The full pipeline¤

The other pages read a finished model. This is where it comes from: a chain of examples, each reading the JSON the one before it wrote.

python tools/run_examples.py            # all of them
python tools/run_examples.py 8 9 10     # only those, by number

The runner suppresses the viewer window but still builds the scene, so broken geometry still raises, and it rewrites everything in data/.

Example	Reads	Writes
`1_floorguide`	the parameters	`floorguide.json`
`2_column_model`	`floorguide`	`column_model.json`
`3_columns_model`	`floorguide`, `column_model`	`columns_model.json`
`4_quarters`	`floorguide`	`quarter_model`, `quarters_model`
`5_oculus`	`floorguide`	`oculus_model.json`
`6_contacts_floor`	`quarters_model`, `oculus_model`	`floor_model.json`
`7_contacts_cantilever`	`quarter_model`, `column_model`	`cantilever_model.json`
`8_contacts_cantilevers`	`floor_model`, `columns_model`	`cantilevers_model.json`
`9_wedge_connector`	-	the wedge connector on its own
`10_shoring`	`floorguide`	`shoring_model.json`
`11_full`	`cantilever_model`, `shoring_model`	`full_model.json`
`12`, `13`, `14`, `16`	`cantilevers_model`	the parts laid out flat for fabrication

Step 8 is the whole building: 237 elements, four quarters on four columns, everything cut and bolted.

18_write_model_and_brep is the hinge. It bakes that model - every boolean evaluated once and stored - searches every element pair for contacts on the Brep faces, and writes the four files the reading pages open:

cantilevers_baked_model.json      3.9 MB
cantilevers_baked_model.stp      19.5 MB
cantilevers_baked_contacts.stp    4.7 MB
cantilevers_baked_contacts.json   201 KB

It is the only step that runs a boolean, and the only one that needs a boolean backend. Everything downstream just opens files.