Copying a layout meant recreating the plate and copying its parts by hand.
Ctrl+drag a row in the Plates list drops a copy at that slot; the row's
right-click menu has Duplicate Plate, which inserts the copy after it.
Plate.CopyLayout copies the sheet (size, outline, spacing, quadrant, grain,
clamps, support bed), the parts with their programs and lead-in state,
common-line groups and cut-off definitions, regenerated in their places in
the sequence, as a save and reload would. The copy is one sheet with no
stock item codes, since those name particular physical sheets. The desktop
gives it its own cutting parameters and records it as one undo step.
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The empty new-plate header read only "New plate (empty)", so the sheet
size of the plate about to be nested was hidden until parts were added.
FormatHeader now appends the size (and quantity above one) there too.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Make Nests bound each tab it nested to its saved record but left the
tab's history off its save point, so the tab showed " *" and closing it
asked to save. Yes uploaded a second revision, and a release that had
already looked up that draft (the panel asks the operator to save and
close an open draft) then merged with If-Match on the old revision: the
server refused it, that group failed, no nest after it was saved and the
release was not recorded. End() then closed the leftover tabs through
the unsaved prompt, whose Yes the release lockout refused.
- Binding a released tab marks its save point (EditNestForm.MarkSaved).
- Make Nests re-reads each merge target and merges at the revision now on
the server; one saved while the release runs is still refused.
- End() closes the tabs it did not save without the prompt
(CloseDiscardingChanges), after taking them off the release list.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
FormStartPosition.CenterParent is not applied to modeless windows, so the
viewer opened wherever Windows placed it. Center it on its owner in OnLoad,
shrunk to fit and kept inside that screen's working area.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Slice 3 of common-line cutting. On costly plate (N26-295: 3/16 RA310S at about
$2,500 a sheet) pairing parts one kerf apart fits the part the spacing cannot:
the last plate's 38 parts fit on one 48x120 with Auto Nest only with pairs.
- Drawing Properties gains "Allow common line" (Drawing.AllowCommonLine, off by
default because customer edge-quality needs vary). The nest's CommonLineUsage
(Off / When it adds parts / Whenever available) is set in Auto Nest and seeded
from Tools > Nest Defaults; both persist (nest.json, defaults.json).
- NestPipeline runs the ordinary solve, then, with a level on, trials where
eligible parts are offered as kerf-gap pair compounds. Placed pairs expand into
parts plus explicit NestJobCommonLine groups, are validated again, and
CommonLineRanking keeps a trial only by the level: count first, then sheets;
"when it adds parts" keeps the plain layout on a tie, "whenever" also takes a
shorter cut or less material, never at the cost of a part. Engines, FillScore
and their comparers are unchanged; Off asks the engine exactly what it did.
- NestLayoutCheck exempts members only through a sheet's explicit group list and
only when the job allows common lines; materializing and committing create
Plate.CommonLines.
- Server nesting writes common-line jobs as version 3 and replays the recorded
trial answers, so the desktop binds the same groups.
- Fill Area honors the level through a PlateFillService overload.
- The benchmark gains --common-lines <level> --kerf <k>.
Benchmark (synthetic nests + N26-295, --parallel 1): with no flag and with
--common-lines off every engine matches the base commit; with a level on no
layout becomes invalid and three runs save a sheet at equal nested area.
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The Database-mode Open dialog now allows multi-row selection and a Get
Materials command (button and context menu) that downloads the chosen
nests, or every nest the current search matches across all pages, and
lists the sheets they use by material, grade, thickness and size with
the quantity and the nests using each. Needed to order stock for a whole
job's worth of nests at once instead of opening them one by one.
Material, grade and thickness come from each nest's server record;
sizes and duplicates from its plates, skipping plates with no parts.
Copy All and Save CSV export the list.
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Tabs suit thin plate, but on anything thicker than 0.25 in the parts
are too hard to break out of the sheet, and the Cutting Parameters
dialog was one global set for every job. Its settings now live on the
nest's machine thickness: leads on the existing Outside/Inside Cuts
tabs, and lead-in angle rounding, tabs and pierce on a new Tabs &
Pierce tab (ThicknessConfig.Cutting). In Database mode every
workstation gets the same settings through the shared machine.
The dialog and the Place Lead-in panel say what they edit, and save
back to that thickness (MachineCuttingDefaults.WriteTo, converted to
the machine's units). A thickness with no Tabs & Pierce of its own, or
a nest the machine has no thickness for, keeps this PC's settings as
before. If the machine can't be saved (server offline, a conflict),
the edit is kept on this PC for that job and the user is told.
Machine Configuration can copy one thickness's Tabs & Pierce to
thinner or thicker ones, so the 0.25 in rule takes a few clicks.
An older desktop saving a shared machine would silently erase these
settings, since it doesn't know them. Machine configuration classes
now keep unknown fields, and the server refuses a machine save that
leaves out a field the stored machine has a value for, telling the
user to update OpenNest.
The Plan Cutting status line now reports tabs from SupportTabs; since
"Tab every part" was retired it always said off.
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.NET 8 defaults Process.Start to UseShellExecute=false, so handing it the
temp DXF tried to run the file as an executable and threw an unhandled
Win32Exception that took the app down. Open it through the shell so the
.dxf association is used, report write/launch failures in a message box,
and replace characters a file name cannot hold in the nest name.
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Set Offset Increment gains a "Calculated distance" option. With it on, the
arrow keys move the selection by its own size plus the part spacing,
measured on its geometry like a fill's copy distance, so it lands tight
without a push back. The move stops early at an edge, clamp or part, and a
clone preview steps clear of the copy just placed.
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Operators want plates of the same size grouped together so material
doesn't need sorting when it arrives; there was no way to change plate
order. Rows can now be dragged to a new position (with a drop line and
edge auto-scroll), or moved with Alt+Up/Alt+Down. Each move is one
undoable "Move Plate" step and only reorders: quantities are untouched.
The trailing empty new-plate sentinel stays last. An empty plate moved
to the end becomes the sentinel, as the sentinel rule already does on
reload, so the order shown is the order saved.
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The status bar showed only the material name and thickness, so nests
of the same material in different grades looked identical there. The
grade now follows the name, e.g. "Material: Steel A36 · 0.25 in".
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Export Nest Report only wrote a file, so checking or printing a report meant
finding it and opening another program. View Nest Report renders the same
snapshot to a private temp folder and opens it in a WebView2 viewer with
Save As and Print; closing the window deletes the temp copy. Export and View
share the capture and write guards.
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Review fixes for ledger-first Make Nests:
- The release renest (offer, staged run, codes, note) moves into
OpenNest.Desktop.ReleaseRenest, shared by the headless panel, the
live main window and the tests. Codes are given inside each commit, so
the live tab's Auto Nest undo step records them; before, undo and redo
dropped every ledger code.
- A bundle repeats one code per sheet: a later nest of the run lost the
whole bundle once an earlier nest took one sheet. Taken sheets are now
counted per code (LedgerCodeFilter.ExcludeCopies).
- A stage whose layout is not kept lists every copy it asked for as not
placed (the proposal cannot be kept), and a rejected ledger layout
says "MaterialLedger not used: Auto Nest could not keep a layout on
its stock" instead of a bare "No MaterialLedger stock used".
- "no free stock" is said only when the ledger had none; otherwise the
note counts what was left out (on other nests, taken by earlier nests
of this release, too small, unknown shape).
- The ledger is not read for a nest with nothing to nest, the live read
runs under the tab's stop token, a reason's own full stop is not
doubled, and the sheet count is the codes given.
With Nest after release ticked, one ReleaseLedgerStock is shared by the
whole run and passed to the renest step, headless or live in the main
window. The live tab runs one Auto Nest per stage (ledger stock, then
the Nest Defaults sheet), records the ledger locations for the plate
tooltips, and the group's note says how many sheets came from the
ledger or why it was not used.
A blank Made By now starts from the name the user last typed there, or
their Windows user name when they never typed one. Changing the box on OK
remembers the new name in user settings; clearing it falls back to the
Windows name again. A nest's own author is shown unchanged and is not
remembered unless the user edits it.
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A nest window gave no sign that its nest had changed since the last
save, and closing it (or the app) discarded the edits silently. The
undo history already tracks a save point, so the title now ends in
" *" while the nest is off it (or holds an edit no scope recorded),
and closing asks to save, discard or cancel. Yes saves through the
storage in use; a database save cancels the close and closes the
window once the upload succeeds.
Saves now commit any unrecorded edit first so the save point covers
what was written. The window's cleanup moves from OnClosing to
OnFormClosed: another window can still cancel closing the app, and a
nest window must not lose its plate manager when that happens.
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A server Auto Nest result could only be reviewed in the session that sent it,
and nothing stopped two desktops from keeping the same result. Phase 3 adds
My Server Jobs, so results that finished while OpenNest was closed are easy
to find, and records each review on the server.
- Server: GET /api/nest-jobs lists jobs newest first with state, engine,
submitter, times, queue position, review and the worker's summary (parts,
sheets, utilization, unplaced). It filters to active, finished or
unreviewed jobs and to a submitter (a bare user name matches that user on
any workstation). An ETag turns unchanged polls into 304s. Schema v17 adds
nestId, review and summary columns, only where missing.
- Keep once: POST .../keep and .../discard take If-Match on the job revision
and change an unreviewed result only once. A second desktop gets 409 with
who kept it. DELETE removes finished jobs. A succeeded job keeps its
package until it is reviewed, so a later session can rebuild the job.
- Retention: OPENNEST_JOB_RETENTION_DAYS (default 7) deletes finished jobs
with their results. It runs on claims and list reads. A malformed value
fails startup instead of deleting results early.
- Worker: reports the result's summary with the transcript. A job cancelled
while its result arrived keeps no summary (found in the Docker smoke run).
- Desktop: Nest > My Server Jobs polls the list every 3 s; polling rather
than per-job SSE because the list must show other desktops' jobs and
removals. Open rebuilds the job from job.json against the open nest's own
drawings. New per-drawing geometry fingerprints make the freshness check
work across sessions. Cancel Job and Remove act on the selected job. A
status-bar item counts this user's results waiting for review; there is
no popup. Auto Nest's review now records Keep on the server before it
commits, and records Discard too.
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A server Auto Nest showed only "Nesting on the nest server" for however long
the job took, and Stop could take a whole 20-second heartbeat to reach the
worker. Now the desktop shows the same Best plan so far strip a local run
does, and a job that ends while OpenNest is in the background says so.
- Worker: RecordingNestingEngine taps each solve's progress. NestJobReporter
stores only the latest stage and plan, at most once every two seconds, so a
chatty engine cannot flood SQLite. Each round also reads the cancel flag,
so Stop reaches the worker within one interval (about 2 s in the Docker
smoke test).
- Server: schema v16 adds per-job revision, progress, plan and planRevision
columns, which the upgrade adds only where missing. PUT .../progress and
.../plan renew the lease like a heartbeat. GET .../events is Server-Sent
Events, woken by an in-process change signal: plan and job events with
revision ids, keep-alives, Last-Event-ID resume, and the final state always
sent before the stream ends. GET .../plan serves the polling fallback.
Progress goes over HTTP because the worker never opens the database
(another host, NFS).
- Desktop: NestJobWatch follows the stream. When the stream drops it polls
once and reconnects, and it polls throughout when the server has no stream.
RemoteNestPlanPreview draws worker plans from the client's own request,
including cutout-trial frame proxies. ServerNestNotice shows a tray balloon
(a toast on Windows 10/11) when the job ends while OpenNest is not in
front. A real toast would need an AUMID shortcut that Velopack does not
promise. Clicking the balloon brings the review forward; nothing is kept
without Keep.
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PartSupport findings counted toward the headline and the Post Anyway
checkbox but had no tile or list group, so an operator saw "1 warning"
with nothing to read and was likely to tick through a part that may tip
once cut free. A test now fails if any finding kind is left unlisted.
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File > Drawing Library Grid shows a page of library drawings side by
side. Check All Pages walks every page, downloading each drawing, timing
its label search without the paint's cell budget on a worker with a
10 s limit, then timing its paint, and lists drawings that fail, run
slow or would freeze a preview. It was added to confirm no other library
drawing hangs on load the way the twin-outline drawing did: a run over
all 40,757 drawings on the work server found no hangs or failures.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Plate commands need an open nest and no running job; Trim/Extend Cut-Off
needs a cut-off on the plate and Sequence by Path needs two parts. The
Plate menu's Trim/Extend item follows the same rule.
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The header gets a fourth zoom button that starts the existing Zoom Window
action, with a matching dashed-window icon also shown on View > Zoom To >
Area. It stays out of the inspection's live zoom controls: inspection owns
Escape, so a zoom window could not be cancelled there.
Show Original drew nothing until Simplify ran, and then showed entities that
had already been through import cleanup. The importers now capture the
entities before any optimization and the overlay draws those from load, while
Simplify keeps starting from the cleaned entities.
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Desktop test classes each kept identical PumpUntil, Show, Mouse, All,
PressKey, Raise, SetBackingField and Field helpers. They now import
FormTesting and TestReflection; the two Field variants that read a base
type's field or unwrap DrawingLibraryForm keep a one-line wrapper.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Ten desktop test classes drew the same squares and the same 4 x 2
rectangle in private helpers, in two equivalent styles. They now use
TestPrograms.Square, ClockwiseSquare and Rectangle.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Plate > Set as Default and Nest > Edit's Defaults tab only changed the
open nest, so new nests never picked up the values. Set as Default now
also saves the new-nest defaults, and the Defaults tab gains an opt-in
"Use these defaults for new nests" check.
Machine thicknesses can now set part and edge spacing. A nest takes them
when its material, grade, thickness or machine changes and when a release
creates it; BOM import seeds its groups from them. Spacing edited in the
same dialog stays, and only an untouched trailing sheet follows.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Pressing a dimension's value text now grabs it like its line does. The
label keeps its offset under the pointer, so a radius or diameter value,
which sits past its leader's end, no longer jumps when grabbed. Hit boxes
are measured the way painting draws them, at the control's DPI.
Holes and radii need sizes on the drawing as well as the overall extents. Select
circles or arcs, right-click and choose Add Radius Dimension or Add Diameter
Dimension. The value is measured live from the curve, found by its entity ID, so
it follows edits; only the leader angle and label offset are saved. A radius on
an arc stays on its sweep, and labels are kept clear of the curve and center.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Shops need a part's overall size on the drawing while converting it. Width and
height are measured live from the geometry that will be cut, so they follow
filters, exclusions, simplifying, breakoffs and tabbed cutouts instead of going
stale. Only the placement is saved; dimensions never touch the program.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Customers and design tools hand over SVGs, and getting them in meant a
trip through another CAD tool. CadImporter now reads them like any other
drawing, and plates, programs and converter entities can be written out.
An SVG's numbers are not drawing units, so import converts to the nest's
units and never guesses: only an absolute width or height counts as a
stated size, since px means 1/96 in to browsers but 1/72 in to
Illustrator. Without one the desktop asks, showing the size each choice
gives, and headless callers must pass the scale or the import fails.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The repo mixed variants such as center/centre and color/colour, so a
name could be spelled either way and searches missed half the hits.
Standardize on the US spelling, matching .NET's own APIs (Color, Center).
Wire values owned by other systems keep their spelling: the material
ledger's "Cancelled" hold status and GitHub's "cancelled" job status.
No behavior change beyond the spelling of a few status messages.
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Edits in the Cutting Parameters dialog only reached user settings, while a
plate's stored parameters took priority, so a change was lost on any
planned plate unless Apply succeeded. User settings now win; a plate's own
are the fallback when none are saved or readable.
WinForms tests saved to the real user-settings.json, and with user settings
winning a test's lead-ins would feed real planning, so they now use a temp
file and skip the legacy settings carry-over.
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The drawing library tests relied on DataGridView picking a current row by
itself when the page is populated. It only does that when the first row is
already laid out as displayed, which the hosted Windows runner does not
guarantee. Without a current row SelectedRecord() is null, Add/Edit return
silently, and the test fails later:
- run 41057280460: EditSettings_SavesCutFirstAsANewRevision_AndTheAddAppliesIt
"Timed out waiting for the reloaded page."
- run 40312036013: MismatchWarning_IsShownBeforeTheAdd_AndCancelLeavesTheNestAlone
expected 2 messages, got 0.
Make the first row current explicitly after each page load (and after the
edit reload that precedes an Add), and make Run() rethrow a faulted task so
a failed step reports its own error rather than a 15 s timeout.
The release panel was the only place that counted a set in kits;
everywhere else in the drawing library calls them sets.
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Machine Configuration held one lead-in and lead-out per thickness and
applied it to every contour. Each thickness now has Outside Cuts and
Inside Cuts tabs; inside cuts follow the outside leads until "Same as
outside cuts" is cleared, and configurations without inside leads keep
applying one pair to both.
The lead type lists, per-type fields and preview from Cutting Settings
are now a reusable LeadsEditor control that both dialogs use. The
machine tabs hide what the configuration cannot hold: the arc sweep,
the clean-hole kerf (taken from the thickness) and Line + Line.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Undo regenerates each restored plate's cut-offs, which removes the
cut-off parts first. A plate holding nothing but cut-offs became empty
for a moment, so the new-plate sentinel dropped a trailing plate while
the restore was still enumerating the plates, throwing "Collection was
modified". Regenerate inside a PlateManager batch so the sentinel only
settles once every plate is done.
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The plate view fills the outline, hatches obstacles and draws the usable
area; Edit Plate imports an outline from a CAD file or clears it, with
the size read-only while the sheet has one.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Highlighting an earlier version on the Versions tab left the plates,
drawings and plate preview on the current version, so there was no way
to see what a historical version looked like without opening it. The
embedded history now reports its selection and the browser downloads
that version (debounced, cached per history view) and shows it, labelled
as historical; selecting the current version returns to it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The panel gains a Current plate only / All plates selector, shown when the
two scopes differ. Changing it takes the unapplied scrap cut-offs off,
cancels any running plan and replans. The toolbar button opens with the
scope last chosen there (default all plates); the Plate and Nest menu items
keep their fixed scopes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Auto Nest leaves out ledger item codes already on other open server nests,
and save and post re-check a nest's codes before going on.
- Server: GET /api/nests/stock-item-codes?exclude= lists the codes on
non-deleted Draft, Quote and To Be Cut nests. Codes are stored in
nest_stock_codes (schema v14) at every archive write; the upgrade reads
each current archive once.
- Data: INestRepository.GetStockCodesInUseAsync, LedgerCodesInUse (5 s,
failures become an unknown answer), the pure LedgerCodeFilter for ledger
rows (reusable by release-time nesting) and LedgerCodeCheck for the
re-check.
- Desktop: the Auto Nest ledger summary counts "(N on other nests)" or says
other nests were not checked. Save, Save As and post open Ledger Stock
Changed when codes are taken: proceed after a per-attempt
acknowledgement, remove the codes (undoable), or cancel. A ledger that
cannot be read skips the check with a status note.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add a Support Bed tab beside Clamps that edits the grid or slats new
nests assigned the machine receive. A machine without a bed shows the
legacy support-grid.json values; the first edit stores them on the
machine in its units.
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- archived library drawings: say they can't be edited or released; no
front end can restore a library drawing yet
- library filter hint names the Show all materials checkbox
- undo labels Support Bed and Automatic Scrap Cutoffs match their menus
- display-outline posting hints name both Plate > Plan Cutting... and
--plan-cutting, since the console prints them too
- MaterialLedger options are saved per Windows user, not per machine
Clamps are physical fixtures that differ between machines, but one global
clamps.json served every machine, so a plasma table and a fiber laser could
not have different rails.
- MachineConfig.Clamps holds each machine's rail in the machine's units,
edited on a new Clamps tab in Tools > Machine Configuration.
- New and BOM import give a nest the rail of the machine they assign;
Nest > Clamps loads and saves the nest's machine's clamps. Each nest keeps
its own copy, so machine edits never move existing nests' clamps.
- At startup, while no machine has clamps, the legacy clamps.json (or the
server's shared copy) is copied once into the default or only machine;
with several machines and no default the user picks one.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace the name list with a ListView of 96px thumbnails drawn by
Program.GetImage at each shape's preview defaults (or its first
configuration), labelled with the name and configuration count. The
left pane opens three tiles wide instead of half the window.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Nest drawings can require no parts, but the CAD Converter's quantity
spinner had a minimum of 1, so Edit Drawings in Converter threw
ArgumentOutOfRangeException as soon as such a drawing was selected.
Lowering the minimum to 0 lets the converter load it and hand the
drawing back with its quantity still 0.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The nest's machine and its Nest Info fields were the last edits only the
fingerprint safety net could catch (and it misses most of them). Machine
is now one step, together with the support grid and cut-off settings the
machine brings. Nest Info is one step for what Undo can put back (units,
material, thickness, customer, notes and plate defaults); the name,
status, author and creation date stay as they are through Undo, so an
edit of only those records nothing.
The sheet strip only shows Auto Nest proposals; what it shows is
committed through Auto Nest, which is already recorded.
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