An empty canvas corner gave no sign of whether a check was still running,
which matters on large nests. A Layout section beside utilization now
follows the automatic check: checking, OK, or findings in red, with the
full wording in its tooltip. It has its own label so rechecks never
replace the last command's status text.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Drop the check mark: a clear result, and an automatic recheck after one,
now draw nothing. Findings and failed, canceled or incomplete checks keep
their text, and views without automatic rechecks keep their pending text.
The status bar still reports a manual check's result.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A pending or running recheck no longer swaps the green check for status
text. A clear result stays as a gray check, and earlier findings stay as
dimmed text, neither of which claims anything about the edited layout.
Views without automatic rechecks still ask for a manual check.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The overlap check now runs the pre-post part spacing scan on its snapshot,
so the canvas label and posting agree. Too-close pairs are counted in the
label and marked with an orange ring showing the gap, with hover details.
A fully checked plate with no findings draws a green check instead of
text; the status bar keeps the wording. Changing the plate's part spacing
now stales the report, and repeated parts share one offset outline so
automatic rechecks stay fast.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Fill engine rename changed McpFillToolsWithoutAnEngineUseFill to
...UseLattice, so the acceptance check failed on a missing test.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
"Fill" said nothing about what the engine does, since every engine fills.
It is now Lattice, and Fill stays an alias, so saved selections, scripts
and API requests keep working. Engine descriptions are rewritten in plain
language and shown beside each name in the desktop engine lists; the main
toolbar's tooltip also says when Fill Area falls back to Lattice.
Docs also cover the leftover placement from the previous commit.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A quantity-limited fill trimmed the parts farthest along the trim axis,
which could take one half from each of two pairs. TrimToCount now finds
interlocked pairs and keeps or drops them whole (from d1d68a91), so the
spare space stays one usable cell.
After a fill, leftovers now run in two orders, pack-first and pairs-first,
and the strategy's comparer keeps the better whole layout, so its ranking
of this step cannot get worse. Even quantities go in as best-fit pairs,
may turn a quarter when unrestricted, are tried in every remnant and are
ranked with the layout around them. Each placed pair slides left and down
against true outlines to take the space its bounding box could not.
On compare.nest Vertical Remnant goes from 6665.1 to 5862.6 and Lattice
from 7200 to 5915.8. Nine characterization pins change from the trim with
counts unchanged; the fill pins now also check layout validity. Vertical
Remnant's golden layout shortens from 28 to 26.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
F1 opening help kept taking over from placing a part. Help stays on
the Help menu and F1 belongs to the Clone tool alone.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Whole-job fills treated clamps as occupied space, so a clamped edge cost
a row: 8.25in circles stopped at 96 on a sheet the plate fill packs with
102. When one drawing still has unmet demand, also fill the sheet as if
the clamps were absent, drop the parts on them and keep the better
layout.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A cut-off always runs away from its fixed edge: the origin side, the only
edge guaranteed to be a real sheet edge. The part order is proposed as a
traveling-salesman path over one point per placement, and a cut-off's
point was the middle of its line. The route did not know the tool must
arrive at the line's start and leaves at its far end, so the parts
before a sheet-splitting line finished level with its middle, and the
rapid down to its start crossed parts already cut.
Each placement now has an entry and an exit point; they differ only for
cut-offs (start and departure). Nearest neighbor and Or-opt go on from
each part's exit, and 2-opt costs a reversed run along its own directed
legs; with no cut-off on the plate the exits are not passed and the
symmetric route is unchanged. The part cut before a cut-off faces its
start.
Cut-off direction is not chosen here: the order reads each cut-off's start
and end from its program as given, and the joint search may still reverse a
head-locked far-edge segment.
When a blocked approach teaches an order rule, the search backs up to the
earliest part that approach crossed, keeps the parts before it and
re-plans the rest. The last kept part was planned facing the part that
followed it in the old order. If the new order puts another part after
it, its entry and exit still face the old one, so the plan ends with a
stale exit that a kept-order re-plan of the same order would fix.
Now that part is planned again, in the same place, facing its new
successor; when its successor is unchanged nothing is re-planned.
The locked-among-regenerated fixture's plan changes: rapid 67.60 ->
60.22, expansions 528 -> 268 (digest updated). Learning "cut the
cutoff first" now takes 40 expansions rather than 22, because B is
planned again to face the cutoff; retrying every entry of B took 60.
Plate commands need an open nest and no running job; Trim/Extend Cut-Off
needs a cut-off on the plate and Sequence by Path needs two parts. The
Plate menu's Trim/Extend item follows the same rule.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Irregular's block catalog fills a private plate per part type, and that
fill searched best-fit pairs through the overload that ignores the
token. On one CPU the search can take minutes, so a time limit waited
for it: the converted Nestbolt m-public-gear-1 job under a 60 s limit
ran past 180 s. PrivatePlateFill now passes its token, as PairCatalog
does since 9431006e; the search still finishes in the background and
fills the shared cache.
gear-1, Irregular, one CPU, 60 s limit: killed after 180 s -> stops at
60.0 s (no layout yet; its no-fit polygons are the next bottleneck).
CreatePlate copied a rail-backed stock's zones but not its rail, so the
materialized plate fell back to the bottom edge spacing as its clamp
clearance while every engine packed to the rail's own. With a rail
clearance below the edge spacing, valid layouts from all engines were
rejected as clamp violations. Carry the rail and any removed clamps
across, sharing the rule the commit path already used.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A visual review of the toolbar set found the magnifiers heavier than the
cut icons' outlines, Zoom To Fit's small square ambiguous and Zoom To
Area crowded at 24 px. Thin the ring and handle, let Fit's sheet fill the
glass edge to edge, and give Area longer dashes and a smaller corner lens.
The header gets a fourth zoom button that starts the existing Zoom Window
action, with a matching dashed-window icon also shown on View > Zoom To >
Area. It stays out of the inspection's live zoom controls: inspection owns
Escape, so a zoom window could not be cancelled there.
Redraw Zoom In, Zoom Out and Zoom To Fit in the cut planner and cut-off
palette: slate magnifier, pale glass, the card's 1px shadow, orange +/-
and a part-blue sheet for Fit.
Clone's Delete only removed its source parts, so parts picked with
Select All stayed on the plate until Escape ended the action.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
FillEndOdd and FillEndEven had no production callers, so round parts
only got stripe layouts. A Circle strategy now runs them in the fill
pipeline: 8in circles on a 60x120 go from 98 to 112.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
FillEndOdd and FillEndEven read Box.Width as the X span, though it is
the Y span, so non-square sheets got the wrong pitch. They also started
centers at the bin corner, leaving circles a radius outside it.
FillEndEven now tries both stripe directions, as FillEndOdd does.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Windows reposts a mouse move when a dialog opens or closes, so Set
Offset Increment threw away arrow-key nudges by snapping the previews
back to the cursor. Only a real cursor move now moves them.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Show Original drew nothing until Simplify ran, and then showed entities that
had already been through import cleanup. The importers now capture the
entities before any optimization and the overlay draws those from load, while
Simplify keeps starting from the cleaned entities.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
CAM exports often draw a hole as two arcs that overshoot the seam, plus a
short chord back to the start. The Hole Table rejected these contours for
sweeping more than 360 degrees, so drawings like the HT EX flange listed no
round holes.
CadImporter now replaces coradial arcs on one material layer that cover the
whole circle with a Circle, and drops a chord lying wholly on the overlap.
Arcs that leave a gap or overlap by more than MaxSeamOverlap stay as they are.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three lead-in test classes kept identical AssertPoint and Profile
helpers. They now import LeadInTestHelpers.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Desktop test classes each kept identical PumpUntil, Show, Mouse, All,
PressKey, Raise, SetBackingField and Field helpers. They now import
FormTesting and TestReflection; the two Field variants that read a base
type's field or unwrap DrawingLibraryForm keep a one-line wrapper.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three front-end test classes ran NestConsole.Run through their own
reflection helper. They now import ConsoleHost.RunConsole.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Nine persistence test classes turned a nest or a single drawing into
archive bytes with their own Write helpers, and one kept a private copy
of NestJson. They now use NestArchiveJson.ArchiveBytes and NestJson.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Nine server test classes opened the test database with their own
identical Execute and Scalar helpers. They now import TestDatabase.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Ten desktop test classes drew the same squares and the same 4 x 2
rectangle in private helpers, in two equivalent styles. They now use
TestPrograms.Square, ClockwiseSquare and Rectangle.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
NestSnapshotTests and PartCuttingParametersPersistenceTests built the
same 4 x 4 square drawing. Both now use TestDrawings.Square.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Cutting-planning, diagnostics and fill tests drew the same circles,
squares, clockwise rectangles, closed polygons, rounded rectangles and
right-midpoint rectangle contours in private helpers. They now use
TestHelpers; files whose helper had its own default size keep a
one-line wrapper for it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Engine tests drew the same rectangle, square, L-shape and arc part in
private helpers across the Expander, golden-layout, fill-stack and
fixed-strategy tests. They now use TestDrawingFactory; files whose
helper had its own default size keep a one-line wrapper for it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The drawing library, drawing sets, saved nests, add-release and edit-set
grids each repeated the left-click header check that sorts on the
server. BrowsePager.SortByHeaderAsync now does it for the grid and
session it already drives. No behavior change.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
MachineConfigForm and SavedNestsForm built their tab pages, and
CuttingPanel and LeadsEditor their label / input / hint grids, with
identical private helpers. Both now use ControlFactory. No behavior
change.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Thirteen test classes built the same origin-anchored rectangle drawing in
their own private helper (MakeRectDrawing, MakeRect or Rect). They now
call TestHelpers.MakeRectDrawing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
HorizontalLine and VerticalLine had identical constructors, Dispose and
resize handling. They now derive from SeparatorLine and only say which
way the line runs. No behavior change.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Private copies of tolerant box containment, box union, vector rotation and
the cutout proposals' coordinate-range check now use one helper each:
BoundingBox.IsWithin and BoundingBox.Union, Vector.Rotate, and
CutoutCoordinates.WithinRange. Tests pin the helpers bit-for-bit against
frozen copies of the removed bodies. No behavior change.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Share the nest server client setup and page validation, entity endpoints,
post marker checks and the repeated desktop list, cut-time and busy-warning
code. Persistence tests use NestArchiveJson. No behavior change intended.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A closed contour around its center with at least 270 degrees of arc on
one center and radius now counts as a keyed hole, in its own row after
round holes of that diameter. Curved slots stay out: their long arcs wrap
around solid material, so the center is outside the contour.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Expand Spacing measured every ring pair of every part pair for each trial
move, so a packed layout of parts with holes took minutes per spacing
probe. Skip ring pairs, far part pairs and off-path parts whose bounds
already settle the answer.
Every pair was also held at its full starting gap, so parts could not
move toward anything and most layouts stayed at their entry spacing.
Part pairs may now close to the spacing being tried, never below a
smaller starting gap. Cut-offs and clamps keep their full entry gap.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A nest with no material, grade or thickness now takes them from the
library record instead of warning that the drawing differs and dropping
its cut pins. The machine's spacing and cut-off settings follow. Later
drawings still get the usual difference warning, and drawings from files
carry no thickness, so they leave the nest blank.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Plate > Set as Default and Nest > Edit's Defaults tab only changed the
open nest, so new nests never picked up the values. Set as Default now
also saves the new-nest defaults, and the Defaults tab gains an opt-in
"Use these defaults for new nests" check.
Machine thicknesses can now set part and edge spacing. A nest takes them
when its material, grade, thickness or machine changes and when a release
creates it; BOM import seeds its groups from them. Spacing edited in the
same dialog stays, and only an untouched trailing sheet follows.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
DefaultUnderATimeLimitReturnsAValidPlanNoWorseThanUnlimited failed on CI
(runs 41219924107 and 41224809174, Engine.Tests job): the fixed 5 s limit
assumed the unlimited Default solve takes well under a second, but it takes
about 4 s locally and longer on a loaded runner. A limit shorter than the
normal Irregular search correctly returns an earlier, worse plan, so the
assertion only holds when the limit covers that search. Use the larger of
5 s and three times the measured unlimited solve.
Red: the old test fails on one CPU shared with three busy loops; the new
one passes there. Full Engine.Tests: 2780 passed, 2 skipped.
Equal-cost plans break ties by the largest edge offcut, from any of the
four edges. A caller that wants the leftover off one way, such as a
shop that keeps only end drops, or a benchmark scoring the used sheet
height, had no way to say so. On the converted Nestbolt jobs the
extended Irregular search then found plans whose larger offcut is a
strip down the side, which Nestbolt scores as worse: b-blaz1-strip
3.601 -> 3.867, b-shirts-strip 2.674 -> 2.995.
NestJobOptions.OffcutCut (a CutOffAxis, default null) counts only the
strips one cut along that axis frees, for salvage credit and the
compactness tie-break alike: Horizontal the full-width bottom and top
strips, Vertical the full-length sides. PlateRemnant.LargestOffcut takes
the axis; NestJobCost, the time limit and clamp-removal recovery pass
it on. Unset, nothing changes.
Benchmark manifests accept "offcutCut": "horizontal" or "vertical".
With horizontal, one CPU, 20 s limit, Default:
b-blaz1-strip 3.934 -> 3.333
b-shirts-strip 2.995 -> 2.610
m-box-deep 1.918 -> 1.276 (Nestbolt 1.251)
Manifests accept only the words horizontal or vertical (any case); a
list such as "horizontal,vertical" is rejected. PlateRemnant rejects an
undefined axis. Fixed strategies keep their own no-salvage tie-break
and ignore the option; desktop, Console and MCP do not offer it yet.
Mutation reds: 14/14 (offcut-mutations.py).
Under a time limit, Irregular often finished in about a second and left
the rest unused: on the converted Nestbolt b-jakobs1 job it used five
sheets where four fit.
NestJobOptions.SearchUntilCancelled asks an engine to keep searching
after its normal search until the token is cancelled.
DeadlineNestingEngine sets it. Irregular then re-runs its six variants
with seeded per-type weights on its placement rule (seeds 1, 2, 3, ...,
each weight within e^+-0.4), reports each plan that beats its best,
then re-plans that plan's tail and reports any gain. It skips this when
the token cannot be cancelled, nobody listens for progress, nothing is
placeable, or the job has one part type, so unlimited solves are
unchanged.
Default now runs Irregular last (Rectangles, Circles, Irregular) so
Circles still runs, and chooses only after every candidate has run, in
tie-break order, so the run order never changes the choice. Unlimited
choices match the old run order {Rectangles, Irregular, Circles} except
when three candidates are near-tied within the 1e-9 comparison
tolerance without being transitively ordered (only on all-round jobs,
where Circles bids).
b-jakobs1 on one CPU, 10 s limit: 5 sheets (4.500) -> 4 (3.751).
"rotations": [0, 90, 180, 270] mapped to automatic rotation, which
allows any angle: Rectangles placed parts at minimum-area angles such
as 279.8 degrees in jobs that allow only quarter turns. Quarter turns
are now a 90 degree sweep from 0 to 270. Without "rotations", a part
still rotates automatically (any angle), as before 2dab9232; the doc and
comment that called that the quarter-turn default are corrected.
DeadlineNestingEngine used CancelAfter, a thread-pool timer. A CPU-bound
Parallel.For keeps pool threads on their own local work, so the timer
callback can run seconds late; pinned to one CPU it waited for the
whole best-fit search (m-sign-3 under a 10 s limit returned at 64.5 s).
A dedicated background thread now waits for the limit, or for the
solve to finish, and cancels; the solve joins it before returning.
A test runs a CPU-bound Parallel.For from a pool thread under a 200 ms
limit and requires the solve to end within 3 s; with CancelAfter it
took about 7 s.
PairCatalog waited for BestFitCache's search without the solve's token,
so a cancelled or time-limited Irregular solve kept running until the
search finished: minutes on one CPU for the many-segment gear, sign and
garment parts of the Nestbolt benchmark (m-public-gear-1 ran 312 s under
a 60 s limit, m-garment-teagan-1 45 min). It now uses the cancellable
overload, which stops the wait and lets the search finish in the
background and fill the cache. The drawing is private to the call or to
the caller, as that overload requires.
A test blocks the pair evaluator and checks Build throws within 5 s of
a 200 ms cancellation; with the old call it waited the full 30 s.
A manifest part may list "rotations" in degrees: [0] locks it, [0, 180]
locks it at 0 with the half turn allowed (Allow180Equivalent), and
[0, 90, 180, 270] is the automatic quarter-turn default. Any other set,
or "rotations" together with "allowRotation": false, is an error naming
the part. Without it, "allowRotation" behaves as before.
Lets converted external benchmark jobs (Nestbolt's 0/180 garment and
box jobs) keep their own rotation rules instead of being widened to
quarter turns.
ajandClaude Opus 5.5