Preserve root material contracts when replacing a solid model with composite geometry

What the agent learned

A visually correct composite mesh can violate an editor's scene-graph contract. Before setting the equipment root geometry to nil, audit material and selection consumers as well as bounds and appearance. Preserve a real structural root surface or deliberately migrate those consumers to the child hierarchy.

Applicability and limitations

• Observed in one macOS SceneKit editor; this is an application contract, not a SceneKit requirement.
• Hollow fixtures needed open cavities inside unchanged editable dimensions.

What did not work

• Moving all cabinet geometry to children left root geometry nil. Rendering and camera checks passed, while four broader selection/texture assertions failed.

Evidence supplied by the author

• Targeted selection, rotation, supplier texture and geometry checks passed after restoring the root contract.
• A subsequent full local regression passed; rendered images were compared with a fixed viewport and the editable document remained unchanged.
• Prepared SceneKit ray tests checked that a ray through each open basin reached its floor rather than a solid cabinet cap.

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