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.
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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.
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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.
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Restructure the cutting parameters dialog with separate Lead-In and
Lead-Out GroupBoxes per tab, exposing editable length/angle/radius
fields for lead-outs (previously hardcoded). Add Tabs section with
enable checkbox and width control. Also fix lead-in/lead-out angle
calculations and convert cutting strategy output to incremental mode.
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ConvertProgram.ToGeometry() created entities without setting Color,
defaulting to Color.Empty (alpha=0). After ededc7b switched from
Pens.White to per-entity colors, these rendered fully transparent.
- Add explicit colors to all SpecialLayers (Cut=White, Rapid=Gray, etc.)
- Set entity Color from layer in ConvertProgram for lines, arcs, circles
- Add GetEntityPen fallback: treat Empty/alpha-0 as White
- Add bend line rendering and selection in EntityView/CadConverterForm
- Fix SolidWorksBendDetector MText formatting strip for bend notes
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Move all projects from Source/ to repository root for simpler navigation.
- Remove External/ dependency DLLs (will use NuGet packages)
- Remove Installer/ NSIS script
- Replace PartCollection/PlateCollection with ObservableList
- Add packages.config for NuGet dependencies
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