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VectorCraft had no Objects on Path. A click with the Objects on Path tool attaches the selected objects to the path clicked. The tool is in Edit Toolbar's Modify section and the Blend tool's flyout, and Object › Objects on Path › Attach and the context menu with two or more objects selected choose it. The objects and the path go into an Objects on Path group with the path at its bottom. - object.objectsOnPath.attach orders the objects column by column from left to right and top to bottom in each column. The first one sits on the path's first anchor, the last one sits on the end of an open path, and the rest are spread evenly by length; a closed path takes them all the way round. Each object's attachment point (Pivot, one of nine, default the center of its bounds without strokes) sits on the path, and the object is turned to the path there. An object that was rotated by an angle other than a multiple of 90° is first turned to the nearest multiple of 90°. Rotate tilts every object by that many degrees counter-clockwise. Symbol instances are measured by their art. Guides, compound paths, type, paths without length and graphs are refused with a reason. - After every edit the objects go back on the path: editing the path moves them, an object moved on its own goes back, and objects moved into or out of the group in the Layers panel join the end of the path or leave it. Scaling, shearing or reflecting the whole group keeps each object's scale, shear or reflection, and the objects are spread evenly along the transformed path again. Undo takes the path and the objects back in one step, and a copied group stays live on its own path. - object.objectsOnPath.options changes Pivot and Rotate, and object.objectsOnPath.expand leaves a plain group. Both act on the groups that `ids` names, or on the groups of the selection when `ids` is not given. - The native file keeps the group live; SVG, PDF and the other exports write plain art. The tool highlights the path under the pointer, has a cursor entry, and Escape during a press cancels the click. Part of #2545 Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.