On an enclosed machine a cutout slug that tips once cut free can stand up
above the sheet and catch the enclosure door when the pallet changes. The
head already keeps off cut cutouts, so this is about clearing the door, not
the head.
Cutting Settings > Cutouts > "Slice slugs the support grid can't hold
level" (CuttingParameters.SliceTippingSlugs, off by default, saved per
machine thickness and written only when on) makes Plan Cutting cut each
such slug along the bed's contact lines (grid rows and columns, slat center
lines) before the cutout, so no piece keeps a contact and the pieces drop
between the supports. Each slice stops a kerf short of the cutout, so the
pieces stay attached until the cutout's own kerf frees them together. A
slug the bed holds level, or one on no contact, is left whole; a cutout
holding another part or another of its part's cuts is never sliced.
Slices are break cuts emitted right after the drawing's own break cuts,
pierced on themselves and led straight back to their start. The
released-contour proof now leaves out straight break cuts lying wholly
inside one of the part's closed holes, since the grid cells they free are
scrap; break cuts in material still take part. The plan fingerprint only
changes when the setting is on.
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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.
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