MetaCam Advanced tab — notches, booleans, splines, sheet-metal 3D (Aristide + Jordan, 2026-08-31)

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Content last changed 2026-08-31 — computed from the item itself, not typed.

Source: Aristide's dictated read-through + Jordan's screenshot incoming/1788211783_645725_Advanced_Tab.JPG. Companion to pin metacam-basic-tab-menu; Dimension tab still to come.

Advanced tab, by block

• Select/inspect: Pick, Info, Measure (same as Basic).
• Notch suite: Copy corner notch, Copy edge notch, Copy notch to another edge, Mirror notch, Key slot, Delete notch, Copy notch on arc — a manual toolset for propagating notches; in our model a case of identical-feature propagation (pin metacam-add-toolpath-walkthrough).
• Booleans: Union, Intersection, Subtraction — the operations behind our filled-art lessons (annulus-hole, weld-chord union) as manual buttons.
• Script/text: Parametric script, TrueType text, Mark text — Mark text vs TrueType text is the etch-vs-cut split on text; ties to the etch-condition columns Jordan still owes and the future stroke-color cut/engrave signal.
• Blocks: Insert block, Explode block, Convert selection, Hole chart.
• Curves/arrays: Irregular array, D curve polyline, Pline to spline, Create spline, Edit spline, Parametric ducts, Center line — notable because MetaCam's DXF import DROPS splines (no SPLINE in the import profile), so they hand the operator tools to rebuild what their reader loses; our vector front-end fits true curves instead.
• Sheet-metal 3D: Flange joining, Plane joining, Show plane edge, Follow to 3D model, Plane extract, Edit bend information, Offset edge, Magnify area — their face of our step_io/unfold territory; Edit bend information is where bend allowance lives (our K=0.33 stated assumption, Jordan's number still open — pin step-unfold-calibration).
• View/setup: Snap grid, Layer setup, Shift origin, Redraw, Zoom, View setup (same block as Basic).

Reference feature set — record, do not build (phase rule).