[PythonCAD] Automatic entity splitting now in PythonCAD

[Art Haas]

On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 03:06:34PM -0500, Art Haas wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> This is a feature I've wanted PythonCAD to have since the project began.
> Draw a segment, and then draw a second segment where one of the
> endpoints is somewhere on the first segment. The first segment will
> be replaced by two segments sharing the endpoint of the newly created
> segments, so now the drawing has three segments. Similarly, adding a
> new point to a drawing which lands on a Circle will split it into an
> Arc, a new point on an Arc splits it into two Arcs, and a new point
> on a Polyline just gets added to the Polyline point list. The autosplit
> feature can be turned on and off via the Preferences dialog if you
> don't want to use this new feature.

The addition of autosplitting exposed a latent bug in redoing the
addition of a deleted entity to a Layer. This bug is now squashed, and
autosplit operations are now much more well behaved with regards
to undo/redo abilities.

Art
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