Slats are strips of a set thickness running the full length or width of
the table, one every pitch. A part's contacts are the corners of where its
material crosses a slat, so the support check and support tabs work as on
the grid. Nest > Support Bed... picks grid or slats; nest files store
type "slats" and support-grid.json keeps both layouts' values. Draw
Support shows the slats cut off to the sheet.
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Model the machine's support bed as a grid of contact points measured
from the plate origin, and check each part's center of gravity against
the convex hull of the grid points under its material. The bed is
extensible so straight and CAD-imported curved slats can follow.
- Core: SupportBed/SupportGrid, SupportMaterial and SupportAnalyzer
(margin with registration tolerance, best single tab point)
- Nest-wide support bed that every plate follows, saved in
plateDefaults.supportBed; machine defaults in support-grid.json
- CuttingParameters.SupportTabs: Plan Cutting tabs only unsupported
parts and limits their perimeter entries to points where the tab
steadies the part, falling back to any fitting entry
- Desktop: Nest > Support Grid..., View > Draw Support overlay and a
"Tab parts the support grid cannot hold level" tab option
- docs/support-tabs.md, nest file format and planner notes
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