Slice 3 of common-line cutting. On costly plate (N26-295: 3/16 RA310S at about
$2,500 a sheet) pairing parts one kerf apart fits the part the spacing cannot:
the last plate's 38 parts fit on one 48x120 with Auto Nest only with pairs.
- Drawing Properties gains "Allow common line" (Drawing.AllowCommonLine, off by
default because customer edge-quality needs vary). The nest's CommonLineUsage
(Off / When it adds parts / Whenever available) is set in Auto Nest and seeded
from Tools > Nest Defaults; both persist (nest.json, defaults.json).
- NestPipeline runs the ordinary solve, then, with a level on, trials where
eligible parts are offered as kerf-gap pair compounds. Placed pairs expand into
parts plus explicit NestJobCommonLine groups, are validated again, and
CommonLineRanking keeps a trial only by the level: count first, then sheets;
"when it adds parts" keeps the plain layout on a tie, "whenever" also takes a
shorter cut or less material, never at the cost of a part. Engines, FillScore
and their comparers are unchanged; Off asks the engine exactly what it did.
- NestLayoutCheck exempts members only through a sheet's explicit group list and
only when the job allows common lines; materializing and committing create
Plate.CommonLines.
- Server nesting writes common-line jobs as version 3 and replays the recorded
trial answers, so the desktop binds the same groups.
- Fill Area honors the level through a PlateFillService overload.
- The benchmark gains --common-lines <level> --kerf <k>.
Benchmark (synthetic nests + N26-295, --parallel 1): with no flag and with
--common-lines off every engine matches the base commit; with a level on no
layout becomes invalid and three runs save a sheet at equal nested area.
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Delta review fixes:
- ReleaseRenest throws when a commit does not call finish, or calls it
twice: either would leave ledger plates uncoded or count a sheet twice
for later nests of the run. The ledger sheet count is the codes given.
- A stage whose layout is not kept now lists the copies its layout
missed with their own reasons (a part no sheet fits stays "does not
fit"); only the copies it placed are "the proposal cannot be kept".
- A valid ledger layout that places nothing says "Auto Nest placed
nothing on it" rather than claiming no part fits.
- ReleaseLedgerOffer rejects null rows; docs list every ledger note.
Review fixes for ledger-first Make Nests:
- The release renest (offer, staged run, codes, note) moves into
OpenNest.Desktop.ReleaseRenest, shared by the headless panel, the
live main window and the tests. Codes are given inside each commit, so
the live tab's Auto Nest undo step records them; before, undo and redo
dropped every ledger code.
- A bundle repeats one code per sheet: a later nest of the run lost the
whole bundle once an earlier nest took one sheet. Taken sheets are now
counted per code (LedgerCodeFilter.ExcludeCopies).
- A stage whose layout is not kept lists every copy it asked for as not
placed (the proposal cannot be kept), and a rejected ledger layout
says "MaterialLedger not used: Auto Nest could not keep a layout on
its stock" instead of a bare "No MaterialLedger stock used".
- "no free stock" is said only when the ledger had none; otherwise the
note counts what was left out (on other nests, taken by earlier nests
of this release, too small, unknown shape).
- The ledger is not read for a nest with nothing to nest, the live read
runs under the tab's stop token, a reason's own full stop is not
doubled, and the sheet count is the codes given.
NestRenest gains a staged run: a nest is nested on finite first stock
alone, then whatever is left on its plate defaults and plate-size
options. Each stage keeps only a valid layout, and the result lists the
stock id each committed plate was solved on.
ReleaseLedgerStock is the ledger stock of one Make Nests run: each nest
is offered the free sheets and drops Auto Nest's ledger load would tick
for its material, grade and thickness (substitutes included), minus
codes on other open server nests (read once per run) and codes earlier
nests of the same run took, which are not on the server until the
release uploads them. Committed ledger plates get their codes as Auto
Nest gives them. An unusable ledger nests on the plate defaults and the
note says why the ledger was not used.
With Nest after release ticked, Make Nests now minimizes the Drawing
Sets window and nests each group's built nest in its own main-window
tab, before it is saved, with Auto Nest's progress window and live plan
strip, one nest at a time in plan order. Stop there (or switching tabs)
stops the whole release, as the panel's Stop does; the layout is kept
by the same rules as the headless renest, without the Keep review.
After upload each tab is bound to its saved record instead of a second
tab opening; a tab whose nest was not saved is closed. The main window
stays in front, and the Drawing Sets window flashes its taskbar button
when a group failed or was refused or the release was not recorded.
NestRenest splits into CreateRequest and Keep so the solve runs off the
UI thread and the commit on it; AutoNestCommand's solve-with-progress
step is shared rather than copied.
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A release now ends in nests ready to cut rather than empty drafts, and a
merge no longer leaves the draft it cleared waiting for someone to run Auto
Nest. "Nest after release" (on by default) runs Auto Nest headless on every
released group, new or merged, before anything is uploaded.
NestRenest removes every plate and nests each drawing's required quantity
onto sheets from the nest's plate defaults and plate-size options. It keeps
a layout only when it is valid and keepable, so an invalid result never
reaches the server; the nest is saved without sheets and the operator is
told to run Auto Nest. Unplaced copies stay as remaining quantity, and the
status column lists sheets, utilization and what did not fit. A new Nesting
progress stage reports each group, and cancelling while nesting saves
nothing.
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