Every whole-job engine chooses among the offered stock sizes, and on the
synthetic benchmark nests Default matched or beat StockLadder on all 18
runs (saved sizes, a six-size pool, with and without salvage credit),
costing 30-40% less in total with mixed sizes. Its sheet-swap step never
produced a win over Irregular's tail re-plan.
The registry maps "StockLadder" to Default so saved selections, scripts
and API requests keep working. OrderedPlateNester stays: Fill and the
remnant strategies use it for restricted rotations, and its golden layout
is now pinned through NestJobRunner with the parts requested largest
first, as StockLadder requested them.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Default is the engine every front end uses when none is named. It now runs
Irregular, then Rectangles, checks both layouts with NestLayoutCheck and keeps
the best: valid first, then fewest unplaced parts, then lowest salvage-credited
cost; ties keep Irregular. A candidate that throws or returns nothing is
skipped, cancellation stops the search, and only the chosen layout's plate
commits are reported. Neither engine wins every job in the lane benchmarks,
and Rectangles adds little time while also covering Irregular's invalid
layouts.
The registry lists Default first and no longer maps the name to Fill; fill
strategy callers still read Default as Fill. A future circle/ring engine joins
as another candidate.
The multi-phase lattice fill (linear, pairs, rectangle best-fit, remainder) is
no longer meant to be the engine used by default, so it gets a name for what
it does. The registry lists it as Fill and maps the old name Default to it;
PlateFillService, PlateNesterFactory and NestJobOptions use Fill, and every
fill-strategy caller still accepts Default. Console --autonest now validates
engine names through NestingEngineRegistry.ResolveName so renamed names work.
Layouts are unchanged: Default and Fill resolve to the same fillers and the
golden layouts pass under the new name.
Rectangles and Irregular now ship inside OpenNest.Engine.dll, so the Windows
package no longer fetches, tests and bundles OpenNest-Engines at a pinned
commit. Removes scripts/external-engines.json and the Engines/ folder,
manifest and license from the package; build-info.json drops enginesCommit.
ReleaseSmoke now checks the packaged registry: every built-in engine must
instantiate from the packaged OpenNest.Engine.dll, the Opus55NestingEngine
name must resolve to Irregular, and an unknown name must be rejected. Linux
check against a published OpenNest.Engine: pass case exit 0; missing engine
DLL exit 1. Full Windows packaging still needs the Windows runner.
ajandClaude Opus 5.5