Auto Nest no longer draws parts on the plate view before they are kept:
its result is a set of sheets, possibly of several sizes, not parts on the
current plate. Ghost parts stay with interactive Fill and remnant tools.
- NestJobStage.PlanImproved carries an engine's best whole-job plan so far;
Irregular reports one whenever a variant or the tail re-plan beats it.
- NestPipeline adds PlanSheets: the plan on detached drawings built from
the job geometry (with the caller's names and colors), so previews never
touch caller drawings or quantities.
- SheetStripControl draws every sheet side by side at one scale, repeats
once with their count, captioned with size, parts and utilization.
- The progress window shows "Best plan so far"; a review window shows the
final sheets, totals, cost summary and unplaced parts before commit.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
NestProgress gains PreviewSheet, a detached plate for the stock the preview
parts lie on; Irregular builds one per stock. PlateView draws it (size, edge
spacing, clamps) in place of the plate while the preview is shown and drops
it whenever the preview is cleared or the plate changes. Auto Nest zooms out
when a trial sheet falls outside what it has already shown.
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Staged cut-offs were appended after every part, so a kept order (the
"Keep the current part order" option, or the fallback after a free
search runs out of budget) always conflicted with any cut-off crossing
a part. PlateSequencing.PlaceCutOffs moves each new cut-off to just
before the first part it crosses, separators last, without moving
anything else; the panel applies it after staging.
The free search also learned "cut the cut-off first" only after a full
stall, re-planning the many-holed parts before it. A cut-off is a fixed
program that never gets harder to cut earlier, so a crossing approach
into a non-separating cut-off now teaches that rule at once. On the
reported 35-part plate this drops the plan from 23,930 expansions (over
the 20,000 budget) to 15,605.
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Drawing Properties now says whether the drawing's color is custom or comes
from the color scheme, and an Automatic button clears the custom color. On
save the drawing gets its palette slot back through RecolorDrawings when the
nest is known, otherwise by its non-cutoff index.
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- Add Drawing.HasCustomColor, set when a color is picked in Drawing
Properties or comes from a library record with a stored color.
- Persist it as customColor in .nest files (omitted when false) and keep it
out of drawing packages; split pieces inherit it.
- Recolor non-custom drawings from the active palette when a nest opens and
when the scheme changes; custom colors keep their palette slot.
- Library settings store a color only when it is custom.
- Document drawing colors in nest-file-format.md and nesting-view-colors.md.
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- Add the Blueprint scheme: navy canvas, pale blue sheet, dark navy part
outlines, orange-red rapids and twelve distinct, readable part fills.
- Use it as the settings default and the fallback for unknown scheme names,
and list it first in Options. Saved scheme choices are kept.
- Run the palette spacing and readability tests over Blueprint and Classic.
- Document the default in nesting-view-colors.md.
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- Replace the Classic part palette with twelve clearly distinct fills that
stay readable with black IDs and clear of etch green; darken the canvas.
- Pick black or white part-ID labels by fill luminance; drop the underline.
- Give the cut simulator trail a pale casing so it shows on warm parts.
- Number plates in the status bar the same way as the plate header.
- Add ClassicPaletteTests covering palette spacing, contrast and labels.
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The overlay re-stroked the whole finished trail on every paint: about
275 ms at zoom-to-fit on a 392-part plate and over 11 s zoomed in, where
dashed rapids spanned millions of on-screen dashes.
The finished trail is now cached in a bitmap at the current scale, so a
pan or playback frame blits it and draws only the moves since. A wheel
zoom stretches the cached image until the wheel has been still for
150 ms, then redraws it sharp. When the trail would be too large an
image, each paint draws only the moves on screen and clips straight
rapids to the view. Arcs are added as GDI+ arcs instead of 5-degree
polylines.
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The Clear Lead-ins & Cut-offs button stays enabled during planning.
Confirming cancels the running plan, clears once the cancellation lands
so the plates never change under the planner, then replans.
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Plate > Simulate Cutting replays the active plate in cutting order: the
torch traces cuts, rapids and pierces timed like Calculate Cut Time, with
play/pause, scrubbing, 1x-250x speed, step and part/cutout jumps. Parts
the torch has not reached are drawn muted.
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Built-in festive schemes theme the background, sheet and accents while
keeping 12-color part palettes distinct, light enough for black part IDs
and clear of the green etch stroke. They are only applied when chosen;
there is no automatic seasonal switching.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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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A cutout cut in pieces around tabs is a set of open cut figures. Filling the
cut outline closed each piece with a chord, drawing a slanted bridge across
the hole. The fill path now rejoins open figures across their tab gaps, and
parts with open cuts use it for drawing, hit-testing and the lead-in overlay.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Schema v5 stores each distinct drawing package once in drawing_packages,
keyed by SHA-256; revisions point at it, so details, settings, archive and
restore revisions add no blob. The v4 drawing tables are replaced outright
(no production library existed); nest tables are untouched.
Nesting settings (cut first, priority, rotation constraints, color) become
structured record fields (DrawingLibraryRecord.Settings), returned on every
read, filterable by cutFirst, editable through the metadata endpoint and
applied by LibraryDrawingInsert. Canonical packages now leave every
record-owned field at its default, so renaming or changing settings never
changes the package hash. Saving a nest drawing to the library carries its
settings into the record.
The desktop library browser gains a Cut first column and an Edit Settings
dialog that saves notes and settings as a new revision with the same package.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Moves startup and settings code out of MainForm:
- PostProcessorLoader discovers posts and registers their materials.
Each DLL now loads in isolation; a failing one is named in a startup
warning instead of throwing out of the MainForm constructor.
- MachineSettings owns the clamp-settings and nest-defaults entry points
and their once-per-session warnings; BomImportForm calls it directly.
- NewNestFactory creates File > New nests and their daily names;
GetNestName is now a pure static the characterization test calls.
- MainWindowSettings restores/saves window placement and migrates the
legacy nest template.
- UpdaterStatus owns the updater and its status-bar item.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Moves the long workflow handlers into OpenNest/Forms/Commands:
AutoNestCommand (dialog, owned modal progress, solve, validation review,
commit and result notices), PostCommand (prepare, configure, verify,
save dialog, multi-file overwrite confirmation) and NestStorageController
(database open/save/save-as with reconciliation and storage errors).
MainForm keeps the busy guards, the nesting lockout and nestingCts, and
reacts to the controller's StateChanged to lock storage settings and
saving. The characterization test now flips the controller's IsSaving
instead of the removed databaseSaveInProgress field.
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Pins the nest-name format and which operations each MainForm busy
guard counts, ahead of splitting and consolidating MainForm.
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Lists every part in the cutting inspection panel's scope, including ones
with no finding, so an all-clear nest doesn't just look like an empty
grid. Selecting a part jumps to its first issue or zooms to it when clear.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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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Forming backgauge tabs drawn as open cuts came off the sheet loose and could not be
planned. A breakoff merges the scrap into the outline and cuts the shared edge as
closed slots between tabs, so it stays attached and every pierce lands in scrap.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fix the focus-sensitive failure in HighlightedNestShowsItsPlatesAndDrawings_AndEnterOpensIt from GitHub run 39042902952. Explicitly focus the nest grid and assert it owns focus before sending Enter. Production keyboard handling and all existing open, cancel, and missing-archive assertions remain unchanged.
The cut planner disabled "Add scrap cut-offs" along with every other
control while a plan ran, including the very first auto-started plan.
It now stays enabled; toggling it mid-plan cancels the run in progress
and restarts planning with the new setting.
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Since 5.2 a locked program's own rapid crossing is a fixed-lead warning on an
UNVERIFIED plate, so it no longer makes the panel's "Can't apply" case. The
blocked plate now holds overlapping parts, a hard block, and the test checks
the same navigation and no-partial-Apply behaviour.
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Operators can now save a nest drawing to the shared drawing library. Right-
click a drawing in the drawing list > Save to Drawing Library... opens a
dialog with name, customer, material (post materials suggested), grade,
thickness, cut type and notes, prefilled by the save model; units follow the
nest.
Whenever the details change, the dialog looks up library drawings with the
same details and offers Save as: the next revision of the match (the default
for one match or the linked drawing), a choice among several, or a separate
drawing. Save stays disabled until the lookup for the current details has
finished, so a choice can never apply to details it was not made for. A 409
is shown and the choices are refreshed; a save that could not be confirmed
tells the operator that saving again checks it and never stores it twice.
On success only the drawing's library link changes, and the chosen cut type
is remembered per PC. There is no nest dirty flag to set, so the operator
saves the nest to keep the new link. The item is Database mode only and is
shown only where the drawing list's host handles it (not the best-fit viewer).
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Operators can now pull shared library drawings into a nest. Nest > Add from
Drawing Library... and a Library button above the drawing list open a paged
browser (name, customer, material, grade, thickness, cut type, revision, saved)
with a notes preview and a quantity. It starts filtered to the nest's material,
grade and thickness, with Show all to lift that.
Add downloads the listed revision's immutable package, not the current one, so
a revision saved meanwhile can never be what lands in the nest. The insert is
planned first and every warning or refusal is shown before the nest changes;
the dialog is modal, so the nest cannot move between plan and apply. The dialog
stays open for further adds and the drawing list refreshes on close.
Both entries are Database mode only: the library lives on the nest server, so
in File mode they are disabled with a "Database mode only" tooltip.
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The GPU hooks in MainForm were commented out, so ILGPU only powered a
status-bar label that reported a GPU device the nesting never used. Removing
the reference drops OpenNest.Gpu and ILGPU from the desktop output. The GPU
kernel tests reference OpenNest.Gpu directly; Training still uses it.
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The outcome line sat mid-panel in coloured text and was easy to miss. It
now leads the panel in a tinted, outlined banner, and the existing
lead-in/cut-off alert uses the same style so the panel has one alert
look. The part-order search turns the banner bright orange because it is
the slow phase the operator waits on.
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The proposal preview skipped the cut-off overlay: it carries cut-off parts but no
cut-off definitions, so planner cut-offs looked like thin black part outlines
instead of the orange-red dashes used everywhere else. The preview now draws each
cut-off part's own cutting moves in that style.
The same paint guard hid the validation overlay over a preview, so issue markers
for unverified plans were set but never drawn. The overlay now draws on proposals
too, with the marker's part numbers mapped to the preview's proposed order so the
right parts stay highlighted.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Plan Cutting findings dropped the checker's geometry, so selecting one could only
zoom to part extents, and overlap-blocked plates (no preview) did nothing at all.
Findings now keep the check's world-coordinate witness (overlap regions, rapid,
contacts); selecting a row draws it with the Validate Nest overlay, on the proposal
or a blocked plate's live sheet. The witness is excluded from finding equality so
repeated search rejections still collapse to one finding.
The side panel's scrolling report was a wall of text operators skipped. It is now
a colored outcome line, one line for the shown plate, and one remedy or marker
hint above the issue grid, with secondary detail moved to tooltips.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Operators sometimes pull a clamp for a manual layout, but only Auto Nest's
last-resort search could take clamps off a sheet. Right-clicking a clamp in
Select mode now offers to remove it from that sheet or put it back, reusing
the existing per-sheet RemovedClamps, so the zones, cut-time charge, display
and .nest persistence all behave as they do for Auto Nest removals.
The change is refused while a nest run or fill may be reading the clamps,
sharing the guard the Clamps dialog already used.
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The overlap crosshair sat on the pair's area centroid. For a split,
holed or concave overlap, that point can be off the red material:
between two patches, in a hole, or inside a curve.
PlateOverlapPair.Marker is a point inside the pair's largest island.
It is the island's pole of inaccessibility (PolyLabel), searched to a
tenth of the island's area/perimeter within a 4096-cell budget. If
that bounded search does not land inside (a long thin sliver), the
marker falls back to the midpoint of the widest interior run of a
horizontal scan line placed between vertex heights.
The overlay crosshair, marker hit testing, hover coordinates
("Marker:") and the cutting-inspection ring now use the marker.
Centroid stays the true area centroid. View > Overlap Check > Display
> Centroids is now labelled Markers.
Before the marker existed, its call sites used the centroid. Two
patches, a covered frame, a half annulus and a thin crescent then put
it off the material; now all four land on it. Disabling the scan-line
fallback fails its test. On the 389-plate corpus, markers add about
0.4 ms per overlapping pair; pair and area results are unchanged.
Expand now reads the plate on a worker while its Cancel window pumps
messages, so a still-running fill could commit parts into the plate the
search is enumerating (InvalidOperationException: collection modified).
Refuse the command while whole-job nesting, a NestProgressForm or a fill
on any view of the nest is active. The usual plate-action guard is not
reused: ActionSelect reports busy whenever parts are selected, which
Expand requires.
Expand Spacing ran its search on the UI thread, so a complex layout froze
the app for minutes with no way out. Run the search on a worker; when it
lasts past 0.3 s, show a small modal window with elapsed time and Cancel.
Cancel, Escape and the close box request cancellation through the
Expander token and the window stays open until the worker stops, so the
layout is never touched afterward. A cancelled run moves no part and
reports it in the status bar instead of the "select two parts" notice.
Choosing a part from the editor's drawing list armed the pickup only in
Click. Moving the mouse more than 3 px before release started a
drag-and-drop, which takes mouse capture, so the list never raised Click
and nothing attached to the cursor on the plate.
The list now raises DrawingPickedUp on a single left press over a row
and the editor arms the pickup there. Dragging onto the plate still
drops a part at the release point; a completed drop clears the pickup so
a second copy does not follow the cursor. Presses below the last row,
right presses and the second press of a double-click do not pick up.
The Windows run 38614147947 failed ActiveCutOffDragNeedsLeftMotionAndEndsAfterSelectionClears because a screen-space drag to world X=11 rounded to X=10.96. Assert bounded movement, then verify the released coordinate stays unchanged.
Cut-off scrap lines were a solid 1.5px near-black stroke that read like
another sheet/part outline. They now render as a 2px orange-red dash so
operators can spot scrap cuts at a glance, and the manual cut-off preview
is recolored to match the applied line. Selected cut-offs keep their solid
blue highlight.
Add bitmap regression tests (CutOffDisplayTests) that verify the dashed
orange style, the dashed gaps, and the unchanged selection highlight.
ajandClaude Opus 5.5