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.
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.
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.
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.
A cut-off's place in Plate.Parts is its cut sequence number, but
RegenerateCutOffs removed every cut-off part and appended it again, so
any part drag, fill or cut-off move sent the cut-offs to the end. The
nest file didn't store the position either, so reopening did the same.
RegenerateCutOffs now puts each cut-off back at its previous index (new
cut-offs go at the end), and CutOffDto.Sequence saves the index. Older
files without it load the cut-offs at the end, as before.
b0997f6 moved every cut-off after the parts. Plate.Parts order is the
cut sequence, and the user sets each cut-off's place in it (Set
Sequence), so the post must follow it rather than reorder. Cut-offs
still post as uncompensated open lines with no lead-in.
Part.Clone and CloneAtOffset copied the lead-in program but not
HasManualLeadIns, LeadInsLocked, CuttingParameters or the tracked
pre-lead-in rotation. A copy of a rotated lead-in part reported
rotation 0 (the rebuilt program's), so saving it wrote the wrong
rotation and Remove Lead-ins restored an unrotated part.
Part.Rotate on a lead-in part set the tracked rotation from the
lead-in program's own Rotation, which starts at zero when the cutting
strategy rebuilds it, so a further quarter turn left Rotation unchanged.
Lead-in parts now accumulate the applied angle instead.
Program.Clone deep-copied the SubPrograms dictionary but left every
SubProgramCall pointing at the source's sub-program, and
SubProgramCall.Clone went through the Rotation setter, which re-rotated
that shared program to the call's stale angle. Copying a program with
hole lead-ins therefore rotated the source's holes, and rotating the
copy rotated the source again.
Program.Rotate also rotated a shared sub-program once per call, so two
identical holes (one deduplicated sub-program) turned twice.
Clone now binds calls to one private copy per shared sub-program
without re-aligning it, and Rotate turns each distinct sub-program once.
Multi-sheet nests previously went into one program with a single header
size and one M50 at the end, so sheet 2 would cut into sheet 1's
skeleton. New Sheets settings:
- One program per sheet (default on): JOB.cnc -> JOB-1.cnc, JOB-2.cnc,
each a full program with its own size and pallet change (CL-series
batch rule, EM-423 7.4). Single-sheet nests keep the chosen name.
- Off: one program, with /L "L0" + pallet change between sheets;
mixed sheet sizes are rejected.
- Pallet change code (default M50, unconfirmed for multi-sheet CI Fiber
runs; documented as a release blocker).
All sheets are validated and rendered before any file is written.
IMultiFilePostProcessor lets the desktop app confirm overwrites of every
target file and list what was saved, and the console print each file.
A fixed override wrote the same text on every part, making parts
indistinguishable in the program. Each part's ( PART:... ) comment now
always uses its source file or drawing name. Saved configs that still
contain PartComment load normally; the key is ignored.
System.Text.Json rebuilds MaterialCodes with the default ordinal comparer,
so a saved config matched 'Mild Steel' but not 'mild steel' and silently
fell back to the default code. The setter now re-keys assigned maps
case-insensitively.
Replace the generic PropertyGrid for configs that opt in via
PostSettingAttribute: a section list (Machine, Material, Program output,
Macros) with labelled fields, help text, numeric ranges and an editable
material-code table. Edits apply only when OK validates every field.
Unannotated configs (Cincinnati CL, GravographIS) keep the PropertyGrid.
RapidEnumerator primed the walk position at the first pierce point, then
the skipped first rapid advanced it again. Raw programs start with a zero
rapid so this was invisible, but lead-in programs start with a real
incremental offset to the pierce, which shifted every later rapid by that
delta and drew rapids off the sheet. Start the walk at the program origin.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Posting a nest with a sheet cut-off threw because the CI Fiber writer
treated every contour as a compensated part contour and requires a
linear lead-in after G41/G42 (TF5200 13.2.4.1). Cut-offs are open
centreline cuts with no lead-in and no inside/outside, so they now post
without G41/G42 and run after every part on the sheet so the sheet is
not severed before the parts are cut (matching the CL post).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
New nests now load plate defaults from %APPDATA%/OpenNest/defaults.json
instead of a .nstdot nest template:
- Tools > Nest Defaults... edits the file directly (new dialog).
- Tools > Save Current Plate as Defaults captures the active plate with
no dialog (visible when a nest is open).
- New_Click no longer unzips a template; a corrupt defaults file warns
once per session and falls back to built-in values.
- First run converts an existing NestTemplatePath .nstdot to
defaults.json and clears the legacy setting (kept readable on a
failed conversion); the setting itself stays, marked legacy.
- Save As no longer offers the .nstdot filter; SaveTemplate removed.
- BomImportForm and OptionsForm template plumbing removed in favor of
the shared NestDefaults store.
Replaces the .nstdot nest-template mechanism for new-nest plate
defaults. NestDefaults persists units, plate size, quadrant, part
spacing, and edge spacing to a single JSON file (DefaultPath:
%APPDATA%/OpenNest/defaults.json). Load never throws: a missing,
corrupt, or partially valid file degrades field-by-field to the
built-in fallback values, and unknown fields or a future version
number are ignored.
Omnidirectional minimum distance with separating direction (positive)
and penetration depth with minimum-translation direction (negative),
for the PlateView spacing expander. Overlap verdict defers to
Collision.HasOverlap so kernels never disagree. Basis for the fixed-s
separation solver.
After 1b, triangulating both polygons on every pair was the largest
remaining overlap cost (27% of main-thread samples on the corpus job).
PartOverlapChecker now triangulates each part at most once per check,
lazily after the bounding-box gate, and passes the triangles to a new
internal Collision.HasOverlap overload that runs the unchanged
OverlapRegions body. Triangles are only read by clipping and hole
subtraction, so reuse gives identical verdicts.
Verification:
- 49,000 seeded decisions with reused triangles match LegacyCollision;
triangles stay bit-identical to a fresh triangulation afterwards.
- Debug PolygonTriangulations: 246 -> 40 and 64 -> 36 per grid check;
sharing triangles per Program instead fails 23 tests.
- Corpus job (169 parts, --engines Default --parallel 1): median
13,398 -> 12,702 ms over 4+4 alternating runs vs 1b, identical
outcomes; serialized layout byte-identical to the base.
Also records the Follow-up B' (Slices 1a, 1b, 2a) measurements in
docs/performance/fill-performance.md.
aj
