From 10f9b5357cac875a4053e9b5168bf59b53633782 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: AJ Isaacs <ajisaacs27@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2026 12:41:08 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] fix(engine): compute unused area from actual part areas

Calculate unused plate area by subtracting total part area from the
work area instead of relying on FillScore.UsableRemnantArea, which
could over-report available space.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 OpenNest.Engine/NestEngine.cs | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/OpenNest.Engine/NestEngine.cs b/OpenNest.Engine/NestEngine.cs
index a74e8ca..ca39d10 100644
--- a/OpenNest.Engine/NestEngine.cs
+++ b/OpenNest.Engine/NestEngine.cs
@@ -723,9 +723,13 @@ namespace OpenNest
 
             var score = FillScore.Compute(best, workArea);
             var clonedParts = new List<Part>(best.Count);
+            var totalPartArea = 0.0;
 
             foreach (var part in best)
+            {
                 clonedParts.Add((Part)part.Clone());
+                totalPartArea += part.BaseDrawing.Area;
+            }
 
             progress.Report(new NestProgress
             {
@@ -733,7 +737,7 @@ namespace OpenNest
                 PlateNumber = plateNumber,
                 BestPartCount = score.Count,
                 BestDensity = score.Density,
-                UsableRemnantArea = score.UsableRemnantArea,
+                UsableRemnantArea = workArea.Area() - totalPartArea,
                 BestParts = clonedParts
             });
         }