Trim refused the piece between two crossing cut-offs because a cut-off had
one start and one end, so a line could not be stopped short around a pocket
of parts without deleting it and drawing two. A cut-off now carries Gaps,
stretches between its limits left uncut: segment generation excludes them
like parts, so the line splits into segments that each take their own place
in the cut sequence. Trimming a middle piece adds a gap from one crossing
centre to the other (merged with any it touches), Extend near a gap's edge
closes it, and Swap Through-Cut refuses a junction a gap touches rather
than guess which side of the gap should run through.
Every reader of the limits treats a gap as uncut, so nothing waits for,
warns about or credits a cut that never happens: segment spans stop at a
gap, the cutting dependencies skip a part inside one, the clamp check
ignores a clamp inside one, the cutting-state and overlap stamps go stale
when gaps change, and a gapped line is never full span for the expected
remnant or automatic cut-offs. Gaps persist as an optional gaps array;
older versions ignore it and would cut straight through.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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>
ajandClaude Opus 5.5