A clamp rail can now carry its own Clearance, the gap parts keep from
every clamp footprint, independent of part spacing. Unset, it keeps the
sheet's bottom edge spacing as before. Clamp blocks drawn under the
sheet can use close to zero so the laser only stays off them.
Plate.ClampClearance and NestPlateStock.ClampClearance resolve it once;
the engines, interactive fill/pack/push, the layout check, Expander walls
and automatic cut-off placement all read it. The interactive push now
holds clamps at their square clearance keep-out (the layout check's
shape) instead of the part spacing, so parts no longer tuck into its
corners; the clamped fill characterization digests are re-pinned after
checking the new layouts validate.
Persisted as an optional `clearance` on the .nest clamp rail and the
machine clamp settings; edited in Nest > Clamps and the machine's
Clamps tab.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
When a part's outline is open (a tab gap, say), cut-off trimming falls back
to a convex hull. That hull still included lead-in/lead-out points, so it ran
from the lead's pierce point back to the part and stopped cut-offs far short
of the material. Cutting through a lead is harmless, so the hull now uses the
material contour only, as the closed-outline path already did.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Operators could only drag or delete a cut-off, so changing which line runs
through a junction (e.g. letting a vertical split the sheet to keep a whole
remnant beyond it) meant deleting and re-adding lines. Trim/Extend edits the
existing start/end limits instead, so no file-format or planner change is
needed: trims stop on the crossing line's centre, extends run to the next
crossing or the sheet edge, and Swap Through-Cut (right-click a junction)
does both at once, trimming the through line's far side because only the
origin-side edge is certain. Edits undo as one step and re-place the changed
segments with PlateSequencing.PlaceCutOffs so a new separator is cut last.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Regenerating a cut-off into more segments than were saved inserted each
segment at its old index, pushing later parts and cut-offs down; a reloaded
nest could cut its sheet separator before parts it splits off. Segments now
go after the parts saved before them, so a changed segment count never shifts
anything else. Files record every segment's place, and an older file's
sheet-separating cut-off loads last.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Plan Cutting spent most of its time on work that never changed the outcome:
many-holed parts paid quadratic shape-pair and ring-containment costs before
any search, every plate was captured twice, and failing plates burned their
whole budget in exhaustive fallback passes that never found a plan on 127
production plates.
- OverlapMaterial: skip native shape pairs whose bounds are clear by more
than the query allowance; gate polygon touch and winding tests on vertex
bounds.
- LeadMaterialSnapshot: gate ring enclosure tests on ring extents when
finding the perimeter and rejecting nested cutouts.
- CuttingPlanBatch: capture each plate once; the kept-order retry derives
from the same capture through CuttingPlanSnapshot.WithPreservedOrder.
- JointCuttingPlanSearch: end the kept-order full pass and the sequence-free
recovery and full passes after FallbackStalls (2) stalls' worth of
expansions when programs are regenerated; plates with only fixed programs
keep the exhaustive search so a refusal stays genuine.
On 127 archive plates (lead-ins cleared, 35" scrap cut-offs) total time fell
from 164 s to 102 s with identical outcomes; the problem-nest corpus gives
the same status and expansion count on every plate.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
An arc lead-in meeting a straight window edge tangentially has a double
root at its joint. Rounding split it into two contacts a few 1e-8 apart,
or dropped it so the exact ray fallback reported the joint as an
uncertain contact. Either refused a valid entry, so N26-27U's windows
lost most of their entries and the plate never planned.
Treat a contact within 1e-6 of a joint its boundary passes through as
the joint, and let the exact line fallback skip ray hits at contacts
already recorded. The pinned-hole test now expects the other hole's
nearest entry rather than the fallback both runs used to share.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A SheetOutline is a closed polygon in plate coordinates with optional
obstacle polygons, normalized to start at the origin; the plate's Size
stays its bounding box. Plate.Area is the material area, rotations turn
the outline, AutoSize and Snap to Standard Size leave it, manual cut-offs
are trimmed to the material the line crosses, the automatic planner
refuses it and no expected remnant is reported.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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>
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>
- archived library drawings: say they can't be edited or released; no
front end can restore a library drawing yet
- library filter hint names the Show all materials checkbox
- undo labels Support Bed and Automatic Scrap Cutoffs match their menus
- display-outline posting hints name both Plate > Plan Cutting... and
--plan-cutting, since the console prints them too
- MaterialLedger options are saved per Windows user, not per machine
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>
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>
Text cutouts on an ID tag sat a micro-inch below another letter's
baseline. The parity ray, offset a fixed 1e-6 above the test point, ran
exactly through that letter's seam vertex, whose two copies differ in the
last bit, so one edge counted and the tag captured as "Nested cutouts are
not supported material" at some plate locations but not others. The ray
height now steps until no vertex (or arc top/bottom) lies within a small
band of it.
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>
IJsonConfigPostProcessor lets a host keep a post's settings somewhere other
than the JSON file beside the post DLL. The CL-707, CI Fiber and Gravograph
posts implement it; LoadConfig keeps the current settings when the JSON is
unusable.
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>
Core PlateRemnant.Expected picks a full-span cut-off drop clear of the
parts (less kerf, nominal position for head-locked overcuts), else the
largest salvage edge offcut, else none below the nest's new persisted
MinimumRemnantDimension. NestJobCost's salvage offcut now calls the Core
rule unchanged. NestWriter writes a derived plate expectedRemnant that
readers skip, and /sheets reports it per plate.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Auto Nest on MaterialLedger stock now records which inventory item each
physical sheet uses, so ML can hold exactly those items instead of matching
by size.
- Core: Plate.StockItemCodes (entry i = sheet i of Quantity; empty = uncoded).
Core invalidates it: a resize clears it (turning the sheet keeps it), a lower
Quantity truncates it, a nest material/grade/thickness change clears every
plate's, ClearAll clears it and new plates never copy it.
- Desktop Auto Nest: after a kept proposal is committed, LedgerStockAssignment
deals each ledger row's codes to its plates in Nest.Plates order (bundles
repeat their code; clamp-removal variants use their base row). Rejected,
discarded or cancelled proposals never reach it. NestPipelineCommit.PairWithStock
pairs committed plates with their solved stock; the engine stays ledger-free.
- Plate list tooltip: "Stock: CODE (location)"; locations are display-only.
- nest.json: optional plate stockItemCodes, omitted when empty, read leniently.
- /api/nests/{id}/sheets: new plates[] { index, width, length, quantity,
stockItemCodes }; sheets[] unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Auto Nest's Stock Options gets a Load from ledger button that reads the nest
material's free sheets and drops from MaterialLedger's API-key-protected
GET /api/stock/opennest. Ledger rows are request-local: the engine sees them as
ordinary NestPlateStock rows with ledger:{n} ids and finite quantities, and they
are never written to Nest.PlateOptions.
- OpenNest.Data/MaterialLedger: settings file, read-only client (X-Api-Key,
5 s timeout, closed LedgerStockResult set) and LedgerStockMapper (bundles and
sheets one row each, same-size drops grouped with ordered item codes, unknown
shapes and too-small items skipped, inch/mm conversion).
- Options: MaterialLedger URL and API key (DPAPI, CurrentUser) with Test.
- Auto Nest grid: Use, Qty and Source columns for every row; PlateOption gains
request-local Quantity and Id, which NestStockBuilder passes to the engine.
Ledger rows score by area; hand-typed costs stay saved.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Converted part programs keep a source CAM's overcut: a hole's arc or a slot's
last line runs about 0.03 past the pierce along the first cut. The rapid check
only counted a contour closed when it ended exactly at its start, so every
overcut contour became an open fragment, the open-cut proof refused them, and
each part reported "Multiple interrupted/open cutting fragments" and an
unverifiable lead-out instead of being checked (P260810-02: all 50 parts).
ReleasedContourState now closes such a contour at its seam (matched at the
1e-6 seam tolerance, since a hole's two arcs carry centers ~1e-7 apart) and
lets the rapid leaving the overcut end ignore contact within that tolerance of
its departure. The nest now validates fully and reports the real crossings it
was hiding: rapids that cross the hole just cut.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Drawing data can fix a fillet's center slightly off the tangent normal, so
the arc's end sits ~1e-7 past its neighbouring line's end. The slide contact
classifier only joined entities within 1e-7, so a contact at that tangent
point read as two boundaries, was classified ambiguous and blocked the push.
In N26-243 this stopped a part pushed left along another once the parts
aligned. Contacts within 1e-6 of a joint now take the joint's tangents;
the 1e-7 incidence tolerance is unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Master already starts such entries exactly at the vertex (45592a81), so the
cherry-picked snap was redundant and its test's off-vertex precondition no
longer holds.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Full circles now take InternalLeadIn/InternalLeadOut like every other
cutout; the ArcCircle lead settings and the cutting panel's Arc / Circle
tab are removed. Circle-specific geometry handling (radius clamp, angle
rounding, pierce zone) is unchanged.
Older nest files and desktop settings still load: their arcCircleLeadIn/
arcCircleLeadOut keys are ignored and no longer written, so re-planned
circles take the internal leads. Saved part programs are untouched.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A closest-point entry within Tolerance.Epsilon of a line or arc vertex made
ReindexAt start the contour at the vertex while the lead-in still ended at
the off-vertex point, so the cut closed short of its start and replay refused
the whole plate. Snap such entries onto the vertex before emitting the lead-in.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Slats are strips of a set thickness running the full length or width of
the table, one every pitch. A part's contacts are the corners of where its
material crosses a slat, so the support check and support tabs work as on
the grid. Nest > Support Bed... picks grid or slats; nest files store
type "slats" and support-grid.json keeps both layouts' values. Draw
Support shows the slats cut off to the sheet.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The support grid was one shared support-grid.json, off by default, and a nest
had no machine at all, so a plasma table and a fiber laser could not have
different grids, and nothing could pick machine-specific behavior later
(lead-ins differ between laser and plasma; tabbing depends on the grid).
- Nest.Machine (id + name) persists as top-level `machine` in nest.json;
malformed values load as none.
- MachineConfig.SupportGrid holds each machine's grid; a machine without one
still falls back to the legacy support-grid.json.
- New and BOM import assign the Tools > Nest Defaults machine (first by name
when none is chosen) and give the nest that machine's grid.
- Nest > Machine reassigns a nest and swaps in the new machine's grid;
Nest > Support Grid saves machine defaults to the nest's machine.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Stock can arrive up to 1.5 in wider than nominal, so only the origin-side
edge is certain. A cut-off with a head-locked overcut cuts past the nominal
far edge with the head height locked, covering the oversize. With that lock,
Plan Cutting may start the far-edge segment at the far edge: overcut outward,
rapid back still locked, unlock, cut toward the origin. Without it the
direction stays fixed, as decided in Project Memory a20ea455.
- CutOff.HeadLockOvercut / FarEdgeFirst, persisted in .nest; HEAD HEIGHT
LOCK/UNLOCK comment markers; far edge is quadrant-aware.
- Planner offers the reversed far-edge segment in the joint search, the
safest route and segment insertion; Apply records the direction.
- Cincinnati CL and CI Fiber posts gain lock/unlock code settings and refuse
head-locked cut-offs while either is empty.
- Automatic cut-off dialog setting (off by default, 1.5 in), kept between
sessions and used for new cut-offs.
Lock codes and machine behaviour with the head locked are unconfirmed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Roslyn duplicate scans found the same code copied across layers:
- Data: the three browse sessions share BrowseSession<TPage, TSort>;
the remote clients share NestServerHttp (JSON options, If-Match,
error text).
- WinForms: five paged lists share BrowsePager for loading text,
navigation, sort glyphs and failure messages. The Add Drawings to
Release, Drawing Library and set browser dialogs now dispose their
browse sessions.
- Server: NestQueryRequest reuses DrawingLibraryRequest's helpers;
revision history queries share count and paging binds.
- Engine: RemnantPlateNester delegates to DefaultPlateNester;
CuttingPlanService reuses JointCuttingPlanSearch.Map.
- Core: LineArc and CleanHole lead-ins share LineArcApproach with
unchanged arithmetic order, so output is bit-identical.
- IO: Dxf.GetGeometry overloads share one reader; .nest JSON test
helpers move to NestArchiveJson.
Also fixes the production compiler warnings (CS8632, CS8603, CS0108)
and moves a test off an obsolete forwarding API.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Emission splits a contour at its entry with Arc/Line.SplitAt, which treat
a point within Tolerance.Epsilon (1e-5) of an endpoint as that endpoint
and start the contour there. The lead-in still ended at the entry point
itself, so an entry 1e-8..1e-5 from a vertex left that span uncut and the
plan's own verification refused it ("does not preserve complete directed
contours").
Imported PEP mounting holes hit this: two half circles whose stored centre
sits 5e-8 beside the chord's midpoint, so the closest entry to an approach
from straight below lands 5e-8 along the first arc from its start. Panel
doors were refused on every plate holding such a hole.
PreparedContours now snaps an entry 1e-8..1e-5 from its entity's start or
end to the exact vertex, for automatic entries, scrap pierce entries and
drawing pins alike, so the lead-in ends where the contour starts. Entries
already within 1e-8 are left as they were, so saved pinned programs
re-emit unchanged. Entries de-duplicate on the snapped point, and
near-corner insets keep the snap distance from both edge ends so none can
snap onto a reflex vertex.
A part with about 1,700 holes (P241017-01) never planned: material
capture paired every boundary with every other one and lead checks
scanned every boundary per lead, so both hit the 1M native query limit
and the plate fell back to an unverified best-effort plan.
- Material capture sweeps boundary extents along X and queries only
pairs the lead checks' per-pair clearance cannot skip, in the full
scan's order.
- Material with 64+ boundaries keeps a grid of boundary extents. Lead
checks, contour-joint matching and replay's contour accounting query
only nearby boundaries; ray parity reads only holes on the point's row.
- Only native queries that run are charged to the budget; skipped far
material no longer costs its full boundary count.
- The search looks up chosen holes and route ranks instead of scanning.
With that the plate plans Ready, but in 189 s: every step re-emitted
and re-checked all holes already cut. On parts with 64+ contours a
middle hole step now checks only the contour it adds, continuing the
completed-contour state its prefix left (ReleasedContourState.Continue).
It falls back to the full prefix whenever it cannot continue exactly,
and the last contour still checks the whole part from before it.
Isolated contour emission clones only the chosen contour.
P241017-01 now plans Ready in 5.4 s with an identical route, expansions
and rapid travel. Core and engine suites pass; the problem-nest corpus
matches the unchanged commit's outcomes and expansions.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Automatic cut-offs refused any part reaching past the physical sheet by
more than Tolerance.Epsilon. Imported supplied blanks (panel doors,
remnants) equal their sheet but carry PEP's rounding: a 0.000006 outline
skew plus placements rounded to 0.001 put the never-cut outline 0.00001
to 0.00003 in past the sheet, so Plan Cutting refused every such nest.
A display perimeter may now extend up to DisplayPerimeterSheetAllowance
(0.0001 model units) past the sheet. Nothing cuts it, and a blank that
fills its sheet gets no cut-offs. Everything else on the part keeps the
ordinary tolerance: cuts, leads, scribes and travel, except a rapid that
ends on the outline itself (the move to its first corner, or an applied
program's display tail). A larger overhang is still refused.
Help > OpenNest Help (F1) and context F1 in Auto Nest and the CAD Converter open
the bundled opennest-help site in a single WebView2 window on its own UI thread.
Both packaging scripts install the opennest-help release pinned in
scripts/help.json, verified by SHA-256. The missing lead-in finding now says
the contour is missing lead-in geometry.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
With the pre-post risks acknowledged, an unplanned blank reached the
Cincinnati and engraver posts, which created the output file before
refusing: an existing program at that path was emptied and the desktop
had no handler for the refusal. Both posts now check every part before
creating the file, and Post shows the refusal like the multi-file path.
A display tail marker is now honoured only as one marker ending the
part's own program, followed by a rapid and the outline alone. A marker
inside a sub-program or followed by real cuts is refused by posts and by
executed reads, so cuts after it can never be dropped from both
verification and output.
Enclosure was tested at one point per entity, so a round cutout starting
on the blank but running past its edge, or a cutout whose corners all sit
on an L-shaped blank while an edge crosses its notch, reached an
unverified plan that warning acceptance could apply, cutting into or past
the never-cut edge. Every cut is now sampled along its arcs inside the
outline and must not cross or touch it, and the material capture names the
display perimeter when a cut crosses it.
The posts treat every non-lead feed move as a cut, so an applied blank's
display tail, or the outline of a blank posted without a plan, would have
been cut along the blank's edge. The pre-post review counted that outline
as an ordinary cutting contour.
Cincinnati, CI Fiber and the engraver now read part programs through
DisplayPerimeterTail.ForPosting: an applied program posts exactly what the
same program posts with its tail removed by hand, and an unplanned display
perimeter is refused with a message that names the part and points to Plan
Cutting. The pre-post review reports the unplanned outline by name.
Place Lead-in built its contours from cut-layer entities only, so on a
blank the largest cutout looked like the outside and took an external
lead pierced on the blank; committing then regenerated the part with the
outline as a cut perimeter. The legacy whole-part strategy did the same.
Both strategies now refuse a program with a display perimeter and leave
the part unchanged, and Place Lead-in explains that such a part's cutouts
get their leads from Plan Cutting instead of selecting it.
An applied cutting program for a display-perimeter blank held only its
cutouts, so the part shrank to them: a 30 x 20 door reported an 11.5 x 20
extent, overlap and the plate view lost the blank, and running automatic
cut-offs afterwards added lines straight through it.
A complete emission now ends with a display tail: a marker comment, a
rapid to the outline and the outline on the display perimeter layer. The
part keeps the blank's bounds and material, so later cut-offs still have
nothing to cut and the door plans again as before. Nothing executes the
tail: executed reads stop at the marker, so search, replay and the
pre-post review see only the cuts, and cut time, the rapid display and the
cut simulation leave it out. DisplayPerimeterTail.ForPosting gives posts
the program without it and refuses an unplanned display perimeter.
Review found three blanks that slipped past or failed silently. Enclosure
was checked against the outline's bounding box, so a cutout in the notch of
an L-shaped blank reached an unverified plan that warning acceptance could
apply; every cut point is now tested inside the outline itself, and the
material capture names the display perimeter when no ring encloses the
rest. A blank whose only cutouts are tabbed left the search with nothing
to choose and ended without a finding; it is now refused with its reason,
as is a blank with nothing to cut, which used to get only the generic
noncutting message. None of these offers even an unverified plan.
Clean-bounds containment, seam overcut trimming and incremental closure
drift now treat the display perimeter like the other material boundaries.
Some jobs cut only cutouts into a supplied blank, such as instrument holes
in a purchased door that is the whole sheet. Its outline has to be known
to the planner (the blank is material that leads, rapids and cut-offs must
respect) but must never be pierced, led or cut.
A new DisplayPerimeter layer marks that outline. It is material, so
nesting, containment, lead clearance and automatic cut-offs all see the
blank; a door that fills its sheet leaves cut-offs nothing to cut. Cutting
preparation keeps it out of the contours entirely: with no cut perimeter
every contour is a hole with internal leads, and the search, best-effort
and safest-route paths stop offering a perimeter. Replay refuses any run
along the display perimeter and completes once every other ring is cut.
A display perimeter must be one whole closed contour enclosing every other
contour; a mixed ring, one inside another contour, or a second one is
refused with that reason. Saving, drawing and posting it are still to do.
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.
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ToPolygon() used 1000 segments for every arc and circle regardless of
size: no more accurate for large arcs and needlessly dense for small
ones, which made every Drawing area and canonical-angle computation on
an arc-heavy part handle hundreds of thousands of vertices.
The parameterless overload now delegates to ToPolygonWithTolerance with
DefaultChordTolerance = 0.0001. That is ten times tighter than the
spacing and overlap checks' 0.001 because callers use this polygon for
area, which an inscribed polygon always under-reads: at 0.001, seven
area-sensitive cut-off, splitter and circle-packing tests drifted past
their precision; at 0.0001 all pass. ToPolygon(int) keeps the fixed
segment count for any caller that wants it.
With the one-pass Cleanup, a 300-nest PEP archive import on the forge
server went from 46.1 s to 15.5 s.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Cleanup removed each duplicate vertex with List.RemoveAt from the middle
of the list, so a polygon cost O(duplicates x vertices). Shape.ToPolygon
emits a duplicate at every entity junction and flattened arcs to 1000
points, so building the Drawing for a large arc-heavy part spent seconds
shifting memory: one 1 MB PEP nest took 12.7 s to convert and 11.2 s to
read back, a quarter of a 300-nest archive import's total time.
The single pass compares each vertex with its original predecessor, as
the back-to-front loop did, so tolerance-equal runs collapse identically
and the output is unchanged.
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Plan Cutting is now the only automatic lead-in assignment, and parts the
support grid cannot hold level are reported wherever they lack a
steadying tab.
- Remove Assign Lead-ins (plate and nest), LeadInAssigner, the lead-in
tool's Auto-Assign button and the Auto Tab size range; old settings
with autoTab sizes still load
- Manual Place Lead-in tabs the clicked entry when support tabs are on
and the grid cannot hold the part (SupportTabSettings)
- New PartSupport finding: Plan Cutting replay and best-effort plans
warn when a drawing pin, a lead-in that does not fit or no single tab
leaves a part unsteady; the pre-post review checks each placed
program's outside tab gap. These warnings replace the advisory
weak-tab notes; only the inside-corner tab note stays advisory, and
never for a pin
- Pinned perimeters keep their pin but carry the support analysis
- Draw grid points as pixel-snapped squares without anti-aliasing
- Post fixtures build lead-ins through a test-only TestLeadIns helper
- Docs: support tabs, pre-post verification and planner notes
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A tab cannot lift a part's margin past its contacts' own hull edges, so a
whole stretch of outline often ties for the best tab point, and the first
sample found won, leaving the tab off-center. Keep the full outline search
for the margin, then among samples within Tolerance.Epsilon of the best,
pick the one nearest the line through the center of gravity across the
long side of the outline's minimum-area bounding rectangle. A part held
only near one end is still tabbed at the far end.
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Saved best-fit pairs are in the drawing's canonical frame, but the canonical
angle is recomputed on load and was not saved with the set. When that
computation changes (RotatingCalipers checking every hull edge, marks no
longer counted as material), old pairs were replayed in a turned frame and
could overlap.
Each saved set now records canonicalAngle, and BestFitCacheStore.Import
skips sets whose angle no longer matches the recomputed one (1e-9 rad,
modulo a full turn). Sets from older files have no angle and are dropped;
their pairs are recomputed when next needed.
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