Adds docs/nesting-engines.md: which engine suits which jobs, the old plug-in
names the registry maps, retired engines, and the rule that an engine change
lands only when it beats that engine's current benchmark result with every
layout valid. README, release and automatic-nesting docs drop the bundled
plug-in wording; AGENTS.md now places built-in engines in
OpenNest.Engine/NestingEngines and keeps only external plug-ins out of the
solution.
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.
Moves the two production plug-in engines into OpenNest.Engine under names
that describe the jobs they suit:
- Rectangles: plain and near-rectangular plates, maximal-rectangles box
packing (was the RectanglesNestingEngine plug-in)
- Irregular: irregular profiles, no-fit-polygon frontier packing (was the
Opus55NestingEngine plug-in)
Their tests and the shared engine contract/layout test kit move into
OpenNest.Engine.Tests/NestingEngines.
The registry maps the old plug-in names to the new engines, so saved desktop
selections, scripts and API requests keep working, and a leftover plug-in DLL
under an old name cannot shadow its replacement. Desktop startup passes the
registry's lookup when restoring the saved Auto Nest engine.
Capture the report target and reject whole-job nesting, open progress
windows, interactive fill and busy plate actions across every view
sharing the nest; revalidate after the save dialog, capture the snapshot
synchronously on the UI thread and render it through OpenNest.Reporting.
Windows adapter tests cover enablement, guards, cancel, success and a
write failure against an existing destination (compile-only on Linux;
Windows runtime acceptance still owed).
SQLite-backed (Microsoft.Data.Sqlite, WAL) minimal API storing NestRecord
metadata plus the .nest archive as a BLOB. Endpoints: GET/POST /api/nests,
GET /api/nests/{id}[/file], PUT /api/nests/{id}/file, PUT
/api/nests/{id}/metadata, DELETE /api/nests/{id}, GET /healthz. Multipart
upload contract matches RemoteNestRepository (metadata JSON part + file
part). Added to OpenNest.sln, builds standalone on Linux. Dockerfile
publishes to a runtime image listening on :8090 with a /app/data volume
for the SQLite file. docs/nest-storage.md documents the wire contract,
endpoints and deployment.
Full curl round trip verified manually against a running instance:
upload (server-assigned id + computed fileSize), list, get, byte-exact
file download, metadata-only update (archive unchanged), file update
(new archive persisted), 404s for unknown ids, delete, post-delete 404.
NestStorageSettings persists the file/database toggle and server URL at
%APPDATA%\OpenNest\storage.json following the EngineSelectionSettings
never-throwing pattern; missing config means File mode. NestRecord carries
the shareable job metadata, INestRepository defines the backend contract,
and RemoteNestRepository implements it against the nest server with
multipart uploads (metadata JSON part + .nest file part).
Add NestStatus (Quote/ToBeCut/HasBeenCut) plus MadeBy on Nest, written as
additive camelCase nest.json fields with PascalCase enum strings matching
the units convention. Legacy files and unknown status values fall back to
Quote. The nest info dialog gains a Status dropdown and Made By box.
Slice 2 of the nest report plan: pagination, overflow and dense-label
coverage on top of the Slice 1 one-plate library.
- NestPdfWriter: general multi-plate pagination. Summary/plate tables
continue across pages with repeated (HeadingFormat) header rows; notes
flow as an ordinary paragraph instead of a bounded cell; page headers
are wrapped and sized into the top margin; drawing areas are located
per page via DocumentRenderer.GetRenderInfoFromPage.
- ReportText: lossless pre-wrapping (MigraDoc clips an over-tall row and
lets an unbroken token overflow a narrow cell without warning), capped
table-cell line counts, plate-range compression ("1-2, 4"), and
A/B/.../AA map-grid row names.
- NestReportDiagram: label placement centers each part ID on its
PolyLabel pole (matching PlateView's LayoutPart), computed on a
placement-independent quantized copy so identical parts share one
label position. Parts whose ID cannot fit legibly at overview scale
get a lettered/numbered map grid and a zoomed, framed detail page per
crowded cell; the writer fails with plate/part/ID when even that
cannot place a label, or a plate would need more than 24 detail views.
- Tests: NestPdfLayoutTests (multi-plate totals/ranges/same-named
references, table continuation with no lost rows, long name/notes
wrapping without column overflow, mm units in all four quadrants,
dense-label detail views with hole avoidance, save/reload of the
tabbed/lead-in fixture with stale tab flags, invalid later-plate data,
late write failures against an existing destination, source
unchanged on success/failure), ReportPdf test helper (page/word/
content-stream extraction).
- docs/nest-reports.md: replace the Slice 1 one-plate limits section
with the general pagination/dense-label contract and the process-wide
PDFsharp/MigraDoc render lock.
Verification: Reporting filter 70/70; full OpenNest.Tests 2524
passed/21 skipped/0 failed; Engine 351/351; IO 77/77;
EnableWindowsTargeting=true full-solution build 0 errors; scoped
dotnet format --verify-no-changes exit 0. Preview PDFs rendered and
visually inspected (evidence: /home/aj/extracted/2026-09-29/opennest-report-slice2/).
Windows runtime, the desktop adapter and packaged-app font deployment
remain unverified (Slice 3).
PDFsharp/MigraDoc layout and font state is process-wide. Parallel exports
of the same snapshot laid text out differently (for example merged words
like "Total physicalsheets" and shifted table columns). Serialize the
whole render-and-save in NestPdfWriter.Write; reports are rare.
Regression test exports one snapshot 128 times in parallel and compares
page content streams with a sequential export; it failed with dozens of
mismatches per run before the lock.
Add OpenNest.Reporting (net8.0, PDFsharp-MigraDoc 6.2.4) with a detached
report snapshot and a PDF writer for an empty/demand-only job or a single
plate layout: Letter portrait summary with vector part thumbnails and a
landscape plate page with a vector sheet diagram, both with Page X of Y.
- Snapshot uses reference identity for document-local R### IDs, recounts
nested quantities from placements x copies with checked wide integers,
excludes cutoffs from accounting, and retains no live domain objects.
- Geometry keeps Cut/Display material paths, drops rapid/scribe/lead paths,
preserves native arcs, holes and intentional tab gaps, and rejects
malformed programs with plate/part identification.
- Open contours and cutoffs are stroked per contour so PDFsharp cannot join
a tab gap to the next contour.
- Bundled DejaVu Sans via a custom resolver (including MigraDoc's error
font); unsupported text fails with the field and code point.
- Layouts beyond this slice (multiple plates, page overflow, labels that
do not fit) fail with NotSupportedException before the destination is
replaced; output is rendered to a temporary sibling and moved atomically.
build NestJob -> resolve engine by name -> Solve -> independent
NestLayoutCheck validation -> bind placements to caller drawings.
The pipeline never commits to plates and never mutates caller items;
validation failures are returned as messages naming real drawings
(unknown-requirement placements are reported, not dropped). Console,
MCP, API and desktop Auto Nest will adopt this path in later phases.
- NestPipeline.Run(request): registry-resolved engine, unknown names
list the registered engines; cancellation propagates untouched.
- NestPipeline.Run(engine, ...): stub/plug-in engines take the same path.
- NestResultBinder: pose semantics identical to NestResultMaterializer.
- NestLayoutCheck: Violations overload with per-requirement display names.
Tests: overlap stub -> violations w/ drawing names, no throw; ghost
placement -> violation + excluded from further checks; unknown engine
-> NotSupportedException listing engines; cancelled token -> no result;
happy path -> bound by reference, caller quantity untouched.
Nest windows now rerun the overlap check once the layout has been
unchanged for 0.5 s, instead of leaving 'Overlaps: not checked'. Edits
show 'Overlaps: check pending...'; drags are caught by the paint-time
pose stamp, collection edits by their events. The check waits while a
mouse button, modal dialog or fill is active, supersedes a running check
when the layout moves again, and does not retry a canceled or failed
layout until it changes. Rechecks use the incremental analyzer, so only
the moved parts' neighbors are recomputed.
Automatic results update only the canvas label (the status bar keeps the
last command's message) and keep Display > Off. Check Active Plate still
runs immediately. InvalidateOverlapCheck now also drops cached material.
PlateOverlapAnalyzer.Capture(parts, OverlapMaterialCache) reuses each clean
program's converted entities and prepared material across requests, and
Analyze(snapshot, previous) reuses pair results whose two parts kept the
same source, exact pose and relative order, renumbering them. A recheck
after moving one part only clips that part's neighbors again.
On 501 real PEP plates: full check median 1 ms / max 6.4 s; incremental
recheck after one move median 0.1 ms / max 38 ms. Incremental results
matched uncached full analysis exactly across 2505 edits.
The docked side panel could only be closed with Escape, which was
unreliable: MainForm consumes Escape before ActionLeadIn's KeyDown
handler, so with a part selected ActionManager called the action's
empty CancelAction and nothing happened; with nothing selected the
panel closed but was stored as the previous action, so the next
Escape reopened it.
- EditNestForm side panel gets a header with the panel title and an
always-visible close button that ends the action.
- ActionLeadIn.CancelAction now steps back (unlock contour, then
deselect part), replacing the dead KeyDown handler.
- Actions can opt out of Escape-resume (ResumeOnEscape); the lead-in
action does, so a closed panel stays closed.
A straight lead-in at a convex outside-perimeter corner now runs along the
extension of the edge cut first, so the torch enters on that line and keeps
cutting it. The result no longer depends on which of the corner's two edges
auto-assign or the manual cursor picked, which made placement flip between
straight and 90 degrees. The approach angle is ignored at such corners.
The straight lead falls back to the first-cut edge normal when its pierce
would be closer than PierceClearance to the contour (very flat or tessellated
corners). Reflex perimeter corners bisect the notch. Line lead-outs run on
straight past a convex corner along the last-cut edge, except on tabbed
perimeters. Program generation and the Place Lead-in preview share
ResolveLeadIn/ResolveLeadOut.
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