build NestJob -> resolve engine by name -> Solve -> independent
NestLayoutCheck validation -> bind placements to caller drawings.
The pipeline never commits to plates and never mutates caller items;
validation failures are returned as messages naming real drawings
(unknown-requirement placements are reported, not dropped). Console,
MCP, API and desktop Auto Nest will adopt this path in later phases.
- NestPipeline.Run(request): registry-resolved engine, unknown names
list the registered engines; cancellation propagates untouched.
- NestPipeline.Run(engine, ...): stub/plug-in engines take the same path.
- NestResultBinder: pose semantics identical to NestResultMaterializer.
- NestLayoutCheck: Violations overload with per-requirement display names.
Tests: overlap stub -> violations w/ drawing names, no throw; ghost
placement -> violation + excluded from further checks; unknown engine
-> NotSupportedException listing engines; cancelled token -> no result;
happy path -> bound by reference, caller quantity untouched.
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.
The docked side panel could only be closed with Escape, which was
unreliable: MainForm consumes Escape before ActionLeadIn's KeyDown
handler, so with a part selected ActionManager called the action's
empty CancelAction and nothing happened; with nothing selected the
panel closed but was stored as the previous action, so the next
Escape reopened it.
- EditNestForm side panel gets a header with the panel title and an
always-visible close button that ends the action.
- ActionLeadIn.CancelAction now steps back (unlock contour, then
deselect part), replacing the dead KeyDown handler.
- Actions can opt out of Escape-resume (ResumeOnEscape); the lead-in
action does, so a closed panel stays closed.
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.
Formatter-only: re-indents braced switch sections in Program.cs and drops
the UTF-8 BOM from SubProgramCall.cs (.editorconfig charset = utf-8).
No behavior change.
The machine owner confirmed M50 swaps pallets (the sample's M50 before
M30 moves the cut sheet out for unloading). Only the single-program
between-sheet sequence remains unconfirmed.
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.
Mirrors PushSelected: PlateView/SelectionManager.ExpandSelected runs
Expander.Expand on the selection, marks parts dirty, regenerates cut
offs, and reports achieved spacing plus blocked-pair count in the
status bar. Menu item joins Align Selected's enable surface.
Grows part-to-part spacing of a selected group with the work area and
non-selected parts as hard boundaries. Doubling + bisection search over
the target spacing; Gauss-Seidel straight-line relaxation with anchor
mover policy (later-index selected part moves, first selection never).
Overlapping input is separated along penetration MTVs instead of being
rejected. Cancel/failure never mutates part positions. Clearance gains
BoundaryDistance for ring-pair gaps (part-in-cutout legality).
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.
The dialog rendered the same best-parts layout as transparent ghost
parts already shown live on the main plate view, and its embedded view
reset zoom on every improvement while lacking placed parts, work-area
and cut-off context. The progress dialog is now a compact stats strip
(266px wide) with the plate counter preserved for multi-plate runs.
Removes the never-called SetStationaryParts stationary-preview path
along with PreviewPlate/UpdatePreview/CreatePreviewPlate.
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