Nests named offline from the per-PC counter can collide with names already
on the server. Renaming them silently is not an option because the name may
already be on posted CNC programs and labels, so the first Save of a nest to
a server now checks for an active nest with exactly the same name and, only
then, offers a freshly allocated name in an editable dialog (Cancel saves
nothing). A failed or slow check keeps the current name, as before. Save As
and pending-upload reconciliation are unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
File > New restarted its counter every day while names only carry the
year, so the first nest of each day was always N26-223, and each PC kept
its own counter. In Database mode the nest server now hands out the
year's next number (POST /api/nest-names/next, nest_sequences table,
schema v6), staying above every stored generated name so offline or
pre-existing names are never reissued. The per-PC counter remains the
fallback when the server is unreachable or older, resets per year, and
is raised past each server allocation.
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>
The best-effort fallback (used whenever a part has touching or uncertain
material boundaries, which sends the whole plate there) cut each part's holes
in raw source order with the nearest entry. On hole grids that order
doubles back, so the rapids between holes cross; any crossing means a
shorter uncrossed order exists. On A0228-01 plate 1 this cost ~300 in of
rapid travel and drew crossing rapids on PT08 in the simulator.
Tour the holes with CuttingHoleOrder (the nearest-neighbour + 2-opt/Or-opt
proposal the strict search already uses), as an open path from the arrival,
perimeter still last. Hole-centre selection is shared with the strict search.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Classic sequencing honored Drawing.CutFirst, but the cutting planner built
its own order from the dependency graph and ignored it, so test coupons
interleaved with the rest of the plate. Each cut-first part is now a
prerequisite of every non-cutoff part, except a part nested in its cutout,
where containment wins so the graph stays acyclic. A kept order that cuts
a part before a coupon reports the cut-first conflict.
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>
The window used to grow to fit long drawing names, then never shrank.
Now it keeps one size. The status shows Time, Part, Drawing and Motion
on separate rows, and drawing names get two full-width lines (longer
ones are trimmed and appear in full on hover). Play is the largest
transport button because it is the main control. The track bar is
shorter, and playback now defaults to 5x.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Part sub-program calls restored the sheet frame with G92 at the part
corner while the tool sat at the sub-program's last endpoint, shifting
every later part. The call now raises the head, rapids back to local 0,0
and restores there. Parts share a sub-program only when their posted
toolpaths match, so per-part lead-ins are kept.
Suppressed moves are left uncut: the cut resumes with a rapid past them.
Head raises go before the rapid that leaves a feature, one per rapid:
the safety raise now precedes the rapid to a new part instead of
following its first feature, and sub-program mode no longer posts M47
then M47 P2000. M47Mode.Auto posts M47 before rapids longer than
M47OverrideDistanceThreshold and /M47 otherwise. ExteriorM47 applies to
the contour spanning the part's cut extents.
The sheet GOTO targets FeatureLineNumberStart and is omitted without line
numbers. PrepareForNest pre-selects only the gas- and thickness-matching
library. Part programs are read through absolute copies, never switched
to absolute in place.
Removes the unimplemented UseSheetSubprograms, CoordModeBetweenParts and
ProcessParameterMode (G89Mode); old configs still load.
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>
The GitHub Linux runner has no poppler-utils, so ReportPdf throws
SkipException; as a plain [Fact] the test failed instead of skipping.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- POST /api/nests with an existing id (active or deleted) now returns 409 with
the current record instead of a 500 from the UNIQUE constraint.
- Uploaded nest metadata must have string text fields and a defined status;
null fields and undefined statuses (e.g. 99) are 400 instead of a 500 or a
stored invalid value.
- --database <path> is accepted alongside --database=<path>; a missing or
repeated path fails startup instead of silently using OPENNEST_DB/default.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Hole sub-programs are stored incremental but were written under G90 as
if absolute, producing invalid arcs. The registry now posts absolute
copies and leaves the nest's programs untouched.
Sheet-level hole calls omitted the part location from G52, so every
part's holes were cut near the sheet origin. Calls now shift to the
part location plus the hole offset.
Hole calls were matched to sub-programs by call id, which planned
emission numbers 1, 2, ... per drawing, so holes from different drawings
shared the first drawing's sub-program and diameter. Calls are now keyed
by program reference and deduplicated by posted toolpath.
A part opening with a hole call got a synthetic rapid that posted an
empty pierce on the part edge. The rapid is now only inserted before a
contour motion with no rapid ahead of it; the hole call carries the
part comment and safety head raise that feature used to hold.
The sheet writer re-sorted parts bottom-then-left with cut-offs last.
Plate order is the cut sequence, so parts now post in plate order.
Regression tests replay the posted G-code for off-origin parts of
several drawings and check each hole's center and radius.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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>
Auto Nest no longer draws parts on the plate view before they are kept:
its result is a set of sheets, possibly of several sizes, not parts on the
current plate. Ghost parts stay with interactive Fill and remnant tools.
- NestJobStage.PlanImproved carries an engine's best whole-job plan so far;
Irregular reports one whenever a variant or the tail re-plan beats it.
- NestPipeline adds PlanSheets: the plan on detached drawings built from
the job geometry (with the caller's names and colors), so previews never
touch caller drawings or quantities.
- SheetStripControl draws every sheet side by side at one scale, repeats
once with their count, captioned with size, parts and utilization.
- The progress window shows "Best plan so far"; a review window shows the
final sheets, totals, cost summary and unplaced parts before commit.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
NestProgress gains PreviewSheet, a detached plate for the stock the preview
parts lie on; Irregular builds one per stock. PlateView draws it (size, edge
spacing, clamps) in place of the plate while the preview is shown and drops
it whenever the preview is cleared or the plate changes. Auto Nest zooms out
when a trial sheet falls outside what it has already shown.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The frontier packer reports its placements after each choice; the engine
turns them into preview parts at most four times a second and sends them as
NestProgress.BestParts with the stock work area, which desktop Auto Nest
already draws on the plate view. Reporting only reads finished placements,
so layouts are unchanged with or without a progress sink.
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>
Every Auto Nest run, and every Default-engine run, recomputed each part's
best-fit pairs: job snapshots are fresh objects and BestFitCache keyed
its entries on Drawing reference, so the Irregular engine paid
PairCatalog.Build (about half of a 118-part solve) on every run of the
same drawings.
BestFitCache now keeps a process-wide, bounded (512 sets, least recently
used first) pool of unfiltered candidate sets keyed by the exact content
of a PartGeometrySnapshot (mode and every motion value, bit for bit;
PartGeometrySnapshot.ContentComparer) and the spacing. Every drawing
DrawingJobMapper.CreateDrawing reconstructs from a snapshot declares
that geometry (BestFitCache.ShareByGeometry), so the Irregular pairs and
blocks, the cutout lattice and the Fill/Default job paths all read and
fill the pool. Candidates depend on the program geometry and spacing
alone, so a pooled set is the set the search would produce: benchmark
layouts, costs and placements are unchanged on the synthetic nests (all
engines) and on the 67-drawing, 118-part job. Failed searches are not
pooled, Invalidate leaves the pool alone, Clear empties it, and a
drawing whose Program is replaced stops vouching for its geometry.
Same 118-part job solved twice in one benchmark process (--parallel 1):
the second solve now takes 13.1 s after a 33.0 s first; before, 35.6 s
after 41.8 s.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Staged cut-offs were appended after every part, so a kept order (the
"Keep the current part order" option, or the fallback after a free
search runs out of budget) always conflicted with any cut-off crossing
a part. PlateSequencing.PlaceCutOffs moves each new cut-off to just
before the first part it crosses, separators last, without moving
anything else; the panel applies it after staging.
The free search also learned "cut the cut-off first" only after a full
stall, re-planning the many-holed parts before it. A cut-off is a fixed
program that never gets harder to cut earlier, so a crossing approach
into a non-separating cut-off now teaches that rule at once. On the
reported 35-part plate this drops the plan from 23,930 expansions (over
the 20,000 budget) to 15,605.
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A 67-drawing, 118-part job took about six minutes through the desktop
Auto Nest path and was cancelled before any layout appeared. Almost all
of it was the cutout pre-pass, the rest the Irregular engine.
Cutout pre-pass (317 s -> 8 s on that job, same bundles and poses):
- The lattice and NFP searches prepare the frame's and the occupants'
validation outlines once per search (NestLayoutCheck.Prepare) instead
of re-outlining and re-triangulating the frame at every candidate, and
test candidates against the small occupants before the frame. Answers
match the pairwise check exactly, including its leftmost-inflated rule.
- A hole's proposal is replayed for the same frame, hole and offered
inserts: automatic-rotation inserts ask the same question at every
frame angle.
Irregular engine (40 s -> 15 s, benchmark 42 s -> 19 s, same layouts):
- Concave no-fit polygons are built as the union of pairwise convex sums
of each footprint's convex pieces (ear clipping plus Hertel-Mehlhorn
merging on the Clipper lattice) instead of n*m edge-pair quads; a
footprint that cannot be decomposed keeps the old sweep.
- Pair and block catalogs share one private drawing per part geometry,
owned by the engine instance, so each part's best-fit search runs once
per instance and across a pipeline's trial and ordinary solves.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Drawing Properties now says whether the drawing's color is custom or comes
from the color scheme, and an Automatic button clears the custom color. On
save the drawing gets its palette slot back through RecolorDrawings when the
nest is known, otherwise by its non-cutoff index.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- 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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Restore the toolbar shortcut for Plate > Simulate Cutting next to Plan
Cutting, using the cut_simulate icon.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add the Blueprint scheme: navy canvas, pale blue sheet, dark navy part
outlines, orange-red rapids and twelve distinct, readable part fills.
- Use it as the settings default and the fallback for unknown scheme names,
and list it first in Options. Saved scheme choices are kept.
- Run the palette spacing and readability tests over Blueprint and Classic.
- Document the default in nesting-view-colors.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Replace the Classic part palette with twelve clearly distinct fills that
stay readable with black IDs and clear of etch green; darken the canvas.
- Pick black or white part-ID labels by fill luminance; drop the underline.
- Give the cut simulator trail a pale casing so it shows on warm parts.
- Number plates in the status bar the same way as the plate header.
- Add ClassicPaletteTests covering palette spacing, contrast and labels.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The overlay re-stroked the whole finished trail on every paint: about
275 ms at zoom-to-fit on a 392-part plate and over 11 s zoomed in, where
dashed rapids spanned millions of on-screen dashes.
The finished trail is now cached in a bitmap at the current scale, so a
pan or playback frame blits it and draws only the moves since. A wheel
zoom stretches the cached image until the wheel has been still for
150 ms, then redraws it sharp. When the trail would be too large an
image, each paint draws only the moves on screen and clips straight
rapids to the view. Arcs are added as GDI+ arcs instead of 5-degree
polylines.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Clear Lead-ins & Cut-offs button stays enabled during planning.
Confirming cancels the running plan, clears once the cancellation lands
so the plates never change under the planner, then replans.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The nest report PDF gains an estimated cut time: the job total on the
summary, an Est. cut time column in the plates table, and per-plate and
all-copies times on each plate page. Times come from the cut simulation
with the settings last used in Calculate Cut Time, plus clamp removal.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- The cutout router uses the circle packer alone for a round hole whose
inserts are all round. Lattice and NFP never placed more there, and when
demand exceeded what fit they spent 20+ minutes on one job.
- The cutout pre-pass skips a hole whose area is smaller than an insert's
outline, so bolt holes no longer run the searches.
- Circles re-packs its last sheet, and its last two sheets together, onto
each single stock and keeps the result when the whole job gets cheaper.
On 14 real round-part jobs costs are unchanged and pipeline time drops from
262 s to 144 s for Circles and 355 s to 245 s for Default.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
--autonest can now use more than one physical sheet. The first layout
replaces the target plate's parts, further layouts are inserted as new
plates after it, and --stock offers explicit sheet sizes (with optional
costs) built from the target's spacing, quadrant and clamp rail.
NestPipelineCommit gains ApplyToPlates for callers without a
PlateManager. Per-sheet results and overlap checks cover every
committed plate.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Built-in festive schemes theme the background, sheet and accents while
keeping 12-color part palettes distinct, light enough for black part IDs
and clear of the green etch stroke. They are only applied when chosen;
there is no automatic seasonal switching.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Dropping the parts that land on a clamp suits small parts, which fill the
gaps between clamps. Large parts often do better if the fill area stops
short of the clamps. The rows still fit, and no part is lost on a clamp.
When every clamp in the fill area lies on one edge, interactive Fill now
also fills the area with that edge moved just past the clamp keep-outs,
as a larger edge spacing would. It keeps whichever layout the strategy's
comparer ranks better, and a tie keeps the dropped-parts layout. Clamps
on more than one edge skip the comparison. The second fill reuses the
cached best-fit pairs. While it runs, a preview counts as the new best
only when it beats the first layout, so the preview never gets worse.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Interactive Fill on a plate with clamps used to split the plate into
clamp-free rectangles and fill each one separately. It showed no progress,
so Accept did nothing until the end, and Stop discarded the result. Packing
around the clamps also tends to give a worse layout than losing the few
parts that land on them.
FillItem and FillGroup now fill the area as if there were no clamps. They
then drop each part that enters a clamp keep-out or sits too close to an
existing part, using the same check as before. For a multi-part group, the
whole copy is dropped when any member fails. Progress previews are filtered
by the same check, so a layout accepted early is clamp-clear. A quantity
request that loses copies asks for that many more, up to two more times.
Pack and whole-plate Nest still pack only into the clamp-free areas.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Interactive Fill ran the best-fit pair phase first. The first pair
computation for a drawing can take about a minute, and until it finished
the progress dialog showed no layout, Accept stayed disabled and the
status text did not change.
The fill now packs the part boxes (RectBestFit) before the pair phase and
reports that layout, so Accept is available at once. The layout is only a
fallback: strategies still run in their usual order, and a completed fill
picks the same winner as before. While the pairs are computed, the detail
line reads "Computing best-fit pairs (may take a minute)...". Accept or
Stop now stops the wait. The computation keeps running in the background
and is cached for the next fill.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Circles packs every part as its minimum enclosing circle at centers tangent
to two of the work-area walls, placed discs and clamp keep-outs, bottom-left
and left-bottom, with hexagonal and square lattice seeds. It bids only when
every part fills at least 0.8 of its enclosing circle and otherwise returns
everything unplaced at once. Default runs it as a third candidate.
Rectangles' sheet-by-sheet stock loop moves to NestingEngines/SheetByStock
(Rectangles output unchanged) and Default's candidate scoring and commit
forwarding become shared helpers. Circles also runs the whole job preferring
each offered stock and keeps the best result. Contract tests take shapes an
engine can override.
Synthetic round jobs, salvage-credited: Circles wins or ties all six with
valid layouts; Default cost falls about 4% versus Irregular alone.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The cutout prepass now bundles frames smallest first, so a larger frame's
round cutout can take a ring part or an earlier bundle as one insert through
the circle packer: a flange holds a washer that holds a smaller washer that
holds a slug. Chains stop at four parts deep. Lattice and NFP proposals never
take these inserts, since they could seat a part in a ring's bore.
Expansion and released demand recurse, so placed order cuts innermost first
at every level and an unplaced outer frame returns its whole chain to demand.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add CutoutCirclePacker, a circle-in-circle proposal for the cutout
router. When a cutout is one circle and every insert fills at least 0.8
of its enclosing circle, it packs the inserts largest first at centers
tangent to the wall or placed discs, trying a center-out pass (a single
insert sits concentric) and a wall-first pass (optimal counts for up to
nine equal discs). Every pose passes NestLayoutCheck.
The router runs it first and skips the lattice and NFP searches when it
places all demand; otherwise the higher count wins and existing
proposals keep ties. On synthetic disc jobs the prepass drops from
minutes to seconds and places as many or more inserts.
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