On a plate packed edge to edge, an overlap left by hand-placing extra
parts could not be fixed: straight push chains ran into the edge and
the relaxation gave up on pairs that share material, which have no
contact normal. The relaxation now pushes such a pair along its
shortest straight way out and lets the rest settle, which cleared a
0.92 sq in overlap on a 38-part plate with every part kept square.
When moves alone still cannot settle, the relaxation runs again as a
rigid one: an off-center push also turns a part, up to 3 degrees, if
its drawing is free to rotate. Moves stay first because a tilt turns
every part the push reaches.
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Expand Spacing opens up a whole selection; nests that are a hair short
of fitting need the opposite: move only the parts the overlap check
flags, by the shortfall, and leave everything else where it is.
Fix Spacing pushes one part of each flagged pair straight away from the
other and ripples the push into neighbors it crowds, so rows already
locked in at the spacing can make room. When a plate is packed edge to
edge and no straight push fits, a constraint relaxation shares each
shortfall between both parts along the closest-point normal. Every
result is confirmed by the overlap check before any part moves, and is
applied only when it has fewer findings and nothing new.
NativeContours gains a coarse-flattening overload, Translated, Nested
and a closest-points GapTo for the search.
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