-            (K::Equal, _) => {
-                let ((_, r1), (_, r2)) = (ci(0)?, ci(1)?);
-                out.push(r1 - r2);
-            }
-            (K::Tangent | K::Smooth, Form::LC { swap }) => {
-                let ((a, b), (c, rad)) = if swap { (ln(1)?, ci(0)?) } else { (ln(0)?, ci(1)?) };
-                out.push(self.sign * dir_n(a, b).cross(c - a) - rad);
-            }
-            (K::Tangent | K::Smooth, _) => {
-                let ((c1, r1), (c2, r2)) = (ci(0)?, ci(1)?);
-                let d = c1.dist(c2);
-                out.push(if self.sign > 0.0 { d - (r1 + r2) } else { d - self.target * (r1 - r2) });
-            }
-            (K::Symmetric, Form::PP) => {
-                let (p, q, (a, b)) = (pt(0)?, pt(1)?, ln(2)?);
-                let d = dir_n(a, b);
-                out.extend([d.cross(p.mid(q) - a), d.dot(q - p)]);
-            }
-            (K::Symmetric, Form::SymLines { crossed }) => {
-                let ((a1, b1), (a2, b2), (a, b)) = (ln(0)?, ln(1)?, ln(2)?);
-                let (a2, b2) = if crossed { (b2, a2) } else { (a2, b2) };
-                let d = dir_n(a, b);
-                out.extend([d.cross(a1.mid(a2) - a), d.dot(a2 - a1), d.cross(b1.mid(b2) - a), d.dot(b2 - b1)]);
-            }
-            (K::Symmetric, _) => {
-                let ((p, r1), (q, r2), (a, b)) = (ci(0)?, ci(1)?, ln(2)?);
-                let d = dir_n(a, b);
-                out.extend([d.cross(p.mid(q) - a), d.dot(q - p), r1 - r2]);
-            }
-            (K::Distance(axis), f) => {
-                let v = match (axis, f) {
-                    (_, Form::PL { swap }) => {
-                        let (p, (a, b)) = if swap { (pt(1)?, ln(0)?) } else { (pt(0)?, ln(1)?) };
-                        dir_n(a, b).cross(p - a)
-                    }
-                    _ => {
-                        let (a, b) = if f == Form::L1 { ln(0)? } else { (pt(0)?, pt(1)?) };
-                        match axis {
-                            DistAxis::Aligned => a.dist(b),
-                            DistAxis::Horizontal => b.x - a.x,
-                            DistAxis::Vertical => b.y - a.y,
-                        }
-                    }
-                };
-                out.push(self.sign * v - self.target);
-            }
-            (K::Angular, Form::ArcSweep) => {
-                out.push(m.arc_sweep(x, r(0)?)? - self.target);
-            }
-            (K::Angular, Form::Rays { rev }) => {
-                let ((a1, b1), (a2, b2)) = (ln(0)?, ln(1)?);
-                let (d1, d2) = (ray(a1, b1, rev[0]), ray(a2, b2, rev[1]));
-                out.push(wrap(d1.cross(d2).atan2(d1.dot(d2)) - self.sign * self.target));
-            }
-            (K::Radius, _) => out.push(ci(0)?.1 - self.target),
-            (K::Diameter, _) => out.push(2.0 * ci(0)?.1 - self.target),
-            _ => {}
-        }
-        Some(())
+    fn eval_inner(&self, model: &Model, values: &[f64], out: &mut Vec<f64>) -> Option<()> {
+        ResidualEval { built: self, model, values, out }.evaluate()
    }

    /// Point and derivative of curve reference `i` (circle, arc or ellipse) at parameter `t`.
@@ -527,6 +346,54 @@ impl Built {
    /// Tangent or Smooth with a spline: the spline end and the other curve's nearest end are
    /// joined (Smooth: G2; Tangent between splines: G1), or the spline's end touches a line,
    /// circle, arc or ellipse tangentially. A `start`/`end` reference picks the end.
+    fn tangent_form(mut built: Built, constraint: &Constraint, model: &Model, values: &[f64]) -> Result<Built, String> {
+        use ConstraintKind as K;
+
+        let need = |what: &str| Err(format!("{} needs {what}", constraint.kind.name()));
+        if built.refs.len() != 2 {
+            return need("two objects");
+        }
+        if constraint.refs.iter().any(|reference| model.is_spline(reference)) {
+            return Self::spline_form(built, model, values);
+        }
+
+        let line = |index| r_at(constraint, index).and_then(|reference| model.line(values, reference));
+        let circle = |index| r_at(constraint, index).and_then(|reference| model.circle(values, reference));
+        let ellipse = |index| r_at(constraint, index).and_then(|reference| model.ellipse(values, reference));
+        built.rows = 1;
+
+        if let (Some((start, end)), Some((center, _))) = (line(0), circle(1)) {
+            built.form = Form::LC { swap: false };
+            built.sign = sgn(dir_n(start, end).cross(center - start));
+        } else if let (Some((start, end)), Some((center, _))) = (line(1), circle(0)) {
+            built.form = Form::LC { swap: true };
+            built.sign = sgn(dir_n(start, end).cross(center - start));
+        } else if let (Some((first_center, first_radius)), Some((second_center, second_radius))) = (circle(0), circle(1)) {
+            built.form = Form::CC;
+            // sign > 0: external tangency; < 0: internal.
+            let distance = first_center.dist(second_center);
+            built.sign = if distance >= first_radius.abs().max(second_radius.abs()) { 1.0 } else { -1.0 };
+            built.target = sgn(first_radius - second_radius);
+        } else if let (Some((start, end)), Some(ellipse)) = (line(0), ellipse(1)) {
+            built.form = Form::LE { swap: false };
+            built.sign = sgn(dir_n(start, end).cross(ellipse.c - start));
+        } else if let (Some((start, end)), Some(ellipse)) = (line(1), ellipse(0)) {
+            built.form = Form::LE { swap: true };
+            built.sign = sgn(dir_n(start, end).cross(ellipse.c - start));
+        } else if (circle(0).is_some() || ellipse(0).is_some()) && (circle(1).is_some() || ellipse(1).is_some()) {
+            built.form = Form::Contact;
+            built.rows = 3;
+            built.aux_init =
+                built.contact_guess(model, values).ok_or_else(|| format!("{} could not find where the curves touch", constraint.kind.name()))?;
+        } else if line(0).is_some() && line(1).is_some() && constraint.kind == K::Smooth {
+            built.form = Form::LL;
+        } else {
+            return need("a line and a circle/arc/ellipse, two curves, or a spline end and a curve");
+        }
+
+        Ok(built)
+    }
+
    fn spline_form(mut b: Built, m: &Model, x: &[f64]) -> Result<Built, String> {
        let (Some(r0), Some(r1)) = (b.refs.first().copied(), b.refs.get(1).copied()) else {
            return Err(format!("{} needs two objects", b.kind.name()));
@@ -596,3 +463,292 @@ impl Built {
        if self.kind == ConstraintKind::Angular { v.to_degrees() } else { v }
    }
 }
+
+/// Shared access to a constraint's geometry, values, and output while evaluating one residual.
+struct ResidualEval<'a> {
+    built: &'a Built,
+    model: &'a Model,
+    values: &'a [f64],
+    out: &'a mut Vec<f64>,
+}
+
+impl ResidualEval<'_> {
+    fn evaluate(&mut self) -> Option<()> {
+        use ConstraintKind as K;
+
+        match (self.built.kind, self.built.form) {
+            (_, Form::Lock) => Some(()),
+            (_, Form::PE { swap }) => self.eval_point_ellipse(swap),
+            (_, Form::LE { swap }) => self.eval_line_ellipse(swap),
+            (_, Form::Contact) => self.eval_contact(),
+            (_, Form::EndOn { spline, at_end }) => self.eval_end_on(spline, at_end),
+            (_, Form::Join { a_end, b_end, g2 }) => self.eval_join(a_end, b_end, g2),
+            (_, Form::Anchor(anchor)) => self.eval_anchor(anchor),
+            (K::Coincident, Form::PP) => self.eval_coincident_points(),
+            (K::Coincident, Form::PL { swap }) => self.eval_point_line(swap),
+            (K::Coincident, Form::PC { swap }) => self.eval_point_circle(swap),
+            (K::Horizontal | K::Vertical, form) => self.eval_horizontal_vertical(form),
+            (K::Parallel | K::Smooth, Form::LL) => self.eval_parallel(),
+            (K::Perpendicular, _) => self.eval_perpendicular(),
+            (K::Collinear, _) => self.eval_collinear(),
+            (K::Concentric, _) => self.eval_concentric(),
+            (K::Equal, Form::LL) => self.eval_equal_lines(),
+            (K::Equal, _) => self.eval_equal_circles(),
+            (K::Tangent | K::Smooth, Form::LC { swap }) => self.eval_tangent_line_circle(swap),
+            (K::Tangent | K::Smooth, _) => self.eval_tangent_circles(),
+            (K::Symmetric, Form::PP) => self.eval_symmetric_points(),
+            (K::Symmetric, Form::SymLines { crossed }) => self.eval_symmetric_lines(crossed),
+            (K::Symmetric, _) => self.eval_symmetric_circles(),
+            (K::Distance(axis), form) => self.eval_distance(axis, form),
+            (K::Angular, Form::ArcSweep) => self.eval_angular_arc(),
+            (K::Angular, Form::Rays { rev }) => self.eval_angular_rays(rev),
+            (K::Radius, _) => self.eval_radius(),
+            (K::Diameter, _) => self.eval_diameter(),
+            _ => Some(()),
+        }
+    }
+
+    fn reference(&self, index: usize) -> Option<&GeomRef> {
+        self.built.refs.get(index)
+    }
+
+    fn point(&self, index: usize) -> Option<Vec2> {
+        self.model.point(self.values, self.reference(index)?)
+    }
+
+    fn line(&self, index: usize) -> Option<(Vec2, Vec2)> {
+        self.model.line(self.values, self.reference(index)?)
+    }
+
+    fn circle(&self, index: usize) -> Option<(Vec2, f64)> {
+        self.model.circle(self.values, self.reference(index)?)
+    }
+
+    fn ellipse(&self, index: usize) -> Option<Ell> {
+        self.model.ellipse(self.values, self.reference(index)?)
+    }
+
+    fn eval_point_ellipse(&mut self, swap: bool) -> Option<()> {
+        let (point, ellipse) = if swap { (self.point(1)?, self.ellipse(0)?) } else { (self.point(0)?, self.ellipse(1)?) };
+        self.out.push(ellipse.on(point));
+        Some(())
+    }
+
+    fn eval_line_ellipse(&mut self, swap: bool) -> Option<()> {
+        let (line, ellipse) = if swap { (self.line(1)?, self.ellipse(0)?) } else { (self.line(0)?, self.ellipse(1)?) };
+        let (start, end) = line;
+        let direction = dir_n(start, end);
+        self.out.push(self.built.sign * direction.cross(ellipse.c - start) - ellipse.support(direction.perp()));
+        Some(())
+    }
+
+    fn eval_contact(&mut self) -> Option<()> {
+        let first_parameter = *self.values.get(self.built.aux)?;
+        let second_parameter = *self.values.get(self.built.aux + 1)?;
+        let (first_point, first_tangent) = self.built.curve_at(self.model, self.values, 0, first_parameter)?;
+        let (second_point, second_tangent) = self.built.curve_at(self.model, self.values, 1, second_parameter)?;
+        self.out.extend([
+            first_point.x - second_point.x,
+            first_point.y - second_point.y,
+            first_tangent.normalized().cross(second_tangent.normalized()),
+        ]);
+        Some(())
+    }
+
+    fn eval_end_on(&mut self, spline: usize, at_end: bool) -> Option<()> {
+        let frame = self.model.end_frame(self.values, self.reference(spline)?, at_end)?;
+        let other = 1 - spline.min(1);
+        if let Some((start, end)) = self.line(other) {
+            let direction = dir_n(start, end);
+            self.out.extend([direction.cross(frame.p - start), frame.t.cross(direction)]);
+        } else if let Some((center, radius)) = self.circle(other) {
+            self.out.extend([frame.p.dist(center) - radius, frame.t.dot(dir_n(center, frame.p))]);
+        } else {
+            let ellipse = self.ellipse(other)?;
+            self.out.extend([ellipse.on(frame.p), frame.t.dot(ellipse.normal(frame.p))]);
+        }
+        Some(())
+    }
+
+    fn eval_join(&mut self, a_end: bool, b_end: bool, g2: bool) -> Option<()> {
+        let first = self.model.end_frame(self.values, self.reference(0)?, a_end)?;
+        let second = self.model.end_frame(self.values, self.reference(1)?, b_end)?;
+        let first = if a_end { first } else { first.reversed() };
+        let second = if b_end { second.reversed() } else { second };
+        self.out.extend([first.p.x - second.p.x, first.p.y - second.p.y, first.t.cross(second.t)]);
+        if g2 {
+            self.out.push(first.k - second.k);
+        }
+        Some(())
+    }
+
+    fn eval_anchor(&mut self, anchor: Vec2) -> Option<()> {
+        let point = self.point(0)?;
+        self.out.extend([point.x - anchor.x, point.y - anchor.y]);
+        Some(())
+    }
+
+    fn eval_coincident_points(&mut self) -> Option<()> {
+        let (first, second) = (self.point(0)?, self.point(1)?);
+        self.out.extend([first.x - second.x, first.y - second.y]);
+        Some(())
+    }
+
+    fn eval_point_line(&mut self, swap: bool) -> Option<()> {
+        let (point, (start, end)) = if swap { (self.point(1)?, self.line(0)?) } else { (self.point(0)?, self.line(1)?) };
+        self.out.push(dir_n(start, end).cross(point - start));
+        Some(())
+    }
+
+    fn eval_point_circle(&mut self, swap: bool) -> Option<()> {
+        let (point, (center, radius)) = if swap { (self.point(1)?, self.circle(0)?) } else { (self.point(0)?, self.circle(1)?) };
+        self.out.push(point.dist(center) - radius);
+        Some(())
+    }
+
+    fn eval_horizontal_vertical(&mut self, form: Form) -> Option<()> {
+        use ConstraintKind as K;
+
+        let (first, second) = if form == Form::L1 {
+            self.line(0).or_else(|| self.ellipse(0).map(|ellipse| (ellipse.c - ellipse.mj, ellipse.c + ellipse.mj)))?
+        } else {
+            (self.point(0)?, self.point(1)?)
+        };
+        let value = if self.built.kind == K::Horizontal { first.y - second.y } else { first.x - second.x };
+        self.out.push(value);
+        Some(())
+    }
+
+    fn eval_parallel(&mut self) -> Option<()> {
+        let ((first_start, first_end), (second_start, second_end)) = (self.line(0)?, self.line(1)?);
+        self.out.push(dir_n(first_start, first_end).cross(dir_n(second_start, second_end)));
+        Some(())
+    }
+
+    fn eval_perpendicular(&mut self) -> Option<()> {
+        let ((first_start, first_end), (second_start, second_end)) = (self.line(0)?, self.line(1)?);
+        self.out.push(dir_n(first_start, first_end).dot(dir_n(second_start, second_end)));
+        Some(())
+    }
+
+    fn eval_collinear(&mut self) -> Option<()> {
+        let ((first_start, first_end), (second_start, second_end)) = (self.line(0)?, self.line(1)?);
+        let direction = dir_n(first_start, first_end);
+        self.out.extend([direction.cross(second_start - first_start), direction.cross(second_end - first_start)]);
+        Some(())
+    }
+
+    fn eval_concentric(&mut self) -> Option<()> {
+        let center = |index| {
+            self.circle(index).map(|(center, _)| center).or_else(|| self.ellipse(index).map(|ellipse| ellipse.c)).or_else(|| self.point(index))
+        };
+        let (first, second) = (center(0)?, center(1)?);
+        self.out.extend([first.x - second.x, first.y - second.y]);
+        Some(())
+    }
+
+    fn eval_equal_lines(&mut self) -> Option<()> {
+        let ((first_start, first_end), (second_start, second_end)) = (self.line(0)?, self.line(1)?);
+        self.out.push(first_start.dist(first_end) - second_start.dist(second_end));
+        Some(())
+    }
+
+    fn eval_equal_circles(&mut self) -> Option<()> {
+        let ((_, first_radius), (_, second_radius)) = (self.circle(0)?, self.circle(1)?);
+        self.out.push(first_radius - second_radius);
+        Some(())
+    }
+
+    fn eval_tangent_line_circle(&mut self, swap: bool) -> Option<()> {
+        let ((start, end), (center, radius)) = if swap { (self.line(1)?, self.circle(0)?) } else { (self.line(0)?, self.circle(1)?) };
+        self.out.push(self.built.sign * dir_n(start, end).cross(center - start) - radius);
+        Some(())
+    }
+
+    fn eval_tangent_circles(&mut self) -> Option<()> {
+        let ((first_center, first_radius), (second_center, second_radius)) = (self.circle(0)?, self.circle(1)?);
+        let distance = first_center.dist(second_center);
+        let residual = if self.built.sign > 0.0 {
+            distance - (first_radius + second_radius)
+        } else {
+            distance - self.built.target * (first_radius - second_radius)
+        };
+        self.out.push(residual);
+        Some(())
+    }
+
+    fn eval_symmetric_points(&mut self) -> Option<()> {
+        let (first, second, (line_start, line_end)) = (self.point(0)?, self.point(1)?, self.line(2)?);
+        let direction = dir_n(line_start, line_end);
+        self.out.extend([direction.cross(first.mid(second) - line_start), direction.dot(second - first)]);
+        Some(())
+    }
+
+    fn eval_symmetric_lines(&mut self, crossed: bool) -> Option<()> {
+        let ((first_start, first_end), (second_start, second_end), (line_start, line_end)) = (self.line(0)?, self.line(1)?, self.line(2)?);
+        let (second_start, second_end) = if crossed { (second_end, second_start) } else { (second_start, second_end) };
+        let direction = dir_n(line_start, line_end);
+        self.out.extend([
+            direction.cross(first_start.mid(second_start) - line_start),
+            direction.dot(second_start - first_start),
+            direction.cross(first_end.mid(second_end) - line_start),
+            direction.dot(second_end - first_end),
+        ]);
+        Some(())
+    }
+
+    fn eval_symmetric_circles(&mut self) -> Option<()> {
+        let ((first_center, first_radius), (second_center, second_radius), (line_start, line_end)) =
+            (self.circle(0)?, self.circle(1)?, self.line(2)?);
+        let direction = dir_n(line_start, line_end);
+        self.out.extend([
+            direction.cross(first_center.mid(second_center) - line_start),
+            direction.dot(second_center - first_center),
+            first_radius - second_radius,
+        ]);
+        Some(())
+    }
+
+    fn eval_distance(&mut self, axis: DistAxis, form: Form) -> Option<()> {
+        let value = match (axis, form) {
+            (_, Form::PL { swap }) => {
+                let (point, (start, end)) = if swap { (self.point(1)?, self.line(0)?) } else { (self.point(0)?, self.line(1)?) };
+                dir_n(start, end).cross(point - start)
+            }
+            _ => {
+                let (first, second) = if form == Form::L1 { self.line(0)? } else { (self.point(0)?, self.point(1)?) };
+                match axis {
+                    DistAxis::Aligned => first.dist(second),
+                    DistAxis::Horizontal => second.x - first.x,
+                    DistAxis::Vertical => second.y - first.y,
+                }
+            }
+        };
+        self.out.push(self.built.sign * value - self.built.target);
+        Some(())
+    }
+
+    fn eval_angular_arc(&mut self) -> Option<()> {
+        let reference = self.reference(0)?;
+        self.out.push(self.model.arc_sweep(self.values, reference)? - self.built.target);
+        Some(())
+    }
+
+    fn eval_angular_rays(&mut self, reversed: [bool; 2]) -> Option<()> {
+        let ((first_start, first_end), (second_start, second_end)) = (self.line(0)?, self.line(1)?);
+        let (first, second) = (ray(first_start, first_end, reversed[0]), ray(second_start, second_end, reversed[1]));
+        let residual = wrap(first.cross(second).atan2(first.dot(second)) - self.built.sign * self.built.target);
+        self.out.push(residual);
+        Some(())
+    }
+
+    fn eval_radius(&mut self) -> Option<()> {
+        self.out.push(self.circle(0)?.1 - self.built.target);
+        Some(())
+    }
+
+    fn eval_diameter(&mut self) -> Option<()> {
+        self.out.push(2.0 * self.circle(0)?.1 - self.built.target);
+        Some(())
+    }
+}
@@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ fn keep_option_moves_the_other_entity() {
    let mut d = Drawing::default();
    let a = line(&mut d, (0.0, 0.0), (10.0, 0.0));
    let b = line(&mut d, (0.0, 2.0), (10.0, 4.0));
-    add(&mut d, con(ConstraintKind::Parallel, &[w(a), w(b)]), &SolveOptions { keep: vec![a], prefer_move: vec![b] }).unwrap();
+    add(&mut d, con(ConstraintKind::Parallel, &[w(a), w(b)]), &SolveOptions { keep: vec![a], prefer_move: vec![b], ..Default::default() }).unwrap();
    let (a0, a1) = ln(&d, a);
    assert!(a0.near(Vec2::new(0.0, 0.0), 1e-3) && a1.near(Vec2::new(10.0, 0.0), 1e-3), "{a0:?} {a1:?}");
 }
@@ -412,7 +412,7 @@ fn glyphs_and_residuals() {
    })
    .unwrap();
    assert!(!all_satisfied(&d));
-    let r = solve(&mut d, &SolveOptions { keep: vec![], prefer_move: vec![] }).unwrap();
+    let r = solve(&mut d, &SolveOptions::default()).unwrap();
    assert_eq!(r.moved, vec![a]);
    assert!(all_satisfied(&d));
 }
@@ -382,3 +382,83 @@ fn vertex_constraints_on_large_fit_spline_do_not_charge_reconstruction() {
    assert_eq!(report.status, DofStatus::Under);
    assert_eq!(report.dof, Some(1000));
 }
+
+/// Adds a constraint that the stored ellipse can only hold with its axes renumbered: refused,
+/// with the drawing unchanged.
+fn refused_on_minor_axis_end(p: (f64, f64)) {
+    let mut d = Drawing::default();
+    let e = ellipse(&mut d, (0.0, 0.0), (4.0, 0.0), 0.5, 0.0, std::f64::consts::TAU);
+    ok(&mut d, con(K::Fix, &[s(e, Sub::Center)]));
+    let p = point(&mut d, p);
+    ok(&mut d, con(K::Fix, &[w(p)]));
+    let before = d.clone();
+    let r = add(&mut d, con(K::Coincident, &[s(e, Sub::Vertex(1)), w(p)]), &SolveOptions::default());
+    assert!(matches!(r, Err(SolveError::Conflict { .. })), "{r:?}, ellipse {:?}", ell(&d, e));
+    assert_eq!(d, before);
+}
+
+/// Pulling a minor axis end past the major axis length would need a ratio above 1, which the
+/// stored ellipse holds only by swapping its axes (and so renumbering their ends).
+#[test]
+fn minor_axis_end_pulled_past_the_major_axis_is_refused() {
+    refused_on_minor_axis_end((0.0, 6.0));
+}
+
+/// Pulling a minor axis end through the centre would need a negative ratio, which the stored
+/// ellipse cannot hold: storing its absolute value would mirror the minor axis end.
+#[test]
+fn minor_axis_end_pulled_through_the_centre_is_refused() {
+    refused_on_minor_axis_end((0.0, -1.0));
+}
+
+/// A circle-like ellipse whose solution makes the minor axis the longer one: stored with its axes
+/// swapped, which constraints that name no axis end by index do not notice.
+fn round_ellipse(d: &mut Drawing, start: f64, end: f64) -> Handle {
+    let e = ellipse(d, (0.0, 0.0), (4.0, 0.0), 1.0, start, end);
+    ok(d, con(K::Fix, &[s(e, Sub::Center)]));
+    e
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn tangent_that_swaps_a_round_ellipse_axes_is_kept() {
+    let mut d = Drawing::default();
+    let e = round_ellipse(&mut d, 0.0, std::f64::consts::TAU);
+    let l = line(&mut d, (-10.0, 4.5), (10.0, 4.5));
+    ok(&mut d, con(K::Fix, &[w(l)]));
+    ok(&mut d, con(K::Tangent, &[w(l), w(e)]));
+    assert!(ell(&d, e).ratio <= 1.0);
+    assert!(all_satisfied(&d));
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn point_on_curve_that_swaps_a_round_ellipse_axes_is_kept() {
+    let mut d = Drawing::default();
+    let e = round_ellipse(&mut d, 0.0, std::f64::consts::TAU);
+    let p = point(&mut d, (0.0, 4.5));
+    ok(&mut d, con(K::Fix, &[w(p)]));
+    ok(&mut d, con(K::Coincident, &[w(p), w(e)]));
+    assert!(ell(&d, e).ratio <= 1.0);
+    assert!(all_satisfied(&d));
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn elliptical_arc_start_that_swaps_its_axes_is_kept() {
+    let mut d = Drawing::default();
+    let e = round_ellipse(&mut d, std::f64::consts::FRAC_PI_2, std::f64::consts::PI);
+    let p = point(&mut d, (0.0, 4.5));
+    ok(&mut d, con(K::Fix, &[w(p)]));
+    ok(&mut d, con(K::Coincident, &[s(e, Sub::Start), w(p)]));
+    assert!(ell(&d, e).ratio <= 1.0);
+    assert!(all_satisfied(&d));
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn tangent_circle_that_swaps_a_round_ellipse_axes_is_kept() {
+    let mut d = Drawing::default();
+    let e = round_ellipse(&mut d, 0.0, std::f64::consts::TAU);
+    let c = circle(&mut d, (0.0, 6.0), 1.5);
+    ok(&mut d, con(K::Fix, &[w(c)]));
+    ok(&mut d, con(K::Tangent, &[w(c), w(e)]));
+    assert!(ell(&d, e).ratio <= 1.0);
+    assert!(all_satisfied(&d));
+}
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 //! whose `ACAD_ENHANCEDBLOCK` entry is an evaluation graph (`ACAD_EVALUATION_GRAPH`), and the
 //! graph lists the block's *parameters* (a distance, a point, visibility states, a lookup…) and
 //! *actions* (what changing a parameter does to the block's objects: stretch, move, look up…).
-//! [`dynamic_block`] reads them into the model below without changing the kept data, so a drawing
+//! [`dynamic_block`](crate::dynblock::dynamic_block) reads them into the model below without changing the kept data, so a drawing
 //! saved again still carries them exactly as read.
 //!
 //! Every count and index here comes from the file: they are capped by the data actually present
@@ -29,16 +29,21 @@ fn tag(code: i32, value: impl Into<String>) -> RawTag {
    RawTag { code, value: value.into() }
 }

-/// The element tag (`AcDbBlockRepETag` 1071) of object `h`, if it has one.
-fn etag(d: &Drawing, h: Handle) -> Option<i64> {
-    let x = &d.foreign.entities.get(&h)?.xdata;
+/// The element tag (`AcDbBlockRepETag` 1071) in `x`, if it has one.
+fn etag_in(x: &[RawTag]) -> Option<i64> {
    let at = x.iter().position(|t| t.code == 1001 && t.value.eq_ignore_ascii_case(ETAG))?;
    x.iter().skip(at + 1).take_while(|t| t.code != 1001).find(|t| t.code == 1071).and_then(|t| t.value.trim().parse().ok())
 }

+/// The element tag of object `e`: its own xdata (where the importer keeps it), else any kept in the
+/// foreign data.
+fn etag(d: &Drawing, e: &Entity) -> Option<i64> {
+    etag_in(&e.common.xdata).or_else(|| etag_in(&d.foreign.entities.get(&e.handle)?.xdata))
+}
+
 /// Each object of `b` keyed by its element tag, or by its position when it has none.
 fn by_tag(d: &Drawing, b: &Block) -> Vec<(i64, Handle)> {
-    b.entities.iter().enumerate().map(|(i, e)| (etag(d, e.handle).unwrap_or(i as i64 + 1_000_000), e.handle)).collect()
+    b.entities.iter().enumerate().map(|(i, e)| (etag(d, e).unwrap_or(i as i64 + 1_000_000), e.handle)).collect()
 }

 /// The file handle of block `name`'s BLOCK_RECORD, as the kept data refers to it.
@@ -542,6 +547,12 @@ fn apply(
        let Some(nh) = copies.get(&e.handle).copied() else { continue };
        let mut c: Entity = (**e).clone();
        c.handle = nh;
+        // The copy's own xdata names the copy, not its original (as the kept data below does).
+        for t in &mut c.common.xdata {
+            if t.code == 1005 && Handle::parse_hex(&t.value) == Some(e.handle) {
+                t.value = nh.hex();
+            }
+        }
        if let Some(v) = shown_copy.get(&e.handle) {
            c.common.visible = *v;
        }
@@ -964,3 +975,30 @@ fn drop_if_unused(d: &mut Drawing, name: &str) {
        }
    }
 }
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    fn tagged(h: u64, tag_value: Option<&str>) -> Entity {
+        let mut e = Entity::new(Handle(h), EntityKind::Line(crate::Line { a: Vec3::ZERO, b: Vec3::ZERO }));
+        if let Some(v) = tag_value {
+            e.common.xdata = vec![tag(1001, ETAG), tag(1071, v)];
+        }
+        e
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn element_tags_are_read_from_the_entitys_own_xdata() {
+        let d = Drawing::new_imperial();
+        let mut def = Block::new("DEF");
+        def.entities.push(tagged(1, Some("10")));
+        def.entities.push(tagged(2, Some("20")));
+        let mut anon = Block::new("*U1");
+        // Reordered, and the first object left out.
+        anon.entities.push(tagged(5, Some("20")));
+        anon.entities.push(tagged(6, None));
+        assert_eq!(by_tag(&d, &def), vec![(10, Handle(1)), (20, Handle(2))]);
+        assert_eq!(by_tag(&d, &anon), vec![(20, Handle(5)), (1_000_001, Handle(6))]);
+    }
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,182 @@
+use super::common::{Common, Lineweight};
+use super::text::{MText, Text};
+use super::{Color, Deserialize, EntityKind, Mat3, Serialize, Vec2, Vec3};
+
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+#[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
+pub struct Attrib {
+    pub tag: String,
+    pub text: Text,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub invisible: bool,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub constant: bool,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub prompt: String,
+    /// An attribute's own properties; each one left unset follows the attribute definition.
+    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "AttribProps::is_empty")]
+    pub props: AttribProps,
+    /// A multiline attribute (DXF attribute type 2, or 4 for a definition): its text as
+    /// multiline text. `text.value` holds the plain text, which value edits change.
+    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
+    pub multiline: Option<MultilineAttrib>,
+    /// Its other modes: Verify, Preset and Lock position.
+    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "AttribModes::is_default")]
+    pub modes: AttribModes,
+}
+
+/// An attribute's modes beyond invisible and constant.
+#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, Default, PartialEq, Eq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+#[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
+pub struct AttribModes {
+    /// Verify: the value is asked for twice when the block is inserted (DXF flag 4).
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub verify: bool,
+    /// Preset: the default value is used without asking (DXF flag 8).
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub preset: bool,
+    /// Lock position: the attribute can't be moved on its own within a reference (DXF group
+    /// 280 after the flags). A reference's attributes take it from their definitions.
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub lock_position: bool,
+}
+
+impl AttribModes {
+    pub fn is_default(&self) -> bool {
+        *self == Self::default()
+    }
+    /// The modes of a reference's attribute made from a definition with these: AutoCAD keeps
+    /// only Lock position there.
+    pub fn for_reference(self) -> Self {
+        AttribModes { lock_position: self.lock_position, ..Self::default() }
+    }
+}
+
+/// The multiline text of a multiline attribute.
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+#[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
+pub struct MultilineAttrib {
+    pub mtext: MText,
+    /// The plain text `mtext`'s contents read as: an attribute whose value differs was edited
+    /// since, and its value replaces the contents.
+    pub read_as: String,
+}
+
+impl MultilineAttrib {
+    /// This text placed by `m` (a block reference's transform, for its attribute made from a
+    /// definition).
+    pub fn transformed(&self, m: &Mat3) -> MultilineAttrib {
+        let mut k = EntityKind::MText(self.mtext.clone());
+        k.transform(m);
+        let mtext = if let EntityKind::MText(t) = k { t } else { self.mtext.clone() };
+        MultilineAttrib { mtext, read_as: self.read_as.clone() }
+    }
+}
+
+impl Attrib {
+    /// Move a multiline attribute's text by `m` along with the attribute (nothing for others).
+    pub fn transform_multiline(&mut self, m: &Mat3) {
+        if let Some(ml) = &mut self.multiline {
+            *ml = ml.transformed(m);
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// A multiline attribute's text as drawn and saved: its multiline text, with the contents
+    /// replaced by the value when the value was edited since it was read.
+    pub fn multiline_text(&self) -> Option<MText> {
+        let m = self.multiline.as_ref()?;
+        let mut t = m.mtext.clone();
+        if self.text.value != m.read_as {
+            t.contents = mtext_literal(&self.text.value);
+        }
+        Some(t)
+    }
+}
+
+/// `s` as MTEXT contents that read back as `s`: backslashes and braces escaped, line breaks as
+/// paragraph breaks.
+pub fn mtext_literal(s: &str) -> String {
+    let mut out = String::with_capacity(s.len());
+    for c in s.chars() {
+        match c {
+            '\\' => out.push_str("\\\\"),
+            '{' => out.push_str("\\{"),
+            '}' => out.push_str("\\}"),
+            '\n' => out.push_str("\\P"),
+            '\r' => {}
+            c => out.push(c),
+        }
+    }
+    out
+}
+
+/// Properties set on one attribute of a block reference (an ATTRIB's layer, colour, linetype and
+/// lineweight), overriding those of its definition.
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, Default, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+#[serde(default, rename_all = "camelCase")]
+pub struct AttribProps {
+    #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
+    pub layer: Option<String>,
+    #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
+    pub color: Option<Color>,
+    #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
+    pub linetype: Option<String>,
+    #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
+    pub lineweight: Option<Lineweight>,
+}
+
+impl AttribProps {
+    /// Nothing set: the attribute is drawn with its definition's properties.
+    pub fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
+        *self == AttribProps::default()
+    }
+    /// `base` (the definition's properties) with the ones set here in place.
+    pub fn over(&self, base: &Common) -> Common {
+        Common {
+            layer: self.layer.clone().unwrap_or_else(|| base.layer.clone()),
+            color: self.color.unwrap_or(base.color),
+            linetype: self.linetype.clone().unwrap_or_else(|| base.linetype.clone()),
+            lineweight: self.lineweight.unwrap_or(base.lineweight),
+            ..base.clone()
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+#[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
+pub struct Insert {
+    pub block: String,
+    pub insert: Vec3,
+    #[serde(default = "unit_scale")]
+    pub scale: Vec3,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub rotation: f64,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub attribs: Vec<Attrib>,
+    #[serde(default = "one_u")]
+    pub cols: u32,
+    #[serde(default = "one_u")]
+    pub rows: u32,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub col_spacing: f64,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub row_spacing: f64,
+}
+
+fn unit_scale() -> Vec3 {
+    Vec3::new(1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
+}
+
+fn one_u() -> u32 {
+    1
+}
+
+impl Insert {
+    /// Block-to-world transform (2D part).
+    pub fn transform(&self, base: Vec2) -> Mat3 {
+        Mat3::translate(self.insert.xy())
+            .then_before(Mat3::rotate(self.rotation))
+            .then_before(Mat3::scale(self.scale.x, self.scale.y))
+            .then_before(Mat3::translate(-base))
+    }
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,149 @@
+use super::{Color, Deserialize, Serialize, Vec3};
+
+/// A database handle (DXF group 5), unique per drawing.
+#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, Default, PartialEq, Eq, Hash, PartialOrd, Ord, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+pub struct Handle(pub u64);
+
+impl Handle {
+    pub fn hex(self) -> String {
+        format!("{:X}", self.0)
+    }
+    pub fn parse_hex(s: &str) -> Option<Handle> {
+        let s = s.trim();
+        if !s.bytes().all(|b| b.is_ascii_hexdigit()) {
+            return None;
+        }
+        u64::from_str_radix(s, 16).ok().map(Handle)
+    }
+}
+
+/// Lineweight in hundredths of a millimetre, or a logical value.
+#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, Default, PartialEq, Eq, Hash, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+#[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
+pub enum Lineweight {
+    #[default]
+    ByLayer,
+    ByBlock,
+    Default,
+    /// 0..=211 (hundredths of mm).
+    Mm100(u16),
+}
+
+impl Lineweight {
+    /// The standard lineweight values (mm × 100).
+    pub const STANDARD: [u16; 24] = [0, 5, 9, 13, 15, 18, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 50, 53, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 106, 120, 140, 158, 200, 211];
+    pub fn to_dxf(self) -> i16 {
+        match self {
+            Lineweight::ByLayer => -1,
+            Lineweight::ByBlock => -2,
+            Lineweight::Default => -3,
+            Lineweight::Mm100(v) => v.min(211) as i16,
+        }
+    }
+    pub fn from_dxf(v: i16) -> Lineweight {
+        match v {
+            -2 => Lineweight::ByBlock,
+            -3 => Lineweight::Default,
+            0..=211 => Lineweight::Mm100(v as u16),
+            _ => Lineweight::ByLayer,
+        }
+    }
+    pub fn name(self) -> String {
+        match self {
+            Lineweight::ByLayer => "ByLayer".into(),
+            Lineweight::ByBlock => "ByBlock".into(),
+            Lineweight::Default => "Default".into(),
+            Lineweight::Mm100(v) => format!("{:.2} mm", f64::from(v) / 100.0),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/// Transparency: ByLayer, ByBlock, or 0..=90 percent.
+#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, Default, PartialEq, Eq, Hash, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+#[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
+pub enum Transparency {
+    #[default]
+    ByLayer,
+    ByBlock,
+    Percent(u8),
+}
+
+impl Transparency {
+    /// "ByLayer", "ByBlock" or the percentage ("50").
+    pub fn name(&self) -> String {
+        match self {
+            Transparency::ByLayer => "ByLayer".into(),
+            Transparency::ByBlock => "ByBlock".into(),
+            Transparency::Percent(p) => p.to_string(),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/// Properties every entity has.
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+#[serde(default, rename_all = "camelCase")]
+pub struct Common {
+    pub layer: String,
+    pub color: Color,
+    pub linetype: String,
+    pub lineweight: Lineweight,
+    pub ltscale: f64,
+    pub transparency: Transparency,
+    pub visible: bool,
+    pub thickness: f64,
+    pub extrusion: Vec3,
+    /// Named plot style: `ByLayer`, `ByBlock` or a style of the layout's named (`.stb`) plot
+    /// style table.
+    pub plot_style: String,
+    /// The annotation scales an annotative object supports (empty: not annotative).
+    #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Vec::is_empty")]
+    pub anno_scales: Vec<crate::AnnoScale>,
+    /// Other applications' extended data (xdata) as read from the drawing file: whole
+    /// applications, each from its `1001` group on. It is part of the object, so a copy of the
+    /// object (COPY, MIRROR, ARRAY, paste) carries it, as in AutoCAD.
+    #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Vec::is_empty")]
+    pub xdata: Vec<RawTag>,
+}
+
+impl Default for Common {
+    fn default() -> Self {
+        Common {
+            layer: "0".into(),
+            color: Color::ByLayer,
+            linetype: "ByLayer".into(),
+            lineweight: Lineweight::ByLayer,
+            ltscale: 1.0,
+            transparency: Transparency::ByLayer,
+            visible: true,
+            thickness: 0.0,
+            extrusion: Vec3::Z,
+            plot_style: "ByLayer".into(),
+            anno_scales: Vec::new(),
+            xdata: Vec::new(),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/// A raw DXF group: kept for round-tripping entities we do not model.
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+pub struct RawTag {
+    pub code: i32,
+    pub value: String,
+}
+
+impl Common {
+    /// Whether "Match orientation to layout" is on for this annotative object (AutoCAD's
+    /// `AcadAnnoPO` xdata = 1). AutoCAD draws such text upright and ignores its stored rotation.
+    /// The object's own `AcadAnnotative` xdata never reaches [`Common::xdata`] (the reader drops
+    /// it), so the `AcadAnnoPO` flag alone decides.
+    pub fn matches_layout_orientation(&self) -> bool {
+        let app = self.xdata.iter().position(|t| t.code == 1001 && t.value.trim().eq_ignore_ascii_case("AcadAnnoPO"));
+        let Some(at) = app else { return false };
+        self.xdata
+            .iter()
+            .skip(at + 1)
+            .take_while(|t| t.code != 1001)
+            .find(|t| t.code == 1070)
+            .is_some_and(|t| t.value.trim().parse::<i64>().is_ok_and(|v| v != 0))
+    }
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+use super::{Deserialize, PolyVertex, Serialize, Vec3};
+
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+pub struct Line {
+    pub a: Vec3,
+    pub b: Vec3,
+}
+
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+pub struct Point {
+    pub p: Vec3,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub angle: f64,
+}
+
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+pub struct Circle {
+    pub center: Vec3,
+    pub radius: f64,
+}
+
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+pub struct Arc {
+    pub center: Vec3,
+    pub radius: f64,
+    /// Radians, CCW.
+    pub start: f64,
+    pub end: f64,
+}
+
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+pub struct Ellipse {
+    pub center: Vec3,
+    pub major: Vec3,
+    pub ratio: f64,
+    pub start: f64,
+    pub end: f64,
+}
+
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+pub struct LwPolyline {
+    pub vertices: Vec<PolyVertex>,
+    pub closed: bool,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub const_width: f64,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub elevation: f64,
+    /// Polyline linetype generation (PLINEGEN).
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub plinegen: bool,
+}
+
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+pub struct Polyline3d {
+    pub points: Vec<Vec3>,
+    pub closed: bool,
+}
+
+/// SOLID / TRACE: up to four corners (DXF order 1,2,4,3 when drawn).
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+pub struct Solid {
+    pub corners: [Vec3; 4],
+}
+
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+pub struct Face3d {
+    pub corners: [Vec3; 4],
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub hidden_edges: u8,
+}
+
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+pub struct RayLine {
+    pub base: Vec3,
+    pub dir: Vec3,
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,226 @@
+use super::block::Insert;
+use super::common::Handle;
+use super::text::MText;
+use super::{Deserialize, GSpline, Serialize, Vec2, Vec3, one, standard, yes};
+
+#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+#[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
+pub enum DimKind {
+    /// Rotated linear dimension (horizontal = 0, vertical = 90°).
+    Linear {
+        rotation: f64,
+    },
+    Aligned,
+    Angular,
+    Angular3P,
+    Diameter,
+    Radius,
+    Ordinate {
+        x_type: bool,
+    },
+    ArcLength,
+}
+
+/// A dimension. Definition points follow DXF: `defpt` (10: dimension line point),
+/// `p13`/`p14` (extension origins), `p15`/`p16` (arc/angle points), `text_mid` (11).
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+#[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
+pub struct Dimension {
+    pub kind: DimKind,
+    pub defpt: Vec3,
+    pub text_mid: Vec3,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub p13: Vec3,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub p14: Vec3,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub p15: Vec3,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub p16: Vec3,
+    /// "" = measured value, "<>" inside = measurement placeholder, " " = suppressed.
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub text: String,
+    #[serde(default = "standard")]
+    pub style: String,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub measurement: f64,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub text_rotation: f64,
+    /// User moved the text (text_mid is authoritative).
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub user_text_pos: bool,
+    /// Anonymous block with the rendered geometry (from files); regenerated when edited.
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub block: Option<String>,
+    /// Per-dimension style overrides (DIMOVERRIDE): DimStyle field names (camelCase) → values,
+    /// merged over the named style.
+    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "serde_json::Map::is_empty")]
+    pub overrides: serde_json::Map<String, serde_json::Value>,
+    /// Associativity: which definition points follow which objects.
+    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Vec::is_empty")]
+    pub assoc: Vec<DimAssoc>,
+    /// Oblique extension lines, jogs, breaks and inspection frames.
+    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "DimMarks::is_empty")]
+    pub marks: DimMarks,
+}
+
+/// What dimension edits add to a dimension's drawing: DIMEDIT Oblique, DIMJOGLINE, DIMJOGGED,
+/// DIMBREAK and DIMINSPECT.
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, Default, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+#[serde(default, rename_all = "camelCase")]
+pub struct DimMarks {
+    /// Angle (radians) of the extension lines of a linear or aligned dimension; None =
+    /// perpendicular to the dimension line.
+    #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
+    pub oblique: Option<f64>,
+    /// A jog on the dimension line of a linear or aligned dimension, at this point (DIMJOGLINE).
+    #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
+    pub jog_line: Option<Vec3>,
+    /// A jogged radius dimension (DIMJOGGED).
+    #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
+    pub jogged: Option<JoggedRadius>,
+    /// Gaps in the dimension and extension lines (DIMBREAK).
+    #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Vec::is_empty")]
+    pub breaks: Vec<DimBreak>,
+    /// Inspection frame, label and rate (DIMINSPECT).
+    #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
+    pub inspect: Option<Inspection>,
+}
+
+impl DimMarks {
+    pub fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
+        *self == DimMarks::default()
+    }
+
+    /// Transform the points and angles (part of [`super::EntityKind::transform`]).
+    pub(super) fn transform(&mut self, t3: &dyn Fn(&mut Vec3), rot: f64, s: f64, mirror: bool) {
+        if let Some(a) = &mut self.oblique {
+            *a = cadcraft_geom::norm_angle(if mirror { rot - (*a - rot) } else { *a + rot });
+        }
+        if let Some(j) = &mut self.jog_line {
+            t3(j);
+        }
+        if let Some(j) = &mut self.jogged {
+            t3(&mut j.center);
+            t3(&mut j.jog);
+        }
+        for b in &mut self.breaks {
+            t3(&mut b.at);
+            b.size *= s;
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/// The definition of a jogged radius dimension: the dimension line starts at an overriding
+/// centre and jogs on its way to the arc.
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, Default, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+#[serde(default, rename_all = "camelCase")]
+pub struct JoggedRadius {
+    /// Where the dimension line starts instead of the true centre.
+    pub center: Vec3,
+    /// The middle of the jog.
+    pub jog: Vec3,
+}
+
+/// A gap in a dimension's lines: everything within `size / 2` of `at` is left out.
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, Default, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+#[serde(default, rename_all = "camelCase")]
+pub struct DimBreak {
+    pub at: Vec3,
+    pub size: f64,
+    /// Made by DIMBREAK Auto (recomputed by the next Auto) rather than picked by hand.
+    pub auto: bool,
+}
+
+/// An inspection dimension (DIMINSPECT).
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, Default, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+#[serde(default, rename_all = "camelCase")]
+pub struct Inspection {
+    /// Frame shape: 0 round ends, 1 angular ends, 2 none.
+    pub shape: u8,
+    /// Text left of the value ("" = none).
+    pub label: String,
+    /// Inspection rate right of the value ("" = none).
+    pub rate: String,
+}
+
+/// A dimension definition point that follows an object (associative dimensions).
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+#[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
+pub struct DimAssoc {
+    /// Definition point: "defpt", "p13", "p14", "p15" or "p16".
+    pub point: String,
+    /// The object it is attached to.
+    pub handle: Handle,
+    pub snap: AssocSnap,
+}
+
+/// Where on the object an associative definition point sits.
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+#[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
+pub enum AssocSnap {
+    /// Start point of a line/arc (or polyline vertex 0).
+    Start,
+    /// End point of a line/arc.
+    End,
+    Mid,
+    /// Centre of a circle/arc.
+    Center,
+    /// On a circle/arc at a fixed angle (radians) from its centre.
+    OnCircle {
+        angle: f64,
+    },
+    /// Intersection of this (line) object with another line.
+    Intersection {
+        other: Handle,
+    },
+    /// Vertex `index` of a polyline.
+    Vertex {
+        index: usize,
+    },
+}
+
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+#[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
+pub struct Leader {
+    pub vertices: Vec<Vec3>,
+    #[serde(default = "yes")]
+    pub arrow: bool,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub spline: bool,
+    #[serde(default = "standard")]
+    pub style: String,
+}
+
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+#[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
+pub struct MLeader {
+    pub leaders: Vec<Vec<Vec3>>,
+    pub landing: Vec3,
+    pub dogleg: f64,
+    pub text: Option<MText>,
+    #[serde(default = "standard")]
+    pub style: String,
+    #[serde(default = "one")]
+    pub arrow_size: f64,
+    /// Leader lines are smooth curves through their points (leader type Spline). An empty
+    /// `leaders` is a multileader without a leader line (leader type None).
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub spline: bool,
+    /// Block content in place of the text: a block reference placed at the landing.
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub block: Option<Insert>,
+}
+
+impl MLeader {
+    /// Each leader line as drawn: through its points to the landing, smoothed for spline leaders.
+    pub fn leader_paths(&self) -> Vec<Vec<Vec2>> {
+        self.leaders
+            .iter()
+            .map(|l| {
+                let pts: Vec<Vec2> = l.iter().map(|v| v.xy()).chain(std::iter::once(self.landing.xy())).collect();
+                if self.spline && pts.len() > 2 { GSpline::from_fit_points(&pts).tessellate(1e-3) } else { pts }
+            })
+            .collect()
+    }
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+use super::common::Handle;
+use super::{Color, Deserialize, PolyVertex, Serialize, Vec2, one};
+
+/// A hatch boundary loop: closed polyline with bulges.
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+pub struct HatchLoop {
+    pub vertices: Vec<PolyVertex>,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub outer: bool,
+    /// The objects the loop was made from (DXF group 97 count, 330 handles): an associative
+    /// hatch re-fills the loop from them when they change.
+    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Vec::is_empty")]
+    pub sources: Vec<Handle>,
+}
+
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+#[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
+pub struct Hatch {
+    pub pattern: String,
+    pub solid: bool,
+    pub loops: Vec<HatchLoop>,
+    #[serde(default = "one")]
+    pub scale: f64,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub angle: f64,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub associative: bool,
+    /// 0 normal (odd parity), 1 outer, 2 ignore.
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub style: u8,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub elevation: f64,
+    /// Gradient fill: name + second colour.
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub gradient: Option<Gradient>,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub origin: Vec2,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub background: Option<Color>,
+    /// The pattern's line families as a file defined them, for a pattern that isn't in the
+    /// standard library (unit scale and angle, like the library's; empty otherwise).
+    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Vec::is_empty")]
+    pub pattern_lines: Vec<crate::library::PatternLine>,
+}
+
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+#[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
+pub struct Gradient {
+    pub name: String,
+    pub color1: Color,
+    pub color2: Color,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub angle: f64,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub centered: bool,
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,168 @@
+use super::common::Handle;
+use super::{Color, Deserialize, Serialize, Vec2, Vec3, standard, yes};
+
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+#[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
+pub struct Viewport {
+    pub center: Vec3,
+    pub width: f64,
+    pub height: f64,
+    pub view_center: Vec2,
+    pub view_height: f64,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub id: u32,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub locked: bool,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub frozen_layers: Vec<String>,
+    /// Per-viewport layer colour overrides (VP Color in the Layer Properties Manager).
+    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Vec::is_empty")]
+    pub layer_colors: Vec<(String, Color)>,
+    /// The paper-space entity whose outline clips the viewport (a closed polyline, circle,
+    /// ellipse or spline; DXF group 340). `None`: the rectangle `center`/`width`/`height`.
+    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
+    pub clip: Option<Handle>,
+    /// Display on (MVIEW ON/OFF). An off viewport shows its border but no model space.
+    #[serde(default = "yes")]
+    pub on: bool,
+}
+
+impl Default for Viewport {
+    fn default() -> Self {
+        Viewport {
+            center: Vec3::ZERO,
+            width: 1.0,
+            height: 1.0,
+            view_center: Vec2::ZERO,
+            view_height: 1.0,
+            id: 0,
+            locked: false,
+            frozen_layers: Vec::new(),
+            layer_colors: Vec::new(),
+            clip: None,
+            on: true,
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+#[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
+pub struct Image {
+    pub insert: Vec3,
+    /// One pixel's width (U) and height (V) vectors in drawing units.
+    pub u: Vec3,
+    pub v: Vec3,
+    /// Image size in pixels.
+    pub size: Vec2,
+    /// The image file (its IMAGEDEF object's path).
+    pub path: String,
+    /// The image definition's name (its key in the drawing's image dictionary).
+    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "String::is_empty")]
+    pub name: String,
+    /// Clip boundary in pixel coordinates (origin at the top-left corner of the image, y down):
+    /// two opposite corners of a rectangle, or a polygon's vertices. Empty: the whole image.
+    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Vec::is_empty")]
+    pub clip: Vec<Vec2>,
+    /// The clip boundary is applied.
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub clipping: bool,
+    /// Display flags: 1 show the image, 2 show it when not aligned with the screen, 4 use the
+    /// clip boundary, 8 transparency on.
+    #[serde(default = "image_display")]
+    pub display: u16,
+    /// Brightness, contrast and fade, 0..=100.
+    #[serde(default = "image_fifty")]
+    pub brightness: u8,
+    #[serde(default = "image_fifty")]
+    pub contrast: u8,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub fade: u8,
+    /// The definition's default size of one pixel and its resolution unit (0 none, 2 cm, 5 inch).
+    #[serde(default = "image_pixel")]
+    pub pixel_size: Vec2,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub resolution_units: u8,
+}
+
+fn image_display() -> u16 {
+    7
+}
+
+fn image_fifty() -> u8 {
+    50
+}
+
+fn image_pixel() -> Vec2 {
+    Vec2::new(1.0, 1.0)
+}
+
+impl Default for Image {
+    fn default() -> Self {
+        Image {
+            insert: Vec3::ZERO,
+            u: Vec3::new(1.0, 0.0, 0.0),
+            v: Vec3::new(0.0, 1.0, 0.0),
+            size: Vec2::new(1.0, 1.0),
+            path: String::new(),
+            name: String::new(),
+            clip: Vec::new(),
+            clipping: false,
+            display: image_display(),
+            brightness: image_fifty(),
+            contrast: image_fifty(),
+            fade: 0,
+            pixel_size: image_pixel(),
+            resolution_units: 0,
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, Default, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+#[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
+pub struct TableCell {
+    pub text: String,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub merged: Option<(u32, u32)>,
+    /// The cell's own cell style; empty: its row's.
+    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "String::is_empty")]
+    pub style: String,
+    /// A formula (`=Sum(A1:B3)`); `text` holds its value.
+    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
+    pub formula: Option<String>,
+    /// The cell's own text height (DXF 140 in the cell record), before the table's scale;
+    /// `None`: its cell style's.
+    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
+    pub text_height: Option<f64>,
+}
+
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+#[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
+pub struct Table {
+    pub insert: Vec3,
+    pub col_widths: Vec<f64>,
+    pub row_heights: Vec<f64>,
+    pub cells: Vec<Vec<TableCell>>,
+    #[serde(default = "standard")]
+    pub style: String,
+    #[serde(default = "default_text_h")]
+    pub text_height: f64,
+    /// First row is a title (merged across, larger text).
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub title: bool,
+    /// The row after the title holds column headers.
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub header: bool,
+    /// The cell style of each row; missing or empty: by position (Title, Header, Data).
+    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Vec::is_empty")]
+    pub row_styles: Vec<String>,
+    /// Table breaking (TABLEBREAK): the table drawn in several parts.
+    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
+    pub breaks: Option<crate::TableBreak>,
+    /// The CSV file the cells come from (DATALINK).
+    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
+    pub data_link: Option<crate::DataLink>,
+}
+
+fn default_text_h() -> f64 {
+    0.18
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,141 @@
+use super::{Deserialize, Serialize, Vec2, Vec3, one, standard};
+
+#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, Default, PartialEq, Eq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+#[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
+pub enum HAlign {
+    #[default]
+    Left,
+    Center,
+    Right,
+    Aligned,
+    Middle,
+    Fit,
+}
+
+#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, Default, PartialEq, Eq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+#[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
+pub enum VAlign {
+    #[default]
+    Baseline,
+    Bottom,
+    Middle,
+    Top,
+}
+
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+#[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
+pub struct Text {
+    pub insert: Vec3,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub align_pt: Option<Vec3>,
+    pub height: f64,
+    pub value: String,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub rotation: f64,
+    #[serde(default = "one")]
+    pub width_factor: f64,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub oblique: f64,
+    #[serde(default = "standard")]
+    pub style: String,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub halign: HAlign,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub valign: VAlign,
+}
+
+impl Text {
+    /// The point the text is placed by, as the Insertion snap and the grip show it: the alignment
+    /// point (DXF group 11) of justified text, the start point (group 10) of left-baseline,
+    /// aligned and fit text.
+    pub fn justify_point(&self) -> Vec2 {
+        match (self.halign, self.valign) {
+            (HAlign::Left, VAlign::Baseline) | (HAlign::Aligned | HAlign::Fit, _) => self.insert.xy(),
+            _ => self.align_pt.unwrap_or(self.insert).xy(),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+#[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
+pub struct MText {
+    pub insert: Vec3,
+    pub height: f64,
+    /// Reference rectangle width (0 = no wrapping).
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub width: f64,
+    /// 1..=9: TL TC TR ML MC MR BL BC BR.
+    #[serde(default = "attach_tl")]
+    pub attach: u8,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub rotation: f64,
+    #[serde(default = "standard")]
+    pub style: String,
+    /// Raw MTEXT contents with inline codes (\P, {\fArial|b1;...}, \S1/2; …).
+    pub contents: String,
+    #[serde(default = "one")]
+    pub line_spacing: f64,
+    /// Line spacing style (DXF 73): Exactly (`true`) keeps `line_spacing` whatever the character
+    /// heights; At least (`false`, the default) lets taller characters push lines apart.
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub line_spacing_exact: bool,
+    /// Columns the text flows through, each `width` wide (DXF 75/76/78/79/48/49/50); `None`:
+    /// one column.
+    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
+    pub columns: Option<MTextColumns>,
+}
+
+fn attach_tl() -> u8 {
+    1
+}
+
+/// Static columns: a fixed number of columns of one height. Dynamic columns: as many columns
+/// as the text needs, of one height (auto height) or each its own (manual heights).
+#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, Default, PartialEq, Eq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+#[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
+pub enum MTextColumnType {
+    #[default]
+    Static,
+    Dynamic,
+}
+
+/// MTEXT columns (MTEXT Columns option, DXF Reference MTEXT groups 75–79, 48–50).
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, Default, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+#[serde(default, rename_all = "camelCase")]
+pub struct MTextColumns {
+    #[serde(rename = "type")]
+    pub kind: MTextColumnType,
+    /// Number of columns (static columns: the columns there are).
+    pub count: u16,
+    /// Space between two columns.
+    pub gutter: f64,
+    /// Height of every column (static, and dynamic with auto height).
+    pub height: f64,
+    /// Dynamic columns: one height for all columns (`height`) instead of `heights`.
+    pub auto_height: bool,
+    /// Dynamic columns with manual heights: the height of each column.
+    #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Vec::is_empty")]
+    pub heights: Vec<f64>,
+    /// Columns run right to left.
+    pub flow_reversed: bool,
+}
+
+impl MTextColumns {
+    /// The width of `count` columns of `column_width` and their gutters.
+    pub fn total_width(&self, column_width: f64) -> f64 {
+        let n = f64::from(self.count.max(1));
+        column_width * n + self.gutter.max(0.0) * (n - 1.0)
+    }
+
+    /// The tallest column.
+    pub fn max_height(&self) -> f64 {
+        self.heights.iter().copied().fold(self.height, f64::max).max(0.0)
+    }
+
+    /// Scale every length (SCALE, block insertion).
+    pub fn scale(&mut self, s: f64) {
+        self.gutter *= s;
+        self.height *= s;
+        self.heights.iter_mut().for_each(|h| *h *= s);
+    }
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,162 @@
+//! WIPEOUT is always a closed masking polygon, unlike a polyline with an open/closed flag.
+//! One exact terminal copy of the first point is a closure marker, not an editable corner.
+//! Preserve logical corners when editing, adding a separate marker if the endpoints meet.
+//! Grips, edits and explicit outlines share this rule; other duplicates are not simplified.
+
+use std::borrow::Cow;
+
+use cadcraft_geom::Vec2;
+use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
+
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+pub struct Wipeout {
+    /// Ordered boundary, implicitly closed or ending in a repeated first point.
+    pub boundary: Vec<Vec2>,
+}
+
+impl Wipeout {
+    /// Editable vertices, excluding one exactly repeated closing point, without changing storage.
+    pub fn vertices(&self) -> &[Vec2] {
+        match self.boundary.split_last() {
+            Some((last, vertices)) if vertices.first() == Some(last) => vertices,
+            _ => &self.boundary,
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// An explicitly closed outline for geometry, rendering and export. Already closed or
+    /// empty/single-point boundaries are borrowed; otherwise one closing point is appended.
+    pub fn closed_boundary(&self) -> Cow<'_, [Vec2]> {
+        if self.vertices().len() < self.boundary.len() || self.boundary.len() < 2 {
+            Cow::Borrowed(&self.boundary)
+        } else {
+            let mut points = self.boundary.clone();
+            points.extend(self.boundary.first());
+            Cow::Owned(points)
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Move an editable vertex, carrying an existing closing marker with vertex zero. If an
+    /// implicit boundary's endpoints meet, add a marker so both corners remain addressable.
+    /// Invalid indices/non-finite points leave the boundary unchanged.
+    pub fn set_vertex(&mut self, index: usize, to: Vec2) -> Option<()> {
+        let count = self.vertices().len();
+        if index >= count || !to.is_finite() {
+            return None;
+        }
+        let explicit = count < self.boundary.len();
+        *self.boundary.get_mut(index)? = to;
+        if explicit
+            && index == 0
+            && let Some(last) = self.boundary.last_mut()
+        {
+            *last = to;
+        }
+        if !explicit && self.vertices().len() < count {
+            // The moved endpoint is a logical corner, not the newly implied closing marker.
+            if let Some(first) = self.boundary.first().copied() {
+                self.boundary.push(first);
+            }
+        }
+        Some(())
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+    use crate::EntityKind;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn vertices_and_grips_exclude_only_the_exact_closing_point() {
+        let (a, b, c) = (Vec2::ZERO, Vec2::new(7.0, 1.0), Vec2::new(3.0, 7.0));
+        let near_a = Vec2::new(1e-13, 0.0);
+        for (boundary, expected) in [
+            (vec![], vec![]),
+            (vec![a], vec![a]),
+            (vec![a, a], vec![a]),
+            (vec![a, b, c], vec![a, b, c]),
+            (vec![a, b, c, a], vec![a, b, c]),
+            (vec![a, b, a, c, a], vec![a, b, a, c]),
+            (vec![a, b, c, a, a], vec![a, b, c, a]),
+            (vec![a, b, c, near_a], vec![a, b, c, near_a]),
+        ] {
+            let wipeout = Wipeout { boundary: boundary.clone() };
+            assert_eq!(wipeout.vertices(), expected);
+            assert_eq!(EntityKind::Wipeout(wipeout.clone()).grips(), expected);
+            assert_eq!(wipeout.boundary, boundary);
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn explicit_outline_is_stable_and_does_not_add_zero_length_closing_edges() {
+        let points = vec![Vec2::ZERO, Vec2::new(7.0, 1.0), Vec2::new(3.0, 7.0)];
+        let implicit = Wipeout { boundary: points.clone() };
+        let mut expected = points.clone();
+        expected.push(points[0]);
+        assert!(matches!(implicit.closed_boundary(), Cow::Owned(_)));
+        assert_eq!(implicit.closed_boundary().as_ref(), expected);
+        assert_eq!(implicit.boundary, points);
+        let explicit = Wipeout { boundary: expected.clone() };
+        assert!(matches!(explicit.closed_boundary(), Cow::Borrowed(_)));
+        assert_eq!(explicit.closed_boundary().as_ref(), expected);
+        let a = EntityKind::Wipeout(implicit).prims();
+        let b = EntityKind::Wipeout(explicit).prims();
+        assert_eq!(a, b);
+        assert_eq!(a.len(), 3);
+        for boundary in [vec![], vec![Vec2::ZERO]] {
+            let wipeout = Wipeout { boundary: boundary.clone() };
+            assert!(matches!(wipeout.closed_boundary(), Cow::Borrowed(_)));
+            assert_eq!(wipeout.closed_boundary().as_ref(), boundary);
+            assert!(EntityKind::Wipeout(wipeout).prims().is_empty());
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn moving_endpoints_together_keeps_both_corners_editable() {
+        let points = [Vec2::ZERO, Vec2::new(8.0, 0.0), Vec2::new(8.0, 6.0), Vec2::new(0.0, 6.0)];
+        for explicit in [false, true] {
+            for index in [0, 3] {
+                let other = 3 - index;
+                let mut boundary = points.to_vec();
+                if explicit {
+                    boundary.push(points[0]);
+                }
+                let mut wipeout = Wipeout { boundary };
+                let mut expected = points;
+                expected[index] = points[other];
+                for _ in 0..2 {
+                    assert_eq!(wipeout.set_vertex(index, points[other]), Some(()));
+                    assert_eq!(wipeout.vertices(), expected);
+                    assert_eq!(wipeout.boundary.len(), 5, "one separate closing marker, no growth");
+                }
+                expected[other] = Vec2::new(-2.0, 4.0);
+                assert_eq!(wipeout.set_vertex(other, expected[other]), Some(()));
+                assert_eq!(wipeout.vertices(), expected);
+                assert_eq!(wipeout.boundary.len(), 5);
+                assert_eq!(wipeout.boundary.first(), wipeout.boundary.last());
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn editing_keeps_the_closure_but_not_other_coincident_vertices_attached() {
+        let (a, b, c, to) = (Vec2::ZERO, Vec2::new(7.0, 1.0), Vec2::new(3.0, 7.0), Vec2::new(2.0, 3.0));
+        for explicit in [false, true] {
+            let mut boundary = vec![a, b, a, c];
+            if explicit {
+                boundary.push(a);
+            }
+            let mut wipeout = Wipeout { boundary };
+            assert_eq!(wipeout.set_vertex(0, to), Some(()));
+            let mut expected = vec![to, b, a, c];
+            if explicit {
+                expected.push(to);
+            }
+            assert_eq!(wipeout.boundary, expected);
+            for (index, point) in [(4, a), (usize::MAX, a), (0, Vec2::new(f64::NAN, 0.0)), (0, Vec2::new(0.0, f64::INFINITY))] {
+                assert_eq!(wipeout.set_vertex(index, point), None);
+                assert_eq!(wipeout.boundary, expected);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
@@ -36,11 +36,26 @@ fn text_box(t: &crate::Text, len: usize) -> Bounds2 {
 /// as when drawing. Dimensional constraints of dynamic blocks (layer `*ADSK_CONSTRAINTS`) and the
 /// entities a visibility state hides are invisible this way, and they sit far from the block's
 /// geometry in real drawings. Layer "0" takes the insert's layer, which the caller has checked.
-fn in_block_visible(d: &Drawing, e: &Entity) -> bool {
+/// `off_counts`: a layer turned off counts too, as in the drawing's extents ([`extent_bounds`]).
+fn in_block_visible(d: &Drawing, e: &Entity, off_counts: bool) -> bool {
    // Attribute definitions are not drawn in an insert (its attribs are, see below).
-    !matches!(e.kind, EntityKind::AttDef(_))
-        && e.common.visible
-        && (e.common.layer == "0" || d.layer(&e.common.layer).is_none_or(crate::Layer::visible))
+    !matches!(e.kind, EntityKind::AttDef(_)) && e.common.visible && layer_counts(d, &e.common.layer, off_counts)
+}
+
+/// Whether what lies on `layer` inside an insert counts: layer "0" takes the insert's layer, which
+/// the caller has checked; a frozen layer never counts, one turned off only with `off_counts`.
+fn layer_counts(d: &Drawing, layer: &str, off_counts: bool) -> bool {
+    layer == "0" || d.layer(layer).is_none_or(|l| !l.frozen && (l.on || off_counts))
+}
+
+/// The layer an insert's attribute draws on, as the renderer takes it: its own, else its
+/// definition's (layer "0" being the insert's).
+fn attrib_layer<'a>(d: &'a Drawing, ins: &crate::Insert, a: &'a crate::Attrib) -> &'a str {
+    a.props.layer.as_deref().unwrap_or_else(|| {
+        d.block(&ins.block)
+            .and_then(|blk| blk.entities.iter().find(|be| matches!(&be.kind, EntityKind::AttDef(ad) if ad.tag.eq_ignore_ascii_case(&a.tag))))
+            .map_or("0", |be| be.common.layer.as_str())
+    })
 }

 /// A text that draws no glyph (empty, or only blanks and non-breaking spaces) takes no room.
@@ -52,7 +67,9 @@ fn blank(s: &str) -> bool {
 fn mtext_box(t: &crate::MText) -> Bounds2 {
    let lines = t.contents.split("\\P").count().max(1);
    let longest = t.contents.split("\\P").map(|l| l.chars().count()).max().unwrap_or(1);
-    let mut w = if t.width > 0.0 { t.width } else { t.height * 0.8 * longest as f64 };
+    let estimate = t.height * 0.8 * longest as f64;
+    // The wrap width only narrows the box: a garbage width must not stretch the drawing extents (#2465).
+    let mut w = if t.width > 0.0 { t.width.min(estimate) } else { estimate };
    let mut h = t.height * 1.66 * lines as f64;
    if let Some(c) = t.columns.as_ref().filter(|_| t.width > 0.0) {
        // Columns side by side, the text flowing down each in turn.
@@ -75,16 +92,27 @@ fn mtext_box(t: &crate::MText) -> Bounds2 {
    Bounds2::from_points(pts)
 }

+/// The box of what `e` draws (block contents on layers turned off left out).
 pub fn entity_bounds(d: &Drawing, e: &Entity, depth: usize) -> Bounds2 {
+    bounds_of(d, e, depth, false)
+}
+
+/// The box `e` takes in the drawing's extents: as [`entity_bounds`], but block contents on a layer
+/// turned off count, as AutoCAD 2024's ZOOM Extents counts them (a frozen layer's do not).
+pub fn extent_bounds(d: &Drawing, e: &Entity) -> Bounds2 {
+    bounds_of(d, e, 0, true)
+}
+
+fn bounds_of(d: &Drawing, e: &Entity, depth: usize, off_counts: bool) -> Bounds2 {
    // A top-level annotative object measures as it draws at the current annotation scale.
    if depth == 0 {
        match d.anno_draw(e) {
            crate::AnnoDraw::Plain => {}
            crate::AnnoDraw::Hidden => return Bounds2::EMPTY,
-            crate::AnnoDraw::Scaled(f) => return bounds_in(d, &crate::anno_scaled(e, f), 0, &mut HashMap::new()),
+            crate::AnnoDraw::Scaled(f) => return bounds_in(d, &crate::anno_scaled(e, f), 0, &mut HashMap::new(), off_counts),
        }
    }
-    bounds_in(d, e, depth, &mut HashMap::new())
+    bounds_in(d, e, depth, &mut HashMap::new(), off_counts)
 }

 /// [`entity_bounds`] with the bounds of block contents (in block coordinates) already computed,
@@ -93,11 +121,16 @@ pub fn entity_bounds(d: &Drawing, e: &Entity, depth: usize) -> Bounds2 {
 /// definition per depth instead of one per reference (which grows exponentially with the nesting
 /// depth). The depth is part of the key because [`MAX_BLOCK_DEPTH`] cuts a deep visit short: its
 /// bounds must not stand in for a shallower reference to the same block (#706).
-fn bounds_in<'a>(d: &'a Drawing, e: &Entity, depth: usize, blocks: &mut HashMap<(&'a str, usize), Bounds2>) -> Bounds2 {
+fn bounds_in<'a>(d: &'a Drawing, e: &Entity, depth: usize, blocks: &mut HashMap<(&'a str, usize), Bounds2>, off_counts: bool) -> Bounds2 {
    match &e.kind {
        EntityKind::Table(t) if t.is_broken() => t.bounds(),
        EntityKind::Text(t) if blank(&t.value) => Bounds2::EMPTY,
        EntityKind::MText(t) if blank(&t.contents) => Bounds2::EMPTY,
+        // Text that matches the layout's orientation is drawn upright (#2498).
+        EntityKind::Text(t) if e.common.matches_layout_orientation() => {
+            text_box(&crate::Text { rotation: 0.0, ..t.clone() }, t.value.chars().count())
+        }
+        EntityKind::MText(t) if e.common.matches_layout_orientation() => mtext_box(&crate::MText { rotation: 0.0, ..t.clone() }),
        EntityKind::Text(t) => text_box(t, t.value.chars().count()),
        EntityKind::AttDef(a) => text_box(&a.text, a.tag.chars().count()),
        EntityKind::MText(t) => mtext_box(t),
@@ -115,8 +148,8 @@ fn bounds_in<'a>(d: &'a Drawing, e: &Entity, depth: usize, blocks: &mut HashMap<
                    Some(b) => *b,
                    None => {
                        let mut inner = Bounds2::EMPTY;
-                        for be in blk.entities.iter().filter(|be| in_block_visible(d, be)) {
-                            inner = inner.union(&bounds_in(d, be, depth + 1, blocks));
+                        for be in blk.entities.iter().filter(|be| in_block_visible(d, be, off_counts)) {
+                            inner = inner.union(&bounds_in(d, be, depth + 1, blocks, off_counts));
                        }
                        blocks.insert((blk.name.as_str(), depth), inner);
                        inner
@@ -131,7 +164,7 @@ fn bounds_in<'a>(d: &'a Drawing, e: &Entity, depth: usize, blocks: &mut HashMap<
                }
            }
            for a in &ins.attribs {
-                if !a.invisible {
+                if !a.invisible && layer_counts(d, attrib_layer(d, ins, a), off_counts) {
                    b = b.union(&match a.multiline_text() {
                        Some(m) => mtext_box(&m),
                        None => text_box(&a.text, a.text.value.chars().count()),
@@ -172,8 +205,8 @@ fn bounds_in<'a>(d: &'a Drawing, e: &Entity, depth: usize, blocks: &mut HashMap<
                    Some(cached) => *cached,
                    None => {
                        let mut inner = Bounds2::EMPTY;
-                        for be in blk.entities.iter().filter(|be| in_block_visible(d, be)) {
-                            inner = inner.union(&bounds_in(d, be, depth + 1, blocks));
+                        for be in blk.entities.iter().filter(|be| in_block_visible(d, be, off_counts)) {
+                            inner = inner.union(&bounds_in(d, be, depth + 1, blocks, off_counts));
                        }
                        blocks.insert((blk.name.as_str(), depth), inner);
                        inner
@@ -193,7 +226,7 @@ fn bounds_in<'a>(d: &'a Drawing, e: &Entity, depth: usize, blocks: &mut HashMap<
            }
            if let Some(ins) = &m.block {
                let be = Entity { handle: e.handle, common: e.common.clone(), kind: EntityKind::Insert(ins.clone()) };
-                b = b.union(&bounds_in(d, &be, depth, blocks));
+                b = b.union(&bounds_in(d, &be, depth, blocks, off_counts));
            }
            b
        }
@@ -309,6 +342,37 @@ mod tests {
        entity_bounds(&Drawing::default(), &Entity::new(crate::Handle(1), kind), 0)
    }

+    fn mtext(contents: &str, width: f64) -> crate::MText {
+        crate::MText {
+            insert: Vec3::new(10.0, 10.0, 0.0),
+            height: 2.5,
+            width,
+            attach: 1,
+            rotation: 0.0,
+            style: "Standard".into(),
+            contents: contents.into(),
+            line_spacing: 1.0,
+            line_spacing_exact: false,
+            columns: None,
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// A garbage wrap width only narrows an MTEXT's box, never widens it: a huge group 41 must not
+    /// stretch the drawing extents (#2465).
+    #[test]
+    fn a_huge_mtext_wrap_width_does_not_inflate_the_extents() {
+        let b = bounds(EntityKind::MText(mtext("AB", 300_000_009_519_104.0)));
+        // "AB" at height 2.5 is 2 chars * 0.8 * 2.5 = 4 wide.
+        assert!(b.max.x <= 10.0 + 4.0 + 1e-9, "box ends at x = {}", b.max.x);
+        assert!(b.min.x >= 10.0 - 1e-9);
+    }
+
+    /// A wrap width narrower than the text still bounds the box to that width.
+    #[test]
+    fn a_narrow_mtext_wrap_width_still_sets_the_box_width() {
+        let b = bounds(EntityKind::MText(mtext("A LONG LINE OF WRAPPING TEXT", 5.0)));
+        assert!((b.max.x - b.min.x - 5.0).abs() < 1e-9, "width {}", b.max.x - b.min.x);
+    }
    #[test]
    fn right_justified_text_is_left_of_alignment_point() {
        let b = bounds(EntityKind::Text(text(HAlign::Right, VAlign::Baseline)));
@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+use std::path::Path;
+
+/// A file format, chosen by the file name's extension (ASCII case-insensitive).
+#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq, Eq)]
+pub enum Format {
+    Dxf,
+    Dwg,
+    /// A drawing template: DWG content.
+    Dwt,
+    Svg,
+    /// Gzip-compressed SVG.
+    Svgz,
+    Png,
+    Pdf,
+}
+
+impl Format {
+    /// The formats a drawing can be read from by name. DXF and DWG are also recognised by content.
+    pub const READ: &'static [Format] = &[Format::Dxf, Format::Dwg, Format::Svg, Format::Svgz];
+    /// The formats a drawing can be written to.
+    pub const WRITE: &'static [Format] = &[Format::Dxf, Format::Dwg, Format::Dwt, Format::Svg, Format::Png, Format::Pdf];
+
+    /// The format `path`'s extension names. A name without an extension is DXF; an unknown
+    /// extension is `None`.
+    pub fn from_path(p: impl AsRef<Path>) -> Option<Format> {
+        let ext = p.as_ref().extension().map(|e| e.to_string_lossy().to_ascii_lowercase()).unwrap_or_default();
+        Some(match ext.as_str() {
+            "dxf" | "" => Format::Dxf,
+            "dwg" => Format::Dwg,
+            "dwt" => Format::Dwt,
+            "svg" => Format::Svg,
+            "svgz" => Format::Svgz,
+            "png" => Format::Png,
+            "pdf" => Format::Pdf,
+            _ => return None,
+        })
+    }
+
+    /// The extension, lower case and without the dot.
+    pub fn extension(self) -> &'static str {
+        match self {
+            Format::Dxf => "dxf",
+            Format::Dwg => "dwg",
+            Format::Dwt => "dwt",
+            Format::Svg => "svg",
+            Format::Svgz => "svgz",
+            Format::Png => "png",
+            Format::Pdf => "pdf",
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Written as an image (model space fitted to a frame), so framing applies. SVGZ is read only.
+    pub fn is_image(self) -> bool {
+        matches!(self, Format::Svg | Format::Png | Format::Pdf)
+    }
+
+    /// A drawing file (DXF, DWG, template) rather than an image.
+    pub fn is_drawing(self) -> bool {
+        matches!(self, Format::Dxf | Format::Dwg | Format::Dwt)
+    }
+
+    /// Written as DWG, which drops the object types the DWG writer doesn't know.
+    pub fn drops_unknown(self) -> bool {
+        matches!(self, Format::Dwg | Format::Dwt)
+    }
+
+    /// `formats` as "dxf, dwg, svg": the list help text shows.
+    pub fn list(formats: &[Format]) -> String {
+        formats.iter().map(|f| f.extension()).collect::<Vec<_>>().join(", ")
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn from_path_by_extension() {
+        for f in [Format::Dxf, Format::Dwg, Format::Dwt, Format::Svg, Format::Svgz, Format::Png, Format::Pdf] {
+            assert_eq!(Format::from_path(format!("a/b.{}", f.extension())), Some(f));
+            assert_eq!(Format::from_path(format!("B.{}", f.extension().to_ascii_uppercase())), Some(f));
+        }
+        assert_eq!(Format::from_path("Drawing1"), Some(Format::Dxf), "no extension is DXF");
+        assert_eq!(Format::from_path("dir.dwg/Drawing1"), Some(Format::Dxf));
+        assert_eq!(Format::from_path("a."), Some(Format::Dxf));
+        assert_eq!(Format::from_path("a.txt"), None);
+        assert_eq!(Format::from_path("a.dxf.bak"), None);
+        assert_eq!(Format::from_path(std::path::Path::new("x.PnG")), Some(Format::Png));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn classes() {
+        assert!(Format::READ.contains(&Format::Svgz) && !Format::WRITE.contains(&Format::Svgz));
+        assert!(Format::WRITE.contains(&Format::Dwt) && !Format::READ.contains(&Format::Dwt));
+        assert!(Format::WRITE.iter().filter(|f| f.is_image()).count() == 3 && !Format::Svgz.is_image());
+        assert!(Format::Dwt.drops_unknown() && Format::Dwg.drops_unknown() && !Format::Dxf.drops_unknown());
+        assert!(Format::Dwt.is_drawing() && !Format::Pdf.is_drawing());
+        assert_eq!(Format::list(Format::READ), "dxf, dwg, svg, svgz");
+    }
+}
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ mod array;
 mod constraint;
 mod entity;
 mod extents;
+mod format;
 mod gdt;
 mod header;
 pub mod library;
@@ -26,7 +27,8 @@ pub use cadcraft_color as color;
 pub use cadcraft_geom as geom;
 pub use constraint::*;
 pub use entity::*;
-pub use extents::{MAX_BLOCK_DEPTH, entity_bounds};
+pub use extents::{MAX_BLOCK_DEPTH, entity_bounds, extent_bounds};
+pub use format::Format;
 pub use gdt::*;
 pub use header::{HVal, Header};
 pub use plotstyle::*;
@@ -367,13 +369,19 @@ impl Drawing {
        !self.hidden_objects.is_empty() && self.hidden_objects.contains(&h)
    }

-    /// Bounds of all visible entities in a space.
+    /// Whether an entity counts in the extents: as AutoCAD 2024 counts it for ZOOM Extents and
+    /// EXTMIN/EXTMAX, on a layer that is off too, but not on a frozen one.
+    pub fn in_extents(&self, e: &Entity) -> bool {
+        e.common.visible && self.layer(&e.common.layer).is_none_or(|l| !l.frozen) && !self.is_hidden_object(e.handle)
+    }
+
+    /// Bounds of the entities in a space that count in its extents ([`Drawing::in_extents`]).
    pub fn extents(&self, space: &Space) -> cadcraft_geom::Bounds2 {
        let mut b = cadcraft_geom::Bounds2::EMPTY;
        if let Some(store) = self.space(space) {
            for e in store.iter() {
-                if self.is_visible(e) {
-                    b = b.union(&entity_bounds(self, e, 0));
+                if self.in_extents(e) {
+                    b = b.union(&extent_bounds(self, e));
                }
            }
        }
@@ -441,6 +441,49 @@ impl DimStyle {
            .or_else(|| ["name", "annotative"].into_iter().find(|f| f.eq_ignore_ascii_case(name)))
    }

+    /// The value `v` takes for a field whose current value is `old`: coerced to the field's type where
+    /// the text or number can be read as it.
+    fn coerce_value(old: &serde_json::Value, v: &serde_json::Value, field: &str) -> serde_json::Value {
+        use serde_json::Value;
+        match (old, v) {
+            (Value::Bool(_), Value::Number(n)) => Value::Bool(n.as_f64().is_some_and(|x| x != 0.0)),
+            (Value::Bool(_), Value::String(t)) => Value::Bool(matches!(t.to_ascii_lowercase().as_str(), "1" | "on" | "true" | "yes")),
+            (Value::Number(_), Value::String(t)) => match t.trim().parse::<f64>() {
+                Ok(x) => serde_json::json!(x),
+                // Lineweight names.
+                Err(_) if matches!(field, "dimLineweight" | "extLineweight") => match t.trim().to_ascii_lowercase().as_str() {
+                    "bylayer" => serde_json::json!(-1),
+                    "byblock" => serde_json::json!(-2),
+                    "default" => serde_json::json!(-3),
+                    _ => v.clone(),
+                },
+                Err(_) => v.clone(),
+            },
+            (Value::Number(_), Value::Bool(b)) => serde_json::json!(u8::from(*b)),
+            (Value::String(_), Value::Number(n)) => Value::String(n.to_string()),
+            (Value::Object(_), Value::Number(n)) => {
+                let c = n.as_i64().and_then(|i| i16::try_from(i).ok()).map(Color::from_aci);
+                c.and_then(|c| serde_json::to_value(c).ok()).unwrap_or_else(|| v.clone())
+            }
+            (Value::Object(_), Value::String(t)) => Color::parse(t).and_then(|c| serde_json::to_value(c).ok()).unwrap_or_else(|| v.clone()),
+            _ => v.clone(),
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Whether `coerced` is outside the range its `field` can take.
+    fn out_of_range(field: &str, coerced: &serde_json::Value) -> bool {
+        let x = coerced.as_f64();
+        match field {
+            "textHeight" | "tolScale" => x.is_some_and(|x| x <= 0.0),
+            "scale" | "arrowSize" | "tickSize" | "fixedExtLength" => x.is_some_and(|x| x < 0.0),
+            "fit" | "angularZeroSuppression" => x.is_some_and(|x| x > 3.0),
+            "textMove" | "tolJust" | "arcSymbol" | "textFill" => x.is_some_and(|x| x > 2.0),
+            "dimLineweight" | "extLineweight" => x.is_some_and(|x| !(-3.0..=211.0).contains(&x)),
+            "jogAngle" => x.is_some_and(|x| !(5.0..=90.0).contains(&x)),
+            _ => false,
+        }
+    }
+
    /// Set fields from a JSON object of field or DIM* variable names (numbers, booleans as
    /// 0/1, colours as ACI numbers or names). Returns the names that were not recognised or
    /// had unusable values.
@@ -458,29 +501,7 @@ impl DimStyle {
                rejected.push(k.clone());
                continue;
            };
-            let coerced = match (&old, v) {
-                (Value::Bool(_), Value::Number(n)) => Value::Bool(n.as_f64().is_some_and(|x| x != 0.0)),
-                (Value::Bool(_), Value::String(t)) => Value::Bool(matches!(t.to_ascii_lowercase().as_str(), "1" | "on" | "true" | "yes")),
-                (Value::Number(_), Value::String(t)) => match t.trim().parse::<f64>() {
-                    Ok(x) => serde_json::json!(x),
-                    // Lineweight names.
-                    Err(_) if matches!(field, "dimLineweight" | "extLineweight") => match t.trim().to_ascii_lowercase().as_str() {
-                        "bylayer" => serde_json::json!(-1),
-                        "byblock" => serde_json::json!(-2),
-                        "default" => serde_json::json!(-3),
-                        _ => v.clone(),
-                    },
-                    Err(_) => v.clone(),
-                },
-                (Value::Number(_), Value::Bool(b)) => serde_json::json!(u8::from(*b)),
-                (Value::String(_), Value::Number(n)) => Value::String(n.to_string()),
-                (Value::Object(_), Value::Number(n)) => {
-                    let c = n.as_i64().and_then(|i| i16::try_from(i).ok()).map(Color::from_aci);
-                    c.and_then(|c| serde_json::to_value(c).ok()).unwrap_or_else(|| v.clone())
-                }
-                (Value::Object(_), Value::String(t)) => Color::parse(t).and_then(|c| serde_json::to_value(c).ok()).unwrap_or_else(|| v.clone()),
-                _ => v.clone(),
-            };
+            let coerced = Self::coerce_value(&old, v, field);
            // Integers stored in u8 fields: round floats.
            let coerced = match (&old, &coerced) {
                // Lineweights (i16): whole hundredths of a mm or -1/-2/-3.
@@ -502,16 +523,7 @@ impl DimStyle {
                _ => coerced,
            };
            // Sizes that can't be negative (text height and tolerance scale: not zero either).
-            let x = coerced.as_f64();
-            let out_of_range = match field {
-                "textHeight" | "tolScale" => x.is_some_and(|x| x <= 0.0),
-                "scale" | "arrowSize" | "tickSize" | "fixedExtLength" => x.is_some_and(|x| x < 0.0),
-                "fit" | "angularZeroSuppression" => x.is_some_and(|x| x > 3.0),
-                "textMove" | "tolJust" | "arcSymbol" | "textFill" => x.is_some_and(|x| x > 2.0),
-                "dimLineweight" | "extLineweight" => x.is_some_and(|x| !(-3.0..=211.0).contains(&x)),
-                "jogAngle" => x.is_some_and(|x| !(5.0..=90.0).contains(&x)),
-                _ => false,
-            };
+            let out_of_range = Self::out_of_range(field, &coerced);
            if out_of_range {
                rejected.push(k.clone());
                continue;
@@ -44,15 +44,85 @@ fn add_and_extents() {
 }

 #[test]
-fn hidden_layers_excluded_from_extents() {
+fn frozen_layers_are_left_out_of_extents_and_layers_turned_off_are_not() {
    let mut d = Drawing::new_imperial();
    let c = Common { layer: "Hidden".into(), ..Default::default() };
    d.add(&Space::Model, c, line((100.0, 100.0), (200.0, 200.0))).unwrap();
    d.add(&Space::Model, Common::default(), line((0.0, 0.0), (1.0, 1.0))).unwrap();
    d.layer_mut("Hidden").unwrap().on = false;
+    assert_eq!(d.extents(&Space::Model).max, Vec2::new(200.0, 200.0));
+    d.layer_mut("Hidden").unwrap().frozen = true;
    assert_eq!(d.extents(&Space::Model).max, Vec2::new(1.0, 1.0));
 }

+/// ZOOM Extents in AutoCAD 2024 (accoreconsole, EXTMIN/EXTMAX read back; AutoCAD pads them by a
+/// few hundredths): a layer turned off counts and a frozen one does not, for an entity, for an
+/// entity inside a block, and for a block reference itself.
+#[test]
+fn extents_count_layers_turned_off_as_autocad() {
+    let mut d = Drawing::new_imperial();
+    for (name, on, frozen) in [("OFFL", false, false), ("FRZ", true, true), ("BOFF", false, false), ("BFRZ", true, true)] {
+        let mut l = Layer::new(name);
+        (l.on, l.frozen) = (on, frozen);
+        d.layers.push(l);
+    }
+    for (layer, b) in [("0", (10.0, 10.0)), ("OFFL", (100.0, 0.0)), ("FRZ", (0.0, 200.0))] {
+        d.add(&Space::Model, Common { layer: layer.into(), ..Default::default() }, line((0.0, 0.0), b)).unwrap();
+    }
+    // AutoCAD: (-0.013, -0.009)…(100.027, 10.006).
+    assert_eq!(extents_pair(&d), (Vec2::ZERO, Vec2::new(100.0, 10.0)));
+
+    let mut d = Drawing::new_imperial();
+    for (name, on, frozen) in [("FRZ", true, true), ("BOFF", false, false), ("BFRZ", true, true)] {
+        let mut l = Layer::new(name);
+        (l.on, l.frozen) = (on, frozen);
+        d.layers.push(l);
+    }
+    let mut blk = Block::new("BX");
+    blk.entities.push(on_layer("0", line((0.0, 0.0), (1.0, 1.0)), 1));
+    blk.entities.push(on_layer("BOFF", line((0.0, 0.0), (50.0, 0.0)), 2));
+    blk.entities.push(on_layer("BFRZ", line((0.0, 0.0), (0.0, 70.0)), 3));
+    d.blocks.insert("BX".into(), std::sync::Arc::new(blk));
+    let at = |x: f64| match plain_insert("BX") {
+        EntityKind::Insert(i) => EntityKind::Insert(Insert { insert: Vec3::new(x, x, 0.0), ..i }),
+        k => k,
+    };
+    d.add(&Space::Model, Common::default(), at(1000.0)).unwrap();
+    d.add(&Space::Model, Common { layer: "FRZ".into(), ..Default::default() }, at(-500.0)).unwrap();
+    // AutoCAD: (1000, 1000)…(1050, 1001).
+    assert_eq!(extents_pair(&d), (Vec2::new(1000.0, 1000.0), Vec2::new(1050.0, 1001.0)));
+
+    // An insert's attributes lie on their own layer, else on their definition's: one on a frozen
+    // layer either way does not count, one on a layer turned off does.
+    let mut d = Drawing::new_imperial();
+    for (name, on, frozen) in [("IOFF", false, false), ("AOFF", false, false), ("AFRZ", true, true)] {
+        let mut l = Layer::new(name);
+        (l.on, l.frozen) = (on, frozen);
+        d.layers.push(l);
+    }
+    let attrib = |tag: &str, at: (f64, f64), layer: Option<&str>| {
+        let mut a = plain_attrib(tag);
+        a.text.insert = Vec3::new(at.0, at.1, 0.0);
+        a.props.layer = layer.map(str::to_string);
+        a
+    };
+    let mut blk = Block::new("BA");
+    blk.entities.push(on_layer("0", line((0.0, 0.0), (1.0, 1.0)), 1));
+    blk.entities.push(on_layer("AFRZ", EntityKind::AttDef(plain_attrib("DEF")), 2));
+    d.blocks.insert("BA".into(), std::sync::Arc::new(blk));
+    let ins = match plain_insert("BA") {
+        EntityKind::Insert(i) => {
+            let attribs =
+                vec![attrib("OWN", (0.0, 300.0), Some("AFRZ")), attrib("DEF", (0.0, -400.0), None), attrib("OFF", (40.0, 0.0), Some("AOFF"))];
+            EntityKind::Insert(Insert { attribs, ..i })
+        }
+        k => k,
+    };
+    d.add(&Space::Model, Common { layer: "IOFF".into(), ..Default::default() }, ins).unwrap();
+    let (min, max) = extents_pair(&d);
+    assert!(min.y > -1.0 && max.y < 50.0 && max.x > 40.0, "{min:?} {max:?}");
+}
+
 #[test]
 fn rays_and_xlines_do_not_stretch_extents() {
    // ZOOM Extents ignores infinite lines; real drawings carry stray rays millions of units away.
@@ -315,6 +385,31 @@ fn plain_insert(block: &str) -> EntityKind {
    })
 }

+/// An attribute (or its definition) `tag` at the origin, one unit high, reading "x".
+fn plain_attrib(tag: &str) -> Attrib {
+    Attrib {
+        tag: tag.into(),
+        text: Text {
+            insert: Vec3::ZERO,
+            align_pt: None,
+            height: 1.0,
+            value: "x".into(),
+            rotation: 0.0,
+            width_factor: 1.0,
+            oblique: 0.0,
+            style: "Standard".into(),
+            halign: HAlign::Left,
+            valign: VAlign::Baseline,
+        },
+        invisible: false,
+        constant: false,
+        prompt: String::new(),
+        props: Default::default(),
+        multiline: None,
+        modes: Default::default(),
+    }
+}
+
 fn on_layer(layer: &str, kind: EntityKind, h: u64) -> Entity {
    Entity { handle: Handle(h), common: Common { layer: layer.into(), ..Default::default() }, kind }
 }
@@ -383,24 +478,18 @@ fn block_entity_with_invisible_flag_is_ignored_in_insert_extents() {
 }

 #[test]
-fn block_entity_on_off_or_frozen_layer_is_ignored() {
-    for frozen in [false, true] {
-        let mut d = drawing_with_block(far_line("Hidden"));
-        assert!(d.layer("Hidden").is_none(), "block contents do not create layers");
-        let mut layer = Layer::new("Hidden");
-        if frozen {
-            layer.frozen = true;
-        } else {
-            layer.on = false;
-        }
-        d.layers.push(layer);
-        assert_eq!(extents_pair(&d), (Vec2::ZERO, Vec2::new(1.0, 1.0)), "frozen = {frozen}");
-        // Turned back on, it counts again.
-        let l = d.layer_mut("Hidden").unwrap();
-        l.on = true;
-        l.frozen = false;
-        assert_eq!(d.extents(&Space::Model).max, Vec2::new(6000.0, 6000.0));
-    }
+fn block_entity_on_frozen_layer_is_ignored_and_on_a_layer_turned_off_counts() {
+    let mut d = drawing_with_block(far_line("Hidden"));
+    assert!(d.layer("Hidden").is_none(), "block contents do not create layers");
+    let mut layer = Layer::new("Hidden");
+    layer.frozen = true;
+    d.layers.push(layer);
+    assert_eq!(extents_pair(&d), (Vec2::ZERO, Vec2::new(1.0, 1.0)));
+    // Thawed but turned off, it counts.
+    let l = d.layer_mut("Hidden").unwrap();
+    l.frozen = false;
+    l.on = false;
+    assert_eq!(d.extents(&Space::Model).max, Vec2::new(6000.0, 6000.0));
 }

 #[test]
@@ -558,10 +647,10 @@ fn invisible_dimblock_entity_is_ignored_in_dimension_extents() {
    hidden.common.visible = false;
    dim(&mut d, hidden);
    assert!(d.extents(&Space::Model).max.x < 100.0);
-    // Hidden by its layer state.
+    // Hidden by its layer state (frozen; a layer turned off still counts).
    let mut d = Drawing::new_imperial();
    let mut l = Layer::new("*ADSK_CONSTRAINTS");
-    l.on = false;
+    l.frozen = true;
    d.layers.push(l);
    dim(&mut d, on_layer("*ADSK_CONSTRAINTS", line((5000.0, 5000.0), (6000.0, 6000.0)), 2));
    assert!(d.extents(&Space::Model).max.x < 100.0);
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ license.workspace = true
 [lints]
 workspace = true

-[target.'cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))'.dependencies]
+# The same targets as build.rs's `no_dwg_bridge` leave acadrust out: wasm32, and FreeBSD aarch64,
+# where acadrust 0.6.6 passes a `*const c_char` (u8 there) to its own `*const i8` sysctlbyname.
+# 0.6.7 and 0.6.8 fix that but read some damaged DWGs as empty with no note (tests.rs, #800).
+[target.'cfg(not(any(target_arch = "wasm32", all(target_os = "freebsd", target_arch = "aarch64"))))'.dependencies]
 # MPL-2.0: used as an unmodified dependency only (see plan/adr/0001 and NOTICE).
 acadrust = "0.6.5"
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+//! Sets `no_dwg_bridge` on the targets built without acadrust (see Cargo.toml): the DWG functions
+//! there return an error that says to use DXF.
+
+fn main() {
+    println!("cargo:rerun-if-changed=build.rs");
+    println!("cargo::rustc-check-cfg=cfg(no_dwg_bridge)");
+    let arch = std::env::var("CARGO_CFG_TARGET_ARCH").unwrap_or_default();
+    let os = std::env::var("CARGO_CFG_TARGET_OS").unwrap_or_default();
+    if arch == "wasm32" || (os == "freebsd" && arch == "aarch64") {
+        println!("cargo::rustc-cfg=no_dwg_bridge");
+    }
+}
@@ -58,13 +58,13 @@ impl Limits {
 }

 /// A byte count in megabytes for messages ("9.9 MB", "1024 MB").
-#[cfg_attr(target_arch = "wasm32", allow(dead_code))]
+#[cfg_attr(no_dwg_bridge, allow(dead_code))]
 fn mb(n: u64) -> String {
    let m = n as f64 / f64::from(1u32 << 20);
    if m >= 100.0 { format!("{m:.0} MB") } else { format!("{m:.1} MB") }
 }

-#[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
+#[cfg(not(no_dwg_bridge))]
 mod native {
    use std::io::{Cursor, Write};
    use std::panic::AssertUnwindSafe;
@@ -104,10 +104,7 @@ mod native {
        }
        let mut notes = read_notes(&outcome.stats);
        let mut doc = outcome.document;
-        current_style_names(&mut doc);
-        table_merges(&mut doc);
-        table_style_rows(&mut doc, false);
-        let orphans = drop_orphaned_dgn_components(&mut doc);
+        let orphans = guarded(AssertUnwindSafe(|| post_process(&mut doc))).map_err(|_| "the DWG post-processing failed on this file".to_string())?;
        if orphans > 0 {
            let (s, were) = if orphans == 1 { ("", "was") } else { ("s", "were") };
            notes.push(format!("DWG: {orphans} DGN line style component{s} that no line style definition uses {were} left out"));
@@ -237,6 +234,33 @@ mod native {
    /// cells already carry merges are left alone. Each range's first cell gets the span; the
    /// cells it covers are marked merged with no span of their own, as CADCraft's DXF writer does.
    fn table_merges(doc: &mut acadrust::CadDocument) {
+        table_merges_within(doc, MAX_MERGE_CELLS);
+    }
+
+    /// The most table cells [`table_merges`] visits in one document: each range is capped, but
+    /// can cover rows × cols cells, so the total is bounded too.
+    const MAX_MERGE_CELLS: usize = 1 << 24;
+
+    /// The fix-ups made to a document after the DWG read, returning how many orphaned DGN
+    /// components were dropped. The document comes from a third-party reader and is hostile.
+    fn post_process(doc: &mut acadrust::CadDocument) -> usize {
+        super::fail_in_test("post_process");
+        current_style_names(doc);
+        table_merges(doc);
+        table_style_rows(doc, false);
+        keep_sort_handles(doc);
+        drop_orphaned_dgn_components(doc)
+    }
+
+    /// Runs `f`, turning a panic into an error (the reader and writer are guarded the same way).
+    fn guarded<R>(f: impl FnOnce() -> R + std::panic::UnwindSafe) -> Result<R, ()> {
+        std::panic::catch_unwind(f).map_err(|_| ())
+    }
+
+    /// [`table_merges`] visiting at most `budget` cells in all; a range that would pass it is
+    /// left unmerged. Returns the cells visited.
+    fn table_merges_within(doc: &mut acadrust::CadDocument, budget: usize) -> usize {
+        let mut left = budget;
        for e in doc.entities_mut() {
            let acadrust::entities::EntityType::Table(t) = e else { continue };
            if t.merged_ranges.is_empty() || t.rows.iter().flat_map(|r| &r.cells).any(|c| c.merge_width > 1 || c.merge_height > 1) {
@@ -252,6 +276,11 @@ mod native {
                if r.top_row > bottom || r.left_col > right || rows == 0 || cols == 0 || (r.top_row, r.left_col) == (bottom, right) {
                    continue;
                }
+                let area = (bottom - r.top_row + 1).saturating_mul(right - r.left_col + 1);
+                if area > left {
+                    continue;
+                }
+                left -= area;
                let span = |n: usize| i32::try_from(n + 1).unwrap_or(i32::MAX);
                for (ri, row) in t.rows.iter_mut().enumerate().take(bottom + 1).skip(r.top_row) {
                    for (ci, cell) in row.cells.iter_mut().enumerate().take(right + 1).skip(r.left_col) {
@@ -263,6 +292,28 @@ mod native {
                }
            }
        }
+        budget - left
+    }
+
+    /// Draw-order tables (SORTENTSTABLE) keep the sort handles the file gave them. acadrust's DXF
+    /// writer renumbers them past every entity handle, but an entity left out of a table sorts by
+    /// its own handle, so after renumbering it would draw below every listed entity (#2410). Giving
+    /// the table its codes verbatim makes the writer emit them unchanged.
+    fn keep_sort_handles(doc: &mut acadrust::CadDocument) {
+        use acadrust::objects::ObjectType;
+        let version = doc.version;
+        for o in doc.objects.values_mut() {
+            let ObjectType::SortEntitiesTable(t) = o else { continue };
+            let hex = |h: acadrust::types::Handle| format!("{:X}", h.value());
+            let mut codes =
+                vec![(5, hex(t.handle)), (330, hex(t.owner_handle)), (100, "AcDbSortentsTable".to_string()), (330, hex(t.block_owner_handle))];
+            for e in t.entries() {
+                codes.push((331, hex(e.entity_handle)));
+                codes.push((5, hex(e.sort_handle)));
+            }
+            t.raw_dxf_codes = Some(codes);
+            t.raw_dxf_version = Some(version);
+        }
    }

    /// Table styles' title and header suppression between the two places acadrust 0.6.3 keeps
@@ -512,6 +563,17 @@ mod native {
        }
    }

+    /// The current layer (`$CLAYER`) by its name, the same way as [`current_dimstyle`]: a DWG
+    /// stores the handle of the layer, and the one read with the DXF needn't be the layer's in
+    /// the document, so the drawing reopened with layer "0" current (#2252).
+    fn current_layer(doc: &mut acadrust::CadDocument) {
+        let name = doc.header.current_layer_name.clone();
+        // The table's own lookup compares Unicode case-insensitively ("Survey_Ä" = "Survey_ä").
+        if let Some(layer) = doc.layers.get(&name) {
+            doc.header.current_layer_handle = layer.handle;
+        }
+    }
+
    fn convert(dxf: &[u8], version: Option<acadrust::DxfVersion>) -> Result<Vec<u8>, String> {
        // Reject a pathologically large DXF before handing it to the third-party decoder, which
        // allocates tables and section buffers from the input's declared sizes and cannot be
@@ -536,13 +598,19 @@ mod native {
            None if doc.version < MIN_DWG_VERSION => doc.version = MIN_DWG_VERSION,
            None => {}
        }
-        other_layout_owners(&mut doc);
-        table_style_rows(&mut doc, true);
-        dimension_flags(&mut doc);
-        drop_unwritable(&mut doc);
-        current_dimstyle(&mut doc);
-        add_variable_dictionary(&mut doc);
-        current_text_style(&mut doc);
+        // The fix-ups run on the third-party reader's document, so a panic in one is an error, not a crash.
+        guarded(AssertUnwindSafe(|| {
+            super::fail_in_test("convert");
+            other_layout_owners(&mut doc);
+            table_style_rows(&mut doc, true);
+            dimension_flags(&mut doc);
+            drop_unwritable(&mut doc);
+            current_dimstyle(&mut doc);
+            add_variable_dictionary(&mut doc);
+            current_text_style(&mut doc);
+            current_layer(&mut doc);
+        }))
+        .map_err(|_| "the DXF to DWG conversion failed on this file".to_string())?;
        std::panic::catch_unwind(AssertUnwindSafe(|| acadrust::DwgWriter::write_to_vec(&doc)))
            .map_err(|_| "the DWG writer failed on this drawing".to_string())?
            .map_err(|e| format!("DWG write: {e}"))
@@ -639,43 +707,140 @@ mod native {
            }
        }
    }
+
+    #[cfg(test)]
+    mod post_tests {
+        use super::*;
+        use acadrust::entities::{CellRange, EntityType, Table};
+
+        fn doc_with_table(rows: usize, cols: usize, ranges: usize) -> acadrust::CadDocument {
+            let mut t = Table::new(acadrust::types::Vector3::new(0.0, 0.0, 0.0), rows, cols);
+            t.merged_ranges = (0..ranges).map(|_| CellRange::new(0, 0, rows - 1, cols - 1)).collect();
+            let mut doc = acadrust::CadDocument::new();
+            assert!(doc.add_entity(EntityType::Table(Box::new(t))).is_ok());
+            doc
+        }
+
+        /// Overlapping whole-table ranges can't make the merge pass visit more than its budget (#1934).
+        #[test]
+        fn merge_work_is_bounded_by_the_cell_budget() {
+            let mut doc = doc_with_table(10, 10, 50);
+            assert_eq!(table_merges_within(&mut doc, 250), 200, "two whole-table ranges fit, the rest are skipped");
+            let mut doc = doc_with_table(10, 10, 1);
+            assert_eq!(table_merges_within(&mut doc, usize::MAX), 100);
+        }
+
+        /// A panic in the post-read fix-ups is an error, not a crash (#1934).
+        #[test]
+        fn a_panic_in_post_processing_is_an_error() {
+            #[allow(clippy::panic)]
+            let r = guarded(AssertUnwindSafe(|| -> usize { panic!("boom") }));
+            assert!(r.is_err());
+            assert_eq!(guarded(|| 3), Ok(3));
+        }
+    }
 }

-#[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
+#[cfg(not(no_dwg_bridge))]
 pub use native::{dwg_to_dxf, dwg_to_dxf_noted, dwg_to_dxf_with, dxf_to_dwg, dxf_to_dwg_as};

+// Test-only: the stage ("post_process" or "convert") whose guard the current test checks. The
+// stage then panics on entry, so a test through the public API shows whether it is guarded.
+#[cfg(all(test, not(no_dwg_bridge)))]
+thread_local! {
+    static PANIC_IN: std::cell::Cell<Option<&'static str>> = const { std::cell::Cell::new(None) };
+}
+
+/// Panics when a test asked for `stage` to fail (see [`PANIC_IN`]); does nothing otherwise.
+#[cfg(not(no_dwg_bridge))]
+#[allow(clippy::panic)]
+fn fail_in_test(_stage: &str) {
+    #[cfg(test)]
+    if PANIC_IN.with(|p| p.get()) == Some(_stage) {
+        panic!("test-forced panic in {_stage}");
+    }
+}
+
 /// The error for a DWG version CADCraft can't write.
-#[cfg_attr(target_arch = "wasm32", allow(dead_code))]
+#[cfg_attr(no_dwg_bridge, allow(dead_code))]
 fn unsupported(version: &str) -> String {
    let list: Vec<&str> = VERSIONS.iter().map(|(_, year)| *year).collect();
    format!("DWG version `{version}` can't be written (CADCraft writes {})", list.join(", "))
 }

-#[cfg(target_arch = "wasm32")]
+/// Which build has no DWG bridge, for the stubs' errors.
+#[cfg(no_dwg_bridge)]
+const NO_BRIDGE_BUILD: &str = if cfg!(target_arch = "wasm32") { "web" } else { "FreeBSD aarch64" };
+
+#[cfg(no_dwg_bridge)]
 pub fn dwg_to_dxf(_bytes: &[u8]) -> Result<Vec<u8>, String> {
-    Err("DWG files can't be opened in the web build yet; save as DXF".into())
+    Err(format!("DWG files can't be opened in the {NO_BRIDGE_BUILD} build yet; save as DXF"))
 }
-#[cfg(target_arch = "wasm32")]
+#[cfg(no_dwg_bridge)]
 pub fn dwg_to_dxf_noted(_bytes: &[u8], _limits: Limits) -> Result<(Vec<u8>, Vec<String>), String> {
-    Err("DWG files can't be opened in the web build yet; save as DXF".into())
+    Err(format!("DWG files can't be opened in the {NO_BRIDGE_BUILD} build yet; save as DXF"))
 }
-#[cfg(target_arch = "wasm32")]
+#[cfg(no_dwg_bridge)]
 pub fn dwg_to_dxf_with(_bytes: &[u8], _limits: Limits) -> Result<Vec<u8>, String> {
-    Err("DWG files can't be opened in the web build yet; save as DXF".into())
+    Err(format!("DWG files can't be opened in the {NO_BRIDGE_BUILD} build yet; save as DXF"))
 }
-#[cfg(target_arch = "wasm32")]
+#[cfg(no_dwg_bridge)]
 pub fn dxf_to_dwg(_dxf: &[u8]) -> Result<Vec<u8>, String> {
-    Err("DWG files can't be written in the web build yet; save as DXF".into())
+    Err(format!("DWG files can't be written in the {NO_BRIDGE_BUILD} build yet; save as DXF"))
 }
-#[cfg(target_arch = "wasm32")]
+#[cfg(no_dwg_bridge)]
 pub fn dxf_to_dwg_as(_dxf: &[u8], _version: &str) -> Result<Vec<u8>, String> {
-    Err("DWG files can't be written in the web build yet; save as DXF".into())
+    Err(format!("DWG files can't be written in the {NO_BRIDGE_BUILD} build yet; save as DXF"))
 }

 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
    use super::*;

+    /// The DXF of an empty drawing, enough for the bridge to make a small DWG.
+    #[cfg(not(no_dwg_bridge))]
+    const MINIMAL_DXF: &str = "  0\nSECTION\n  2\nHEADER\n  9\n$ACADVER\n  1\nAC1032\n  0\nENDSEC\n  0\nEOF\n";
+
+    /// Makes `stage` panic on the current thread until dropped.
+    #[cfg(not(no_dwg_bridge))]
+    struct PanicIn;
+
+    #[cfg(not(no_dwg_bridge))]
+    impl PanicIn {
+        fn at(stage: &'static str) -> Self {
+            PANIC_IN.with(|p| p.set(Some(stage)));
+            Self
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[cfg(not(no_dwg_bridge))]
+    impl Drop for PanicIn {
+        fn drop(&mut self) {
+            PANIC_IN.with(|p| p.set(None));
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// The public read reports a panic in the post-read fix-ups as an error: this fails if the
+    /// `guarded` call around `post_process` is taken out (#2402).
+    #[cfg(not(no_dwg_bridge))]
+    #[test]
+    fn reading_a_dwg_survives_a_panic_in_post_processing() {
+        let dwg = dxf_to_dwg(MINIMAL_DXF.as_bytes()).unwrap();
+        assert!(dwg_to_dxf(&dwg).is_ok(), "the DWG reads without the forced panic");
+        let _panic = PanicIn::at("post_process");
+        let err = dwg_to_dxf(&dwg).unwrap_err();
+        assert!(err.contains("the DWG post-processing failed on this file"), "{err}");
+    }
+
+    /// The DXF to DWG conversion reports a panic in its fix-ups as an error, not a crash (#2402).
+    #[cfg(not(no_dwg_bridge))]
+    #[test]
+    fn converting_to_dwg_survives_a_panic_in_the_fix_ups() {
+        let _panic = PanicIn::at("convert");
+        let err = dxf_to_dwg(MINIMAL_DXF.as_bytes()).unwrap_err();
+        assert!(err.contains("the DXF to DWG conversion failed on this file"), "{err}");
+    }
+
    #[test]
    fn detects_magic() {
        assert!(is_dwg(b"AC1032\0\0\0\0"));
@@ -685,7 +850,7 @@ mod tests {

    /// A DXF with ROMANS as `$TEXTSTYLE` gives a DWG whose current text style is ROMANS, not
    /// Standard: the DXF names the style, and the handle read with it was Standard's (#1650).
-    #[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
+    #[cfg(not(no_dwg_bridge))]
    #[test]
    fn current_text_style_reaches_the_dwg() {
        let header = "  0\nSECTION\n  2\nHEADER\n  9\n$ACADVER\n  1\nAC1032\n  9\n$TEXTSTYLE\n  7\nROMANS\n  0\nENDSEC\n";
@@ -705,7 +870,7 @@ mod tests {
        assert!(dwg_to_dxf(b"").is_err());
    }

-    #[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
+    #[cfg(not(no_dwg_bridge))]
    #[test]
    fn dxf_to_dwg_rejects_garbage_without_crashing() {
        // The DXF→DWG path runs the third-party reader inside catch_unwind and reports failures
@@ -715,7 +880,7 @@ mod tests {
    }

    /// A DXF with one DIMENSION per (text, group 70, subclass, points) row.
-    #[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
+    #[cfg(not(no_dwg_bridge))]
    fn dims_dxf(dims: &[(&str, i64, &str, &[(i32, [f64; 2])])]) -> String {
        let mut s = String::from("  0\nSECTION\n  2\nHEADER\n  9\n$ACADVER\n  1\nAC1032\n  0\nENDSEC\n  0\nSECTION\n  2\nENTITIES\n");
        for (text, flags, sub, pts) in dims {
@@ -732,7 +897,7 @@ mod tests {
    /// the text is at its default position), and bit 32 in bit 1 (ODA DWG specification, common
    /// dimension data). The bytes are read back raw, so a reader that inverts bit 0 the same way
    /// as the writer can't hide a wrong byte.
-    #[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
+    #[cfg(not(no_dwg_bridge))]
    #[test]
    fn dimension_text_position_flags_reach_the_dwg_as_autocad_reads_them() {
        let linear: &[(i32, [f64; 2])] = &[(13, [0.0, 0.0]), (14, [100.0, 0.0])];
@@ -779,7 +944,7 @@ mod tests {
    }

    /// The handles a DXF text refers to or gives its records (groups 5, 105 and 330–369).
-    #[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
+    #[cfg(not(no_dwg_bridge))]
    fn dxf_handles(dxf: &str) -> std::collections::HashSet<u64> {
        let lines: Vec<&str> = dxf.lines().collect();
        lines
@@ -796,7 +961,7 @@ mod tests {
    /// 1.2 GB DXF rendition over the limit, so it didn't open). They're left out with a note, and
    /// their dictionary entries with them; the definition and every component it reaches —
    /// through compound and point components, around a cycle — are kept.
-    #[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
+    #[cfg(not(no_dwg_bridge))]
    #[test]
    fn orphaned_dgn_line_style_components_are_left_out() {
        use acadrust::objects::*;
@@ -69,6 +69,42 @@ pub fn decode_code_page(bytes: &[u8], code_page: &str) -> Option<String> {
    decoder(code_page).map(|d| decode(bytes, d).into_owned())
 }

+/// The code page a pre-2007 file's text is written in, or `None` for pure ASCII with escapes:
+/// when CADCraft doesn't know `code_page`, and for `ASCII` (the reader takes such files as
+/// Windows-1252, but a writer must keep them ASCII) and `UTF8`/`UNICODE`, which no pre-2007
+/// reader expects.
+pub(crate) fn encoder(code_page: &str) -> Option<Decoder> {
+    if code_page.trim().eq_ignore_ascii_case("ASCII") {
+        return None;
+    }
+    decoder(code_page).filter(|d| !matches!(d, Decoder::Utf8))
+}
+
+/// Append the bytes of the non-ASCII character `c` in the code page `d`, and return true, when
+/// the code page has it; otherwise append nothing and return false (the caller escapes it).
+pub(crate) fn encode_char(c: char, d: Decoder, out: &mut Vec<u8>) -> bool {
+    let mut buf = [0; 4];
+    match d {
+        // Not a pre-2007 code page ([`encoder`] never gives it): escaped.
+        Decoder::Utf8 => return false,
+        Decoder::Encoding(e) => {
+            let (bytes, _, unmappable) = e.encode(c.encode_utf8(&mut buf));
+            // A code page byte that is ASCII would read back as another character, and a NUL,
+            // CR or LF would break the group, so only all-high-bit sequences or proper double-byte
+            // characters are kept (their trail byte may be ASCII, as in Shift-JIS).
+            if unmappable || bytes.is_empty() || !bytes.first().is_some_and(|b| *b >= 0x80) || bytes.iter().any(|b| matches!(b, 0 | b'\r' | b'\n')) {
+                return false;
+            }
+            out.extend_from_slice(&bytes);
+        }
+        Decoder::Table(t) => {
+            let Some(i) = t.iter().position(|&x| x == c).and_then(|i| u8::try_from(i).ok()) else { return false };
+            out.push(0x80 | i);
+        }
+    }
+    true
+}
+
 /// Decode bytes with a decoder. UTF-8 that isn't valid falls back to Windows-1252.
 pub(crate) fn decode(bytes: &[u8], d: Decoder) -> Cow<'_, str> {
    match d {
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 #![forbid(unsafe_code)]

 use std::fmt::Write as _;
+use std::io::Write as _;

 mod version;
 pub use version::Version;
@@ -181,8 +182,20 @@ pub fn parse_with_limit(bytes: &[u8], max_tags: usize) -> Result<Vec<Tag>> {
    if let Some(body) = bytes.strip_prefix(BINARY_SENTINEL) {
        return parse_binary_with_limit(body, max_tags);
    }
-    // Every group code takes two lines (code, value).
-    let tags = bytes.iter().filter(|&&b| b == b'\n').count().div_ceil(2);
+    // Count nonblank group-code/value pairs, stopping at EOF just as the parser does.
+    let mut lines = bytes.split(|&b| b == b'\n');
+    let mut tags = 0;
+    while let Some(code) = lines.next() {
+        let code = code.trim_ascii();
+        if code.is_empty() {
+            continue;
+        }
+        let Some(value) = lines.next() else { break };
+        tags += 1;
+        if code == b"0" && value.trim_ascii() == b"EOF" {
+            break;
+        }
+    }
    if tags > max_tags {
        return Err(DxfError::TooLarge { tags, limit: max_tags });
    }
@@ -264,7 +277,7 @@ pub fn parse_ascii(text: &str) -> Result<Vec<Tag>> {
 #[allow(clippy::while_let_loop)]
 fn parse_ascii_with_limit(text: &str, max_tags: usize) -> Result<Vec<Tag>> {
    let mut tags = Vec::new();
-    let mut lines = text.lines().enumerate();
+    let mut lines = text.strip_prefix('\u{feff}').unwrap_or(text).lines().enumerate();
    loop {
        let Some((ln, code_line)) = lines.next() else { break };
        let ct = code_line.trim();
@@ -409,18 +422,48 @@ pub fn write_ascii(tags: &[Tag]) -> String {
 /// characters as they are) or escaped as `\U+XXXX` (older versions, see [`write_ascii`]). Line
 /// breaks inside strings become spaces either way.
 pub fn write_ascii_as(tags: &[Tag], utf8: bool) -> String {
-    let mut out = String::with_capacity(tags.len() * 16);
+    let bytes = ascii(tags, if utf8 { Strings::Utf8 } else { Strings::Escaped(None) });
+    // Both forms are UTF-8 (the escaped one is ASCII).
+    String::from_utf8(bytes).unwrap_or_else(|e| String::from_utf8_lossy(e.as_bytes()).into_owned())
+}
+
+/// Write tags as pre-R2007 ASCII DXF with text in the code page `code_page` names (a
+/// `$DWGCODEPAGE` value such as `ANSI_1252`), as the DXF Reference describes for those versions:
+/// a character the code page has is written as its bytes, any other as a `\U+XXXX` escape. A
+/// code page CADCraft doesn't know, `ASCII`, and `UTF8`/`UNICODE` (not a pre-2007 code page)
+/// give [`write_ascii`]'s pure ASCII output. So does a file whose code page bytes happen to be
+/// valid UTF-8 (`СІ` in ANSI_1251 is D1 B2, U+0472), since readers, ours included, take an ASCII
+/// DXF that is valid UTF-8 as UTF-8.
+pub fn write_ascii_in(tags: &[Tag], code_page: &str) -> Vec<u8> {
+    let bytes = ascii(tags, Strings::Escaped(codepage::encoder(code_page)));
+    if !bytes.is_ascii() && std::str::from_utf8(&bytes).is_ok() {
+        return ascii(tags, Strings::Escaped(None));
+    }
+    bytes
+}
+
+/// How a writer stores string values.
+#[derive(Clone, Copy)]
+enum Strings {
+    /// As they are (R2007+).
+    Utf8,
+    /// ASCII as it is, other characters in this code page when it has them, otherwise as
+    /// `\U+XXXX` escapes (before R2007).
+    Escaped(Option<codepage::Decoder>),
+}
+
+fn ascii(tags: &[Tag], strings: Strings) -> Vec<u8> {
+    let mut out = Vec::with_capacity(tags.len() * 16);
    for t in tags {
        let _ = write!(out, "{:>3}\r\n", t.code);
        match &t.value {
-            Value::Str(s) if utf8 => out.extend(s.chars().map(|c| if matches!(c, '\r' | '\n') { ' ' } else { c })),
-            Value::Str(s) => escape_unicode(s, &mut out),
-            Value::Real(r) => out.push_str(&format_real(*r)),
-            Value::Int(i) => out.push_str(&i.to_string()),
-            Value::Bool(b) => out.push_str(&i64::from(*b).to_string()),
-            Value::Hex(h) => out.push_str(h),
+            Value::Str(s) => push_string(s, strings, &mut out),
+            Value::Real(r) => out.extend_from_slice(format_real(*r).as_bytes()),
+            Value::Int(i) => out.extend_from_slice(i.to_string().as_bytes()),
+            Value::Bool(b) => out.extend_from_slice(i64::from(*b).to_string().as_bytes()),
+            Value::Hex(h) => out.extend_from_slice(h.as_bytes()),
        }
-        out.push_str("\r\n");
+        out.extend_from_slice(b"\r\n");
    }
    out
 }
@@ -433,6 +476,16 @@ pub fn write_ascii_as(tags: &[Tag], utf8: bool) -> String {
 /// in [`write_ascii`]. A tag's value is converted to its code's kind, so a number written as text
 /// is stored as a number; a code outside the 16-bit range is skipped.
 pub fn write_binary(tags: &[Tag], utf8: bool) -> Vec<u8> {
+    binary(tags, if utf8 { Strings::Utf8 } else { Strings::Escaped(None) })
+}
+
+/// Write tags as pre-R2007 binary DXF with text in the code page `code_page` names, as
+/// [`write_ascii_in`] does.
+pub fn write_binary_in(tags: &[Tag], code_page: &str) -> Vec<u8> {
+    binary(tags, Strings::Escaped(codepage::encoder(code_page)))
+}
+
+fn binary(tags: &[Tag], strings: Strings) -> Vec<u8> {
    let mut out = Vec::with_capacity(BINARY_SENTINEL.len() + tags.len() * 12);
    out.extend_from_slice(BINARY_SENTINEL);
    for t in tags {
@@ -445,13 +498,9 @@ pub fn write_binary(tags: &[Tag], utf8: bool) -> Vec<u8> {
                    Value::Str(s) => s.clone(),
                    v => v.as_str(),
                };
-                let mut text = String::with_capacity(s.len());
-                if utf8 {
-                    text.extend(s.chars().map(|c| if matches!(c, '\r' | '\n') { ' ' } else { c }));
-                } else {
-                    escape_unicode(&s, &mut text);
-                }
-                out.extend(text.bytes().filter(|&b| b != 0));
+                let mut text = Vec::with_capacity(s.len());
+                push_string(&s, strings, &mut text);
+                out.extend(text.into_iter().filter(|&b| b != 0));
                out.push(0);
            }
            Kind::Real => {
@@ -505,15 +554,27 @@ pub fn is_binary(bytes: &[u8]) -> bool {
    bytes.starts_with(BINARY_SENTINEL)
 }

-/// Escape a string for a pre-R2007 DXF, whose text is in the `$DWGCODEPAGE` code page: ASCII
-/// stays as it is and every other character becomes `\U+XXXX` (a surrogate pair of escapes
-/// above U+FFFF), so the bytes are valid in any code page. Line breaks become spaces.
-fn escape_unicode(s: &str, out: &mut String) {
-    for c in s.chars() {
-        match c {
-            '\r' | '\n' => out.push(' '),
-            c if c.is_ascii() => out.push(c),
-            c => {
+/// A string value as `strings` stores it. Line breaks become spaces. Before R2007 the text is
+/// in the `$DWGCODEPAGE` code page: ASCII stays as it is, a character the code page has becomes
+/// its bytes, and every other one `\U+XXXX` (a surrogate pair of escapes above U+FFFF). Without
+/// a code page the result is ASCII, so it is valid in any code page. In every form a backslash
+/// that would start a `\U+` or `\M+` sequence is written as `\U+005C`, so the reader gives back
+/// the literal text (#2050). So is a double-byte character whose trail byte is 0x5C (`\`) in that
+/// place, such as Shift-JIS `表` or Big5 `許`: CADCraft decodes the code page before it looks for
+/// escapes, but a reader that looks first would take that byte and the `U+` after it for one.
+fn push_string(s: &str, strings: Strings, out: &mut Vec<u8>) {
+    let chars: Vec<char> = s.chars().collect();
+    let escape_at = |j: usize| matches!(chars.get(j), Some('U' | 'M')) && chars.get(j + 1) == Some(&'+');
+    for (i, &c) in chars.iter().enumerate() {
+        match (c, strings) {
+            ('\r' | '\n', _) => out.push(b' '),
+            ('\\', _) if escape_at(i + 1) => {
+                out.extend_from_slice(b"\\U+005C");
+            }
+            (c, Strings::Utf8) => out.extend_from_slice(c.encode_utf8(&mut [0; 4]).as_bytes()),
+            (c, _) if c.is_ascii() => out.extend_from_slice(c.encode_utf8(&mut [0; 4]).as_bytes()),
+            (c, Strings::Escaped(Some(d))) if code_page_bytes(c, d, escape_at(i + 1), out) => {}
+            (c, Strings::Escaped(_)) => {
                let mut units = [0u16; 2];
                for u in c.encode_utf16(&mut units) {
                    let _ = write!(out, "\\U+{u:04X}");
@@ -523,6 +584,20 @@ fn escape_unicode(s: &str, out: &mut String) {
    }
 }

+/// `c` in the code page `d`, if it has it, unless it is a double-byte character whose trail byte
+/// is 0x5C and an escape's `U+` or `M+` follows (`before_escape`): see [`push_string`].
+fn code_page_bytes(c: char, d: codepage::Decoder, before_escape: bool, out: &mut Vec<u8>) -> bool {
+    let start = out.len();
+    if !codepage::encode_char(c, d, out) {
+        return false;
+    }
+    if before_escape && out.len() - start > 1 && out.last() == Some(&b'\\') {
+        out.truncate(start);
+        return false;
+    }
+    true
+}
+
 /// A section: `0 SECTION / 2 NAME ... 0 ENDSEC`.
 #[derive(Clone, Debug, Default)]
 pub struct Section {
@@ -569,6 +644,25 @@ pub fn records(tags: &[Tag]) -> Vec<(String, Vec<Tag>)> {
 mod tests {
    use super::*;

+    #[test]
+    fn literal_escape_text_roundtrips() {
+        for utf8 in [false, true] {
+            for text in ["\\U+00E9", "\\M+183A4F", "a\\nb \\P", "\\\\U+00E9", "\\U+005C"] {
+                let tags = vec![Tag::s(8, text)];
+                let back = parse_ascii(&write_ascii_as(&tags, utf8)).unwrap();
+                assert_eq!(back, tags, "utf8={utf8} {text}");
+                let back = parse_binary(&write_binary(&tags, utf8)).unwrap();
+                assert_eq!(back[1..], tags[..], "binary utf8={utf8} {text}");
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn blank_lines_do_not_consume_group_code_limit() {
+        let tags = parse_with_limit(b"0\nEOF\n\n\n", 1).expect("one group code should fit a limit of one");
+        assert_eq!(tags, vec![Tag::s(0, "EOF")]);
+    }
+
    #[test]
    fn ascii_roundtrip() {
        let tags = vec![
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+//! A UTF-8 byte order mark at the start of an ASCII DXF is skipped.
+
+const BODY: &str = "  0\r\nSECTION\r\n  2\r\nENTITIES\r\n  0\r\nENDSEC\r\n  0\r\nEOF\r\n";
+
+#[test]
+fn utf8_bom_bytes_are_skipped() {
+    let plain = cadcraft_dxf::parse(BODY.as_bytes()).expect("plain parses");
+    let mut bytes = vec![0xEF, 0xBB, 0xBF];
+    bytes.extend_from_slice(BODY.as_bytes());
+    let with_bom = cadcraft_dxf::parse(&bytes);
+    assert!(with_bom.is_ok(), "{with_bom:?}");
+    assert_eq!(with_bom.map(|t| t.len()).unwrap_or(0), plain.len());
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn bom_text_is_skipped() {
+    let text = format!("\u{feff}{BODY}");
+    assert!(cadcraft_dxf::parse_ascii(&text).is_ok());
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,116 @@
+//! Pre-R2007 DXF text is written in the `$DWGCODEPAGE` code page: characters it has as their
+//! bytes, the others as `\U+XXXX` escapes; every form reads back to the same text.
+
+use cadcraft_dxf::{Tag, parse, write_ascii, write_ascii_in, write_binary_in};
+
+fn file(code_page: &str, text: &str) -> Vec<Tag> {
+    vec![
+        Tag::s(0, "SECTION"),
+        Tag::s(2, "HEADER"),
+        Tag::s(9, "$ACADVER"),
+        Tag::s(1, "AC1015"),
+        Tag::s(9, "$DWGCODEPAGE"),
+        Tag::s(3, code_page),
+        Tag::s(0, "ENDSEC"),
+        Tag::s(0, "SECTION"),
+        Tag::s(2, "ENTITIES"),
+        Tag::s(0, "TEXT"),
+        Tag::s(1, text),
+        Tag::s(0, "ENDSEC"),
+        Tag::s(0, "EOF"),
+    ]
+}
+
+fn contains(bytes: &[u8], part: &[u8]) -> bool {
+    bytes.windows(part.len()).any(|w| w == part)
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn text_is_written_in_the_code_page() {
+    // (code page, text, the bytes written for it)
+    let cases: [(&str, &str, &[u8]); 6] = [
+        ("ANSI_1252", "Ação € 图", b"A\xE7\xE3o \x80 \\U+56FE"),
+        ("ANSI_1251", "Слой é", b"\xD1\xEB\xEE\xE9 \\U+00E9"),
+        ("ANSI_932", "表図面 é", b"\x95\x5C\x90\x7D\x96\xCA \\U+00E9"),
+        ("DOS850", "Größe €", b"Gr\x94\xE1e \\U+20AC"),
+        ("ANSI_1252", "😀", b"\\U+D83D\\U+DE00"),
+        // A code page CADCraft doesn't know: everything non-ASCII is escaped.
+        ("ANSI_1361", "Ação", b"A\\U+00E7\\U+00E3o"),
+    ];
+    for (cp, text, raw) in cases {
+        let tags = file(cp, text);
+        for (bytes, what) in [(write_ascii_in(&tags, cp), "ASCII"), (write_binary_in(&tags, cp), "binary")] {
+            assert!(contains(&bytes, raw), "{cp} {what}: {:?}", String::from_utf8_lossy(&bytes));
+            assert_eq!(parse(&bytes).unwrap()[10].str(), text, "{cp} {what}");
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/// Without a known code page, and for `ASCII`, `UTF8` and `UNICODE` headers, the output is what
+/// `write_ascii` writes (pure ASCII with escapes), line breaks included.
+#[test]
+fn unknown_ascii_and_utf8_code_pages_are_pure_ascii() {
+    for cp in ["EBCDIC", "ASCII", "ascii ", "UTF8", "UNICODE"] {
+        let tags = file(cp, "Ação\r\nfim");
+        let bytes = write_ascii_in(&tags, cp);
+        assert!(bytes.is_ascii(), "{cp}");
+        assert_eq!(bytes, write_ascii(&tags).into_bytes(), "{cp}");
+        assert!(contains(&bytes, b"A\\U+00E7\\U+00E3o  fim"), "{cp}");
+        assert!(write_binary_in(&tags, cp).iter().all(u8::is_ascii), "{cp} binary");
+    }
+}
+
+/// Code page bytes that happen to form valid UTF-8 (`СІ` in ANSI_1251 is D1 B2, which is U+0472
+/// in UTF-8) would be read back as UTF-8 from an ASCII file, so that file is written with
+/// escapes. Binary DXF reads strings by the header's code page and keeps the bytes.
+#[test]
+fn code_page_bytes_that_are_valid_utf8_are_escaped_in_ascii() {
+    let tags = file("ANSI_1251", "СІ");
+    let ascii = write_ascii_in(&tags, "ANSI_1251");
+    assert!(ascii.is_ascii(), "{:?}", String::from_utf8_lossy(&ascii));
+    assert!(contains(&ascii, b"\\U+0421\\U+0406"));
+    assert_eq!(parse(&ascii).unwrap()[10].str(), "СІ");
+    let binary = write_binary_in(&tags, "ANSI_1251");
+    assert!(contains(&binary, b"\xD1\xB2"));
+    assert_eq!(parse(&binary).unwrap()[10].str(), "СІ");
+    // Bytes that are not valid UTF-8 stay as they are.
+    assert!(contains(&write_ascii_in(&file("ANSI_1251", "Слой"), "ANSI_1251"), b"\xD1\xEB\xEE\xE9"));
+}
+
+/// A literal `\U+` or `\M+` in the text (#2050) reads back as written alongside code page bytes,
+/// in ASCII and binary, including an ASCII file that falls back to escapes because its bytes
+/// would read as UTF-8.
+#[test]
+fn literal_escapes_survive_code_page_text() {
+    for (cp, text) in
+        [("ANSI_1252", "Ação \\U+00E9 \\M+183A4F"), ("ANSI_1251", "Слой \\U+0041"), ("ANSI_1251", "СІ \\U+0041"), ("ANSI_932", "表 \\M+1")]
+    {
+        let tags = file(cp, text);
+        for (bytes, what) in [(write_ascii_in(&tags, cp), "ASCII"), (write_binary_in(&tags, cp), "binary")] {
+            assert!(contains(&bytes, b"\\U+005C"), "{cp} {what}: {:?}", String::from_utf8_lossy(&bytes));
+            assert_eq!(parse(&bytes).unwrap()[10].str(), text, "{cp} {what}");
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/// Double-byte code pages whose trail byte can be 0x5C (`\\`): Shift-JIS `表` (95 5C) and `ソ`
+/// (83 5C), Big5 `許` (B3 5C), GBK `乗` (81 5C). Right before `U+` or `M+`, such a character is
+/// written as an escape, so even a reader that looks for escapes before it decodes the code page
+/// reads it right. Elsewhere it stays as its bytes. Both forms read back as written.
+#[test]
+fn a_trail_byte_backslash_never_starts_an_escape() {
+    let cases: [(&str, &str, &[u8], &[u8]); 4] = [
+        ("ANSI_932", "表U+0041 表示", b"\\U+8868U+0041 \x95\x5C\x8E\xA6", b"\x95\x5CU+"),
+        ("ANSI_932", "ソM+1A2B", b"\\U+30BDM+1A2B", b"\x83\x5CM+"),
+        ("ANSI_950", "許U+0041", b"\\U+8A31U+0041", b"\xB3\x5CU+"),
+        ("ANSI_936", "乗U+0041", b"\\U+4E57U+0041", b"\x81\x5CU+"),
+    ];
+    for (cp, text, written, never) in cases {
+        let tags = file(cp, text);
+        for (bytes, what) in [(write_ascii_in(&tags, cp), "ASCII"), (write_binary_in(&tags, cp), "binary")] {
+            assert!(contains(&bytes, written), "{cp} {what}: {:?}", String::from_utf8_lossy(&bytes));
+            assert!(!contains(&bytes, never), "{cp} {what}: a trail byte starts an escape");
+            assert_eq!(parse(&bytes).unwrap()[10].str(), text, "{cp} {what}");
+        }
+    }
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,145 @@
+//! Small independent byte fixtures for DXF tag types, text encoding, framing and failures.
+//! Handwritten examples, not files from a CAD application or generated by our writer.
+//! Background on the tag model and file structure:
+//! https://ezdxf.readthedocs.io/en/stable/dxfinternals/dxftags.html
+//! https://ezdxf.readthedocs.io/en/stable/dxfinternals/filestructure.html
+//! ASCII spacing is our writer's documented convention; binary fixtures specify actual bytes.
+
+use cadcraft_dxf::{DxfError, Tag, Value, parse, parse_with_limit, write_ascii_as, write_binary};
+
+const SENTINEL: &[u8] = b"AutoCAD Binary DXF\r\n\x1a\0";
+
+fn fixtures() -> Vec<(Tag, &'static [u8], &'static [u8])> {
+    vec![
+        (Tag::s(1, " A "), b"  1\r\n A \r\n", b"\x01\0 A \0"),
+        (Tag::s(1, ""), b"  1\r\n\r\n", b"\x01\0\0"),
+        (Tag::s(105, "AB12"), b"105\r\nAB12\r\n", b"\x69\0AB12\0"),
+        (Tag::new(10, Value::Real(-3.25)), b" 10\r\n-3.25\r\n", b"\x0a\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\x0a\xc0"),
+        (Tag::i(70, -32768), b" 70\r\n-32768\r\n", b"\x46\0\0\x80"),
+        (Tag::i(90, -2147483648), b" 90\r\n-2147483648\r\n", b"\x5a\0\0\0\0\x80"),
+        (Tag::i(160, 9223372036854775807), b"160\r\n9223372036854775807\r\n", b"\xa0\0\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\x7f"),
+        (Tag::new(290, Value::Bool(false)), b"290\r\n0\r\n", b"\x22\x01\0"),
+        (Tag::new(299, Value::Bool(true)), b"299\r\n1\r\n", b"\x2b\x01\x01"),
+        (Tag::new(310, Value::Hex("00FF80".into())), b"310\r\n00FF80\r\n", b"\x36\x01\x03\0\xff\x80"),
+        (Tag::new(1004, Value::Hex(String::new())), b"1004\r\n\r\n", b"\xec\x03\0"),
+        (Tag::i(1070, -2), b"1070\r\n-2\r\n", b"\x2e\x04\xfe\xff"),
+        (Tag::i(1071, 65536), b"1071\r\n65536\r\n", b"\x2f\x04\0\0\x01\0"),
+    ]
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn reads_independently_authored_ascii_and_binary_values() {
+    for (expected, ascii, binary) in fixtures() {
+        assert_eq!(parse(ascii).unwrap(), std::slice::from_ref(&expected), "ASCII code {}", expected.code);
+        let bytes = [SENTINEL, binary].concat();
+        assert_eq!(parse(&bytes).unwrap(), std::slice::from_ref(&expected), "binary code {}", expected.code);
+    }
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn writes_independently_specified_ascii_and_binary_bytes() {
+    for (tag, ascii, binary) in fixtures() {
+        for utf8 in [false, true] {
+            let tags = std::slice::from_ref(&tag);
+            assert_eq!(write_ascii_as(tags, utf8).as_bytes(), ascii, "ASCII code {}", tag.code);
+            assert_eq!(write_binary(tags, utf8), [SENTINEL, binary].concat(), "binary code {}", tag.code);
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn integer_code_ranges_have_independent_binary_widths() {
+    // Specification ranges and widths, never kind_of(): a shared reader/writer mistake
+    // can round-trip every boundary value while still using the wrong number of bytes.
+    let widths = [
+        (vec![60..=79, 170..=179, 270..=289, 370..=389, 400..=409, 1060..=1070], 2, i64::from(i16::MIN), i64::from(i16::MAX)),
+        (vec![90..=99, 420..=429, 440..=459, 1071..=1071], 4, i64::from(i32::MIN), i64::from(i32::MAX)),
+        (std::iter::once(160..=169).collect(), 8, i64::MIN, i64::MAX),
+    ];
+    for (ranges, width, min, max) in widths {
+        for code in ranges.into_iter().flatten() {
+            for value in [min, min + 1, -1, 0, 1, max - 1, max] {
+                // Binary DXF uses a little-endian 16-bit group code and a fixed-width,
+                // little-endian two's-complement integer. Encoding is version-independent.
+                let code_bytes = u16::try_from(code).unwrap().to_le_bytes();
+                let value_bytes = value.to_le_bytes();
+                let expected = [SENTINEL, &code_bytes, &value_bytes[..width]].concat();
+                let tags = [Tag::i(code, value)];
+                for utf8 in [false, true] {
+                    assert_eq!(write_binary(&tags, utf8), expected, "code={code} value={value} utf8={utf8}");
+                }
+                assert_eq!(parse(&expected).unwrap(), tags, "code={code} value={value}");
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn text_encoding_has_independent_wire_expectations() {
+    let tags = [Tag::s(1, "é😀")];
+    let escaped = b"\\U+00E9\\U+D83D\\U+DE00";
+    let utf8 = b"\xc3\xa9\xf0\x9f\x98\x80";
+    for (unicode, text) in [(false, escaped.as_slice()), (true, utf8.as_slice())] {
+        let ascii = [b"  1\r\n".as_slice(), text, b"\r\n"].concat();
+        let binary = [SENTINEL, b"\x01\0", text, b"\0"].concat();
+        assert_eq!(write_ascii_as(&tags, unicode).as_bytes(), ascii, "utf8={unicode}");
+        assert_eq!(write_binary(&tags, unicode), binary, "utf8={unicode}");
+        assert_eq!(parse(&ascii).unwrap(), tags);
+        assert_eq!(parse(&binary).unwrap(), tags);
+    }
+    // Pre-2007 code-page bytes are independent of the writer, which emits Unicode escapes.
+    let ascii = b"0\nSECTION\n2\nHEADER\n9\n$ACADVER\n1\nAC1015\n9\n$DWGCODEPAGE\n3\nANSI_1252\n0\nENDSEC\n1\n\x80\xe9\n0\nEOF\n";
+    let binary = [
+        SENTINEL,
+        b"\0\0SECTION\0\x02\0HEADER\0\x09\0$ACADVER\0\x01\0AC1015\0\x09\0$DWGCODEPAGE\0\x03\0ANSI_1252\0\0\0ENDSEC\0\x01\0\x80\xe9\0\0\0EOF\0",
+    ]
+    .concat();
+    for bytes in [ascii.as_slice(), binary.as_slice()] {
+        let tags = parse(bytes).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(tags[7], Tag::s(1, "€é"));
+    }
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn ascii_accepts_line_endings_padding_and_no_final_newline() {
+    let expected = [Tag::i(70, -7), Tag::s(1, "  text  "), Tag::s(0, "EOF")];
+    for newline in ["\n", "\r\n"] {
+        for final_newline in [false, true] {
+            let mut text = [" 70 ", " -7 ", "1", "  text  ", "0", "EOF"].join(newline);
+            if final_newline {
+                text.push_str(newline);
+            }
+            assert_eq!(parse(text.as_bytes()).unwrap(), expected, "newline={newline:?} final={final_newline}");
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn malformed_and_truncated_values_are_errors_not_panics() {
+    assert!(matches!(parse(b""), Err(DxfError::NotDxf)));
+    assert!(matches!(parse(b"oops\nvalue\n"), Err(DxfError::BadCode { line: 1, .. })));
+    assert!(matches!(parse(b"10\n"), Err(DxfError::Eof)));
+    assert!(matches!(parse(SENTINEL), Err(DxfError::NotDxf)));
+    for (_, _, binary) in fixtures() {
+        // Every cut inside the first record is an error, unlike cuts between complete records:
+        // the tag API deliberately accepts streams without an EOF record.
+        for cut in 1..binary.len() {
+            let bytes = [SENTINEL, &binary[..cut]].concat();
+            assert!(matches!(parse(&bytes), Err(DxfError::Eof)), "binary={binary:?} cut={cut}");
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn tag_limit_accepts_the_exact_boundary_and_rejects_one_less() {
+    let ascii = b"1\nA\n70\n-7\n0\nEOF\n";
+    let binary = [SENTINEL, b"\x01\0A\0\x46\0\xf9\xff\0\0EOF\0"].concat();
+    for bytes in [ascii.as_slice(), binary.as_slice()] {
+        for limit in 0..3 {
+            assert!(matches!(parse_with_limit(bytes, limit), Err(DxfError::TooLarge { limit: actual, .. }) if actual == limit));
+        }
+        for limit in [3, 4] {
+            assert_eq!(parse_with_limit(bytes, limit).unwrap(), [Tag::s(1, "A"), Tag::i(70, -7), Tag::s(0, "EOF")]);
+        }
+    }
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,119 @@
+//! Hex payload conformance is distinct from binary framing capacity: DXF groups 310–319 and
+//! 1004 specify at most 127 payload bytes per chunk, even though a length byte represents 255.
+//! Inspect writer bytes without our parser; accept any compliant partition preserving payload,
+//! code and following-record framing. Oversized binary read fixtures test tolerance only.
+//! Pending writer regressions extend the chunk-size finding in issue #1025.
+//! Public DXF Reference, Group Codes in Numerical Order and Binary DXF Files:
+//! https://help.autodesk.com/cloudhelp/2025/ENU/AutoCAD-DXF/files/GUID-3F0380A5-1C15-464D-BC66-2C5F094BCFB9.htm
+//! https://help.autodesk.com/cloudhelp/2025/ENU/AutoCAD-DXF/files/GUID-FC1C3C69-DBC2-49E4-893A-000D6538C0FE.htm
+
+use cadcraft_dxf::{Tag, Value, parse, write_ascii_as, write_binary};
+
+const SENTINEL: &[u8] = b"AutoCAD Binary DXF\r\n\x1a\0";
+const FOLLOWING_BINARY: &[u8] = b"\x46\0\xf9\xff"; // group 70, signed i16 -7
+
+fn payload(length: usize) -> Vec<u8> {
+    (0..length).map(|index| u8::try_from(index * 37 % 256).unwrap()).collect()
+}
+
+fn hex(bytes: &[u8]) -> String {
+    bytes.iter().map(|byte| format!("{byte:02X}")).collect()
+}
+
+fn input(code: i32, bytes: &[u8]) -> [Tag; 2] {
+    [Tag::new(code, Value::Hex(hex(bytes))), Tag::i(70, -7)]
+}
+
+fn check_ascii(code: i32, bytes: &[u8], utf8: bool) {
+    let wire = write_ascii_as(&input(code, bytes), utf8);
+    let lines: Vec<_> = wire.lines().collect();
+    let (chunks, following) = lines.split_at(lines.len().checked_sub(2).unwrap());
+    assert_eq!(following[0].trim(), "70");
+    assert_eq!(following[1], "-7");
+    assert!(!chunks.is_empty(), "an empty payload must still have a tag");
+    let (records, remainder) = chunks.as_chunks::<2>();
+    assert!(remainder.is_empty(), "incomplete group/value pair");
+    let context = format!("ASCII code={code} bytes={} utf8={utf8}", bytes.len());
+    let mut back = Vec::new();
+    for record in records {
+        assert_eq!(record[0].trim().parse::<i32>().unwrap(), code, "{context}");
+        let text = record[1];
+        assert!(text.len() <= 254, "{context}: {} hex characters exceed 127 payload bytes", text.len());
+        assert!(text.bytes().all(|b| b.is_ascii_hexdigit()), "{context}: invalid hex");
+        let (pairs, remainder) = text.as_bytes().as_chunks::<2>();
+        assert!(remainder.is_empty(), "{context}: partial byte");
+        back.extend(pairs.iter().map(|pair| u8::from_str_radix(std::str::from_utf8(pair).unwrap(), 16).unwrap()));
+    }
+    assert_eq!(back, bytes, "{context}: complete payload and byte order");
+}
+
+fn check_binary(code: i32, bytes: &[u8], utf8: bool) {
+    let wire = write_binary(&input(code, bytes), utf8);
+    let mut chunks = wire.strip_prefix(SENTINEL).unwrap().strip_suffix(FOLLOWING_BINARY).unwrap();
+    assert!(!chunks.is_empty(), "an empty payload must still have a tag");
+    let context = format!("binary code={code} bytes={} utf8={utf8}", bytes.len());
+    let mut back = Vec::new();
+    while !chunks.is_empty() {
+        let (&[lo, hi, length], rest) = chunks.split_first_chunk::<3>().unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(i32::from(u16::from_le_bytes([lo, hi])), code, "{context}");
+        assert!(length <= 127, "{context}: {length} bytes exceed the documented group limit");
+        let (chunk, next) = rest.split_at(usize::from(length));
+        back.extend_from_slice(chunk);
+        chunks = next;
+    }
+    assert_eq!(back, bytes, "{context}: complete payload and byte order");
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn conforming_payloads_have_independent_ascii_and_binary_wire_checks() {
+    for code in (310..=319).chain([1004]) {
+        for length in [0, 1, 2, 126, 127] {
+            for utf8 in [false, true] {
+                let bytes = payload(length);
+                check_ascii(code, &bytes, utf8);
+                check_binary(code, &bytes, utf8);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn binary_reader_tolerates_the_full_length_byte_domain() {
+    // This is deliberately permissive input, not an assertion that oversized chunks conform
+    // or that the writer should produce them. The following record catches framing mistakes.
+    for code in (310_u16..=319).chain([1004]) {
+        for length in 0..=u8::MAX {
+            let bytes = payload(usize::from(length));
+            let mut wire = SENTINEL.to_vec();
+            wire.extend_from_slice(&code.to_le_bytes());
+            wire.push(length);
+            wire.extend_from_slice(&bytes);
+            wire.extend_from_slice(FOLLOWING_BINARY);
+            assert_eq!(parse(&wire).unwrap(), input(i32::from(code), &bytes), "code={code} length={length}");
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+#[test]
+#[ignore = "Confirmed ASCII DXF writer nonconformance: hex payloads above 127 bytes are emitted as one oversized chunk"]
+fn ascii_writer_splits_large_payloads_into_conforming_chunks() {
+    for code in (310..=319).chain([1004]) {
+        for length in [128, 254, 255, 256, 1024] {
+            for utf8 in [false, true] {
+                check_ascii(code, &payload(length), utf8);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+#[test]
+#[ignore = "Confirmed binary DXF writer nonconformance: 255-byte partitioning exceeds the documented 127-byte group limit"]
+fn binary_writer_splits_large_payloads_into_conforming_chunks() {
+    for code in (310..=319).chain([1004]) {
+        for length in [128, 254, 255, 256, 1024] {
+            for utf8 in [false, true] {
+                check_binary(code, &payload(length), utf8);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,148 @@
+//! Deterministic tag preservation through the public byte API, in both encodings and every
+//! supported version. Inputs have the group code's type and representable values; lossy
+//! coercions are not accepted as round-trip equality. Real values must retain their bits.
+
+use cadcraft_dxf::{Tag, Value, Version, is_binary, parse, write_ascii_as, write_binary};
+
+fn check(case: &str, body: &[Tag]) {
+    for version in Version::ALL {
+        let mut original = vec![
+            Tag::s(0, "SECTION"),
+            Tag::s(2, "HEADER"),
+            Tag::s(9, "$ACADVER"),
+            Tag::s(1, version.code()),
+            Tag::s(9, "$DWGCODEPAGE"),
+            Tag::s(3, "ANSI_1252"),
+            Tag::s(0, "ENDSEC"),
+            Tag::s(0, "SECTION"),
+            Tag::s(2, "ENTITIES"),
+        ];
+        original.extend_from_slice(body);
+        original.extend([Tag::s(0, "ENDSEC"), Tag::s(0, "EOF")]);
+        for binary in [false, true] {
+            let mut current = original.clone();
+            for pass in 1..=2 {
+                let context = format!("{case} · {version} · binary={binary} · pass={pass}");
+                let bytes = if binary { write_binary(&current, version.utf8()) } else { write_ascii_as(&current, version.utf8()).into_bytes() };
+                assert_eq!(is_binary(&bytes), binary, "{context}");
+                let back = parse(&bytes).unwrap_or_else(|e| panic!("{context}: {e}"));
+                assert_eq!(back.len(), original.len(), "{context}: tag count");
+                for (index, (expected, actual)) in original.iter().zip(&back).enumerate() {
+                    assert_eq!(actual, expected, "{context}: tag[{index}]");
+                    if let (Value::Real(a), Value::Real(b)) = (&expected.value, &actual.value) {
+                        assert_eq!(b.to_bits(), a.to_bits(), "{context}: tag[{index}] real bits");
+                    }
+                }
+                assert_eq!(back, current, "{context}: no additional changes on resave");
+                current = back;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn integer_width_boundaries() {
+    // Explicit reference ranges, not obtained from the codec's kind_of().
+    let widths = [
+        (vec![60..=79, 170..=179, 270..=289, 370..=389, 400..=409, 1060..=1070], i64::from(i16::MIN), i64::from(i16::MAX)),
+        (vec![90..=99, 420..=429, 440..=459, 1071..=1071], i64::from(i32::MIN), i64::from(i32::MAX)),
+        (std::iter::once(160..=169).collect(), i64::MIN, i64::MAX),
+    ];
+    for (ranges, min, max) in widths {
+        for value in [min, min + 1, -1, 0, 1, max - 1, max] {
+            let tags: Vec<_> = ranges.iter().cloned().flatten().map(|code| Tag::i(code, value)).collect();
+            check(&format!("integer/{min}..{max}/{value}"), &tags);
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn finite_reals_keep_all_bits() {
+    let values = [
+        0.0,
+        -0.0,
+        f64::from_bits(1),
+        -f64::from_bits(1),
+        f64::MIN_POSITIVE,
+        f64::MIN_POSITIVE.next_down(),
+        0.1,
+        -3.25,
+        1.0_f64.next_down(),
+        1.0,
+        1.0_f64.next_up(),
+        1e-100,
+        -1e100,
+        f64::MAX,
+        f64::MIN,
+    ];
+    for value in values {
+        let tags: Vec<_> =
+            [10..=59, 110..=149, 210..=239, 460..=469, 1010..=1059].into_iter().flatten().map(|code| Tag::new(code, Value::Real(value))).collect();
+        check(&format!("real/{:016X}", value.to_bits()), &tags);
+    }
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn booleans() {
+    for value in [false, true] {
+        let tags: Vec<_> = (290..=299).map(|code| Tag::new(code, Value::Bool(value))).collect();
+        check(&format!("bool/{value}"), &tags);
+    }
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn strings_preserve_whitespace_unicode_and_literal_escapes() {
+    // No CR/LF or NUL: those are line/string delimiters, not losslessly writable payloads.
+    let values = [
+        ("empty", ""),
+        ("spaces", "  leading and trailing  "),
+        ("tabs", "\tindented\t"),
+        ("unicode", "Café Ø 图号 Україна 😀 e\u{301}"),
+        ("literal-escapes", r"\U+0041 \M+183A4 \U+D83D\U+DE00 \\U+005C \P %%c"),
+        ("malformed-escapes", r"\U+ \U+ZZZZ \U+D800 \U+DC00 \M+9FFFF"),
+    ];
+    for (case, value) in values {
+        let tags: Vec<_> =
+            [0..=9, 100..=100, 102..=102, 105..=105, 300..=309, 320..=369, 410..=419, 430..=439, 470..=479, 480..=481, 1000..=1003, 1005..=1005]
+                .into_iter()
+                .flatten()
+                .map(|code| Tag::s(code, value))
+                .collect();
+        check(case, &tags);
+    }
+    for length in [1, 254, 255, 256, 1024] {
+        check(&format!("string/length={length}"), &[Tag::s(1, "x".repeat(length))]);
+    }
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn hex_chunks_keep_bytes_and_order() {
+    // DXF groups 310–319 and 1004 permit 127 payload bytes per chunk. A binary length
+    // byte can represent more, but that is reader tolerance, not writer conformance.
+    // Larger payloads need chunk-size/reassembly checks rather than exact tag equality;
+    // see hex_chunks.rs for the independent wire checks and pending writer regressions.
+    for length in [0, 1, 2, 126, 127] {
+        let hex: String = (0..length).map(|i| format!("{:02X}", (i * 37) % 256)).collect();
+        let tags: Vec<_> = (310..=319).chain([1004]).map(|code| Tag::new(code, Value::Hex(hex.clone()))).collect();
+        check(&format!("hex/bytes={length}"), &tags);
+    }
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn mixed_values_and_repeated_codes_keep_order() {
+    check(
+        "mixed/repeated-codes",
+        &[
+            Tag::s(0, "TEST"),
+            Tag::f(10, 1.25),
+            Tag::s(1, "first"),
+            Tag::f(10, -2.5),
+            Tag::i(70, -7),
+            Tag::s(1, "second"),
+            Tag::new(290, Value::Bool(true)),
+            Tag::new(310, Value::Hex("00FF80".into())),
+            Tag::i(160, i64::MAX),
+            Tag::s(1, ""),
+        ],
+    );
+}
@@ -30,19 +30,29 @@ const MAX_TRIES: u32 = 32;
 /// are written through the retained handle and flushed, and the temporary is then renamed over
 /// `path`. On any failure the temporary is removed and the original `path` is left untouched.
 pub fn write_atomic(path: &Path, bytes: &[u8]) -> io::Result<()> {
+    // A symlinked destination is resolved so the link stays a link and its target is replaced.
+    let resolved = resolve_symlink(path)?;
+    let path = resolved.as_deref().unwrap_or(path);
    let permissions = match std::fs::symlink_metadata(path) {
        Ok(meta) if meta.is_file() => Some(meta.permissions()),
        Ok(_) => None,
        Err(e) if e.kind() == io::ErrorKind::NotFound => None,
        Err(e) => return Err(e),
    };
+    write_atomic_with(path, permissions, |file| file.write_all(bytes))
+}
+
+/// [`write_atomic`] filling the temporary file through `fill` (streamed rather than one buffer),
+/// with `permissions` given to it from its creation (`None`: the usual creation mode). A symlink
+/// at `path` is replaced by the new file, never written through.
+pub fn write_atomic_with(path: &Path, permissions: Option<Permissions>, fill: impl FnOnce(&mut File) -> io::Result<()>) -> io::Result<()> {
    let dir = path.parent().filter(|p| !p.as_os_str().is_empty()).map_or_else(|| PathBuf::from("."), Path::to_path_buf);
    let (mut file, tmp) = create_temp(&dir, permissions.as_ref())?;
    let write = (|| {
        if let Some(permissions) = permissions {
            file.set_permissions(permissions)?;
        }
-        file.write_all(bytes)?;
+        fill(&mut file)?;
        file.flush()?;
        file.sync_all()
    })();
@@ -55,9 +65,57 @@ pub fn write_atomic(path: &Path, bytes: &[u8]) -> io::Result<()> {
        let _ = std::fs::remove_file(&tmp);
        return Err(e);
    }
+    sync_dir(&dir);
    Ok(())
 }

+/// Flush `dir` so a rename just made in it survives a crash or power loss (POSIX records a
+/// rename in the directory, not in the file). Best effort: some file systems (network shares)
+/// refuse to sync a directory, and the file itself is already on disk.
+fn sync_dir(dir: &Path) {
+    #[cfg(unix)]
+    if let Ok(d) = File::open(dir) {
+        let _ = d.sync_all();
+    }
+    #[cfg(not(unix))]
+    let _ = dir;
+}
+
+/// Resolve `path` when it is a symlink, or return `None` if it is not one.
+///
+/// A dangling link (for example into an unavailable mount) cannot be canonicalized, so its target
+/// is followed by hand with `read_link`, joining relative targets onto the link's directory.
+fn resolve_symlink(path: &Path) -> io::Result<Option<PathBuf>> {
+    match std::fs::symlink_metadata(path) {
+        Ok(meta) if meta.file_type().is_symlink() => {}
+        _ => return Ok(None),
+    }
+    if let Ok(target) = std::fs::canonicalize(path) {
+        return Ok(Some(target));
+    }
+    let mut current = path.to_path_buf();
+    for _ in 0..40 {
+        let target = std::fs::read_link(&current)?;
+        current = if target.is_absolute() { target } else { current.parent().map_or(target.clone(), |p| p.join(&target)) };
+        match std::fs::symlink_metadata(&current) {
+            Ok(meta) if meta.file_type().is_symlink() => {}
+            Ok(_) => return finish_target(&current),
+            Err(e) if e.kind() == io::ErrorKind::NotFound => return finish_target(&current),
+            Err(e) => return Err(e),
+        }
+    }
+    Err(io::Error::new(io::ErrorKind::InvalidInput, "too many levels of symbolic links"))
+}
+
+/// Build the write path for a resolved, non-link (possibly missing) target.
+fn finish_target(current: &Path) -> io::Result<Option<PathBuf>> {
+    // The target's directory must exist; otherwise report the error rather than replacing the link.
+    let parent = current.parent().filter(|p| !p.as_os_str().is_empty()).map_or_else(|| PathBuf::from("."), Path::to_path_buf);
+    let parent = std::fs::canonicalize(parent)?;
+    let name = current.file_name().ok_or_else(|| io::Error::new(io::ErrorKind::InvalidInput, "symlink target has no file name"))?;
+    Ok(Some(parent.join(name)))
+}
+
 /// Create a fresh, exclusively-owned temporary file inside `dir`, returning its handle and path.
 ///
 /// `create_new(true)` opens with `O_CREAT | O_EXCL`, which refuses to follow or reuse an existing
@@ -116,6 +174,18 @@ mod tests {
        std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir).ok();
    }

+    /// A write into a folder whose entries can be listed syncs that folder without failing, and
+    /// a folder that can't be opened (gone) is no error for the sync itself.
+    #[test]
+    fn the_folder_is_synced_after_the_rename() {
+        let dir = std::env::temp_dir().join(format!("cadcraft-aw-sync-{}-{}", std::process::id(), SEQ.fetch_add(1, Ordering::Relaxed)));
+        std::fs::create_dir_all(&dir).unwrap();
+        write_atomic(&dir.join("a.bin"), b"x").unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(std::fs::read(dir.join("a.bin")).unwrap(), b"x");
+        sync_dir(&dir.join("missing"));
+        std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir).ok();
+    }
+
    #[cfg(unix)]
    #[test]
    fn does_not_follow_a_planted_temp_symlink() {
@@ -147,6 +217,52 @@ mod tests {
        assert_eq!(std::fs::read(&dest).unwrap(), b"private report");
        std::fs::remove_dir_all(dir).unwrap();
    }
+    #[cfg(unix)]
+    #[test]
+    fn symlinked_destination_updates_the_target() {
+        use std::os::unix::fs::{PermissionsExt, symlink};
+        let dir = std::env::temp_dir().join(format!("cadcraft-aw-link-{}-{}", std::process::id(), SEQ.fetch_add(1, Ordering::Relaxed)));
+        std::fs::create_dir_all(&dir).unwrap();
+        let real = dir.join("real.dxf");
+        let link = dir.join("link.dxf");
+        std::fs::write(&real, b"old").unwrap();
+        std::fs::set_permissions(&real, std::fs::Permissions::from_mode(0o600)).unwrap();
+        symlink(&real, &link).unwrap();
+        write_atomic(&link, b"new").unwrap();
+        assert!(std::fs::symlink_metadata(&link).unwrap().file_type().is_symlink(), "symlink was replaced by a regular file");
+        assert_eq!(std::fs::read(&real).unwrap(), b"new");
+        assert_eq!(std::fs::metadata(&real).unwrap().permissions().mode() & 0o777, 0o600);
+        std::fs::remove_dir_all(dir).unwrap();
+    }
+
+    #[cfg(unix)]
+    #[test]
+    fn dangling_symlink_destination_creates_the_target() {
+        use std::os::unix::fs::symlink;
+        let dir = std::env::temp_dir().join(format!("cadcraft-aw-dangle-{}-{}", std::process::id(), SEQ.fetch_add(1, Ordering::Relaxed)));
+        std::fs::create_dir_all(dir.join("mnt")).unwrap();
+        let real = dir.join("mnt").join("real.dxf");
+        let link = dir.join("link.dxf");
+        symlink("mnt/real.dxf", &link).unwrap();
+        write_atomic(&link, b"new").unwrap();
+        assert!(std::fs::symlink_metadata(&link).unwrap().file_type().is_symlink(), "symlink was replaced by a regular file");
+        assert_eq!(std::fs::read(&real).unwrap(), b"new");
+        std::fs::remove_dir_all(dir).unwrap();
+    }
+
+    #[cfg(unix)]
+    #[test]
+    fn dangling_symlink_with_missing_parent_errors_and_keeps_the_link() {
+        use std::os::unix::fs::symlink;
+        let dir = std::env::temp_dir().join(format!("cadcraft-aw-nomnt-{}-{}", std::process::id(), SEQ.fetch_add(1, Ordering::Relaxed)));
+        std::fs::create_dir_all(&dir).unwrap();
+        let link = dir.join("link.dxf");
+        symlink("missing/real.dxf", &link).unwrap();
+        assert!(write_atomic(&link, b"new").is_err());
+        assert!(std::fs::symlink_metadata(&link).unwrap().file_type().is_symlink());
+        std::fs::remove_dir_all(dir).unwrap();
+    }
+
    #[cfg(unix)]
    #[test]
    fn private_temp_is_restricted_from_creation() {
@@ -460,17 +460,13 @@ fn references(d: &mut Drawing, out: &mut Vec<Issue>) {
                        m.style = "Standard".into();
                    }
                }
-                EntityKind::Table(t) => {
-                    if !has_name(&d.table_styles, &t.style, |s| &s.name) {
-                        note("table style", &t.style);
-                        t.style = "Standard".into();
-                    }
+                EntityKind::Table(t) if !has_name(&d.table_styles, &t.style, |s| &s.name) => {
+                    note("table style", &t.style);
+                    t.style = "Standard".into();
                }
-                EntityKind::Leader(l) => {
-                    if !ok_dim(d, &l.style) {
-                        note("dimension style", &l.style);
-                        l.style = "Standard".into();
-                    }
+                EntityKind::Leader(l) if !ok_dim(d, &l.style) => {
+                    note("dimension style", &l.style);
+                    l.style = "Standard".into();
                }
                EntityKind::Dimension(dim) => {
                    if !ok_dim(d, &dim.style) {
@@ -34,6 +34,18 @@ pub const STALE_LOCK_SECS: u64 = 5 * 60;
 const HEARTBEAT_SECS: f64 = 60.0;

 static SAVETIME: AtomicU32 = AtomicU32::new(DEFAULT_SAVETIME);
+static ISAVEBAK: std::sync::atomic::AtomicBool = std::sync::atomic::AtomicBool::new(true);
+
+/// ISAVEBAK: whether saving over a drawing keeps the previous file as `<name>.bak` (on by
+/// default, as in AutoCAD). A profile setting like SAVETIME.
+pub fn isavebak() -> bool {
+    ISAVEBAK.load(Ordering::Relaxed)
+}
+
+/// Turn ISAVEBAK on or off.
+pub fn set_isavebak(on: bool) {
+    ISAVEBAK.store(on, Ordering::Relaxed);
+}
 static SAVEFILEPATH: Mutex<String> = Mutex::new(String::new());

 /// SAVETIME: minutes between autosaves; 0 turns autosave off.
@@ -59,10 +71,22 @@ pub fn set_savefilepath(path: &str) {

 /// The autosave file name for drawing `uid` titled `title`, written by app instance `instance`.
 pub fn file_name(title: &str, instance: &str, uid: u64) -> String {
-    let stem: String = title.chars().map(|c| if c.is_alphanumeric() || " .-_()".contains(c) { c } else { '-' }).take(80).collect();
+    // File systems limit a name to 255 bytes, so the stem gets what the suffix leaves, cut at a character boundary.
+    let suffix = format!("_{instance}_{uid}.{EXT}");
+    let budget = 255usize.saturating_sub(suffix.len());
+    let mut used = 0;
+    let stem: String = title
+        .chars()
+        .map(|c| if c.is_alphanumeric() || " .-_()".contains(c) { c } else { '-' })
+        .take(80)
+        .take_while(|c| {
+            used += c.len_utf8();
+            used <= budget
+        })
+        .collect();
    let stem = stem.trim().trim_matches('.');
    let stem = if stem.is_empty() { "Drawing" } else { stem };
-    format!("{stem}_{instance}_{uid}.{EXT}")
+    format!("{stem}{suffix}")
 }

 /// Whether `s` has the form of an app instance id (`<process id>-<start time in hex>`, see
@@ -208,6 +232,12 @@ impl Autosaver {
            if minutes == 0 || dir.trim().is_empty() || (!urgent && now - since < f64::from(minutes) * 60.0) {
                continue;
            }
+            // In the Block Editor: the drawing with the editor's unsaved changes in the block. When
+            // they can't be put there, nothing is written and nothing is marked as covered, so the
+            // next pass tries again instead of keeping the host without them.
+            let Ok(doc) = st.recovery_drawing() else {
+                continue;
+            };
            let path = t
                .file
                .clone()
@@ -216,8 +246,7 @@ impl Autosaver {
            t.written = Some(Arc::downgrade(&st.doc));
            t.host = Some(Arc::downgrade(st.drawing()));
            t.since = None;
-            // In the Block Editor: the drawing with the editor's unsaved changes in the block.
-            jobs.push(Job::Write { uid: st.uid, path, doc: st.recovery_drawing() });
+            jobs.push(Job::Write { uid: st.uid, path, doc });
        }
        jobs
    }
@@ -251,7 +280,10 @@ mod native {
    use std::path::Path;
    use std::time::{Duration, SystemTime};

-    use super::*;
+    use super::{
+        Autosaver, Drawing, HEARTBEAT_SECS, HashMap, Job, Recoverable, STALE_LOCK_SECS, Session, is_instance_id, parse_file_name, parse_lock_name,
+        savefilepath, savetime,
+    };

    /// A new instance id: the process id and the start time.
    pub fn instance_id() -> String {
@@ -384,6 +416,13 @@ mod native {
            writes
        }

+        /// Whether a background write hasn't finished yet. Its file can exist before it finishes
+        /// (the folder is synced after the rename), and until [`Autosaver::reap`] takes it in, the
+        /// drawing is left out of planning.
+        pub fn writing(&self) -> bool {
+            self.running.iter().any(|(_, h)| !h.is_finished())
+        }
+
        /// Take in the writes that have finished ([`Autosaver::tick`] does this first). A drawing
        /// whose write failed is no longer counted as autosaved: the next plan restarts its clock,
        /// so it is tried again SAVETIME later even if it doesn't change.
@@ -470,3 +509,20 @@ mod native {
        }
    }
 }
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn file_name_fits_255_bytes_for_multibyte_titles() {
+        let instance = "12345-abcdef0123456789";
+        for title in ["图".repeat(100), "😀".repeat(100), "aé图😀".repeat(40), "a".repeat(300)] {
+            let name = file_name(&title, instance, u64::MAX);
+            assert!(name.len() <= 255, "{} bytes", name.len());
+            let (t, i, u) = parse_file_name(&name).expect("round trips");
+            assert_eq!((i, u), (instance, u64::MAX));
+            assert!(!t.is_empty());
+        }
+    }
+}
@@ -144,6 +144,11 @@ impl BlockEdit {
        }
        let host = &self.host.doc;
        let mut d = editor.clone();
+        // When the block is saved under another name, the edited block keeps the drawing's
+        // description and block `name` gets the description changed in the editor.
+        if !name.eq_ignore_ascii_case(&self.name) {
+            keep_description(&mut d, host, &self.name);
+        }
        d.model = host.model.clone();
        d.layouts = host.layouts.clone();
        d.groups = host.groups.clone();
@@ -171,6 +176,21 @@ impl BlockEdit {
    }
 }

+/// Give block `name` of `d` the description `host` has for it, or, when `host` has no such block,
+/// drop the empty definition a description gives a block the editor started and never saved.
+fn keep_description(d: &mut Drawing, host: &Drawing, name: &str) {
+    match host.block(name) {
+        Some(h) => {
+            if let Some((_, b)) = d.blocks.iter_mut().find(|(k, _)| k.eq_ignore_ascii_case(name))
+                && b.description != h.description
+            {
+                Arc::make_mut(b).description = h.description.clone();
+            }
+        }
+        None => d.blocks.retain(|k, b| !(k.eq_ignore_ascii_case(name) && b.entities.is_empty())),
+    }
+}
+
 impl DocState {
    /// The drawing as a file saves it: outside the Block Editor's changes while it is open.
    pub fn drawing(&self) -> &Arc<Drawing> {
@@ -195,12 +215,13 @@ impl DocState {
        self.block_edit.as_ref().is_some_and(|b| !Arc::ptr_eq(&b.saved, &self.doc))
    }
    /// The drawing to keep for recovery (autosave): with the Block Editor's unsaved changes in the
-    /// block, so a crash doesn't lose them.
-    pub fn recovery_drawing(&self) -> Arc<Drawing> {
+    /// block, so a crash doesn't lose them. An error when the editor's changes can't be put in the
+    /// block (it would contain itself): the host drawing alone would lose them.
+    pub fn recovery_drawing(&self) -> Result<Arc<Drawing>> {
        match &self.block_edit {
-            Some(be) if self.block_unsaved() => be.compose(&self.doc, &be.name).map(Arc::new).unwrap_or_else(|_| be.host.doc.clone()),
-            Some(be) => be.host.doc.clone(),
-            None => self.doc.clone(),
+            Some(be) if self.block_unsaved() => be.compose(&self.doc, &be.name).map(Arc::new),
+            Some(be) => Ok(be.host.doc.clone()),
+            None => Ok(self.doc.clone()),
        }
    }

@@ -271,6 +292,24 @@ impl DocState {
        let d = be.compose(&self.doc, &name)?;
        let original = d.block(&name).map(|b| b.entities.clone()).unwrap_or_default();
        let name = d.block(&name).map(|b| b.name.clone()).unwrap_or(name);
+        // When BSAVEAS saves the block under another name, the editor's drawing and each undo and
+        // redo step get the block as saved and the edited block as the drawing has it, so a later
+        // save and the description shown start from them after an undo too.
+        if !name.eq_ignore_ascii_case(&be.name)
+            && let Some(b) = d.block(&name).cloned()
+        {
+            let was = be.name.clone();
+            let reconcile = |doc: &mut Arc<Drawing>| {
+                let editor = Arc::make_mut(doc);
+                keep_description(editor, &d, &was);
+                editor.blocks.retain(|k, _| !k.eq_ignore_ascii_case(&name));
+                editor.blocks.insert(name.clone(), b.clone());
+            };
+            reconcile(&mut self.doc);
+            for step in self.undo.iter_mut().chain(self.redo.iter_mut()) {
+                reconcile(&mut step.doc);
+            }
+        }
        let editor = self.doc.clone();
        let Some(be) = &mut self.block_edit else { return Ok(()) };
        let before = be.host.doc.clone();
@@ -33,7 +33,8 @@ pub mod plotters;
 mod props;
 pub use draw2::breakline::BreaklineOptions;
 pub use props::MatchProps;
-pub(crate) use props::set_current_color_value;
+pub(crate) use props::UNIT_RANGES;
+pub(crate) use props::{current_color_value, set_current_color_value};
 mod qselect;
 mod selecttools;
 mod settings;
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ use cadcraft_doc::{AnnoScale, Drawing, EntityKind, Handle, MAX_SCALES, is_annota
 use serde_json::{Value, json};

 use super::machines::{SelOutcome, SelectPhase, SelectRun};
-use super::*;
+use super::{CommandSpec, bad, f64_req, targets};
+
 use crate::{Accept, Input, Interactive, Prompt, Result, Session, Step};

 pub fn specs() -> Vec<CommandSpec> {
@@ -0,0 +1,333 @@
+use super::common::{DimText, add_dim, assoc_enabled, dim, hex_param, pick_at, segment_at, with_assoc};
+use super::{
+    Accept, AssocSnap, DimAssoc, DimKind, EntityKind, Handle, Input, Interactive, Prompt, Result, Segment, Session, Step, Value, Vec2, bad, json,
+    point_req, targets, v3,
+};
+
+/// Two-line angular dimension (type 2) between two lines, attached to them.
+fn angular_from_lines(s: &Session, h1: Handle, h2: Handle, at: Vec2) -> Option<EntityKind> {
+    let d = s.doc().ok()?;
+    let line = |h: Handle| match &d.entity(h)?.kind {
+        EntityKind::Line(l) => Some((l.a.xy(), l.b.xy())),
+        _ => None,
+    };
+    let ((a1, a2), (b1, b2)) = (line(h1)?, line(h2)?);
+    let (v, _, _) = cadcraft_geom::line_line_infinite(a1, a2, b1, b2)?;
+    // Use the leg ends on the side of the picked arc location (the quadrant the user meant).
+    let pick = |p: Vec2, q: Vec2, snap_p: AssocSnap, snap_q: AssocSnap| {
+        let dir = if (p - v).len() > (q - v).len() { (p, snap_p) } else { (q, snap_q) };
+        let other = if dir.1 == AssocSnap::Start { (q, AssocSnap::End) } else { (p, AssocSnap::Start) };
+        let side = |x: Vec2| (x - v).normalized().dot((at - v).normalized());
+        if side(other.0) > side(dir.0) && other.0.dist(v) > 1e-9 { other } else { dir }
+    };
+    let (p1, s1) = pick(a1, a2, AssocSnap::Start, AssocSnap::End);
+    let (p2, s2) = pick(b1, b2, AssocSnap::Start, AssocSnap::End);
+    // A two-line angular dimension (type 2): line 1 is p13 -> p14, line 2 is defpt -> p15, p16 is on the arc.
+    // The picked leg end goes last in each pair, so the renderer measures between p14 and p15.
+    let (o1, t1) = if s1 == AssocSnap::Start { (a2, AssocSnap::End) } else { (a1, AssocSnap::Start) };
+    let (o2, t2) = if s2 == AssocSnap::Start { (b2, AssocSnap::End) } else { (b1, AssocSnap::Start) };
+    let mut k = dim(s, DimKind::Angular, o2, o1, p1, p2, "");
+    if let EntityKind::Dimension(d) = &mut k {
+        d.p16 = v3(at);
+    }
+    let mut assoc = Vec::new();
+    if assoc_enabled(s) {
+        assoc = vec![
+            DimAssoc { point: "p13".into(), handle: h1, snap: t1 },
+            DimAssoc { point: "p14".into(), handle: h1, snap: s1 },
+            DimAssoc { point: "defpt".into(), handle: h2, snap: t2 },
+            DimAssoc { point: "p15".into(), handle: h2, snap: s2 },
+        ];
+    }
+    Some(with_assoc(k, assoc))
+}
+
+pub(super) fn run_angular(s: &mut Session, p: &Value) -> Result<Value> {
+    if let Some(ls) = p.get("lines").and_then(Value::as_array) {
+        let hs: Vec<Handle> = ls.iter().filter_map(|v| v.as_str().and_then(Handle::parse_hex).or_else(|| v.as_u64().map(Handle))).collect();
+        let (Some(h1), Some(h2)) = (hs.first(), hs.get(1)) else { return Err(bad("dimangular", "`lines` needs two line handles")) };
+        let at = point_req("dimangular", p, "at")?;
+        let k = angular_from_lines(s, *h1, *h2, at).ok_or_else(|| bad("dimangular", "objects must be two non-parallel lines"))?;
+        return Ok(json!({ "handle": add_dim(s, k)?.hex() }));
+    }
+    if let Some(h) = hex_param(p, "arc") {
+        let at = point_req("dimangular", p, "at")?;
+        let a = match s.doc()?.entity(h).map(|e| e.kind.clone()) {
+            Some(EntityKind::Arc(a)) => a,
+            _ => return Err(bad("dimangular", "object is not an arc")),
+        };
+        let g = cadcraft_geom::Arc::new(a.center.xy(), a.radius, a.start, a.end);
+        let k = dim(s, DimKind::Angular3P, at, g.start_point(), g.end_point(), g.center, "");
+        return Ok(json!({ "handle": add_dim(s, k)?.hex() }));
+    }
+    let v = point_req("dimangular", p, "vertex")?;
+    let a = point_req("dimangular", p, "p1")?;
+    let b = point_req("dimangular", p, "p2")?;
+    let at = point_req("dimangular", p, "at")?;
+    if v.near(a, 1e-12) || v.near(b, 1e-12) {
+        return Err(bad("dimangular", "`p1` and `p2` must differ from `vertex`"));
+    }
+    let k = dim(s, DimKind::Angular3P, at, a, b, v, "");
+    Ok(json!({ "handle": add_dim(s, k)?.hex() }))
+}
+
+pub(super) fn run_arclen(s: &mut Session, p: &Value) -> Result<Value> {
+    let h = targets(s, p)?.first().copied().ok_or_else(|| bad("dimarc", "`handle` of an arc is required"))?;
+    let at = point_req("dimarc", p, "at")?;
+    let a = match s.doc()?.entity(h).map(|e| e.kind.clone()) {
+        Some(EntityKind::Arc(a)) => a,
+        _ => return Err(bad("dimarc", "object is not an arc")),
+    };
+    let ga = cadcraft_geom::Arc::new(a.center.xy(), a.radius, a.start, a.end);
+    let k = dim(s, DimKind::ArcLength, at, ga.start_point(), ga.end_point(), ga.center, "");
+    Ok(json!({ "handle": add_dim(s, k)?.hex() }))
+}
+
+#[derive(Default)]
+pub(super) struct AngularM {
+    handles: Vec<Handle>,
+    first: Option<(Vec2, Vec2)>,
+    second: Option<(Vec2, Vec2)>,
+    vertex_mode: Vec<Vec2>,
+    vertex: bool,
+    arc: Option<(Vec2, Vec2, Vec2)>,
+    text: DimText,
+    /// Quadrant: a point inside the angle to measure; the arc location then only sets the radius.
+    quadrant: Option<Vec2>,
+    asking_quadrant: bool,
+}
+
+impl AngularM {
+    /// (vertex, p1, p2) of the angle being dimensioned.
+    fn geometry(&self) -> Option<(Vec2, Vec2, Vec2)> {
+        if let Some(a) = self.arc {
+            return Some(a);
+        }
+        if let [v, a, b] = self.vertex_mode.as_slice() {
+            return Some((*v, *a, *b));
+        }
+        let ((a1, a2), (b1, b2)) = (self.first?, self.second?);
+        let (v, _, _) = cadcraft_geom::line_line_infinite(a1, a2, b1, b2)?;
+        let far = |p: Vec2, q: Vec2| if p.dist(v) > q.dist(v) { p } else { q };
+        Some((v, far(a1, a2), far(b1, b2)))
+    }
+    /// The arc location `at`, turned into the locked quadrant (same radius) when one is set.
+    fn located(&self, v: Vec2, at: Vec2) -> Vec2 {
+        match self.quadrant {
+            Some(q) if q.dist(v) > 1e-12 && at.dist(v) > 1e-12 => v + (q - v).normalized() * at.dist(v),
+            _ => at,
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl Interactive for AngularM {
+    fn name(&self) -> &'static str {
+        "DIMANGULAR"
+    }
+    fn prompt(&self, _s: &Session) -> Prompt {
+        if let Some(p) = self.text.prompt() {
+            return p;
+        }
+        if self.asking_quadrant {
+            return Prompt::new("Specify quadrant", Accept::POINT);
+        }
+        if self.geometry().is_some() {
+            return Prompt::new("Specify dimension arc line location", Accept::POINT).kw(&["Mtext", "Text", "Angle", "Quadrant"]);
+        }
+        if self.vertex {
+            return Prompt::new(
+                ["Specify angle vertex", "Specify first angle endpoint", "Specify second angle endpoint"]
+                    .get(self.vertex_mode.len())
+                    .copied()
+                    .unwrap_or(""),
+                Accept::POINT,
+            );
+        }
+        match self.first {
+            None => Prompt::new("Select arc, circle, line", Accept::POINT).default("specify vertex"),
+            Some(_) => Prompt::new("Select second line", Accept::POINT),
+        }
+    }
+    fn input(&mut self, s: &mut Session, i: Input) -> Result<Step> {
+        if self.text.answer(s, &i) {
+            return Ok(Step::Continue);
+        }
+        if self.asking_quadrant {
+            if let Input::Point(q) = i {
+                self.quadrant = Some(q);
+            }
+            self.asking_quadrant = false;
+            return Ok(Step::Continue);
+        }
+        if let Some((v, a, b)) = self.geometry() {
+            return match i {
+                Input::Point(at) => {
+                    let at = self.located(v, at);
+                    let k = match (self.handles.as_slice(), self.arc) {
+                        ([h1, h2], None) => angular_from_lines(s, *h1, *h2, at),
+                        _ => None,
+                    };
+                    let k = k.unwrap_or_else(|| dim(s, DimKind::Angular3P, at, a, b, v, ""));
+                    add_dim(s, self.text.apply(k))?;
+                    Ok(Step::Done)
+                }
+                Input::Keyword(k) => {
+                    if k == "Quadrant" {
+                        self.asking_quadrant = true;
+                    } else {
+                        self.text.keyword(&k);
+                    }
+                    Ok(Step::Continue)
+                }
+                Input::Enter => Ok(Step::Cancel),
+                _ => Ok(Step::Continue),
+            };
+        }
+        if self.vertex {
+            match i {
+                Input::Point(p) => self.vertex_mode.push(p),
+                Input::Enter => return Ok(Step::Cancel),
+                _ => {}
+            }
+            return Ok(Step::Continue);
+        }
+        match i {
+            Input::Enter if self.first.is_none() => {
+                self.vertex = true;
+                Ok(Step::Continue)
+            }
+            Input::Point(p) => {
+                let Some(h) = pick_at(s, p) else {
+                    s.echo("*Invalid selection*");
+                    return Ok(Step::Continue);
+                };
+                let circle = s
+                    .doc()?
+                    .entity(h)
+                    .and_then(|e| if let EntityKind::Circle(c) = &e.kind { Some(cadcraft_geom::Circle::new(c.center.xy(), c.radius)) } else { None });
+                if let Some(g) = circle.filter(|_| self.first.is_none()) {
+                    // The center is the vertex and the pick the first endpoint; ask for the second.
+                    self.vertex = true;
+                    self.vertex_mode = vec![g.center, g.closest(p)];
+                    return Ok(Step::Continue);
+                }
+                match segment_at(s, h, p) {
+                    Some(Segment::Arc { arc: g, .. }) if self.first.is_none() => {
+                        self.arc = Some((g.center, g.start_point(), g.end_point()));
+                    }
+                    Some(Segment::Line(l)) => {
+                        self.handles.push(h);
+                        let seg = (l.a, l.b);
+                        if self.first.is_none() {
+                            self.first = Some(seg);
+                        } else {
+                            self.second = Some(seg);
+                        }
+                    }
+                    _ => s.echo("Select an arc, circle or line."),
+                }
+                Ok(Step::Continue)
+            }
+            Input::Enter => Ok(Step::Cancel),
+            _ => Ok(Step::Continue),
+        }
+    }
+    fn preview(&self, s: &Session, c: Vec2) -> Vec<EntityKind> {
+        self.geometry().map(|(v, a, b)| vec![self.text.apply(dim(s, DimKind::Angular3P, self.located(v, c), a, b, v, ""))]).unwrap_or_default()
+    }
+}
+
+#[derive(Default)]
+pub(super) struct ArcLenM {
+    arc: Option<cadcraft_geom::Arc>,
+    text: DimText,
+    /// Partial: the points picked so far on the arc (`None` when not choosing a part).
+    partial: Option<Vec<Vec2>>,
+}
+
+/// The part of `arc` between the points nearest `p` and `q` (in the arc's direction).
+fn arc_part(arc: &cadcraft_geom::Arc, p: Vec2, q: Vec2) -> Option<cadcraft_geom::Arc> {
+    let sweep = arc.sweep();
+    // Offset along the arc from its start, clamped to the nearer end when the point is off the arc.
+    let along = |x: Vec2| {
+        let t = cadcraft_geom::ccw_sweep(arc.start, arc.center.angle_to(x));
+        if t <= sweep {
+            t
+        } else if t - sweep < std::f64::consts::TAU - t {
+            sweep
+        } else {
+            0.0
+        }
+    };
+    let (t1, t2) = (along(p), along(q));
+    let (lo, hi) = (t1.min(t2), t1.max(t2));
+    (hi - lo > 1e-9).then(|| cadcraft_geom::Arc::new(arc.center, arc.radius, arc.start + lo, arc.start + hi))
+}
+
+impl Interactive for ArcLenM {
+    fn name(&self) -> &'static str {
+        "DIMARC"
+    }
+    fn prompt(&self, _s: &Session) -> Prompt {
+        if let Some(p) = self.text.prompt() {
+            return p;
+        }
+        if let Some(picked) = &self.partial {
+            return match picked.first() {
+                None => Prompt::new("Specify first point for arc length dimension", Accept::POINT),
+                Some(&f) => Prompt::new("Specify second point for arc length dimension", Accept::POINT).base(f),
+            };
+        }
+        match self.arc {
+            None => Prompt::new("Select arc or polyline arc segment", Accept::POINT),
+            Some(_) => Prompt::new("Specify arc length dimension location", Accept::POINT).kw(&["Mtext", "Text", "Angle", "Partial"]),
+        }
+    }
+    fn input(&mut self, s: &mut Session, i: Input) -> Result<Step> {
+        if self.text.answer(s, &i) {
+            return Ok(Step::Continue);
+        }
+        if let Some(picked) = self.partial.take() {
+            match (i, picked.first().copied(), self.arc) {
+                (Input::Point(p), None, _) => self.partial = Some(vec![p]),
+                (Input::Point(q), Some(p), Some(g)) => match arc_part(&g, p, q) {
+                    Some(part) => self.arc = Some(part),
+                    None => s.echo("The two points must be different."),
+                },
+                (Input::Enter, ..) => {}
+                _ => self.partial = Some(picked),
+            }
+            return Ok(Step::Continue);
+        }
+        match (self.arc, i) {
+            (None, Input::Point(p)) => {
+                if let Some(EntityKind::Arc(a)) = pick_at(s, p).and_then(|h| s.doc().ok()?.entity(h).map(|e| e.kind.clone())) {
+                    self.arc = Some(cadcraft_geom::Arc::new(a.center.xy(), a.radius, a.start, a.end));
+                } else {
+                    s.echo("Select an arc.");
+                }
+                Ok(Step::Continue)
+            }
+            (Some(g), Input::Point(at)) => {
+                add_dim(s, self.text.apply(dim(s, DimKind::ArcLength, at, g.start_point(), g.end_point(), g.center, "")))?;
+                Ok(Step::Done)
+            }
+            (Some(_), Input::Keyword(k)) => {
+                if k == "Partial" {
+                    self.partial = Some(Vec::new());
+                } else {
+                    self.text.keyword(&k);
+                }
+                Ok(Step::Continue)
+            }
+            (_, Input::Enter) => Ok(Step::Cancel),
+            _ => Ok(Step::Continue),
+        }
+    }
+    fn preview(&self, s: &Session, c: Vec2) -> Vec<EntityKind> {
+        if self.partial.is_some() {
+            return Vec::new();
+        }
+        self.arc.map(|g| vec![self.text.apply(dim(s, DimKind::ArcLength, c, g.start_point(), g.end_point(), g.center, ""))]).unwrap_or_default()
+    }
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,183 @@
+use super::{Accept, DimAssoc, DimKind, Dimension, EntityKind, Handle, Input, Prompt, Result, Segment, Session, Value, Vec2, Vec3, v3};
+
+pub(super) fn style(s: &Session) -> String {
+    s.doc().map(|d| d.header.str("DIMSTYLE", "Standard")).unwrap_or_else(|_| "Standard".into())
+}
+
+pub(super) fn dim(s: &Session, kind: DimKind, defpt: Vec2, p13: Vec2, p14: Vec2, p15: Vec2, text: &str) -> EntityKind {
+    EntityKind::Dimension(Dimension {
+        kind,
+        defpt: v3(defpt),
+        text_mid: Vec3::ZERO,
+        p13: v3(p13),
+        p14: v3(p14),
+        p15: v3(p15),
+        p16: v3(Vec2::ZERO),
+        text: text.into(),
+        style: style(s),
+        measurement: 0.0,
+        text_rotation: 0.0,
+        user_text_pos: false,
+        block: None,
+        overrides: s.doc().map(|d| d.dim_overrides()).unwrap_or_default(),
+        assoc: Vec::new(),
+        marks: Default::default(),
+    })
+}
+
+/// Horizontal (0) or vertical (90°) from where the dimension line is placed (AutoCAD's rule).
+fn auto_rotation(p1: Vec2, p2: Vec2, at: Vec2) -> f64 {
+    let (x0, x1) = (p1.x.min(p2.x), p1.x.max(p2.x));
+    let (y0, y1) = (p1.y.min(p2.y), p1.y.max(p2.y));
+    let outside_y = at.y < y0 || at.y > y1;
+    let outside_x = at.x < x0 || at.x > x1;
+    if outside_x && !outside_y { std::f64::consts::FRAC_PI_2 } else { 0.0 }
+}
+
+pub(super) fn linear_kind(p1: Vec2, p2: Vec2, at: Vec2, rotation: Option<f64>, aligned: bool) -> DimKind {
+    if aligned { DimKind::Aligned } else { DimKind::Linear { rotation: rotation.unwrap_or_else(|| auto_rotation(p1, p2, at)) } }
+}
+
+/// Add a dimension. With DIMASSOC on, definition points that sit on object endpoints,
+/// vertices or centres are attached to them (associative dimensions).
+pub(super) fn add_dim(s: &mut Session, k: EntityKind) -> Result<Handle> {
+    let mut k = k;
+    if let EntityKind::Dimension(dm) = &mut k
+        && dm.assoc.is_empty()
+        && assoc_enabled(s)
+    {
+        dm.assoc = crate::assoc::reassociate(s.doc()?, &s.space(), dm);
+    }
+    // The measurement is what the DXF/DWG writer computes from the geometry (group 42); filling it
+    // in now means queries show it before the drawing is saved and reopened (#2421).
+    if let EntityKind::Dimension(dm) = &mut k
+        && let Ok(d) = s.doc()
+    {
+        let style = d.dim_style(&dm.style).cloned().unwrap_or_default();
+        let g = cadcraft_render::dimension_geometry(dm, &style, d.header.f64("DIMSCALE", 1.0));
+        dm.measurement = g.measurement;
+        // The text position the writer puts in group 11 when the user has not placed the text.
+        if !dm.user_text_pos {
+            dm.text_mid = g.text_pos.to3(0.0);
+        }
+    }
+    let h = s.add_entity(k)?;
+    s.last_dim = Some(h);
+    Ok(h)
+}
+
+pub(super) fn assoc_enabled(s: &Session) -> bool {
+    s.doc().map(|d| d.header.i64("DIMASSOC", 2) != 0).unwrap_or(false)
+}
+
+pub(super) fn with_assoc(k: EntityKind, assoc: Vec<DimAssoc>) -> EntityKind {
+    match k {
+        EntityKind::Dimension(mut d) => {
+            d.assoc = assoc;
+            EntityKind::Dimension(d)
+        }
+        other => other,
+    }
+}
+
+/// Centre and radius of a circle/arc entity.
+pub(super) fn circle_of(s: &Session, h: Handle) -> Option<(Vec2, f64)> {
+    match &s.doc().ok()?.entity(h)?.kind {
+        EntityKind::Circle(c) => Some((c.center.xy(), c.radius)),
+        EntityKind::Arc(a) => Some((a.center.xy(), a.radius)),
+        _ => None,
+    }
+}
+
+/// The dimension line location of a radius/diameter dimension puts the text there, inside or
+/// outside the circle, as a user-positioned text (DXF flag 70 bit 128), like AutoCAD.
+pub(super) fn text_at(mut k: EntityKind, at: Vec2) -> EntityKind {
+    if let EntityKind::Dimension(d) = &mut k {
+        d.text_mid = v3(at);
+        d.user_text_pos = true;
+    }
+    k
+}
+
+pub(super) fn hex_param(p: &Value, key: &str) -> Option<Handle> {
+    p.get(key).and_then(|v| v.as_str().and_then(Handle::parse_hex).or_else(|| v.as_u64().map(Handle)))
+}
+
+// ---------------- interactive ----------------
+
+pub(super) fn pick_at(s: &Session, p: Vec2) -> Option<Handle> {
+    let ap = s.pixel_size() * s.settings.pickbox.max(1.0) * 1.5;
+    s.pick_object(&s.space(), p, ap).ok().flatten()
+}
+
+/// The straight or curved piece of `h` picked at `p`: a line, an arc, or the polyline segment nearest `p`.
+pub(in crate::cmd) fn segment_at(s: &Session, h: Handle, p: Vec2) -> Option<Segment> {
+    match &s.doc().ok()?.entity(h)?.kind {
+        EntityKind::Line(l) => Some(Segment::Line(cadcraft_geom::Line::new(l.a.xy(), l.b.xy()))),
+        EntityKind::Arc(a) => Some(Segment::Arc { arc: cadcraft_geom::Arc::new(a.center.xy(), a.radius, a.start, a.end), ccw: true }),
+        EntityKind::LwPolyline(pl) => cadcraft_geom::Polyline { vertices: pl.vertices.clone(), closed: pl.closed }
+            .segments()
+            .into_iter()
+            .min_by(|x, y| x.closest(p).dist(p).total_cmp(&y.closest(p).dist(p))),
+        _ => None,
+    }
+}
+
+/// What a dimension placement prompt asks after Mtext, Text or Angle.
+#[derive(Clone, Copy, PartialEq)]
+enum DimAsk {
+    Text,
+    Angle,
+}
+
+/// The Mtext / Text / Angle options of the dimension placement prompts: replace the measured text
+/// (`<>` stands for the measurement) and rotate the text.
+#[derive(Default)]
+pub(super) struct DimText {
+    text: String,
+    angle: f64,
+    asking: Option<DimAsk>,
+}
+
+impl DimText {
+    /// Opens the sub-prompt for Mtext, Text or Angle; `false` for any other keyword.
+    pub(super) fn keyword(&mut self, k: &str) -> bool {
+        self.asking = match k {
+            "Mtext" | "Text" => Some(DimAsk::Text),
+            "Angle" => Some(DimAsk::Angle),
+            _ => return false,
+        };
+        true
+    }
+    pub(super) fn prompt(&self) -> Option<Prompt> {
+        Some(match self.asking? {
+            DimAsk::Text => Prompt::new("Enter dimension text (<> = measurement)", Accept::TEXT),
+            DimAsk::Angle => Prompt::new("Specify angle of dimension text", Accept::NUMBER),
+        })
+    }
+    /// Takes the answer to the open sub-prompt (Enter keeps the current value); `false` when none is open.
+    pub(super) fn answer(&mut self, s: &mut Session, i: &Input) -> bool {
+        let Some(a) = self.asking else { return false };
+        match (a, i) {
+            (DimAsk::Text, Input::Text(t)) => self.text = t.clone(),
+            (DimAsk::Angle, Input::Text(t)) => match s.angle_settings().direction(t) {
+                Some(r) => self.angle = r,
+                None => {
+                    s.echo("Requires a valid angle.");
+                    return true;
+                }
+            },
+            _ => {}
+        }
+        self.asking = None;
+        true
+    }
+    /// `k` with this text and text angle.
+    pub(super) fn apply(&self, mut k: EntityKind) -> EntityKind {
+        if let EntityKind::Dimension(d) = &mut k {
+            d.text = self.text.clone();
+            d.text_rotation = self.angle;
+        }
+        k
+    }
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,374 @@
+use super::common::{hex_param, style};
+use super::{
+    Accept, DimKind, EntityKind, Handle, Input, Interactive, Prompt, Result, SelOutcome, SelectPhase, Session, Step, Value, Vec2, bad, json,
+    point_param, str_param, targets, v3,
+};
+
+pub(super) fn run_update(s: &mut Session, p: &Value) -> Result<Value> {
+    let hs = targets(s, p)?;
+    let st = style(s);
+    let d = s.doc_mut()?;
+    let mut n = 0;
+    for h in hs {
+        let _ = d.modify_entity(h, |e| {
+            if let EntityKind::Dimension(dm) = &mut e.kind {
+                dm.style = st.clone();
+                dm.block = None;
+                n += 1;
+            }
+        });
+    }
+    Ok(json!({ "updated": n }))
+}
+
+/// DIMOVERRIDE: per-dimension style overrides (`clear` removes them); `text` sets the text.
+pub(super) fn run_override(s: &mut Session, p: &Value) -> Result<Value> {
+    if p.get("text").is_none() {
+        return crate::cmd::props::dim_override(s, p);
+    }
+    let hs = targets(s, p)?;
+    let t = str_param(p, "text").unwrap_or("").to_string();
+    // Dimension variables given next to `text` are applied first, so an unknown name still errors before anything changes.
+    let vars: serde_json::Map<String, Value> = p
+        .as_object()
+        .map(|o| o.iter().filter(|(k, _)| !matches!(k.as_str(), "text" | "handles" | "handle")).map(|(k, v)| (k.clone(), v.clone())).collect())
+        .unwrap_or_default();
+    let mut ignored = Value::Null;
+    if !vars.is_empty() {
+        let mut rest = vars;
+        rest.insert("handles".into(), json!(hs.iter().map(|h| h.hex()).collect::<Vec<_>>()));
+        ignored = crate::cmd::props::dim_override(s, &Value::Object(rest))?.get("ignored").cloned().unwrap_or(Value::Null);
+    }
+    let d = s.doc_mut()?;
+    for h in &hs {
+        let _ = d.modify_entity(*h, |e| {
+            if let EntityKind::Dimension(dm) = &mut e.kind {
+                dm.text = t.clone();
+                dm.block = None;
+            }
+        });
+    }
+    match ignored {
+        Value::Null => Ok(json!({ "changed": hs.len() })),
+        ig => Ok(json!({ "changed": hs.len(), "ignored": ig })),
+    }
+}
+
+pub(super) fn dims_of(s: &Session, hs: &[Handle]) -> Vec<Handle> {
+    let Ok(d) = s.doc() else { return Vec::new() };
+    hs.iter().copied().filter(|h| d.entity(*h).is_some_and(|e| matches!(e.kind, EntityKind::Dimension(_)))).collect()
+}
+
+pub(super) fn run_reassociate(s: &mut Session, p: &Value) -> Result<Value> {
+    let hs = dims_of(s, &targets(s, p)?);
+    let space = s.space();
+    let mut plan = Vec::new();
+    {
+        let d = s.doc()?;
+        for h in &hs {
+            if let Some(EntityKind::Dimension(dm)) = d.entity(*h).map(|e| &e.kind) {
+                plan.push((*h, crate::assoc::reassociate(d, &space, dm)));
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    let mut points = 0;
+    let mut n = 0;
+    let d = s.doc_mut()?;
+    for (h, a) in plan {
+        points += a.len();
+        n += usize::from(!a.is_empty());
+        let _ = d.modify_entity(h, |e| {
+            if let EntityKind::Dimension(dm) = &mut e.kind {
+                dm.assoc = a;
+            }
+        });
+    }
+    Ok(json!({ "dimensions": hs.len(), "associated": n, "points": points, "message": format!("{n} of {} dimension(s) associated.", hs.len()) }))
+}
+
+pub(super) fn run_disassociate(s: &mut Session, p: &Value) -> Result<Value> {
+    let hs = dims_of(s, &targets(s, p)?);
+    let d = s.doc_mut()?;
+    let mut n = 0;
+    for h in &hs {
+        let _ = d.modify_entity(*h, |e| {
+            if let EntityKind::Dimension(dm) = &mut e.kind
+                && !dm.assoc.is_empty()
+            {
+                dm.assoc.clear();
+                n += 1;
+            }
+        });
+    }
+    Ok(json!({ "disassociated": n, "message": format!("{n} disassociated.") }))
+}
+
+/// DIMTEDIT: move/rotate/justify dimension text.
+pub(super) fn run_tedit(s: &mut Session, p: &Value, mode: &str) -> Result<Value> {
+    let mut q = p.as_object().cloned().unwrap_or_default();
+    q.insert("mode".into(), json!(mode));
+    run_dimtedit(s, &Value::Object(q))
+}
+
+pub(super) fn run_dimtedit(s: &mut Session, p: &Value) -> Result<Value> {
+    let hs = dims_of(s, &targets(s, p)?);
+    if hs.is_empty() {
+        return Err(bad("dimtedit", "select dimensions"));
+    }
+    let mode = str_param(p, "mode").unwrap_or("").to_ascii_lowercase();
+    let at = point_param(p, "at");
+    let angle = p.get("angle").and_then(Value::as_f64).filter(|a| a.is_finite()).map(f64::to_radians);
+    if mode == "angle" && angle.is_none() {
+        return Err(bad("dimtedit", "`angle` (degrees) is required"));
+    }
+    let d = s.doc_mut()?;
+    let dimscale = d.header.f64("DIMSCALE", 1.0);
+    for h in &hs {
+        let st = match d.entity(*h).map(|e| &e.kind) {
+            Some(EntityKind::Dimension(dm)) => d.dim_style(&dm.style).cloned().unwrap_or_default().with_overrides(&dm.overrides),
+            _ => continue,
+        };
+        d.modify_entity(*h, |e| {
+            let EntityKind::Dimension(dm) = &mut e.kind else { return };
+            dm.block = None;
+            if let Some(q) = at {
+                dm.text_mid = v3(q);
+                dm.user_text_pos = true;
+                // DIMTMOVE 0: the dimension line moves with the text.
+                st.follow_text(dm, dimscale);
+            }
+            match mode.as_str() {
+                "home" => {
+                    dm.user_text_pos = false;
+                    dm.text_rotation = 0.0;
+                    dm.overrides.remove("textJust");
+                }
+                "angle" => dm.text_rotation = angle.unwrap_or(0.0),
+                "left" | "center" | "right" => {
+                    dm.user_text_pos = false;
+                    let j = match mode.as_str() {
+                        "left" => 1,
+                        "right" => 2,
+                        _ => 0,
+                    };
+                    dm.overrides.insert("textJust".into(), json!(j));
+                }
+                _ => {}
+            }
+        })?;
+    }
+    Ok(json!({ "changed": hs.len() }))
+}
+
+/// DIMSPACE: equal spacing of parallel linear dimensions from a base dimension.
+pub(super) fn run_dimspace(s: &mut Session, p: &Value) -> Result<Value> {
+    let base = hex_param(p, "base").ok_or_else(|| bad("dimspace", "`base` dimension is required"))?;
+    let hs: Vec<Handle> = dims_of(s, &targets(s, p)?).into_iter().filter(|h| *h != base).collect();
+    let d = s.doc()?;
+    let Some(EntityKind::Dimension(b)) = d.entity(base).map(|e| e.kind.clone()) else { return Err(bad("dimspace", "`base` is not a dimension")) };
+    let st = d.dim_style(&b.style).cloned().unwrap_or_default().with_overrides(&b.overrides);
+    let spacing = p
+        .get("spacing")
+        .and_then(Value::as_f64)
+        .filter(|v| v.is_finite() && *v >= 0.0)
+        .unwrap_or(st.baseline_spacing * st.effective_scale(d.header.f64("DIMSCALE", 1.0)) * 2.0);
+    let dir = match b.kind {
+        DimKind::Linear { rotation } => Vec2::from_angle(rotation),
+        DimKind::Aligned => (b.p14.xy() - b.p13.xy()).normalized(),
+        _ => return Err(bad("dimspace", "base must be a linear or aligned dimension")),
+    };
+    let n = dir.perp();
+    let base_off = (b.defpt.xy() - b.p13.xy()).dot(n);
+    let side = if base_off >= 0.0 { 1.0 } else { -1.0 };
+    // Order the others by their current distance from the base line.
+    let mut others: Vec<(Handle, f64)> = hs
+        .iter()
+        .filter_map(|h| match d.entity(*h).map(|e| &e.kind) {
+            Some(EntityKind::Dimension(o)) if matches!(o.kind, DimKind::Linear { .. } | DimKind::Aligned) => {
+                Some((*h, (o.defpt.xy() - b.defpt.xy()).dot(n) * side))
+            }
+            _ => None,
+        })
+        .collect();
+    others.sort_by(|a, c| a.1.total_cmp(&c.1));
+    let line_pt = b.defpt.xy();
+    let dm = s.doc_mut()?;
+    for (i, (h, _)) in others.iter().enumerate() {
+        let target = line_pt + n * (side * spacing * (i as f64 + 1.0));
+        dm.modify_entity(*h, |e| {
+            if let EntityKind::Dimension(o) = &mut e.kind {
+                let cur = o.defpt.xy();
+                let moved = cur + n * (target - cur).dot(n);
+                o.defpt = v3(moved);
+                o.user_text_pos = false;
+                o.block = None;
+            }
+        })?;
+    }
+    Ok(json!({ "spaced": others.len() }))
+}
+
+/// DIMSPACE at the command line: select the base dimension, select the dimensions to space, then
+/// the spacing (Enter or Auto takes the DIMDLI-based default).
+#[derive(Default)]
+pub(super) struct DimSpaceM {
+    base: Option<Handle>,
+    sel: SelectPhase,
+    spacing_phase: bool,
+}
+
+impl DimSpaceM {
+    fn apply(&self, s: &mut Session, base: Handle, spacing: Option<f64>) -> Result<Step> {
+        let mut p = serde_json::Map::new();
+        p.insert("base".into(), json!(base.hex()));
+        p.insert("handles".into(), json!(self.sel.picked.iter().map(|h| h.hex()).collect::<Vec<_>>()));
+        if let Some(v) = spacing {
+            p.insert("spacing".into(), json!(v));
+        }
+        let r = run_dimspace(s, &Value::Object(p))?;
+        s.set_selection(Vec::new());
+        s.echo(format!("{} dimension(s) spaced.", r.get("spaced").and_then(Value::as_u64).unwrap_or(0)));
+        Ok(Step::Done)
+    }
+}
+
+impl Interactive for DimSpaceM {
+    fn name(&self) -> &'static str {
+        "DIMSPACE"
+    }
+    fn begin(&mut self, _s: &mut Session) -> Result<Step> {
+        self.sel = SelectPhase::single();
+        Ok(Step::Continue)
+    }
+    fn prompt(&self, _s: &Session) -> Prompt {
+        if self.spacing_phase {
+            return Prompt::new("Enter value", Accept::NUMBER).kw(&["Auto"]).default("Auto");
+        }
+        if self.base.is_none() {
+            return Prompt::new("Select base dimension", Accept::SELECT);
+        }
+        Prompt::new("Select dimensions to space", Accept::SELECT)
+    }
+    fn input(&mut self, s: &mut Session, i: Input) -> Result<Step> {
+        if self.spacing_phase {
+            let Some(base) = self.base else { return Ok(Step::Cancel) };
+            return match i {
+                Input::Enter => self.apply(s, base, None),
+                Input::Keyword(k) | Input::Text(k) if k.trim().eq_ignore_ascii_case("a") || k.trim().eq_ignore_ascii_case("auto") => {
+                    self.apply(s, base, None)
+                }
+                Input::Text(t) => match crate::cmd::machines::number(&t).filter(|v| v.is_finite() && *v >= 0.0) {
+                    Some(v) => self.apply(s, base, Some(v)),
+                    None => {
+                        s.echo("Requires a non-negative number or Auto.");
+                        Ok(Step::Continue)
+                    }
+                },
+                _ => Ok(Step::Continue),
+            };
+        }
+        match self.sel.feed(s, &i)? {
+            SelOutcome::More => Ok(Step::Continue),
+            SelOutcome::Empty => Ok(Step::Done),
+            SelOutcome::Done(hs) => {
+                if self.base.is_none() {
+                    match hs.first().copied().filter(|h| !dims_of(s, &[*h]).is_empty()) {
+                        Some(b) => {
+                            self.base = Some(b);
+                            self.sel = SelectPhase::default();
+                        }
+                        None => {
+                            s.echo("Select a dimension.");
+                            self.sel = SelectPhase::single();
+                        }
+                    }
+                } else {
+                    self.sel.picked = hs;
+                    self.spacing_phase = true;
+                }
+                Ok(Step::Continue)
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/// DIMOVERRIDE at the command line: variable, value (repeat), Enter, then select dimensions.
+pub(super) struct OverrideM {
+    vars: serde_json::Map<String, Value>,
+    var: Option<String>,
+    clear: bool,
+    selecting: Option<crate::cmd::machines::SelectPhase>,
+}
+
+impl OverrideM {
+    pub(super) fn new(_s: &Session) -> Self {
+        OverrideM { vars: serde_json::Map::new(), var: None, clear: false, selecting: None }
+    }
+    fn apply(&self, s: &mut Session, hs: Vec<Handle>) -> Result<Step> {
+        let mut p = self.vars.clone();
+        p.insert("handles".into(), json!(hs.iter().map(|h| h.hex()).collect::<Vec<_>>()));
+        if self.clear {
+            p.insert("clear".into(), json!(true));
+        }
+        let r = crate::cmd::props::dim_override(s, &Value::Object(p))?;
+        s.echo(format!("{} dimension(s) changed.", r.get("changed").and_then(Value::as_u64).unwrap_or(0)));
+        Ok(Step::Done)
+    }
+}
+
+impl Interactive for OverrideM {
+    fn name(&self) -> &'static str {
+        "DIMOVERRIDE"
+    }
+    fn prompt(&self, _s: &Session) -> Prompt {
+        if let Some(sel) = &self.selecting {
+            return sel.prompt();
+        }
+        match &self.var {
+            Some(v) => Prompt::new(format!("Enter new value for dimension variable {}", v.to_ascii_uppercase()), Accept::TEXT),
+            None => Prompt::new("Enter dimension variable name to override", Accept::TEXT).kw(&["Clear overrides"]),
+        }
+    }
+    fn input(&mut self, s: &mut Session, i: Input) -> Result<Step> {
+        if let Some(sel) = &mut self.selecting {
+            return match sel.feed(s, &i)? {
+                crate::cmd::machines::SelOutcome::More => Ok(Step::Continue),
+                crate::cmd::machines::SelOutcome::Empty => Ok(Step::Done),
+                crate::cmd::machines::SelOutcome::Done(hs) => self.apply(s, hs),
+            };
+        }
+        match (self.var.take(), i) {
+            (None, Input::Keyword(k)) if k.starts_with("Clear") => {
+                self.clear = true;
+                self.selecting = Some(crate::cmd::machines::SelectPhase::default());
+            }
+            (None, Input::Text(t)) => {
+                let t = t.trim().to_string();
+                if t.eq_ignore_ascii_case("c") {
+                    self.clear = true;
+                    self.selecting = Some(crate::cmd::machines::SelectPhase::default());
+                } else if cadcraft_doc::DimStyle::field_name(&t).is_some() {
+                    self.var = Some(t);
+                } else {
+                    s.echo(format!("Unknown dimension variable \"{t}\"."));
+                }
+            }
+            (None, Input::Enter) => {
+                if self.vars.is_empty() {
+                    return Ok(Step::Cancel);
+                }
+                self.selecting = Some(crate::cmd::machines::SelectPhase::default());
+            }
+            (Some(v), Input::Text(t)) => {
+                let val = t.trim().parse::<f64>().map(|x| json!(x)).unwrap_or_else(|_| json!(t.trim()));
+                self.vars.insert(v, val);
+            }
+            (Some(v), _) => self.var = Some(v),
+            _ => {}
+        }
+        Ok(Step::Continue)
+    }
+    fn preview(&self, _s: &Session, _c: Vec2) -> Vec<EntityKind> {
+        Vec::new()
+    }
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,363 @@
+use super::common::{DimText, add_dim, assoc_enabled, circle_of, dim, linear_kind, pick_at};
+use super::{
+    Accept, DimKind, Dimension, EngineError, EntityKind, Handle, Input, Interactive, Prim, Prompt, Result, Segment, Session, Step, Value, Vec2, bad,
+    json, point_req, points_param, str_param, v3,
+};
+
+pub(super) fn run_linear(s: &mut Session, p: &Value) -> Result<Value> {
+    let (a, b) = match p.get("object").and_then(|v| v.as_str().and_then(Handle::parse_hex).or_else(|| v.as_u64().map(Handle))) {
+        Some(h) => object_extent(s, h).ok_or_else(|| bad("dimlinear", "`object` must be a line, arc, circle or polyline segment"))?,
+        None => (point_req("dimlinear", p, "p1")?, point_req("dimlinear", p, "p2")?),
+    };
+    let at = point_req("dimlinear", p, "at")?;
+    let rot = p.get("rotation").and_then(Value::as_f64).map(f64::to_radians);
+    let k = dim(s, linear_kind(a, b, at, rot, false), at, a, b, Vec2::ZERO, str_param(p, "text").unwrap_or(""));
+    Ok(json!({ "handle": add_dim(s, k)?.hex() }))
+}
+
+pub(super) fn run_aligned(s: &mut Session, p: &Value) -> Result<Value> {
+    let a = point_req("dimaligned", p, "p1")?;
+    let b = point_req("dimaligned", p, "p2")?;
+    let at = point_req("dimaligned", p, "at")?;
+    let k = dim(s, DimKind::Aligned, at, a, b, Vec2::ZERO, str_param(p, "text").unwrap_or(""));
+    Ok(json!({ "handle": add_dim(s, k)?.hex() }))
+}
+
+pub(super) fn run_ordinate(s: &mut Session, p: &Value) -> Result<Value> {
+    let f = point_req("dimordinate", p, "feature")?;
+    let l = point_req("dimordinate", p, "leader")?;
+    let xtype = p.get("xtype").and_then(Value::as_bool).unwrap_or((l - f).y.abs() > (l - f).x.abs());
+    let k = dim(s, DimKind::Ordinate { x_type: xtype }, Vec2::ZERO, f, l, Vec2::ZERO, "");
+    Ok(json!({ "handle": add_dim(s, k)?.hex() }))
+}
+
+/// The last linear/aligned dimension (for CONTINUE/BASELINE).
+fn last_linear(s: &Session) -> Option<Dimension> {
+    let h = s.last_dim?;
+    match &s.doc().ok()?.entity(h)?.kind {
+        EntityKind::Dimension(d) if matches!(d.kind, DimKind::Linear { .. } | DimKind::Aligned) => Some(d.clone()),
+        _ => None,
+    }
+}
+
+/// Next dimension in a chain from `prev` to a new second origin.
+fn chained(s: &Session, prev: &Dimension, next: Vec2, baseline: bool) -> EntityKind {
+    // DIMDLI × the overall scale of the dimension being continued: its overrides (SETVAR DIM*)
+    // included, and DIMSCALE 0 falling back to the drawing's DIMSCALE as when it is drawn.
+    let spacing = s
+        .doc()
+        .ok()
+        .map(|d| {
+            let st = d.dim_style(&prev.style).cloned().unwrap_or_default().with_overrides(&prev.overrides);
+            st.baseline_spacing * st.effective_scale(d.header.f64("DIMSCALE", 1.0))
+        })
+        .filter(|v| v.is_finite())
+        .unwrap_or(0.38);
+    let dir = match prev.kind {
+        DimKind::Linear { rotation } => Vec2::from_angle(rotation),
+        _ => (prev.p14.xy() - prev.p13.xy()).normalized(),
+    };
+    let first = if baseline { prev.p13.xy() } else { prev.p14.xy() };
+    let mut defpt = prev.defpt.xy();
+    if baseline {
+        // Offset the dimension line away from the measured points.
+        let n = dir.perp();
+        let side = if (defpt - prev.p13.xy()).dot(n) >= 0.0 { 1.0 } else { -1.0 };
+        defpt += n * (spacing * side);
+    }
+    EntityKind::Dimension(Dimension {
+        p13: v3(first),
+        p14: v3(next),
+        defpt: v3(defpt),
+        text: String::new(),
+        block: None,
+        assoc: Vec::new(),
+        marks: Default::default(),
+        user_text_pos: false,
+        ..prev.clone()
+    })
+}
+
+/// Most dimensions one DIMCONTINUE/DIMBASELINE call adds.
+pub(super) const MAX_CHAIN: usize = 100_000;
+
+fn chain_run(s: &mut Session, p: &Value, baseline: bool) -> Result<Value> {
+    let id = if baseline { "dimbaseline" } else { "dimcontinue" };
+    let pts = p.get("points").and_then(Value::as_array).ok_or_else(|| bad(id, "`points` is required"))?;
+    if pts.len() > MAX_CHAIN {
+        return Err(bad(id, format!("at most {MAX_CHAIN} `points` per call")));
+    }
+    let pts = points_param(p, "points").ok_or_else(|| bad(id, "`points` must be a list of points"))?;
+    // One snap index for the whole chain: looking up each new point's object by scanning the
+    // drawing made long chains quadratic (the added dimensions are no snap targets).
+    let snaps = if assoc_enabled(s) { Some(crate::assoc::SnapIndex::new(s.doc()?, &s.space())) } else { None };
+    let mut out = Vec::new();
+    for q in pts {
+        let prev = last_linear(s).ok_or_else(|| bad(id, "no linear dimension to continue"))?;
+        let mut k = chained(s, &prev, q, baseline);
+        if let (Some(ix), EntityKind::Dimension(dm)) = (&snaps, &mut k) {
+            dm.assoc = ix.auto_assoc(&[("p13", dm.p13.xy()), ("p14", dm.p14.xy())]);
+        }
+        let h = s.add_entity(k)?;
+        s.last_dim = Some(h);
+        out.push(h.hex());
+    }
+    Ok(json!({ "handles": out }))
+}
+
+pub(super) fn run_continue(s: &mut Session, p: &Value) -> Result<Value> {
+    chain_run(s, p, false)
+}
+
+pub(super) fn run_baseline(s: &mut Session, p: &Value) -> Result<Value> {
+    chain_run(s, p, true)
+}
+
+/// The two points a picked object is dimensioned between (DIMLINEAR "select object").
+fn object_extent(s: &Session, h: Handle) -> Option<(Vec2, Vec2)> {
+    let e = s.doc().ok()?.entity(h)?;
+    if let Some((c, r)) = circle_of(s, h).filter(|_| matches!(e.kind, EntityKind::Circle(_))) {
+        return Some((c - Vec2::X * r, c + Vec2::X * r));
+    }
+    e.kind.prims().into_iter().find_map(|pr| match pr {
+        Prim::Seg(sg @ (Segment::Line(_) | Segment::Arc { .. })) => Some((sg.start(), sg.end())),
+        _ => None,
+    })
+}
+
+pub(super) struct LinearM {
+    aligned: bool,
+    pts: Vec<Vec2>,
+    rotation: Option<f64>,
+    text: DimText,
+    selecting: bool,
+    /// Asking for the dimension line angle (Rotated).
+    rotating: bool,
+}
+
+impl LinearM {
+    pub(super) fn new(aligned: bool) -> Self {
+        LinearM { aligned, pts: Vec::new(), rotation: None, text: DimText::default(), selecting: false, rotating: false }
+    }
+}
+
+impl Interactive for LinearM {
+    fn name(&self) -> &'static str {
+        if self.aligned { "DIMALIGNED" } else { "DIMLINEAR" }
+    }
+    fn prompt(&self, _s: &Session) -> Prompt {
+        if self.rotating {
+            return Prompt::new("Specify angle of dimension line", Accept::NUMBER);
+        }
+        if let Some(p) = self.text.prompt() {
+            return p;
+        }
+        if self.selecting {
+            return Prompt::new("Select object to dimension", Accept::POINT);
+        }
+        match self.pts.len() {
+            0 => Prompt::new("Specify first extension line origin", Accept::POINT).default("select object"),
+            1 => Prompt::new("Specify second extension line origin", Accept::POINT).base_opt(self.pts.first().copied()),
+            // Once the orientation is forced, only the text options remain.
+            _ if self.aligned || self.rotation.is_some() => {
+                Prompt::new("Specify dimension line location", Accept::POINT).kw(&["Mtext", "Text", "Angle"])
+            }
+            _ => Prompt::new("Specify dimension line location", Accept::POINT).kw(&["Mtext", "Text", "Angle", "Horizontal", "Vertical", "Rotated"]),
+        }
+    }
+    fn input(&mut self, s: &mut Session, i: Input) -> Result<Step> {
+        if self.rotating {
+            if let Input::Text(t) = &i {
+                let Some(r) = s.angle_settings().direction(t) else {
+                    s.echo("Requires a valid angle.");
+                    return Ok(Step::Continue);
+                };
+                self.rotation = Some(r);
+            }
+            self.rotating = false;
+            return Ok(Step::Continue);
+        }
+        if self.text.answer(s, &i) {
+            return Ok(Step::Continue);
+        }
+        if self.selecting {
+            if let Input::Point(p) = i {
+                let Some(h) = pick_at(s, p) else {
+                    s.echo("*Invalid selection*");
+                    return Ok(Step::Continue);
+                };
+                let seg =
+                    s.doc()?.entity(h).and_then(|e| e.kind.prims().into_iter().find_map(|pr| if let Prim::Seg(sg) = pr { Some(sg) } else { None }));
+                match seg {
+                    Some(sg @ Segment::Line(_)) | Some(sg @ Segment::Arc { .. }) => {
+                        self.pts = vec![sg.start(), sg.end()];
+                        self.selecting = false;
+                    }
+                    None => {
+                        if let Some((c, r)) = circle_of(s, h) {
+                            self.pts = vec![c - Vec2::X * r, c + Vec2::X * r];
+                            self.selecting = false;
+                        } else {
+                            s.echo("Object cannot be dimensioned this way.");
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+            return Ok(Step::Continue);
+        }
+        match (self.pts.len(), i) {
+            (0, Input::Enter) => {
+                self.selecting = true;
+                Ok(Step::Continue)
+            }
+            (n, Input::Point(p)) if n < 2 => {
+                self.pts.push(p);
+                Ok(Step::Continue)
+            }
+            (_, Input::Point(at)) => {
+                let (Some(&a), Some(&b)) = (self.pts.first(), self.pts.get(1)) else { return Ok(Step::Continue) };
+                let k = self.text.apply(dim(s, linear_kind(a, b, at, self.rotation, self.aligned), at, a, b, Vec2::ZERO, ""));
+                add_dim(s, k)?;
+                if let Some(EntityKind::Dimension(d)) = s.last_dim.and_then(|h| s.doc().ok()?.entity(h).map(|e| e.kind.clone())) {
+                    let st = s.doc()?.dim_style(&d.style).cloned().unwrap_or_default();
+                    let g = cadcraft_render::dimension_geometry(&d, &st, 1.0);
+                    s.echo(format!("Dimension text = {}", g.value));
+                }
+                Ok(Step::Done)
+            }
+            (_, Input::Keyword(k)) => {
+                match k.as_str() {
+                    "Horizontal" => self.rotation = Some(0.0),
+                    "Vertical" => self.rotation = Some(std::f64::consts::FRAC_PI_2),
+                    "Rotated" => self.rotating = true,
+                    other => {
+                        self.text.keyword(other);
+                    }
+                }
+                Ok(Step::Continue)
+            }
+            (_, Input::Enter) => Ok(Step::Cancel),
+            _ => Ok(Step::Continue),
+        }
+    }
+    fn preview(&self, s: &Session, c: Vec2) -> Vec<EntityKind> {
+        match self.pts.as_slice() {
+            [a] => vec![crate::cmd::helpers::line(*a, c)],
+            [a, b] => vec![self.text.apply(dim(s, linear_kind(*a, *b, c, self.rotation, self.aligned), c, *a, *b, Vec2::ZERO, ""))],
+            _ => Vec::new(),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+#[derive(Default)]
+pub(super) struct OrdinateM {
+    feature: Option<Vec2>,
+    /// Xdatum / Ydatum: the forced ordinate type (`true` = X datum).
+    xtype: Option<bool>,
+    text: DimText,
+}
+
+impl OrdinateM {
+    fn kind(&self, s: &Session, f: Vec2, l: Vec2) -> EntityKind {
+        let x = self.xtype.unwrap_or((l - f).y.abs() > (l - f).x.abs());
+        self.text.apply(dim(s, DimKind::Ordinate { x_type: x }, Vec2::ZERO, f, l, Vec2::ZERO, ""))
+    }
+}
+
+impl Interactive for OrdinateM {
+    fn name(&self) -> &'static str {
+        "DIMORDINATE"
+    }
+    fn prompt(&self, _s: &Session) -> Prompt {
+        if let Some(p) = self.text.prompt() {
+            return p;
+        }
+        match (self.feature, self.xtype) {
+            (None, _) => Prompt::new("Specify feature location", Accept::POINT),
+            (Some(f), None) => Prompt::new("Specify leader endpoint", Accept::POINT).kw(&["Xdatum", "Ydatum", "Mtext", "Text", "Angle"]).base(f),
+            (Some(f), Some(_)) => Prompt::new("Specify leader endpoint", Accept::POINT).kw(&["Mtext", "Text", "Angle"]).base(f),
+        }
+    }
+    fn input(&mut self, s: &mut Session, i: Input) -> Result<Step> {
+        if self.text.answer(s, &i) {
+            return Ok(Step::Continue);
+        }
+        match (self.feature, i) {
+            (None, Input::Point(p)) => {
+                self.feature = Some(p);
+                Ok(Step::Continue)
+            }
+            (Some(_), Input::Keyword(k)) => {
+                match k.as_str() {
+                    "Xdatum" => self.xtype = Some(true),
+                    "Ydatum" => self.xtype = Some(false),
+                    other => {
+                        self.text.keyword(other);
+                    }
+                }
+                Ok(Step::Continue)
+            }
+            (Some(f), Input::Point(l)) => {
+                add_dim(s, self.kind(s, f, l))?;
+                Ok(Step::Done)
+            }
+            (_, Input::Enter) => Ok(Step::Cancel),
+            _ => Ok(Step::Continue),
+        }
+    }
+    fn preview(&self, s: &Session, c: Vec2) -> Vec<EntityKind> {
+        self.feature.map(|f| vec![self.kind(s, f, c)]).unwrap_or_default()
+    }
+}
+
+pub(super) struct ChainM {
+    baseline: bool,
+    created: Vec<Handle>,
+}
+
+impl ChainM {
+    pub(super) fn new(_s: &Session, baseline: bool) -> Self {
+        ChainM { baseline, created: Vec::new() }
+    }
+}
+
+impl Interactive for ChainM {
+    fn name(&self) -> &'static str {
+        if self.baseline { "DIMBASELINE" } else { "DIMCONTINUE" }
+    }
+    fn begin(&mut self, s: &mut Session) -> Result<Step> {
+        if last_linear(s).is_none() {
+            s.echo("No linear dimension to continue. Create one with DIMLINEAR first.");
+            return Ok(Step::Done);
+        }
+        Ok(Step::Continue)
+    }
+    fn prompt(&self, s: &Session) -> Prompt {
+        Prompt::new("Specify a second extension line origin", Accept::POINT)
+            .kw(&["Select", "Undo"])
+            .default("Select")
+            .base_opt(last_linear(s).map(|d| if self.baseline { d.p13.xy() } else { d.p14.xy() }))
+    }
+    fn input(&mut self, s: &mut Session, i: Input) -> Result<Step> {
+        match i {
+            Input::Point(p) => {
+                let prev = last_linear(s).ok_or_else(|| EngineError::Other("no linear dimension".into()))?;
+                let k = chained(s, &prev, p, self.baseline);
+                self.created.push(add_dim(s, k)?);
+                Ok(Step::Continue)
+            }
+            Input::Keyword(k) if k == "Undo" => {
+                if let Some(h) = self.created.pop() {
+                    s.doc_mut()?.remove_entity(h);
+                    s.last_dim = self.created.last().copied();
+                }
+                Ok(Step::Continue)
+            }
+            Input::Enter => Ok(Step::Done),
+            _ => Ok(Step::Continue),
+        }
+    }
+    fn preview(&self, s: &Session, c: Vec2) -> Vec<EntityKind> {
+        last_linear(s).map(|d| vec![chained(s, &d, c, self.baseline)]).unwrap_or_default()
+    }
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,392 @@
+use super::common::style;
+use super::{
+    Accept, EngineError, EntityKind, Input, Interactive, LeaderOrder, MLeader, MLeaderOptions, MText, Prompt, Result, Session, Step, Value, Vec2,
+    bad, json, points_param, str_param, v3,
+};
+
+/// A multileader from arrowhead to landing; `landing` false leaves out the landing line (dogleg).
+fn mleader_kind(s: &Session, pts: &[Vec2], text: &str, landing: bool) -> Option<EntityKind> {
+    let (landing_pt, arrow_pts) = pts.split_last()?;
+    let d = s.doc().ok()?;
+    let cur = d.header.str("CMLEADERSTYLE", "Standard");
+    let st = d.mleader_styles.iter().find(|m| m.name.eq_ignore_ascii_case(&cur)).or(d.mleader_styles.first()).cloned().unwrap_or_default();
+    // The style's sizes are the drawn sizes: a multileader style has no scale of its own and
+    // DIMSCALE (a dimension-style setting) does not apply, as in AutoCAD.
+    let th = st.text_height;
+    let dir = if arrow_pts.first().is_some_and(|a| a.x > landing_pt.x) { -1.0 } else { 1.0 };
+    let attach = if dir > 0.0 { 4 } else { 6 };
+    let dogleg = if landing { st.dogleg } else { 0.0 };
+    let tpos = *landing_pt + Vec2::new((dogleg + st.landing_gap) * dir, 0.0);
+    Some(EntityKind::MLeader(MLeader {
+        leaders: vec![arrow_pts.iter().map(|p| v3(*p)).collect()],
+        landing: v3(*landing_pt),
+        dogleg,
+        text: (!text.is_empty()).then(|| MText {
+            insert: v3(tpos),
+            height: th,
+            width: 0.0,
+            attach,
+            rotation: 0.0,
+            style: st.text_style.clone(),
+            contents: text.replace('\n', "\\P"),
+            line_spacing: 1.0,
+            line_spacing_exact: false,
+            columns: None,
+        }),
+        style: st.name.clone(),
+        arrow_size: st.arrow_size,
+        spline: false,
+        block: None,
+    }))
+}
+
+pub(super) fn run_mleader(s: &mut Session, p: &Value) -> Result<Value> {
+    let pts = points_param(p, "points").ok_or_else(|| bad("mleader", "`points` (arrow … landing) is required"))?;
+    let content = crate::cmd::mleader_content::json_content(s, p)?;
+    // Leader type None places the content at the one point given.
+    if pts.len() < 2 && !(content.leader == crate::LeaderType::None && pts.len() == 1) {
+        return Err(bad("mleader", "need an arrowhead and a landing point"));
+    }
+    let k = mleader_kind(s, &pts, str_param(p, "text").unwrap_or(""), true).ok_or_else(|| bad("mleader", "bad points"))?;
+    let k = crate::cmd::mleader_content::apply(s, k, &content)?;
+    Ok(json!({ "handle": s.add_entity(k)?.hex() }))
+}
+
+pub(super) fn run_leader(s: &mut Session, p: &Value) -> Result<Value> {
+    let pts = points_param(p, "points").ok_or_else(|| bad("leader", "`points` is required"))?;
+    if pts.len() < 2 {
+        return Err(bad("leader", "need 2+ points"));
+    }
+    let st = style(s);
+    let h = s.add_entity(EntityKind::Leader(cadcraft_doc::Leader {
+        vertices: pts.iter().map(|q| v3(*q)).collect(),
+        arrow: true,
+        spline: false,
+        style: st,
+    }))?;
+    let mut out = vec![h.hex()];
+    if let (Some(t), Some(last)) = (str_param(p, "text"), pts.last()) {
+        let th = s.doc()?.dim_style(&style(s)).map(|d| d.text_height).unwrap_or(0.18);
+        out.push(
+            s.add_entity(EntityKind::MText(MText {
+                insert: v3(*last + Vec2::new(th * 0.5, th * 0.5)),
+                height: th,
+                width: 0.0,
+                attach: 4,
+                rotation: 0.0,
+                style: "Standard".into(),
+                contents: t.into(),
+                line_spacing: 1.0,
+                line_spacing_exact: false,
+                columns: None,
+            }))?
+            .hex(),
+        );
+    }
+    Ok(json!({ "handles": out }))
+}
+
+/// The MLEADER Options prompt being answered.
+#[derive(Clone, Copy, PartialEq)]
+enum LeaderOpt {
+    Menu,
+    LeaderType,
+    Landing,
+    ContentType,
+    MaxPoints,
+    FirstAngle,
+    SecondAngle,
+    BlockName,
+    BlockAttach,
+}
+
+/// Upper bound for MLEADER Maxpoints.
+const MAX_LEADER_POINTS: usize = 64;
+
+pub(super) struct MLeaderM {
+    order: LeaderOrder,
+    /// Points in the order they were placed.
+    pts: Vec<Vec2>,
+    /// All leader points are placed.
+    leader_done: bool,
+    /// The leader text once entered (Content first enters it before the leader).
+    text: Option<String>,
+    opt: Option<LeaderOpt>,
+    max_points: usize,
+    /// First and second angle constraints (radians; 0 = free).
+    angles: [f64; 2],
+    landing: bool,
+    content: bool,
+    leader_type: crate::LeaderType,
+    /// Block content: the block (`block_name`) instead of text.
+    block: bool,
+    block_name: String,
+    block_center: bool,
+}
+
+impl MLeaderM {
+    /// Starts with the order and Options chosen the last time (as AutoCAD does).
+    pub(super) fn new(s: &Session) -> Self {
+        let o = s.last_used.mleader;
+        let max_points = o.max_points.clamp(2, MAX_LEADER_POINTS);
+        MLeaderM {
+            order: o.order,
+            pts: Vec::new(),
+            leader_done: false,
+            text: None,
+            opt: None,
+            max_points,
+            angles: o.angles,
+            landing: o.landing,
+            content: o.content,
+            leader_type: o.leader_type,
+            // Block content needs a block that still exists.
+            block: o.block && s.doc().is_ok_and(|d| d.block(&s.last_used.mleader_block).is_some()),
+            block_name: s.last_used.mleader_block.clone(),
+            block_center: o.block_center,
+        }
+    }
+    /// Keep the order and Options for the next MLEADER.
+    fn remember(&self, s: &mut Session) {
+        s.last_used.mleader = MLeaderOptions {
+            order: self.order,
+            max_points: self.max_points,
+            angles: self.angles,
+            landing: self.landing,
+            content: self.content,
+            leader_type: self.leader_type,
+            block: self.block,
+            block_center: self.block_center,
+        };
+        s.last_used.mleader_block = self.block_name.clone();
+    }
+    /// The leader type and block content for `mleader_content::apply`.
+    fn content_spec(&self) -> crate::cmd::mleader_content::Content {
+        crate::cmd::mleader_content::Content {
+            leader: self.leader_type,
+            block: (self.content && self.block).then(|| (self.block_name.clone(), self.block_center)),
+        }
+    }
+    /// Leader type None: the one point placed is the content location.
+    fn no_leader(&self) -> bool {
+        self.leader_type == crate::LeaderType::None
+    }
+    /// The leader from arrowhead to landing, with `extra` placed next.
+    fn leader(&self, extra: Option<Vec2>) -> Vec<Vec2> {
+        let mut pts = self.pts.clone();
+        pts.extend(extra);
+        if self.order != LeaderOrder::Arrowhead {
+            pts.reverse();
+        }
+        pts
+    }
+    /// `p` with the first/second angle constraint applied to the segment it ends (counted from the
+    /// first point placed).
+    fn constrained(&self, p: Vec2) -> Vec2 {
+        let (Some(&prev), Some(&inc)) = (self.pts.last(), self.angles.get(self.pts.len().wrapping_sub(1))) else { return p };
+        let len = prev.dist(p);
+        if inc <= 1e-9 || !inc.is_finite() || len <= 1e-12 {
+            return p;
+        }
+        Vec2::polar(prev, len, ((p - prev).angle() / inc).round() * inc)
+    }
+    /// The text is asked now: right after the content location (Content first) or after the leader.
+    fn wants_text(&self) -> bool {
+        self.content
+            && !self.block
+            && self.text.is_none()
+            && (self.leader_done || (self.order == LeaderOrder::Content && self.pts.len() == 1 && !self.no_leader()))
+    }
+    fn finish(&self, s: &mut Session) -> Result<Step> {
+        if self.no_leader() && !self.content {
+            s.echo("A multileader needs a leader line or content; nothing was drawn.");
+            return Ok(Step::Cancel);
+        }
+        let text = self.text.clone().unwrap_or_default();
+        let k = mleader_kind(s, &self.leader(None), &text, self.landing).ok_or_else(|| EngineError::Other("bad leader".into()))?;
+        let k = crate::cmd::mleader_content::apply(s, k, &self.content_spec())?;
+        s.add_entity(k)?;
+        Ok(Step::Done)
+    }
+    fn option_prompt(o: LeaderOpt) -> Prompt {
+        let kw = crate::cmd::curves::KW;
+        match o {
+            LeaderOpt::Menu => Prompt::new("Enter an option", kw)
+                .kw(&["Leader type", "leader lAnding", "Content type", "Maxpoints", "First angle", "Second angle", "eXit options"])
+                .default("eXit options"),
+            LeaderOpt::LeaderType => Prompt::new("Select a leader type", kw).kw(&["Straight", "sPline", "None"]).default("Straight"),
+            LeaderOpt::Landing => Prompt::new("Use landing", kw).kw(&["Yes", "No"]).default("Yes"),
+            LeaderOpt::ContentType => Prompt::new("Select a content type", kw).kw(&["Block", "Mtext", "None"]).default("Mtext"),
+            LeaderOpt::MaxPoints => Prompt::new("Enter the maximum points for leader line", Accept::NUMBER),
+            LeaderOpt::FirstAngle => Prompt::new("Enter first angle constraint", Accept::NUMBER),
+            LeaderOpt::SecondAngle => Prompt::new("Enter second angle constraint", Accept::NUMBER),
+            LeaderOpt::BlockName => Prompt::new("Enter block name", kw),
+            LeaderOpt::BlockAttach => {
+                Prompt::new("Specify block attachment", kw).kw(&["Center extents", "Insertion point"]).default("Center extents")
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    /// One answer at the Options prompts; Enter keeps the current value.
+    fn option(&mut self, s: &mut Session, o: LeaderOpt, i: Input) -> Option<LeaderOpt> {
+        use LeaderOpt::*;
+        match (o, i) {
+            (Menu, Input::Keyword(k)) => match k.as_str() {
+                "Leader type" => Some(LeaderType),
+                "leader lAnding" => Some(Landing),
+                "Content type" => Some(ContentType),
+                "Maxpoints" => Some(MaxPoints),
+                "First angle" => Some(FirstAngle),
+                "Second angle" => Some(SecondAngle),
+                _ => None,
+            },
+            (Menu, Input::Enter) => None,
+            (LeaderType, Input::Keyword(k)) => {
+                self.leader_type = match k.as_str() {
+                    "sPline" => crate::LeaderType::Spline,
+                    "None" => crate::LeaderType::None,
+                    _ => crate::LeaderType::Straight,
+                };
+                Some(Menu)
+            }
+            (Landing, Input::Keyword(k)) => {
+                self.landing = k == "Yes";
+                Some(Menu)
+            }
+            (ContentType, Input::Keyword(k)) => {
+                self.content = k != "None";
+                self.block = false;
+                // Block content asks which block, then how it attaches.
+                if k == "Block" { Some(BlockName) } else { Some(Menu) }
+            }
+            (BlockName, Input::Text(t)) => match crate::cmd::mleader_content::block_name(s, &t) {
+                Ok(n) => {
+                    self.block_name = n;
+                    self.block = true;
+                    Some(BlockAttach)
+                }
+                Err(e) => {
+                    s.echo(e.to_string());
+                    Some(BlockName)
+                }
+            },
+            (BlockName, Input::Enter) => {
+                // Enter keeps the block chosen before, if there is one.
+                if crate::cmd::mleader_content::block_name(s, &self.block_name).is_ok() {
+                    self.block = true;
+                    Some(BlockAttach)
+                } else {
+                    s.echo("Requires the name of a block defined in the drawing.");
+                    Some(BlockName)
+                }
+            }
+            (BlockAttach, Input::Keyword(k)) => {
+                self.block_center = k == "Center extents";
+                Some(Menu)
+            }
+            (MaxPoints, Input::Text(t)) => match t.trim().parse::<usize>() {
+                Ok(n) if (2..=MAX_LEADER_POINTS).contains(&n) => {
+                    self.max_points = n;
+                    Some(Menu)
+                }
+                _ => {
+                    s.echo(format!("Requires an integer between 2 and {MAX_LEADER_POINTS}."));
+                    Some(MaxPoints)
+                }
+            },
+            (FirstAngle | SecondAngle, Input::Text(t)) => match s.angle_settings().amount(&t).filter(|a| *a >= 0.0) {
+                Some(a) => {
+                    self.angles[usize::from(o == SecondAngle)] = a;
+                    Some(Menu)
+                }
+                None => {
+                    s.echo("Requires a valid angle.");
+                    Some(o)
+                }
+            },
+            (Menu | LeaderType | Landing | ContentType | BlockAttach, Input::Text(_)) => {
+                s.echo("Invalid option keyword.");
+                Some(o)
+            }
+            (_, Input::Enter) => Some(Menu),
+            _ => Some(o),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl Interactive for MLeaderM {
+    fn name(&self) -> &'static str {
+        "MLEADER"
+    }
+    fn prompt(&self, _s: &Session) -> Prompt {
+        if let Some(o) = self.opt {
+            return Self::option_prompt(o);
+        }
+        if self.wants_text() {
+            return Prompt::new("Enter leader text", Accept::TEXT);
+        }
+        if self.no_leader() && self.pts.is_empty() {
+            let what = if self.content && self.block { "Specify location of the block" } else { "Specify location of the text" };
+            return Prompt::new(what, Accept::POINT).kw(&["Options"]).default("Options");
+        }
+        let last = self.pts.len() + 1 >= self.max_points;
+        match (self.pts.last(), self.order) {
+            (None, LeaderOrder::Arrowhead) => Prompt::new("Specify leader arrowhead location", Accept::POINT)
+                .kw(&["leader Landing first", "Content first", "Options"])
+                .default("Options"),
+            (None, LeaderOrder::Landing) => Prompt::new("Specify leader landing location", Accept::POINT)
+                .kw(&["leader arrowHead first", "Content first", "Options"])
+                .default("Options"),
+            (None, LeaderOrder::Content) => Prompt::new("Specify location of the text", Accept::POINT)
+                .kw(&["leader arrowHead first", "leader Landing first", "Options"])
+                .default("Options"),
+            (Some(&b), _) if !last => Prompt::new("Specify next point", Accept::POINT).base(b),
+            (Some(&b), LeaderOrder::Arrowhead) => Prompt::new("Specify leader landing location", Accept::POINT).base(b),
+            (Some(&b), _) => Prompt::new("Specify leader arrowhead location", Accept::POINT).base(b),
+        }
+    }
+    fn input(&mut self, s: &mut Session, i: Input) -> Result<Step> {
+        if let Some(o) = self.opt {
+            self.opt = self.option(s, o, i);
+            self.remember(s);
+            return Ok(Step::Continue);
+        }
+        if self.wants_text() {
+            self.text = Some(if let Input::Text(t) = i { t } else { String::new() });
+            return if self.leader_done { self.finish(s) } else { Ok(Step::Continue) };
+        }
+        match i {
+            Input::Point(p) => {
+                let p = self.constrained(p);
+                self.pts.push(p);
+                if self.pts.len() >= self.max_points || self.no_leader() {
+                    self.leader_done = true;
+                }
+            }
+            Input::Keyword(k) if self.pts.is_empty() => {
+                match k.as_str() {
+                    "leader Landing first" => self.order = LeaderOrder::Landing,
+                    "leader arrowHead first" => self.order = LeaderOrder::Arrowhead,
+                    "Content first" => self.order = LeaderOrder::Content,
+                    _ => self.opt = Some(LeaderOpt::Menu),
+                }
+                self.remember(s);
+            }
+            Input::Enter if self.pts.is_empty() => self.opt = Some(LeaderOpt::Menu),
+            // Enter at "next point" ends the leader at the last point.
+            Input::Enter if self.pts.len() >= 2 => self.leader_done = true,
+            Input::Enter => return Ok(Step::Cancel),
+            _ => {}
+        }
+        if self.leader_done && !self.wants_text() { self.finish(s) } else { Ok(Step::Continue) }
+    }
+    fn preview(&self, s: &Session, c: Vec2) -> Vec<EntityKind> {
+        if self.opt.is_some() || self.wants_text() || self.leader_done || self.pts.is_empty() {
+            return Vec::new();
+        }
+        let text = self.text.as_deref().unwrap_or("");
+        mleader_kind(s, &self.leader(Some(self.constrained(c))), text, self.landing)
+            .and_then(|k| crate::cmd::mleader_content::apply(s, k, &self.content_spec()).ok())
+            .into_iter()
+            .collect()
+    }
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+use super::common::{DimText, add_dim, circle_of, dim, pick_at, text_at};
+use super::{Accept, DimKind, EntityKind, Input, Interactive, Prompt, Result, Session, Step, Value, Vec2, bad, json, point_param, targets};
+
+fn radial(s: &mut Session, p: &Value, diameter: bool) -> Result<Value> {
+    let id = if diameter { "dimdiameter" } else { "dimradius" };
+    let (c, pt, at) = if let (Some(c), Some(pt)) = (point_param(p, "center"), point_param(p, "point")) {
+        (c, pt, None)
+    } else {
+        let h = targets(s, p)?.first().copied().ok_or_else(|| bad(id, "`handle` of a circle/arc, or {center, point}"))?;
+        let (c, r) = circle_of(s, h).ok_or_else(|| bad(id, "object is not a circle or arc"))?;
+        let at = point_param(p, "at");
+        let dir = at.unwrap_or(c + Vec2::from_angle(std::f64::consts::FRAC_PI_4));
+        (c, c + (dir - c).normalized() * r, at)
+    };
+    if c.near(pt, 1e-12) {
+        return Err(bad(id, "`point` must differ from `center`"));
+    }
+    let k = if diameter {
+        dim(s, DimKind::Diameter, c + (c - pt), Vec2::ZERO, Vec2::ZERO, pt, "")
+    } else {
+        dim(s, DimKind::Radius, c, Vec2::ZERO, Vec2::ZERO, pt, "")
+    };
+    let k = match at {
+        Some(at) => text_at(k, at),
+        None => k,
+    };
+    Ok(json!({ "handle": add_dim(s, k)?.hex() }))
+}
+
+pub(super) fn run_radius(s: &mut Session, p: &Value) -> Result<Value> {
+    radial(s, p, false)
+}
+
+pub(super) fn run_diameter(s: &mut Session, p: &Value) -> Result<Value> {
+    radial(s, p, true)
+}
+
+pub(super) struct RadialM {
+    diameter: bool,
+    target: Option<(Vec2, f64)>,
+    text: DimText,
+}
+
+impl RadialM {
+    pub(super) fn new(diameter: bool) -> Self {
+        RadialM { diameter, target: None, text: DimText::default() }
+    }
+    fn kind(&self, s: &Session, c: Vec2, r: f64, at: Vec2) -> EntityKind {
+        let pt = c + (at - c).normalized() * r;
+        let k = self.text.apply(if self.diameter {
+            dim(s, DimKind::Diameter, c + (c - pt), Vec2::ZERO, Vec2::ZERO, pt, "")
+        } else {
+            dim(s, DimKind::Radius, c, Vec2::ZERO, Vec2::ZERO, pt, "")
+        });
+        text_at(k, at)
+    }
+}
+
+impl Interactive for RadialM {
+    fn name(&self) -> &'static str {
+        if self.diameter { "DIMDIAMETER" } else { "DIMRADIUS" }
+    }
+    fn prompt(&self, _s: &Session) -> Prompt {
+        if let Some(p) = self.text.prompt() {
+            return p;
+        }
+        match self.target {
+            None => Prompt::new("Select arc or circle", Accept::POINT),
+            Some((c, _)) => Prompt::new("Specify dimension line location", Accept::POINT).kw(&["Mtext", "Text", "Angle"]).base(c),
+        }
+    }
+    fn input(&mut self, s: &mut Session, i: Input) -> Result<Step> {
+        if self.text.answer(s, &i) {
+            return Ok(Step::Continue);
+        }
+        match (self.target, i) {
+            (None, Input::Point(p)) => {
+                match pick_at(s, p).and_then(|h| circle_of(s, h)) {
+                    Some(t) => self.target = Some(t),
+                    None => s.echo("Object selected is not a circle or arc."),
+                }
+                Ok(Step::Continue)
+            }
+            (Some((c, r)), Input::Point(at)) => {
+                let k = self.kind(s, c, r, at);
+                add_dim(s, k)?;
+                Ok(Step::Done)
+            }
+            (Some(_), Input::Keyword(k)) => {
+                self.text.keyword(&k);
+                Ok(Step::Continue)
+            }
+            (_, Input::Enter) => Ok(Step::Cancel),
+            _ => Ok(Step::Continue),
+        }
+    }
+    fn preview(&self, s: &Session, c: Vec2) -> Vec<EntityKind> {
+        self.target.map(|(ctr, r)| vec![self.kind(s, ctr, r, c)]).unwrap_or_default()
+    }
+}
@@ -5,8 +5,11 @@ use cadcraft_doc::{DimBreak, DimKind, Dimension, EntityKind, Handle, Inspection,
 use cadcraft_geom::{Segment, Vec2};
 use serde_json::{Value, json};

-use super::machines::{SelOutcome, SelectPhase};
-use super::*;
+use super::super::helpers::v3;
+use super::super::machines::{SelOutcome, SelectPhase};
+use super::super::{CommandSpec, bad, bool_or, point_param, point_req, size_param, str_param, targets};
+use super::{DimText, add_dim, circle_of, dim, dims_of, pick_at};
+
 use crate::{Accept, Input, Interactive, Prompt, Result, Session, Step};

 /// Most objects DIMBREAK Auto looks at, and most breaks it adds to one dimension.
@@ -280,7 +283,7 @@ fn jogged_kind(s: &Session, c: Vec2, r: f64, center: Vec2, at: Vec2, jog: Option
    }
    let tip = c + dir * r;
    let jog = jog.unwrap_or_else(|| center.mid(tip));
-    let mut k = dim(s, DimKind::Radius, c, Vec2::ZERO, Vec2::ZERO, tip, Vec2::ZERO, text);
+    let mut k = dim(s, DimKind::Radius, c, Vec2::ZERO, Vec2::ZERO, tip, text);
    if let EntityKind::Dimension(dm) = &mut k {
        dm.marks.jogged = Some(JoggedRadius { center: v3(center), jog: v3(jog) });
        if at.dist(c) > r + 1e-9 {
@@ -6,8 +6,10 @@ use cadcraft_doc::{DimKind, EntityKind, Handle, Prim};
 use cadcraft_geom::{Segment, Vec2};
 use serde_json::{Value, json};

-use super::machines::{SelOutcome, SelectPhase};
-use super::*;
+use super::super::machines::{SelOutcome, SelectPhase};
+use super::super::{bad, point_param, point_req, points_param, str_param, targets};
+use super::{MAX_CHAIN, assoc_enabled, dim};
+
 use crate::{Accept, Input, Interactive, Prompt, Result, Session, Step};

 pub(super) const PARAMS: &str = "{handles?, at: [x,y] (dimension line position), mode?: continuous|staggered|baseline|ordinate|radius|diameter (default continuous), vertical?: bool (default: from `at`), datum?: [x,y] (baseline and ordinate; default the first point, or the origin for ordinate), add?: [[x,y]], remove?: [[x,y]] (dimension points; removes those within `tolerance`)}";
@@ -94,9 +96,9 @@ fn plan(
            let dir = if dir == Vec2::ZERO || !dir.is_finite() { Vec2::from_angle(std::f64::consts::FRAC_PI_4) } else { dir };
            let p = *c + dir * *r;
            out.push(if mode == Mode::Diameter {
-                dim(s, DimKind::Diameter, *c - dir * *r, Vec2::ZERO, Vec2::ZERO, p, Vec2::ZERO, "")
+                dim(s, DimKind::Diameter, *c - dir * *r, Vec2::ZERO, Vec2::ZERO, p, "")
            } else {
-                dim(s, DimKind::Radius, *c, Vec2::ZERO, Vec2::ZERO, p, Vec2::ZERO, "")
+                dim(s, DimKind::Radius, *c, Vec2::ZERO, Vec2::ZERO, p, "")
            });
        }
        if out.is_empty() {
@@ -129,7 +131,7 @@ fn plan(
            .iter()
            .map(|p| {
                let end = if vertical { Vec2::new(at.x, p.y) } else { Vec2::new(p.x, at.y) };
-                dim(s, DimKind::Ordinate { x_type: !vertical }, origin, *p, end, Vec2::ZERO, Vec2::ZERO, "")
+                dim(s, DimKind::Ordinate { x_type: !vertical }, origin, *p, end, Vec2::ZERO, "")
            })
            .collect());
    }
@@ -145,8 +147,7 @@ fn plan(
    let mid = bounds.center();
    let out_dir =
        if vertical { Vec2::new(if at.x >= mid.x { 1.0 } else { -1.0 }, 0.0) } else { Vec2::new(0.0, if at.y >= mid.y { 1.0 } else { -1.0 }) };
-    let lin =
-        |a: Vec2, b: Vec2, k: usize| dim(s, DimKind::Linear { rotation: rot }, at + out_dir * (step * k as f64), a, b, Vec2::ZERO, Vec2::ZERO, "");
+    let lin = |a: Vec2, b: Vec2, k: usize| dim(s, DimKind::Linear { rotation: rot }, at + out_dir * (step * k as f64), a, b, Vec2::ZERO, "");
    Ok(match mode {
        Mode::Baseline => {
            // From the datum (the point nearest it, by default the first) to every other point.
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ use serde_json::{Value, json};
 use super::helpers::{line, v3};
 use super::machines::{SelOutcome, SelectPhase, number};
 use super::modify::transform_entities;
-use super::*;
+use super::{CommandSpec, bad, bool_or, f64_or, find_command, point_param, point_req, str_param, targets};
+
 use crate::{Accept, EngineError, Input, Interactive, Prompt, Result, Session, Step};

 mod edit;
@@ -327,16 +328,19 @@ fn run_array(s: &mut Session, p: &Value) -> Result<Value> {
    (spec.run)(s, p)
 }

-/// A count parameter (at least 1).
-fn count_or(p: &Value, key: &str, default: u64) -> u64 {
-    p.get(key).and_then(Value::as_u64).unwrap_or(default).max(1)
+/// A count parameter (at least 1); a missing key gives the default, an invalid value is refused.
+fn count_or(cmd: &str, p: &Value, key: &str, default: u64) -> Result<u64> {
+    match p.get(key) {
+        None | Some(Value::Null) => Ok(default),
+        Some(v) => v.as_u64().filter(|n| *n >= 1).ok_or_else(|| bad(cmd, format!("`{key}` must be a whole number of at least 1"))),
+    }
 }

 fn run_arrayrect(s: &mut Session, p: &Value) -> Result<Value> {
    let hs = targets(s, p)?;
-    let rows = count_or(p, "rows", 3);
-    let cols = count_or(p, "cols", 4);
-    let levels = count_or(p, "levels", 1);
+    let rows = count_or("arrayrect", p, "rows", 3)?;
+    let cols = count_or("arrayrect", p, "cols", 4)?;
+    let levels = count_or("arrayrect", p, "levels", 1)?;
    check_size(s, rows.saturating_mul(cols).saturating_mul(levels), hs.len())?;
    let kind = ArrayKind::Rect(RectArray {
        cols: count32(cols),
@@ -359,9 +363,9 @@ fn run_arrayrect(s: &mut Session, p: &Value) -> Result<Value> {
 fn run_arraypolar(s: &mut Session, p: &Value) -> Result<Value> {
    let hs = targets(s, p)?;
    let c = point_req("arraypolar", p, "center")?;
-    let n = count_or(p, "count", 6);
-    let rows = count_or(p, "rows", 1);
-    let levels = count_or(p, "levels", 1);
+    let n = count_or("arraypolar", p, "count", 6)?;
+    let rows = count_or("arraypolar", p, "rows", 1)?;
+    let levels = count_or("arraypolar", p, "levels", 1)?;
    check_size(s, n.saturating_mul(rows).saturating_mul(levels), hs.len())?;
    let base = point_param(p, "base").or_else(|| s.doc().ok().and_then(|d| first_center(d, &hs))).unwrap_or(c);
    let row_spacing = f64_or(p, "rowSpacing", 1.0);
@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ use serde_json::{Value, json};

 use super::super::helpers::v3;
 use super::super::machines::{SelOutcome, SelectPhase, number};
-use super::super::*;
+use super::super::{CommandSpec, bad, bool_or, point_param, targets};
+
 use super::{KEYWORDS, angle, check_size, count, fmt, nesting, other, yes, yes_no};
 use crate::{Accept, Input, Interactive, Prompt, Result, Session, Step};

--- a/Show More
+++ b/Show More