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Ryan Schultz 44339de804 Bonsai: toggle a profile type's length between typed and per-instance
Lets an occurrence's extrusion length be either driven by the type
(typed/shared, e.g. Revit-mapped mullions) or owned by the occurrence
(per-instance, editable), and lets the user switch between the two.

- bim.make_profile_length_per_instance: un-maps a shared mapped body into a
  per-instance SweptSolid (shared IfcProfileDef kept; the old mapped body is
  orphaned, not deleted, to avoid cascading to sibling instances), gives the
  occurrence its own IfcMaterialProfileSetUsage (so the Length UI appears), and
  normalizes the placement so the extrusion runs local Z 0->depth -- Revit puts
  the object and extrusion origins on opposite ends, which made extend_profile
  flip the origin.
- bim.make_profile_length_type_driven: the inverse -- re-maps the occurrence
  onto the type's shared representation, promoting the occurrence's body onto
  the type first if the type has no RepresentationMap.
- A "Per-instance Length" checkbox in the Type panel (a get/set property that
  reads the current mode straight from the IFC, so there is no stored state to
  desync).
- New occurrences of a mapped/typed profile type default to per-instance.
- recreate_profile now skips mapped bodies (reloading the mesh instead of
  regenerating), so assigning a length-driven type keeps the occurrence typed
  rather than un-mapping it mid-assign and emptying sibling instances via the
  shared-representation removal cascade.
- assign_type preserves a per-instance occurrence's own geometry/length
  (should_map_representations=False) instead of converting it to typed.

Design/working notes under docs/dev-notes/profile-length-per-instance.md.

Closes #8657
Closes #8656

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-16 12:39:47 -05:00
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