From 3248cc75804c81671317141cf977dfa381901b88 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ryan Schultz <ryan@openingdesign.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2026 11:45:38 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Fix stale object reference crash in measure tool snapping

Drop deleted Blender objects from the snap cache before comparing
names. Accessing an attribute on a removed object raised
ReferenceError ("StructRNA of type Object has been removed"),
crashing detect_snapping_points after an object was deleted.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 src/bonsai/bonsai/tool/raycast.py | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/bonsai/bonsai/tool/raycast.py b/src/bonsai/bonsai/tool/raycast.py
index 68402260cd..56f73083e7 100644
--- a/src/bonsai/bonsai/tool/raycast.py
+++ b/src/bonsai/bonsai/tool/raycast.py
@@ -969,6 +969,17 @@ class Raycast(bonsai.core.tool.Raycast):
     def create_snap_obj(cls, obj):
         if obj.data is None or not isinstance(obj.data, bpy.types.Mesh):
             return None
+        # Drop cache entries whose Blender object has been deleted. Accessing any
+        # attribute on a removed object raises ReferenceError ("StructRNA ... has
+        # been removed"), so test validity before comparing names below.
+        valid_snap_objs = []
+        for snap_obj in cls.snap_objs:
+            try:
+                snap_obj.obj.name
+            except ReferenceError:
+                continue
+            valid_snap_objs.append(snap_obj)
+        cls.snap_objs[:] = valid_snap_objs
         for i, snap_obj in enumerate(cls.snap_objs):
             if obj.name == snap_obj.obj.name:
                 # Handle objects modified while a modal operator is active.