Some jobs cut only cutouts into a supplied blank, such as instrument holes
in a purchased door that is the whole sheet. Its outline has to be known
to the planner (the blank is material that leads, rapids and cut-offs must
respect) but must never be pierced, led or cut.
A new DisplayPerimeter layer marks that outline. It is material, so
nesting, containment, lead clearance and automatic cut-offs all see the
blank; a door that fills its sheet leaves cut-offs nothing to cut. Cutting
preparation keeps it out of the contours entirely: with no cut perimeter
every contour is a hole with internal leads, and the search, best-effort
and safest-route paths stop offering a perimeter. Replay refuses any run
along the display perimeter and completes once every other ring is cut.
A display perimeter must be one whole closed contour enclosing every other
contour; a mixed ring, one inside another contour, or a second one is
refused with that reason. Saving, drawing and posting it are still to do.
A hole can now be declared a tabbed cutout in the CAD Converter: pick a
circle or any edge of a closed hole, set the tab count and width, and drag
the tabs around the hole. The definition persists on the drawing and in the
nest file, and stays editable from the source entities.
The builder replaces the hole with open cut pieces and uncut spans on a new
Tab layer. Tabs are material, so area, nesting and overlap checks still see
a closed hole, but they are never cut. Plan Cutting and Assign Lead-ins cut
each piece from the slug with the internal lead-in and no lead-out. A lead
that would reach back over a tab is mirrored, and an arc lead onto an arc
pierces straight in. Planning accounts for each span between tabs and runs
the open-cut proof, so its own tabbed cutouts certify; tabs followed by a
lead-out are still refused. Pre-post review flags programs that still
contain tab motions.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Breakoffs are now picked by their joining line, default to the smaller side as scrap
(flippable), and cut that line between tabs on a new Break layer instead of slots.
Plan Cutting and Assign Lead-ins enter each cut from the scrap with the nest's internal
lead-in, or pierce on the line without one; checks treat break cuts as intentional open
cuts that are not material.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Every nesting-geometry consumer filtered only rapids, so scribe/etch
moves counted as part material. An etch tick that ends a hair outside
the outline (PEP bend ticks start on the notch edge) made the part
"open geometry leaving the material region": the job validator threw
and every built-in engine plus Gpt6Astra crashed on real PEP jobs
(PT75, drawing 4980 A01 PT77). Marks are only on the surface, so they
should never affect placement, collision, area, or validation.
- SpecialLayers.IsMaterial excludes Rapid and Scribe; used by drawing
area, canonical angle, part collision, PartGeometry, plate perimeter,
best-fit/pair evaluation, rotation analysis, GPU evaluators, and both
validators. Timing, display, splitting and posts still see marks.
- ConvertGeometry also maps the saved SCRIBE layer name to Scribe, so
programs rebuilt from stored entities keep their marks.
- NestReader repairs older files (e.g. PepNestExport output) whose
programs saved etch as cut moves while source entities kept SCRIBE.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Repo-wide sweep with the pinned CSharpier 1.3.0 tool. Whitespace and
line-wrapping only; OpenNest.Engine.Tests (109) and OpenNest.IO.Tests
pass after reformat, full solution builds 0 errors.
Added .csharpierignore so csproj/config XML keeps its existing layout
(CSharpier's XML wrapping churns attributes with zero benefit).
Formatting is now enforceable: dotnet csharpier check . passes.
GeometrySimplifier/ArcFit now fit arcs that pass exactly through run
endpoints while balancing tangency error between trusted and estimated
directions, fixing arcs that previously bulged or broke tangent
continuity at fillet/compound-curve junctions.
GravographIS post processor gains per-layer (engrave/cut) tool passes
via a new GravographISPostConfig, so ENGRAVE/ETCH-tagged geometry runs
as a separate scribe pass with its own feed/depth and an operator
pause before the cut pass (spring-floated spindle needs a tool swap).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Ellipse-to-arc conversion creates tiny floating-point gaps (~0.00002")
between consecutive arc segments. ShapeBuilder chains these with
ChainTolerance (0.0001"), but ConvertGeometry checked gaps with Epsilon
(0.00001"). Gaps between these thresholds generated spurious rapid moves
that broke GraphicsPath figures, causing diagonal fill artifacts from
GDI+'s implicit figure closing.
Root cause fix: align ConvertGeometry's gap check with ShapeBuilder's
ChainTolerance so precision gaps are absorbed instead of generating rapids.
Defense-in-depth: GraphicsHelper no longer breaks figures at near-zero
rapids, protecting against any programs with residual tiny rapids.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Near-zero-sweep arcs with large radius (e.g. from ellipse converter) have
nearly-coincident start/end points. Downstream code (ConvertProgram, Program
BoundingBox) treats coincident start/end as a full 360° circle, inflating the
bounding box and rendering wrong geometry. Emit a LinearMove when sweep is
negligible — geometrically equivalent and avoids the ambiguity. Also fix the
ellipse converter to produce lines instead of degenerate arcs at the source.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Circle.Rotation was lost in three places, causing reversed circles to
still offset inward instead of outward:
- ConvertGeometry.AddCircle hardcoded CCW instead of using circle.Rotation
- ConvertProgram.AddArcMove created Circle without setting Rotation from arc
- Shape.OffsetOutward/OffsetInward copied Circle without setting Rotation
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Etch marks for up bends are now real geometry entities on an ETCH layer
instead of being drawn dynamically. They flow through the full pipeline:
entities → FilterPanel layers → ConvertGeometry (tagged as Scribe) →
post-processor sequencing before cut geometry.
Also includes ShapeProfile normalization (CW perimeter, CCW cutouts)
applied consistently across all import paths, and inward offset support
for cutout shapes in overlap/offset polygon calculations.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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