nEVEn: Model Scanner & Dashboard

Overview

Upon completing the forensic scan, nEVEn automatically launches the Results Dashboard. This is not a passive report; it is an interactive mission control center where users inspect real-time project strain, pinpoint performance bottlenecks, and execute guided optimizations.

1. Top Header & Supervision Banner

• Top Header: Features the central nEVEn brand anchor flanked by dynamic capability titles that smoothly cycle through core feature domains (e.g., Model Scanner, Crash Protection, Guided Actions, Design Checkpoints).
• Supervision Banner: Displays the live watch state, indicating the countdown to the next automated scan prompt or manual rescan availability.

The Adaptive Background Supervision & Cadence Engine:

Unlike naive background tools that run on fixed timers and freeze your computer during heavy modeling, nEVEn features an intelligent Adaptive Cadence Engine that continuously adjusts its watch loops based on model condition and workstation responsiveness:

1. Model-Aware Baseline Cadence:

• Stable Model State (Green): Background check runs gently every 30 minutes (1800s), staying completely out of your drafting flow.
• Caution State (Amber): Watch cadence tightens to 25 minutes (1500s) to monitor accumulating strain.
• Critical Watchdog State (Cyberpunk Red): When a model enters dangerous strain levels, nEVEn activates a 5-minute Watchdog loop (300s) to monitor project memory and intercept crashes before a fatal BugSplat occurs.

1. Scan-Duration Adaptive Scaling (The Heavy-Model Cadence Rule):

nEVEn measures the exact duration of each diagnostic scan. If a massive architectural project requires extra time to analyze, the supervision engine intelligently scales back its frequency so your workstation CPU remains 100% responsive:

• Fast Scans (< 20s): Standard 1.0× baseline cadence.
• Deep Scans (20s - 34s): Automatically applies a 2.0× multiplier (e.g., doubling the interval to 60 minutes in Stable, 10 minutes in Critical).
• Heavy Scans (34s - 60s): Automatically applies a 3.0× multiplier (tripling the interval).
• Massive Scans (> 60s): Automatically applies a 4.0× multiplier (quadrupling the interval).

1. Anti-Hitch Safe Deferrals:

• Dialog-Open Protection: If you are actively configuring settings, inspecting cards, or running a manual sync, background supervision safely defers itself with a 30-second backoff (blocked) - never interrupting active cursor input.
• Large-Model Startup Guard: On heavy models exceeding 120 MB, nEVEn automatically extends the initial startup scan delay to 120 seconds (compared to standard 60 seconds), allowing SketchUp's viewport and textures to fully settle before running diagnostics.

2. Top-Row Controls: Session & Statistics

A. Session Card (Top-Left)

Provides immediate identity and file-level shortcuts:

• Authority: Active PC user account / machine profile.
• Project & File Size: Displays the active model title and .skp file size on disk. If the active model has never been saved, this displays Unsaved.
• [Save] / [Not Saved] Action Button: Allows the user to instantly save the active model to disk directly from the dashboard without closing the dialog. If the model is unsaved, clicking this triggers the native save dialog. Saving the project is strongly advised, as file-based features such as Texture Optimization require a saved .skp file path to operate. If an unsaved session exceeds 34 minutes, the button activates an animated warning pulse to prevent accidental work loss.
• Location & [Locate] Button: Displays the storage directory. Clicking [Locate] immediately opens the containing folder in Windows Explorer or macOS Finder (hidden if the model is unsaved).

B. Statistics Card & System Profile (Top-Right)

Plots hardware strain, resource distribution, and model health:

• Dual-Percentage Bars (Geometry & Texture):

Each row contains two distinct percentage readouts:

1. Category Share % (Top-Right of Row): Displays the total domain share against overall model load. Hovering displays: "Geometry / Texture share of total model load."
2. Core Overlap Badge (Inside the Fill Bar): An inner badge indicating the proportion of that category consumed by the single heaviest asset. Hovering displays: "Core geometry / Core texture share of total..."

• Dual Circular Gauges (Right Side):
• LOAD % Ring: Measures total hardware capacity consumed across geometry, textures, and data overhead. Hovering displays: "Overall model load from geometry, textures, and model data."
• HEALTH % Ring: Measures authoritative model integrity (0-100%). Penalties from duplicate groups, loose edges, and uncompressed textures reduce this score. Hovering displays: "Overall model condition after efficiency and severity penalties."

• Performance Profile Signal Icon (Aligned with Statistics : Heading):

Displays a dynamic signal bar icon reflecting the hardware profile assigned by nEVEn based on detected PC specifications:

• 1 Signal Bar: Conservative Profile - Tuned for entry-level systems or laptops with tighter memory limits.
• 2 Signal Bars: Balanced Profile - Tuned for standard professional workstations.
• 3 Signal Bars: Extended Profile - Tuned for high-end rendering workstations allowing larger geometry and texture budgets.

The Hardware Performance Profile Calibration Matrix:

nEVEn dynamically scales safe modeling headroom according to the detected workstation tier:

Core Asset (Single Heavy Container) Sensitivity Thresholds:

Beyond overall polygon counts, nEVEn detects when an individual group or component monopolizes workstation capacity:

• Candidate Asset: An object crossing 70,000-130,000 faces or consuming more than 16%-22% of total category load.
• Caution Asset: An object crossing 100,000-200,000 faces or consuming more than 22%-30% of category load.
• Critical Asset: A single massive container crossing 134,000-300,000 faces (or 200,000-450,000 edges), immediately triggering Core Object focus and pulsing alert indicators.

• Hover Tooltip Card: Hovering over the signal icon reveals the complete live system allocation breakdown:
• System: Detected System RAM, GPU VRAM, and Active Profile.
• Geometry Limits: Safe Edge and Face limits for the active machine.
• Texture Limits: Caution threshold (34 MB), Critical threshold (100 MB), and Total Texture Budget.

3. Middle-Row Controls: Geometry Card

Audits architectural structure, container hierarchy, and polygon distribution:

• Core Object & [FIND] Action:
• Entity Identification: Detects the single heaviest group or component dominating geometric memory.
• [FIND] Action Button: Clicking immediately selects the core object in SketchUp and smoothly centers/zooms the viewport camera onto it.

• Groups (Unique vs. Duplicate Copies):
• Primary Metric (Left): Count of unique groups created in the model.
• Secondary Metric (Right Badge): Count of duplicate group copies (redundant geometry that should ideally be structured as reusable components).

• Components (Definitions vs. Placed Instances):
• Primary Metric (Left): Count of unique component definitions registered in the model database.
• Secondary Metric (Right Badge): Total number of placed component instances active across the project.

• Geometry Load & Capacity Utilization:
• Rating: Qualitative health rating (Low, Moderate, High, or Extreme).
• Capacity % (Right Badge): Proportion of the machine's geometric limit utilized by faces, edges, and model detail.

• Cube Header Icon (Pulsing Alert & Details Tooltip):
• Dynamic Alert Pulse: If geometric defects or excessive polygon density are responsible for a Caution or Critical model state, this icon pulses with a real-time alert animation.
• Hover Tooltip Card: Hovering reveals the deep Core Object breakdown:
• Name: Complete identifier of the detected asset.
• Edges & Faces: The exact polygon count of this single Core Object (pinpointing how dense this specific entity is).
• Object Headroom %: Safe capacity remaining before this single entity exceeds single-asset safety thresholds.
• Model Headroom %: Overall geometric capacity remaining across the entire SketchUp project based on the active performance profile.

4. Middle-Row Controls: Materials Card

Audits mapped material swatches, high-resolution textures, and GPU memory footprint:

• Core Texture & Image File Size:
• Primary Label (Left): Identifies the filename of the single heaviest texture map in the active model.
• Secondary Badge (Right): Displays the exact image file size on disk for this texture.

• Material & [Select] Action Button:
• Material Swatch: Displays the active SketchUp material holding the core texture.
• [Select] Action Button: Instantly activates that material in SketchUp's material tray, selects the primary host object wearing it, and smoothly zooms the viewport camera onto it.

• Material Count (Total vs. Heavy Texture Badges):
• Primary Metric (Left): Total count of unique active materials mapped in the model.
• Secondary Alert Badges (Right): Color-coded counts of remaining high-strain textures (evaluated across Resolution, VRAM, and Disk Size):
• Amber Badge: Textures crossing Caution thresholds (e.g., 2K to 4K resolution [2,048-4,096 px], elevated VRAM, or heavy disk footprint).
• Red Badge: Textures crossing Critical thresholds (e.g., 8K+ resolution [8,192 px+], extreme VRAM exhaustion, or massive file weight).

• Texture Memory & Budget Utilization:
• Memory Display (Left): Total memory consumed across all mapped textures in the project.
• Budget % (Right Badge): Proportion of the active system's safe texture memory budget utilized by the model.

• Materials Header Icon (External Viewer & Pulsing Alert):
• Dynamic Alert Pulse: If uncompressed or oversized textures are responsible for a Caution or Critical model state, this icon pulses with an alert animation.
• 1-Click External Viewer: Clicking the icon immediately launches the Core Texture image in the operating system's default photo/image viewer for instant visual inspection.

5. Advisory Center, Telemetry & Stability Analytics

A. The Diagnosis & Action Center

Positioned centrally, this intelligent advisory card delivers instant operational clarity:

• The Reason: Plainly identifies what is currently affecting the model's condition or performance in everyday, non-technical language.
• ACTION: Directive: Recommends the immediate next step (such as structuring duplicate groups into components, running model cleanup, managing heavy textures, or saving active work) to maintain smooth viewport responsiveness and stability.
• Dynamic Live-State Invalidation (No Stale Telemetry):

To guarantee that architects never make design decisions based on outdated diagnostic numbers, this advisory card automatically updates its message in real time whenever model changes occur - without needing to close or reload the window:

• Post-Texture Optimization: "Texture optimization has finished, but active scan results are now outdated. ACTION: Please run a fresh rescan with purge and save to update the active model report."
• Material Deletions: "[X] materials have been deleted from the model, which makes active scan results outdated. ACTION: Please run a fresh rescan with purge and save to update the active model report."
• New Texture Imports: "New textures have been imported, which makes the active scan results outdated. ACTION: Please run a fresh rescan with purge and save to update the active model report."
• Active Geometry Modifications: "Model changes detected, which makes active scan results outdated. ACTION: Please run a fresh rescan with purge and save to update the active model report."

B. Telemetry Lifecycle & Ticker Toggle

Directly above the footer sits the live system telemetry bar:

• The 3.4-Second Launch Sequence:

When the dashboard first opens, the bar prominently displays SESSION ACTIVE : X MIN for exactly 3.4 seconds to provide an immediate heads-up on active session duration before smoothly fading to auto-reveal the multi-line SVG Telemetry Graph.

• ▸ nEVEn Graph Toggle:

Users can click the arrow at any time to collapse the graph and switch to the cycling Telemetry Ticker. Clicking again smoothly restores the graph.

• Cycling Telemetry Ticker:

In its collapsed state, the bar transitions through live operational metrics using smooth 3D text flips:

• Session Active Time
• Model Confidence %
• Scans Run in Session
• Texture Strain %
• Average Scan Duration (sec/min)
• Texture Memory Footprint
• Geometry Strain %

C. The Info Icon (ⓘ) & About Modal

• Update Detection Blink: If an active internet connection detects a newer nEVEn release build, the info icon activates an alert pulse to inform the user that an update is available.
• About Modal: Clicking the icon opens the About window displaying the software edition, active build version, and direct support/upgrade shortcuts ([GET PRO], [SUPPORT], [CLOSE]).
• Free Tier Lifetime Limits (? Tooltip): In the Free Edition, advanced tools display a Limited Access ? status. Hovering over the question mark opens the Free Access Limits card tracking remaining lifetime quotas:
• Find Targets: Remaining quota (e.g., 5 of 5 Left).
• Find & Select: Remaining quota (e.g., 10 of 10 Left).
• Texture Optimization: Remaining quota (e.g., 5 of 5 Left).

(All advanced tools are completely unlimited in nEVEn Pro Edition).

D. Crash Risk Indicator

• Crash Risk : XX%: A predictive stability metric dynamically calculated from active GPU VRAM exhaustion, system RAM headroom, and geometric density. It provides an empirical risk estimate of viewport instability or BugSplat vulnerability, serving as an early caution rather than an absolute guarantee of application failure.

6. Session Logs (The Model Black Box)

A. Overview

Clicking View Session Log (bottom-left of the Results Dashboard) opens the model's complete internal audit, revealing exactly which container, component definition, high-resolution texture, or third-party extension data is responsible.

B. The Interactive On-Screen Report (Session Report Modal)

To keep SketchUp responsive and prevent screen freezes on large architectural files, the report is organized into lightweight, collapsible sections (▾):

• Session Summary: Active model status (Critical, Caution, Stable), primary issue category, file size on disk, active session time, and total lifetime hours spent on the project.
• Change Since Previous Scan: Activates on subsequent scans within the session to display net differences across four core metrics: Geometry objects (+ / -), Texture count (+ / -), Geometry Load % (+ / -), and Texture Memory (+ / - MB).
• Status Reasons Table: Itemized list of active model warnings, detailing the specific category (Texture, Geometry, Stability, Storage) and exact severity.
• Geometry Inventory Table: Audits core assets, unique groups vs. duplicate copies, components vs. placed instances, and lists the heaviest 3D objects with face and edge counts.
• Texture Inventory Table: Lists the heaviest texture files in the project with image filenames, disk sizes, and pixel dimensions (e.g., 2K, 4K, 8K+).
• Embedded Extension & Renderer Data: Audits hidden third-party extension database tables and external renderer environments (such as render engine HDRIs, proxies, and unused plugin clutter). (Note: SketchUp's Native Purge cannot touch this hidden dictionary bloat; only nEVEn Absolute Purge safely removes it (> 1 MB) with explicit user permission).
• Display Capping Note: To maintain fluid viewport performance, the on-screen table displays the top heaviest assets, noting remaining items: ... (+ X additional assets recorded in [ COPY LOG ]).

C. [COPY LOG] Action (Direct Support Diagnostic)

Positioned at the bottom-left of the modal, [COPY LOG] copies the complete, unshortened technical audit directly to the system clipboard.

If your model is experiencing persistent lag or unexpected crashes, you can paste and email this diagnostic log to support@n1leshtools.com for immediate developer troubleshooting - allowing root-cause analysis without requiring you to share confidential 3D project files.

7. Action Controls & Dedicated Workflows

The remaining footer action buttons in the main dashboard trigger specialized workflows covered in dedicated guides:

• [RESCAN]: Launches the RESCAN panel to apply automated model hygiene (Edge Cleanup, Deep Edge Cleanup, Native Purge, Absolute Purge, and Auto-Save) before refreshing diagnostic scores (detailed in 06_rescan.md).
• [FIND TARGETS]: Launches the Target Tracing engine to locate, center, and highlight high-strain geometry and texture assets directly in the 3D viewport (detailed in 05_find_targets.md).
• [OPTIMIZE]: Opens the OPTIMIZE Panel for in-place texture compression (downscaling 4K/8K to clean 2K/1K) and batch material cleanup (detailed in 04_optimize.md).
• [STANDBY] / [ACKNOWLEDGE]: Closes the dashboard while maintaining nEVEn's active background supervision (Standby for critical oversight, Acknowledge for monitored workflow).

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