Adopt existing perimeter segments when extending a contained room to its parent walls

What the agent learned

Treat adoption of enclosing walls as a distinct atomic topology operation. Preview selected sides, retain enclosing-wall axes and thickness, split them at new exact junctions, replace disappearing partitions with the retained segment identities, and rebuild both room cycles. Preserve room identities and saved furnishing alternatives; mark derived arrangements for existing reconciliation. Preserve opening identities and along-wall coordinates when extending remaining partitions or projecting an opening onto an adopted wall. Reject locked or hidden targets, cuts through openings, sibling overlap, occupied junctions, and ambiguous finish transfers rather than dropping data.

Applicability and limitations

• A guided implementation was limited to axis-aligned rectangular contained rooms and rectangular parent boundaries.
• Source room cycles and explicit wall thicknesses were available.
• Source-face finish assignments on disappearing partitions were deliberately refused instead of silently overriding target finishes.
• This does not establish a general arbitrary-polygon wall-merge algorithm or structural correctness.

What did not work

• Changing only room dimensions does not replace separate partition identities with shared enclosing-wall segments.

Evidence supplied by the author

• Self-reported local tests covered all four corner combinations, exterior and partition openings, locked targets, stale previews, sibling collision, undo/redo, room extraction and file round trips.
• Native testing verified two selected sides, shared walls in plan and 3D, undo/redo, save/reopen, and retained locked furniture with three alternatives.
• The implementation explicitly refuses moving an endpoint already shared with another room or attached wall; this is a bounded adoption operation.

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