PEP-rounded drawings can leave a contour 1e-6 short of closing. ShapeBuilder
chains it as a loop at Tolerance.ChainTolerance, but the slide classifier
re-recovered loops at 1e-7, so the whole part became unresolved and every
contact with it blocked. Parts placed in its cutout at exactly the part
spacing could not be pushed (Y/X keys) in any direction, even away from the
wall. Recover loops with the same tolerance ShapeBuilder uses.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
When no search finds a route that keeps every rapid off parts already
cut, Plan Cutting used to offer only an unverified safest route needing
explicit acceptance. Cincinnati's own software instead raises the head
for such a rapid. Now the safest-route fallback marks each planner-chosen
rapid that still crosses cut parts with a HEAD RAISE comment, and the
plan is Ready with every raise listed. The strict search never marks a
rapid, and the batch prefers fewer broken checks, then fewer raises,
then less travel, so a plate that can be cut head-down never gets one.
The reader flags marked rapids and the checker sets their crossings
apart, in replay and pre-post verification alike. The Cincinnati CL
post writes M47 before a marked rapid whatever the M47 mode (the
distance-based safety raise is unchanged); the CI Fiber post writes a
new Head raise block and refuses marked nests while it is blank, since
its raise code is unconfirmed. Rapids into locked programs, cut-offs
and hole sub-programs are never marked and keep their findings.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The cutout pre-pass offered lattice/NFP inserts only when they had no
cutouts at all, so a strap with 0.25" bolt holes was never tried in a
frame's window. On N26-264 that left both PT11s loose on the sheet and
Rectangles' staggered PT10s won, although both PT11s fit one PT10's end
window. Holes matter only if another part could land in them, so a part
whose every cutout is smaller in area than the job's smallest outline is
now an ordinary insert; proxies and parts with usable holes stay out.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Every corpus nest guards Plan Cutting, yet agents ran the whole corpus
after any change, including nesting-engine work, and the 5k washers
alone take about 90 s of a two-minute run. Each nest now names the
planner areas it guards in a "checks:" comment line, and
OPENNEST_PROBLEM_NESTS_CHECKS limits a run to nests guarding those
areas. Untagged nests always run and an unknown area fails the run, so
nothing is skipped by accident. AGENTS.md now limits the corpus to Plan
Cutting changes and asks for the filter; the doc maps code to areas.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
When a part could not be reached without crossing parts already cut, the
free search always learned "cut the blocked part before them". When the
crossed part was the one cut just before the part the tool left from, the
tool had gone on past it and come back: the cheap repair is to cut those
two the other way round. Without it, N26-23S learned a chain of wrong
rules (8 before 4 and 5, 3 before 1, ...) that excluded every valid order
and ran the full search out of budget, although swapping parts 5 and 6
gives a valid plan. It now plans ready in 786 expansions.
The problem-nest corpus keeps every outcome; three P260417-17 plates stay
Ready with more expansions (5341 -> 8937 the largest).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Every installed copy checked GitHub Releases on its own, so a shop's
workstations shared GitHub's 60-requests-per-hour unauthenticated limit
per public address and each downloaded the ~90 MB package over the
internet. Shops large enough to hit that already run the nest server.
The server now mirrors the Velopack feed at /updates/{stable|dev}: one
GitHub API request per 30-minute refresh, each package downloaded once
and checked against the feed's size and SHA-256 before it is served. A
channel is mirrored only while clients ask for it, so stable-only shops
never download development builds. Database-mode clients read the
server first and fall back to GitHub when it has no feed (old server,
mirror off, not mirrored yet), downloading each package from whichever
source listed it. A hand-set feed URL still takes precedence.
OPENNEST_UPDATES=off turns the mirror off.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The explanation at the top of the dialog was long and duplicated the help
guide. A link beside OK/Cancel (and F1) opens the existing support-grid
topic, which the pinned help release already maps.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A drawing every nest needs, such as the operator's test square cut before
the job, had to be saved once per material and thickness or found with Show
all materials. A blank material or grade, or a zero thickness, now means
any: the server's library filter returns such drawings for every value,
and adding one to a nest is not a difference, so it keeps its cut pins and
takes the nest's material for the fields it left blank. Duplicate detection
still compares every key exactly on the client.
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>
WinForms user settings lived in user.config under %LOCALAPPDATA%\OpenNest,
the Velopack install folder that setup clears on a reinstall, and the
default provider starts empty at each assembly version. Store them in
%APPDATA%\OpenNest\user-settings.json instead, carrying over any values
the old user.config still holds on first run.
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The first background check waited the full 30-minute interval, so
sessions shorter than that never checked or downloaded an update.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The status bar shows the running version, and the Help menu gains
Check for Updates (an immediate check sharing the background check's
lock) and About OpenNest. A copy that is not a Velopack installation
offers to open the GitHub Releases page instead.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
VelopackApp keeps its default auto-apply on startup, so an update the
user did not restart for installs when OpenNest next opens. Also note
that nothing runs while it is closed and the first check waits 30
minutes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
dev-build.yml runs after Cross-platform tests pass on a master push,
packages that commit as X.Y.Z-dev.N (the minor after the newest vX.Y.Z
tag, N the commit count) and replaces the single rolling dev-build
pre-release. Only its publish job has release write access, and a run
whose commit is no longer master's head publishes nothing.
Tools > Options > Include development builds lets an installed copy take
that pre-release; everyone else still sees full releases only.
Publish-Windows.ps1 accepts -dev.N versions.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Publish-Windows.ps1 now packs the smoke-tested folder with the pinned vpk
CLI (.config/dotnet-tools.json, 1.2.0 to match the Velopack package) into
velopack/: Setup.exe, Portable.zip, the full nupkg, releases.win.json and
RELEASES, checked for the full package and the portable layout and hashed
into OpenNest.vX.Y.Z.velopack.sha256. The release workflow uploads them
with the candidate.
With no feed URL set, installed copies now check GitHub Releases (full
releases only) instead of skipping update checks; a URL in Options still
selects a self-hosted feed. Deploy-OpenNest.ps1 uses the pinned vpk.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A sheet separator is cut after everything, so when the approach to its
pierce crossed parts already cut, the usual "cut it before them" rule
contradicted that and the search learned nothing. It fell back to the
full search, which spent the budget or found a route that climbed the
column and jumped back down past the cut parts (N26-23M).
When every "cut the blocked part first" rule would contradict a required
order, learn the other way round: cut the part the approach left from
before the parts it crossed, so the tool arrives from beyond them. A
separator blocked this way now ends the attempt at once, like any
cutoff whose rule can be learned.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Plan Cutting ranked a convex corner first, but a corner rounded by a small
fillet had no corner vertex: its tangent joints ranked level with straight
edge midpoints, so travel decided and a large part (P230323-02 plate 8,
PT06, 0.015 corner fillets) started in the middle of a 64-inch edge. A start
there can leave a step where the cut closes after the head has put heat into
the plate; at a corner it is hidden.
A convex fillet tangent to straight edges at both ends, turning less than a
half circle and reaching no further along either edge than its length, now
makes its two joints convex-corner entries. Each carries its reach from the
sharp corner it rounds, so ranking counts it on both sides of that corner.
Longer curves, half-circle ends and inside fillets keep their tangent joints.
Every perimeter on that plate now starts at a corner; the problem-nest corpus
has no plate below its baseline.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
On P230323-02 plate 7 the frame part cut after a cut-off segment took its
upper small hole first, so the rapid up from the segment's end at the
bottom of the sheet crossed the rapid from the lower hole to the window.
The free search plans parts as if segments were absent, so the part's hole
route was ranked from where the tool was before the segment (the previous
part's end, top right), not from where it really is.
After CutOffInsertion places the segments, each holed part cut straight
after one now keeps its outside entry and order but takes the hole route
and preferred hole entries planned from the segment's end, when that
chain has an entry for every hole and passes the checks. The search's
look-through of segments keeps ranking outside entries from the
pre-segment point (so routes stay as planned without the lines) but plans
hole routes from the real position, so a kept-order replan of an applied
plan picks the same holes. Plates without cut-offs are unaffected.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The support overlay was drawn inside the live-plate-only paint block, and
the Plan Cutting preview plate never copied the support bed, so opening
the cut planner hid the grid points and each part's support marks. The
overlay now follows the displayed plate, the preview carries the bed, and
tab-point clearance falls back to the live plate's tab size.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Publishing a GitHub Release, stable or pre-release, now only validates the
server image. A desktop release and a server image release are separate
owner decisions, so a stable desktop release cannot publish an image that
has not been accepted yet.
- undo-redo: describe the heaviest nests by size instead of job numbers;
name the Nest > Edit dialog rather than the internal 'Nest Info'
- cutting-planner: clearing lead-ins and cut-offs is now undoable
- nest-storage: drop the internal D4 label and the nonexistent
Nest > Nest Info menu path
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>
FrontEnd.Tests only matched MCP's old net8.0-windows marker; MCP and every
project it references are net8.0 and it never used WindowsDesktop.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Small parts such as 1.5" test squares on a 2" laser grid rest on at most
one grid point, so no single support tab can bring their center of
gravity inside the contacts and Plan Cutting warned "no single tab can
steady it" on every one. In practice a part that short stays in the
sheet on its tab, so the bed's contacts don't matter.
Cutting Settings > Tabs gets "Tab alone holds parts up to N long"
(CuttingParameters.TabHeldMaxLength, 0 = off, the default). On a plate
with a bed, a part the bed can't hold level whose length (long side of
its minimum-area bounding rectangle) is within the limit is still
tabbed, but any tab clear of inside corners steadies it, so Plan
Cutting, hand-placed lead-ins and the pre-post review warn only when it
has no tab at all. The setting persists with the cutting parameters and
is part of the plan state fingerprint.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Undo/Redo landed in phases 1-3 without a written contract, so the next
person adding a desktop edit has no rule telling them to record it, and
nothing explains why a restore must close Cutting Inspection or why
snapshots keep empty plates and skip best fits. docs/undo-redo.md states
what is and is not undoable, the BeginChange/RecordChange rule, the
"Change" safety net, how states are captured and restored, the guards
and key routing, and the measured limits. AGENTS.md links it from the
OpenNest bullet and the contract list.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
PartDto had no field for Part.CuttingParameters, and restoring a saved
program cleared it, so after save and reopen the lead and pierce-zone
reviews judged manual and planned leads against the plate's settings
instead of the ones they were built with. Undo/redo will restore nests
through the same reader, so it would have carried the same loss.
The settings are written only beside a saved part program and read
back after the program installs. Older files and clean parts read null,
as before.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Serial-number tags with 27 stencil-text cutouts never planned: contour
recovery stopped at 16 holes, a lone part never got recovery, and the
remaining search kept leaving letters on the wrong side so rapids ran
back across letters already cut. Recovery now handles up to 30 holes,
runs for lone holed parts, and first sweeps the holes in reading order:
by their far side along the way they spread, each left from its far side
(stencil pieces face the next piece), ending at an outside entry beyond
every hole, with a few expansions per hole. Parts within the old 16-hole
reach keep the search first, so their plans are unchanged.
The eroded pierce now steps down through shallower levels so each entry
gets a pierce on its own stroke's centre line, and leads to the entry the
planner aimed at (falling back to the nearest wall), which the sweep needs
to leave a letter from the right place.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Small text and narrow slots often have no entry where the configured
lead-in fits, so Plan Cutting refused them. When every entry of a cutout
fails, the planner now erodes the cutout inward (to the pierce clearance,
or nine tenths of its inscribed radius when smaller), pierces at the
eroded point nearest each ranked entry and leads straight to the closest
wall, with no lead-out. Letter strokes pierce on their centre lines; a
tapering feature pierces at its widest spot. The lead validator still
checks every candidate, and cutouts whose lead fits are unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Typing customer, material, grade and thickness by hand let near-duplicate
spellings into the library, which then split drawings that should match.
The fields are now drop-downs of the values the library and the machine
material catalog already use, while still accepting new values; thicknesses
already used for the material are listed ahead of the standard gauges.
A library color could be set but never cleared back to the color scheme's,
so Automatic and Reset are added. The rotation start/end/step boxes gave no
sense of the range, so a dial shades it, ticks the angles the engines try
(via RotationPolicy) and lets either end be dragged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
S reads too much like 5 on labels and screens, so the sequence alphabet is
now base-29. Already-issued names keep their numbers: the server's stored
counter stays authoritative and a base-29 name can never equal an earlier
base-30 one.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The flat ten-row list squeezed the quadrant picker to 120x28 and gave no
hint of units or where the defaults are saved. Group the fields (General,
Plate Size, Quadrant, Spacing), lay the edge spacings out around a plate,
show in/mm suffixes, and convert the values when the units switch so a
48 in plate does not silently become 48 mm.
The footer says whether Save writes to this PC or the shared nest server,
and Save is disabled while the shared copy is read-only instead of
failing after the click.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Strip lines now stop at a full-length horizontal cut-off that clears the
parts instead of slicing the band beyond it. The desktop dialog and Plan
Cutting also propose their own horizontal separator when that band beats
the X tail (opt-in for API callers via KeepHorizontalRemnant); a kept X
tail beside the band becomes a corner piece whose separator stops there.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Curved leads turned with the contour winding, which is backwards on outside
perimeters: arc lead-ins arrived against the cut, and Line + Arc / arc
lead-outs went the long way round on one winding. LeadTurn now gives the
arc's turn direction for emission, the pierce-zone check and the preview,
and the arc geometry mirrors with it.
At convex outside corners, curved lead-ins use the first-cut edge's normal
and arc lead-outs the last-cut edge's, whichever edge was picked.
ArcLeadIn gains SweepAngle (degrees, (0, 180], default 180) in the cutting
panel, settings, nest files and cut pins; older files read as 180.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
With support tabs on and no support bed, nothing was tabbed and nothing
said so. A new no-bed width range (NoBedTabMinWidth..NoBedTabMaxWidth,
the short side of the part's minimum-area bounding rectangle) now picks
the parts to tab instead. SupportTabSettings.Analyze makes the choice
for Plan Cutting, hand-placed lead-ins and the pre-post review; without
a bed any tab clear of inside corners counts. With no bed and no range,
the plan notes that nothing was tabbed. Cutting Settings > Tabs gains
the range fields, and the values persist with the cutting parameters.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
NestLayoutCheck rejected Fill layouts whose interlocked arcs sat exactly
at the part spacing: its SpacingOutline circumscribes arcs by up to 0.001
each, more than the 0.0005 slack, so facing arcs overlapped. The runner's
placement validator measured inscribed 0.001 polygons instead and so
accepted gaps up to ~0.002 under the slack.
Both now find candidates with SpacingOutline and confirm them on
NativeContours, the native contours flattened at a twentieth of the slack
(moved out of PartSpacingReview, which keeps using them). The runner calls
NestLayoutCheck.KeepsSpacing, the same outline, tie rule and
confirmation, so the two validators accept exactly the same pairs.
Clears stays unconfirmed and stricter for engine certification. No
tolerance changed.
FixedStrategyEngine_IrregularJob pins now assert LayoutAssert.Valid with
unchanged digests; the NativeU 70-part grid's 28 reports were the same
cause and its test now requires none.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
BestFitFinder gathered each rotation strategy's candidates, and PairEvaluator
gathered evaluated results, in ConcurrentBags, so their order depended on which
worker finished first. The stable area sort then broke equal-area ties in that
arbitrary order, and fills, which try candidates in order and keep the first of
equal layouts, could nest the same parts differently between runs.
Both now fill index-addressed slots: candidates keep rotation-angle and
slide-offset order, results keep candidate order, and ties break the same way
every run. The candidates produced and their scores are unchanged.
The Strip whole-job pin in FillStackCharacterizationTests is re-pinned
(A66602F707290A36 -> FD03A4529D37E32C). That job ties between best-fit
pairs; the old pin recorded whichever tied pair the bag happened to return
first. The new layout places the same 26 parts, passes LayoutAssert.Valid
and gave the same digest in five separate test processes. The other 28
pins are unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
StripPlateNester sent every request to the strip fills, which try two
classification angles and ignore rotation bounds. With a fixed or bounded
rotation at quantity above one they proposed forbidden poses, the job
validator threw "Candidate rotation is not allowed for the requirement."
and the whole Strip job failed. Strip now uses the same guard as
DefaultPlateNester and hands such plates to OrderedPlateNester.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Every whole-job engine chooses among the offered stock sizes, and on the
synthetic benchmark nests Default matched or beat StockLadder on all 18
runs (saved sizes, a six-size pool, with and without salvage credit),
costing 30-40% less in total with mixed sizes. Its sheet-swap step never
produced a win over Irregular's tail re-plan.
The registry maps "StockLadder" to Default so saved selections, scripts
and API requests keep working. OrderedPlateNester stays: Fill and the
remnant strategies use it for restricted rotations, and its golden layout
is now pinned through NestJobRunner with the parts requested largest
first, as StockLadder requested them.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Nests with a "planning with cut-offs:" line are planned again after clearing
applied work and adding default scrap cut-offs. OPENNEST_PROBLEM_NESTS_CUTOFFS=1
plans every nest that way to record new lines.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
PEP stores 3/16 as 0.188, which missed the machine's 0.1875 at the
0.0005 in tolerance; widen it to 0.001 in, still far below gauge steps.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The CL-707 config now declares sections, sentence-case labels and ranges,
so its dialog matches the CI Fiber one instead of the generic PropertyGrid.
The sectioned editor gains what the CL-707 config needs: optional (nullable)
numbers behind an enable box, editable tables for lists of simple records,
and a text field that suggests values from a table column (Selected library).
"Lead-in arc line 2 feedrate" is relabeled "Lead-in arc feedrate", which is
what #127 drives.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A record's thickness is in the nest's units, but nothing on the record said
which, so a list of nests could not tell 9.525 mm from 9.525 inches without
reading each archive. Records now carry units, read from the uploaded
archive like the counts (absent or unknown values are inches) and kept by a
metadata-only save. Schema v12 adds the column and reads every stored
archive, current and historical, so existing millimeter nests report it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
An acceptance rule may list sheet grades first, so at plate thickness its
best match can be rank 3 (A36 for HR). Auto Nest marked every row above
rank 1 a substitute; it now ranks rows against the best rule rank ML
matched at the nest's thickness, as ML labels them, so A36 is preferred
and only A572 is a substitute.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
MaterialLedger's Release lets a hold go, so a Released hold no longer keeps
a sheet for the nest; only Proposed, Approved and AwaitingCloseout holds,
the statuses ML counts against free stock, are open. The Has Been Cut
note's link pointed at /Nests/{id}, which ML does not serve; its nest page
is /Nests/Details/{id}.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
GET /api/nests/{id}/sheets returns sizes as stored, in the nest's units,
but did not say which. MaterialLedger compares them with inches, so a
millimeter nest's sheets never matched inventory. The response now carries
units (inches or millimeters), read the way NestReader reads them: absent
or unknown values are inches.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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