Plates with staged automatic scrap cut-offs could not be planned: P260810-01
plate 1 ran out of budget even at 10x effort, while the same plate plans
Ready in 3.6k expansions without the lines. A cut-off was one fixed program
cut whole before every part its line passes through, which dragged the tour
to the middle of the sheet and left the head at the far edge of the line;
and cutting every line first (the rejected alternative) weakens the sheet
and breaks the containment operators rely on when they fast-forward a
changed program.
A cut-off stays one definition, but Plate.RegenerateCutOffs now makes one
part per trimmed segment, each with its own place in the cut sequence.
CutOffSegments gives each segment the span of the nominal line it stands
for (end of the segment before it to start of the one after), and the
dependency rules of the planner and Part Sequencing use that span, so a
segment precedes only the parts beside it. The free-order search plans the
parts as if the segments were not there, so adding lines no longer changes
a plate's route, then CutOffInsertion slides each segment into the latest
gap before its first part where the rapid into its pierce and the rapid
from its end cross nothing cut before; only when one fits nowhere is the
plate searched with the segments among the parts. The search looks through
segments wherever they sit (entries face the next part, hole routes rank
from the pre-segment position, rapids are still checked from the segment's
end), so an applied plan replanned with the order kept replays Ready.
Segments saved out of consecutive order are recorded per segment in the
.nest file (`segments`); older readers load them consecutively.
P260810-01 plate 1 now plans Ready in 3639 expansions with every check
passing; rapid travel 1836 against 1547 without the lines. Plates without
cut-offs keep their PlanningCharacterizationTests digests, and the
problem-nest corpus has no plate below its baseline.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Reserve nominal-line slots in the candidate lattice, compare rounded lengths in exact micro-units before pierce ties, and report real fixed-grid cut length. Per-line notices name local increases instead of negative savings. Failing-first regressions cover dense spacing, decimal ties and the legacy summary.
Windows CI proved the default single-plate fixture is not notice-free;
the details box now surfaces the SegmentedCut notice that the old text
wall buried. Assert the real content instead of a clean box.
The dialog buried its verdict in a scrollable text box that restated the
same numbers per plate behind a paragraph-length warning. Replace it
with:
- a bold colored status line stating exactly what Apply will do
(Ready / Blocked / No new cut-offs / Error with the reason);
- the occupied span, used span, separator X and retained tail as
compact caption+value cells with tooltips instead of four sentences;
- the warning paragraph reduced to one amber line with the full text
in its tooltip;
- a per-plate table (cut-offs, spans, tail, Ready/Blocked/No change)
for the All Plates command, replacing repeated text blocks;
- the details box now lists only issues and notices, prefixed by plate
number when planning a nest, instead of echoing every measurement.
Planning, preview, apply and rollback behavior is unchanged; tests and
the cutoffs document follow the new presentation.
TestAssemblySetup set the unhandled-exception mode and a ThreadException
handler from a module initializer. WinForms stores both per thread
(ThreadContext/NativeWindow thread statics), so they applied only to the
runner thread that loaded the assembly, never to the STA threads the
tests run on. There, an exception escaping a window message or a
BeginInvoke/SynchronizationContext callback still opened a modal
ThreadExceptionDialog in an interactive session, or was silently ignored
otherwise; the handler would also have logged and swallowed it.
Replace the fifteen copied RunSta helpers with StaTestThread.Run, which
selects UnhandledExceptionMode.ThrowException on each STA thread before
it creates a window, so the exception propagates to the test body and
fails the test. Each class keeps its own timeout and message; all
threads are now background threads. Remove TestAssemblySetup.
StaTestThreadTests covers a throwing BeginInvoke callback through
StaTestThread (fails with the original exception) and, as a control,
the default mode on a plain STA thread (the exception goes to the
thread's handler and never reaches the test body). Cross-compiled on
Linux; Windows execution is the windows-desktop CI job.
ajandClaude Fable 5.1