A clamp is an avoidance area, so a clamp that only partly reaches a
sheet (for example centered at 60.5" on a 60" sheet, or near the
origin) now keeps its whole 1.5" x 0.625" footprint instead of being
clipped to the sheet; clamps wholly beyond the sheet are still left
off. Job validation accepts a zone that hangs past the sheet edges and
still rejects one that does not reach the sheet at all. Both packing
lanes already block keep-outs extending past the bin; a hanging-clamp
solve through Rectangles, Irregular and Default keeps every part clear
of the whole inflated footprint.
User decision 2026-10-12, settling the plan's pending D2 question.
When the Auto Nest template plate follows the machine clamp rail, offer
each plate-size option with the rail resolved for that size instead of
copying the template's zones: a shorter option no longer carries clamps
beyond its end (which job validation rejected), a longer one gets the
clamps past the template's length, and sheets extending to negative X
keep their clamps measured from the origin. Templates with explicit
zones and no rail are offered unchanged.
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