Desktop Auto Nest's "Best plan so far" strip now fills in for every built-in
whole-job engine except FlatBar, not only Irregular.
- Rectangles makes one sheet-by-sheet run, so it reports the finished job as
its one plan, then replays its plate commits (token checked as before).
- Circles reports when a stock-preference run or a tail re-plan beats its
best result so far.
- Default scores each candidate plan as it ranks results (valid, fewest
unplaced, lowest cost, candidate order) and reports it only when it beats
every plan already shown, so a later candidate never shows a worse plan.
The chosen result is always the last plan reported.
- Shared ReportPlan/SameLayout helpers on CandidateProgress; Irregular uses
them too. Reporting never changes the search.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Parts drawn a few millionths over their sheet's work area (for example a
36.125006 panel on a 36.125 sheet with no edge spacing) pass NestLayoutCheck,
which allows Tolerance.Epsilon of overhang, but the Rectangles engine refused
them and left them unplaced. The engine now allows 90% of that slack: a box
that exceeds the sheet by no more than the allowance packs as exactly the
sheet's size, so it spans the axis and the overhang lands only past the edge.
The check's bounds slack is named NestTolerances.WorkAreaSlack (same value,
no behavior change) so the engine and the test layout assertion share it.
Rectangle-lane benchmark (91 strict + 77 boxable jobs): every layout valid;
4 jobs that left panels unplaced now place them (strict complete 86 -> 88,
boxable complete 74 -> 75, one more boxable job places 2 more parts); no other
job changed.
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.
ajandClaude Opus 5.5