The labels said left and down, but every push follows the plate quadrant:
on quadrant 4 "Push left, then down" pushed left, then up.
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Shift+click in Clone Parts always kept whichever axis order landed the
copy nearest the origin, which can park it in a pocket the user didn't
want. Options > Clone push placement now picks Closest to origin (the old
behavior, still the default), Push left then down, or Push down then left.
Ctrl+click settles the copy on bounding boxes alone, so it stops square
to its neighbors' boxes instead of nesting into their shapes. Shift+click
keeps its box pass then geometry settle; both follow the chosen order.
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Six-decimal incremental PEP programs round arc centers, so an arc's end
tangent misses its neighbor's by about gap / radius (1.6e-5 rad on the
offset 5/32" fillet in the reported nest). Two parts resting one spacing
apart then gave the slide contact a Minkowski cone a hair wider than a
half-plane, which the classifier read as the whole plane: every direction
blocked, so the top part could not be pushed sideways along the part below.
SlideContact now reads a cone up to TangentSlack (1e-4 rad) past a
half-plane as a noisy half-plane and widens its boundary and concave-ray
comparisons by the excess, so near-tangential slides read as tangential.
A direction admitted that way can enter material by at most travel x
excess at that contact, and every other contact is still classified on its
own; wider cones remain real overlap and block. Raising JointTolerance was
not needed for this case and is left at 1e-6.
Whole-job benchmarks (synthetic nests plus the PEP job at 3 and 60 parts,
--parallel 1) are identical before and after for every engine.
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Interlocked rows, such as staggered triangles, cannot slide straight past
their neighbors, so capping the step with a push left them unable to
pattern down. The calculated step now moves the full distance like a fixed
nudge, even off the plate or onto a part; the layout check reports either.
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Set Offset Increment gains a "Calculated distance" option. With it on, the
arrow keys move the selection by its own size plus the part spacing,
measured on its geometry like a fill's copy distance, so it lands tight
without a push back. The move stops early at an edge, clamp or part, and a
clone preview steps clear of the copy just placed.
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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.
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