Slats are strips of a set thickness running the full length or width of
the table, one every pitch. A part's contacts are the corners of where its
material crosses a slat, so the support check and support tabs work as on
the grid. Nest > Support Bed... picks grid or slats; nest files store
type "slats" and support-grid.json keeps both layouts' values. Draw
Support shows the slats cut off to the sheet.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The support grid was one shared support-grid.json, off by default, and a nest
had no machine at all, so a plasma table and a fiber laser could not have
different grids, and nothing could pick machine-specific behavior later
(lead-ins differ between laser and plasma; tabbing depends on the grid).
- Nest.Machine (id + name) persists as top-level `machine` in nest.json;
malformed values load as none.
- MachineConfig.SupportGrid holds each machine's grid; a machine without one
still falls back to the legacy support-grid.json.
- New and BOM import assign the Tools > Nest Defaults machine (first by name
when none is chosen) and give the nest that machine's grid.
- Nest > Machine reassigns a nest and swaps in the new machine's grid;
Nest > Support Grid saves machine defaults to the nest's machine.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Stock can arrive up to 1.5 in wider than nominal, so only the origin-side
edge is certain. A cut-off with a head-locked overcut cuts past the nominal
far edge with the head height locked, covering the oversize. With that lock,
Plan Cutting may start the far-edge segment at the far edge: overcut outward,
rapid back still locked, unlock, cut toward the origin. Without it the
direction stays fixed, as decided in Project Memory a20ea455.
- CutOff.HeadLockOvercut / FarEdgeFirst, persisted in .nest; HEAD HEIGHT
LOCK/UNLOCK comment markers; far edge is quadrant-aware.
- Planner offers the reversed far-edge segment in the joint search, the
safest route and segment insertion; Apply records the direction.
- Cincinnati CL and CI Fiber posts gain lock/unlock code settings and refuse
head-locked cut-offs while either is empty.
- Automatic cut-off dialog setting (off by default, 1.5 in), kept between
sessions and used for new cut-offs.
Lock codes and machine behaviour with the head locked are unconfirmed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Roslyn duplicate scans found the same code copied across layers:
- Data: the three browse sessions share BrowseSession<TPage, TSort>;
the remote clients share NestServerHttp (JSON options, If-Match,
error text).
- WinForms: five paged lists share BrowsePager for loading text,
navigation, sort glyphs and failure messages. The Add Drawings to
Release, Drawing Library and set browser dialogs now dispose their
browse sessions.
- Server: NestQueryRequest reuses DrawingLibraryRequest's helpers;
revision history queries share count and paging binds.
- Engine: RemnantPlateNester delegates to DefaultPlateNester;
CuttingPlanService reuses JointCuttingPlanSearch.Map.
- Core: LineArc and CleanHole lead-ins share LineArcApproach with
unchanged arithmetic order, so output is bit-identical.
- IO: Dxf.GetGeometry overloads share one reader; .nest JSON test
helpers move to NestArchiveJson.
Also fixes the production compiler warnings (CS8632, CS8603, CS0108)
and moves a test off an obsolete forwarding API.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Emission splits a contour at its entry with Arc/Line.SplitAt, which treat
a point within Tolerance.Epsilon (1e-5) of an endpoint as that endpoint
and start the contour there. The lead-in still ended at the entry point
itself, so an entry 1e-8..1e-5 from a vertex left that span uncut and the
plan's own verification refused it ("does not preserve complete directed
contours").
Imported PEP mounting holes hit this: two half circles whose stored centre
sits 5e-8 beside the chord's midpoint, so the closest entry to an approach
from straight below lands 5e-8 along the first arc from its start. Panel
doors were refused on every plate holding such a hole.
PreparedContours now snaps an entry 1e-8..1e-5 from its entity's start or
end to the exact vertex, for automatic entries, scrap pierce entries and
drawing pins alike, so the lead-in ends where the contour starts. Entries
already within 1e-8 are left as they were, so saved pinned programs
re-emit unchanged. Entries de-duplicate on the snapped point, and
near-corner insets keep the snap distance from both edge ends so none can
snap onto a reflex vertex.
A part with about 1,700 holes (P241017-01) never planned: material
capture paired every boundary with every other one and lead checks
scanned every boundary per lead, so both hit the 1M native query limit
and the plate fell back to an unverified best-effort plan.
- Material capture sweeps boundary extents along X and queries only
pairs the lead checks' per-pair clearance cannot skip, in the full
scan's order.
- Material with 64+ boundaries keeps a grid of boundary extents. Lead
checks, contour-joint matching and replay's contour accounting query
only nearby boundaries; ray parity reads only holes on the point's row.
- Only native queries that run are charged to the budget; skipped far
material no longer costs its full boundary count.
- The search looks up chosen holes and route ranks instead of scanning.
With that the plate plans Ready, but in 189 s: every step re-emitted
and re-checked all holes already cut. On parts with 64+ contours a
middle hole step now checks only the contour it adds, continuing the
completed-contour state its prefix left (ReleasedContourState.Continue).
It falls back to the full prefix whenever it cannot continue exactly,
and the last contour still checks the whole part from before it.
Isolated contour emission clones only the chosen contour.
P241017-01 now plans Ready in 5.4 s with an identical route, expansions
and rapid travel. Core and engine suites pass; the problem-nest corpus
matches the unchanged commit's outcomes and expansions.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Automatic cut-offs refused any part reaching past the physical sheet by
more than Tolerance.Epsilon. Imported supplied blanks (panel doors,
remnants) equal their sheet but carry PEP's rounding: a 0.000006 outline
skew plus placements rounded to 0.001 put the never-cut outline 0.00001
to 0.00003 in past the sheet, so Plan Cutting refused every such nest.
A display perimeter may now extend up to DisplayPerimeterSheetAllowance
(0.0001 model units) past the sheet. Nothing cuts it, and a blank that
fills its sheet gets no cut-offs. Everything else on the part keeps the
ordinary tolerance: cuts, leads, scribes and travel, except a rapid that
ends on the outline itself (the move to its first corner, or an applied
program's display tail). A larger overhang is still refused.
Help > OpenNest Help (F1) and context F1 in Auto Nest and the CAD Converter open
the bundled opennest-help site in a single WebView2 window on its own UI thread.
Both packaging scripts install the opennest-help release pinned in
scripts/help.json, verified by SHA-256. The missing lead-in finding now says
the contour is missing lead-in geometry.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
With the pre-post risks acknowledged, an unplanned blank reached the
Cincinnati and engraver posts, which created the output file before
refusing: an existing program at that path was emptied and the desktop
had no handler for the refusal. Both posts now check every part before
creating the file, and Post shows the refusal like the multi-file path.
A display tail marker is now honoured only as one marker ending the
part's own program, followed by a rapid and the outline alone. A marker
inside a sub-program or followed by real cuts is refused by posts and by
executed reads, so cuts after it can never be dropped from both
verification and output.
Enclosure was tested at one point per entity, so a round cutout starting
on the blank but running past its edge, or a cutout whose corners all sit
on an L-shaped blank while an edge crosses its notch, reached an
unverified plan that warning acceptance could apply, cutting into or past
the never-cut edge. Every cut is now sampled along its arcs inside the
outline and must not cross or touch it, and the material capture names the
display perimeter when a cut crosses it.
The posts treat every non-lead feed move as a cut, so an applied blank's
display tail, or the outline of a blank posted without a plan, would have
been cut along the blank's edge. The pre-post review counted that outline
as an ordinary cutting contour.
Cincinnati, CI Fiber and the engraver now read part programs through
DisplayPerimeterTail.ForPosting: an applied program posts exactly what the
same program posts with its tail removed by hand, and an unplanned display
perimeter is refused with a message that names the part and points to Plan
Cutting. The pre-post review reports the unplanned outline by name.
Place Lead-in built its contours from cut-layer entities only, so on a
blank the largest cutout looked like the outside and took an external
lead pierced on the blank; committing then regenerated the part with the
outline as a cut perimeter. The legacy whole-part strategy did the same.
Both strategies now refuse a program with a display perimeter and leave
the part unchanged, and Place Lead-in explains that such a part's cutouts
get their leads from Plan Cutting instead of selecting it.
An applied cutting program for a display-perimeter blank held only its
cutouts, so the part shrank to them: a 30 x 20 door reported an 11.5 x 20
extent, overlap and the plate view lost the blank, and running automatic
cut-offs afterwards added lines straight through it.
A complete emission now ends with a display tail: a marker comment, a
rapid to the outline and the outline on the display perimeter layer. The
part keeps the blank's bounds and material, so later cut-offs still have
nothing to cut and the door plans again as before. Nothing executes the
tail: executed reads stop at the marker, so search, replay and the
pre-post review see only the cuts, and cut time, the rapid display and the
cut simulation leave it out. DisplayPerimeterTail.ForPosting gives posts
the program without it and refuses an unplanned display perimeter.
Review found three blanks that slipped past or failed silently. Enclosure
was checked against the outline's bounding box, so a cutout in the notch of
an L-shaped blank reached an unverified plan that warning acceptance could
apply; every cut point is now tested inside the outline itself, and the
material capture names the display perimeter when no ring encloses the
rest. A blank whose only cutouts are tabbed left the search with nothing
to choose and ended without a finding; it is now refused with its reason,
as is a blank with nothing to cut, which used to get only the generic
noncutting message. None of these offers even an unverified plan.
Clean-bounds containment, seam overcut trimming and incremental closure
drift now treat the display perimeter like the other material boundaries.
Some jobs cut only cutouts into a supplied blank, such as instrument holes
in a purchased door that is the whole sheet. Its outline has to be known
to the planner (the blank is material that leads, rapids and cut-offs must
respect) but must never be pierced, led or cut.
A new DisplayPerimeter layer marks that outline. It is material, so
nesting, containment, lead clearance and automatic cut-offs all see the
blank; a door that fills its sheet leaves cut-offs nothing to cut. Cutting
preparation keeps it out of the contours entirely: with no cut perimeter
every contour is a hole with internal leads, and the search, best-effort
and safest-route paths stop offering a perimeter. Replay refuses any run
along the display perimeter and completes once every other ring is cut.
A display perimeter must be one whole closed contour enclosing every other
contour; a mixed ring, one inside another contour, or a second one is
refused with that reason. Saving, drawing and posting it are still to do.
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>
ToPolygon() used 1000 segments for every arc and circle regardless of
size: no more accurate for large arcs and needlessly dense for small
ones, which made every Drawing area and canonical-angle computation on
an arc-heavy part handle hundreds of thousands of vertices.
The parameterless overload now delegates to ToPolygonWithTolerance with
DefaultChordTolerance = 0.0001. That is ten times tighter than the
spacing and overlap checks' 0.001 because callers use this polygon for
area, which an inscribed polygon always under-reads: at 0.001, seven
area-sensitive cut-off, splitter and circle-packing tests drifted past
their precision; at 0.0001 all pass. ToPolygon(int) keeps the fixed
segment count for any caller that wants it.
With the one-pass Cleanup, a 300-nest PEP archive import on the forge
server went from 46.1 s to 15.5 s.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Cleanup removed each duplicate vertex with List.RemoveAt from the middle
of the list, so a polygon cost O(duplicates x vertices). Shape.ToPolygon
emits a duplicate at every entity junction and flattened arcs to 1000
points, so building the Drawing for a large arc-heavy part spent seconds
shifting memory: one 1 MB PEP nest took 12.7 s to convert and 11.2 s to
read back, a quarter of a 300-nest archive import's total time.
The single pass compares each vertex with its original predecessor, as
the back-to-front loop did, so tolerance-equal runs collapse identically
and the output is unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Plan Cutting is now the only automatic lead-in assignment, and parts the
support grid cannot hold level are reported wherever they lack a
steadying tab.
- Remove Assign Lead-ins (plate and nest), LeadInAssigner, the lead-in
tool's Auto-Assign button and the Auto Tab size range; old settings
with autoTab sizes still load
- Manual Place Lead-in tabs the clicked entry when support tabs are on
and the grid cannot hold the part (SupportTabSettings)
- New PartSupport finding: Plan Cutting replay and best-effort plans
warn when a drawing pin, a lead-in that does not fit or no single tab
leaves a part unsteady; the pre-post review checks each placed
program's outside tab gap. These warnings replace the advisory
weak-tab notes; only the inside-corner tab note stays advisory, and
never for a pin
- Pinned perimeters keep their pin but carry the support analysis
- Draw grid points as pixel-snapped squares without anti-aliasing
- Post fixtures build lead-ins through a test-only TestLeadIns helper
- Docs: support tabs, pre-post verification and planner notes
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A tab cannot lift a part's margin past its contacts' own hull edges, so a
whole stretch of outline often ties for the best tab point, and the first
sample found won, leaving the tab off-center. Keep the full outline search
for the margin, then among samples within Tolerance.Epsilon of the best,
pick the one nearest the line through the center of gravity across the
long side of the outline's minimum-area bounding rectangle. A part held
only near one end is still tabbed at the far end.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Saved best-fit pairs are in the drawing's canonical frame, but the canonical
angle is recomputed on load and was not saved with the set. When that
computation changes (RotatingCalipers checking every hull edge, marks no
longer counted as material), old pairs were replayed in a turned frame and
could overlap.
Each saved set now records canonicalAngle, and BestFitCacheStore.Import
skips sets whose angle no longer matches the recomputed one (1e-9 rad,
modulo a full turn). Sets from older files have no angle and are dropped;
their pairs are recomputed when next needed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
MinimumBoundingRectangle(Polygon) evaluated only the first (n + 1) / 2
edges, assuming opposite edges give the same rectangle. That holds only
for centrally symmetric hulls: for the triangle (0,0), (10,0), (12,1) it
returned area 12 instead of 10, depending on vertex order.
Every edge is now a candidate. A second-half edge replaces the best only
when smaller beyond rounding, so symmetric hulls (rectangles, best-fit
pairs, whose MBR angle PairEvaluator uses directly) keep their previous
orientation instead of flipping 180 degrees on floating-point noise.
On the Desktop problem nests, 8 of 160 drawing entries now get a smaller
MBR (0.004% to 3.2%) and a turned canonical frame; none changed without a
real area gain. The problem-nest corpus is unchanged against f51e5aef.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The best tab point used to land in inside corners: equally good points
run along a straight edge, vertices were tried first and the first tie
won. Operators cannot grind a nub flush there.
- SupportAnalyzer finds inside corners (inward-turning vertex runs of at
least 30 degrees, so chorded fillets count) and keeps tab points a
clearance from them; of equally good points it picks the one farthest
from an inside corner. Plan Cutting and the overlay use twice the tab
size; AcceptsTabAt rejects closer points
- When no steadying entry has a lead-in that fits, the search falls back
to entries clear of inside corners, then to every entry, each ordered
by how well the tab steadies the part, keeping only the steadiest that
fit
- Replay notes parts whose planned tab cannot hold them level or sits in
an inside corner; the notes are advisory and leave a Ready plan Ready
- Console/MCP plate summaries print a ready plan's notes
- docs/support-tabs.md and cutting-planner notes
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Model the machine's support bed as a grid of contact points measured
from the plate origin, and check each part's center of gravity against
the convex hull of the grid points under its material. The bed is
extensible so straight and CAD-imported curved slats can follow.
- Core: SupportBed/SupportGrid, SupportMaterial and SupportAnalyzer
(margin with registration tolerance, best single tab point)
- Nest-wide support bed that every plate follows, saved in
plateDefaults.supportBed; machine defaults in support-grid.json
- CuttingParameters.SupportTabs: Plan Cutting tabs only unsupported
parts and limits their perimeter entries to points where the tab
steadies the part, falling back to any fitting entry
- Desktop: Nest > Support Grid..., View > Draw Support overlay and a
"Tab parts the support grid cannot hold level" tab option
- docs/support-tabs.md, nest file format and planner notes
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A set is only useful on the floor once it becomes nests. Release on the
Sets tab previews one row per material group with a kit multiplier, an
archived-drawing toggle and a tick per group, then builds each ticked
group's nest as File > New would, in the group's units, uploads it as a
Draft, opens it in its own tab bound to the server record and records the
release. Every group's outcome stays on screen, and a release whose
nests exist but whose record failed can be recorded again.
Releases shows each release's nests and how far they have got ("2 of 3
cut"), and Nest Info names the release a nest came from, so a kit run can
be followed across its nests. Plate defaults convert between inches and
millimeters so a group drawn in other units still gets sensible plates.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Nests released from drawing sets need a state before Quote: created but not
yet nested or checked. Draft is appended to NestStatus (value 3) because the
server still accepts integer statuses from existing callers, so existing
numbers must not shift; NestStatuses.WorkflowOrder puts it first wherever the
operator picks a status.
Older desktops read Draft as Quote (the documented unknown-status fallback),
and an older server refuses "draft", so the server must be upgraded before
desktops that can set it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A lead check scanned every other part's material with native contact
queries. On the 5,742-washer plate that was about 80% of planning and
it never finished inside 120 s.
The earlier extent filter (reverted in ea1270e1) used a fixed 0.001 gap,
which native line/circle rounding can exceed for long leads beside small
circles. This skip adds 1e-6 times the span of both extents. The
discriminant's rounding is bounded by about 1e-7 times that span, and
about 2e-9 is seen. So a skipped material has no native contact, and the
900000-long lead beside a small circle is still checked. Each skipped
scan is charged to the native query budget as if it ran. Ray parity is
still asked natively unless the lead's midpoint is outside the
material's Y range. The pierce zone skips only material farther than its
radius by the same gap.
A randomized test checks that skipped material never has a native
contact. It fails with the span allowance at zero and passes with it as
low as 1e-8. Plate 1 of the washer nest now plans Ready in about 54 s.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
PEP-converted incremental programs round every move, so a long contour
can end 1-1.4e-6 off its start. Material capture refused it as open
("blocked: unsupported geometry"), and a gap right at the 1e-6 boundary
could pass material capture yet fail preparation.
On the planner's owned clean copy only, close incremental contours whose
gap exceeds 1e-8 but stays within what their rounded moves could
accumulate (capped at Tolerance.Epsilon); the next motion absorbs the
correction so nothing later moves. Absolute programs, larger gaps and
the drawing itself are untouched.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Clear Nest removes every plate after the first and empties the remaining
plate (parts, cut-offs, repeat quantity), keeping nest metadata and the
first plate's configuration. It asks first, defaulting to No, and refuses
while nesting, a fill, a busy plate action or a database save is running.
The menu item is enabled only when there is something to clear.
Pinned-lead and locked-lead warnings named a Drawing Pins Off command and a
Clear Lead-ins command that the desktop does not have; name Plate > Remove
Lead-ins and spacing instead. Closing Plan Cutting no longer claims nothing
changed after lead-ins or cut-offs were cleared, the no-stock reason no
longer says the part is larger than every sheet when only the usable area at
the checked rotations is too small, and the console says whole-job engines.
The status bar's "Plate N of M" counted the trailing empty plate, and its
plate number and size repeated what the plate view header already shows.
Drop Plate, Size and Qty from the status bar. Show the plate quantity in the
header as "×N" when it is above one, and keep Util in the status bar so it
stays visible while the Drawings tab is open.
Add a Material label (name and thickness) that opens Nest Info when
clicked. Nest Info remains the only place to edit material, and the label
refreshes after the dialog closes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The plate view searched for each part's label point with PolyLabel's fixed
0.5" precision, a third of a 1.5" part, so the search stopped on the first
interior cell and put labels near edges instead of in the thickest spot.
Precision is now 5% of the part's mean material width (2 x net area over
total outline length), so small, slender or heavily cut-out parts refine
further while large solid ones stay cheap.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Clamps could only sit on the origin-side edge and be edited as a list in
Nest > Clamps. Setting them up against a real sheet is easier by dragging
them where they are, so Plate > Edit Clamps adds an edit mode: drag a clamp
along its edge or onto another edge, click near an edge to add one, click a
clamp's locating dimension to type its distance from the origin, Delete to
remove. Dimensions measure to the clamp center or its near edge
(remembered per user). Edits replace the nest's rail so every sheet follows,
like the dialog.
Rail clamps now carry a ClampEdge (origin side, far side, origin end, far
end), positioned from the origin along that edge. Origin-side clamps keep
their ids and files; other edges persist in optional per-edge arrays in
.nest files and clamps.json, omitted when empty.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Changing a rate, the pierce time or the machine rebuilt the timeline and
kept the playhead's old time. That time pointed at a different move on
the retimed timeline, so the torch jumped around while settings were
adjusted. When the new timeline has the same moves, Load now finds the
same move and how far through it the torch was (CutSimulation.TimeAt
inverts FractionAt, acceleration included).
The in-progress rapid was drawn whole with a dashed pen. GDI+ cost grows
with dash count: zoomed in, one paint of a long rapid can take seconds
to minutes. It is now clipped to the visible area, as finished rapids
already were.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Validate Nest, the posting review and console --post now report a
"Part spacing" finding for pairs of parts that do not overlap but sit
closer than the plate's part spacing. Before, only Auto Nest's
Keep/Discard review checked spacing, so hand-edited layouts could be
validated and posted with parts too close together.
Candidates are found with Auto Nest's own outline test, moved into Core
as SpacingOutline (NestLayoutCheck and NestTolerances now use it; Engine
tests unchanged). Because that outline circumscribes arcs by more than
the spacing slack, each candidate is confirmed on native contours
flattened 20x finer than the slack, so arcs placed exactly at the
spacing by interactive fills stay clear. The finding reports the
measured gap and marks the middle of the closest approach. Overlapping
pairs, cut-offs, zero spacing, the plate edge and clamps are not
reported as spacing findings.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
With a pierce diameter set, a perimeter none of whose configured lead-ins keeps its pierce
clear (a lead shorter than the zone radius, or neighbours closer than it) was only rejected.
Plan Cutting now looks for a pierce in the open scrap around the part instead.
- ScrapPierceSearch (Engine): the window four zone radii around the part, minus every nearby
part's clean material grown by the zone radius and a margin (ClipperBridge, conservative
flattening); the clear point nearest each ranked perimeter entry is a candidate. Other
parts' cutouts count as scrap, the part's own holes do not. With no clear scrap, the
PolyLabel pole of the free scrap is the best effort, and its shortfall is reported.
- ContourChoice.Pierce / PreparedContours.ScrapPierceEntry: the planner's choice carries the
pierce; the emitter cuts a straight lead from it to the nearest perimeter point and still
reads nothing but the contour and the choice.
- Every candidate passes the lead validator like any planner-chosen entry; pinned perimeters
keep their pins and warn. Without a pierce diameter nothing changes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Thick plate pierces leave a crater wider than the kerf. CuttingParameters.PierceDiameter
(Cutting Settings > Pierce Diameter, 0 = off) requires every lead-in pierce to keep half
of it from all part material: its own contour, its holes and every other part.
- LeadPathValidator checks the zone during Plan Cutting candidate checks and final
replay; fixed emissions warn as usual. No-fit findings explain the zone.
- PierceZoneReview reports Pierce zone warnings before posting for leads from any source.
- Holes whose configured pierce is inside the zone move it toward the hole's PolyLabel
pole (round holes: the centre), as close to the contour as the zone allows; a hole
too small for the zone is pierced at its pole and the shortfall is still reported.
- Straight corner leads and round-hole clamping use the larger of PierceClearance and
the zone radius. The manual lead-in preview shares the Core rules.
- Persisted through the DTO, owned copies and state fingerprint.
Perimeter fallback is not included; see docs/geometry/pierce-zone.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Converter edits rebuild a drawing's program around its first pierce, so
Source.Offset can move (legacy drawings with no source entities, or a
tabbed/hidden contour changing the first cut). Part.Update kept the old
Location, shifting placed parts by the rotated origin delta - about 43
inches on a 270-degree part in the reported nest. Offset rebuilt parts
by that delta so their geometry stays put on the plate.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Rotated imported arcs whose start and end radii differ by ~5e-11 are
converted without refitting their centre, so their rebuilt start point
lands just outside the cached part bounds. The allowance scaled with
coordinate magnitude (4096 steps, ~2.9e-11 here) and rejected them,
which stopped Plan Cutting's "Add scrap cut-offs" with "Converted
material extends outside cached part bounds". Use the existing 1e-10
cap as an absolute allowance; larger mismatches still block planning.
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A converted outline whose seam closes within the admitted 1e-6 gap could
only be entered at its seam: entered anywhere else, the arc after the
seam started off its own circle and every emission was refused as an
inconsistent radius. The search then spent its whole budget on that
part and the plate never planned. Emission now bridges the gap with a
straight move and cuts the arc as drawn; the verifier already admits
that slack. An entry on the seam vertex is left as before.
Each prefix of a part re-checked its earlier contours' leads against
every other part's material. One search now remembers each verdict by
the lead curve's exact bits and the material's reference, charging the
same native query budget; replay never uses it. On the reported plate
the memo alone gives a byte-identical result in 57 s instead of 12 min 47 s;
with the seam fix the plate plans Ready in about 17 s.
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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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The cut simulation treated Display-layer contour moves (what cutting
strategies emit) as head-up travel, so plates with assigned lead-ins were
timed as rapids. They now cut, matching the verifier and posts, and
suppressed moves are left out.
Cut time now follows the CI Fiber post: closed clockwise contours and
cut-offs take an outside feed, other contours a hole feed, and etch-only
contours can be skipped like its SkipScribe default. The settings are
shared by Calculate Cut Time and the simulator, and plate/nest times now
always come from the simulation.
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A Grbl-style lookahead planner re-times the cut simulation with
trapezoidal acceleration, junction-deviation corner speeds and a
centripetal cap on arcs. Machines gain cut/rapid acceleration and corner
deviation in Machine Configuration, with placeholder values until the
controller's are entered. The simulator and Calculate Cut Time pick the
machine (or full speed), and the simulator shows the live head speed.
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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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Profiling the cutout pre-pass on real round-part jobs put ~97% of its time in
the frame-wall NestLayoutCheck.Clears inside CutoutCirclePacker.Fill. Ear-clipped
round frames make every perimeter/insert triangle pair overlap, so a clear pair
runs hole subtraction for every pair. The same question repeats for every frame
angle and repeated frame instance, because Automatic inserts get identical
frame-local poses.
- CutoutMemo, one per Prepare, replays geometry reads, circle items and Clears
answers. Keys hold geometry by reference, pose bit patterns, argument order
and spacing. It is threaded through CutoutCirclePacker.Fill and the router's
round-only path.
- TriangulatedRegion.SubtractAllHoles measures each piece's bounds once, skips
holes and hole triangles that no piece reaches, and ping-pongs the remainder
between scratch buffers instead of copying it into pooled ones. Clip
arithmetic and order are unchanged.
Bundles are byte-identical on 14 real and 10 synthetic ring jobs. Pre-pass time
over the real set drops from 99.6 s to 10.1 s (N0414-02 35.8 s -> 0.6 s).
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Item.Create builds the circle packer's view of a part: the minimum
enclosing circle of its outward-flattened perimeter (padded by the
layout check's flattening allowance), its fill ratio, the offset back
to the part origin, and the largest disc clear of material inside its
cutouts. Gears and sprockets pack by their tip circle around their
bore; the fill ratio lets a future engine decide which jobs to bid on
instead of a yes/no round test.
Adds MinimumEnclosingCircle (Welzl, repeatable order) to Core geometry.
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Select entities in the CAD converter (click, or drag a window/crossing
box) and right-click to exclude/include them or set them to cut, etch or
display only, regardless of their DXF layer. Delete excludes the
selection.
Roles are stored per source entity on the drawing and persisted in the
entity set as an optional `roles` map. Display-only geometry is kept out
of the program, so posts, nesting and verification never see it; placed
parts draw it as a dashed overlay. Load-time scribe repair skips
etch-layer entities set to cut. Per-entity exclusions now survive filter
changes.
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A tabbed cutout's slug stays attached while the sheet is cut, but nesting
saw a closed hole and could place parts inside it. Nesting and layout paths
now read material through NestingMaterial.ForNesting, which drops closed
contours with tab spans so the slug counts as part. That covers part
outlines and collision lines, the cutout router, fill expansion, best-fit,
NestLayoutCheck and the GPU bitmaps. Area, overlap diagnostics and cutting
keep the hole, and programs without tabs read exactly as before.
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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 several pieces around tabs, as PEP programs often are, made
pre-post review report every piece's lead-out and the part's open fragments
as incomplete. Review now proves such open cuts release nothing: within the
part they touch other cuts only at their own ends and form no loop (each
closed contour with its leads counting as one point), and leads at open ends
stay out of the gap beyond them. Anything else stays incomplete. Plan Cutting
keeps refusing to certify its own tabs followed by a lead-out.
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