Replace the Terra scaffold with an independent configuration-space contact placer and bounded stock-plan search. Include plugin tests, synthetic and DXF benchmark drivers, results, and deployment documentation.
Correct shared collision clipping and hole subtraction so curved-hole inserts validate consistently. Cover translated layouts, spacing violations, operand order, winding, and independent boolean-area comparisons.
Validation: 1,293 tests passed with 12 fixture skips; all 34 synthetic/generated and four DXF cases are valid and complete.
Reusable Fill/, BestFit, RectanglePacking and CirclePacking components are
fair game; whole-engine delegation and run-all-pick-best stay banned.
Improvements to shared components go in the engine's own project and are
reported, not applied to OpenNest.Core/OpenNest.Engine.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Plugin engines (Opus55, Qwen, Terra) each add two projects at the repo
root, and more are coming; at a dozen they would outnumber the core
projects. They are also a different kind of thing: out-of-solution,
runtime-loaded plugins. Grouping them under Engines/ keeps the root
readable.
Engines/Directory.Build.props now holds the shared TFM, nullable and
implicit-usings settings and the OpenNest.Engine reference, so a new
engine's csproj is nearly empty. The tests/ compile exclusion lives in
Directory.Build.targets because a removal in .props runs before the SDK
adds its default Compile glob and has no effect.
Build-Engines.ps1 replaces the per-README manual build-and-copy steps
for deploying engines into the benchmark's runtime Engines/ folder.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Rename the OpenNest.Engine.Sonnet5 scaffold to OpenNest.Engine.Opus55 and
implement an independent whole-job INestingEngine (no built-in engine,
registry, or best-fit internals are called or copied).
- PartCatalog: snapshot perimeter -> polygon per allowed orientation, with
adaptive chord tolerance and MBR-aligned rotations for Automatic parts.
- NoFitCache: spacing footprints and cached Clipper2 Minkowski NFPs (convex
fast path; concave sweep plus both containment terms).
- FrontierPacker: per-(type, orientation) free regions (inner-fit rectangle
minus NFPs), updated incrementally; gap-fill-largest, else least front
advance per area^beta.
- Engine: look-ahead stock choice by estimated whole-job net area, six
deterministic variants, tail re-plan of the last 1-3 sheets.
- Tests judged by OpenNest.Benchmark's NestValidator, including an NFP
containment regression guard.
P260805-10.nest (219 parts), all 9 stock sizes: 219/219 valid, 27 sheets,
91.7% utilization, ~7 s.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three standalone INestingEngine plugin projects (Solve() unimplemented,
throws NotImplementedException), each outside OpenNest.sln and discovered
at runtime via NestingEngineRegistry.LoadPlugins, same pattern as
OpenNest.Engine.Aurora. Each README spells out that Solve() must be an
independently designed placement algorithm and must never call/wrap/select
over the built-in engines (StockLadderNestingEngine, FixedStrategyNestingEngine,
PlateNesterFactory, NestingEngineRegistry).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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