The spec review found two places where the marker and threshold
contract does not hold.
A clamp narrower than the chord tolerance is still judged
tolerance-free against finely re-read material and reported as the
whole clamp rectangle. That existing safety policy is kept, so its
marker is the clamp's centre: within half the clamp's size (under
0.0005) of the material, though not necessarily on it. Document this
on PlateOverlapPair.Marker and in the overlap docs, and lock it in the
tiny-clamp region test.
Also document that 1e-8 grid rounding can move an area within
rounding error of the 1e-5 threshold to either side of it.
The overlap crosshair sat on the pair's area centroid. For a split,
holed or concave overlap, that point can be off the red material:
between two patches, in a hole, or inside a curve.
PlateOverlapPair.Marker is a point inside the pair's largest island.
It is the island's pole of inaccessibility (PolyLabel), searched to a
tenth of the island's area/perimeter within a 4096-cell budget. If
that bounded search does not land inside (a long thin sliver), the
marker falls back to the midpoint of the widest interior run of a
horizontal scan line placed between vertex heights.
The overlay crosshair, marker hit testing, hover coordinates
("Marker:") and the cutting-inspection ring now use the marker.
Centroid stays the true area centroid. View > Overlap Check > Display
> Centroids is now labelled Markers.
Before the marker existed, its call sites used the centroid. Two
patches, a covered frame, a half annulus and a thin crescent then put
it off the material; now all four land on it. Disabling the scan-line
fallback fails its test. On the 389-plate corpus, markers add about
0.4 ms per overlapping pair; pair and area results are unchanged.
The material-overlap diagnostic clipped every triangle of one part
against every triangle of the other, then carved each fragment by
every hole triangle. Curved overlaps produced thousands of fragments,
and a part sitting inside another part's cutout was slow even when
clear.
PlateOverlapAnalyzer now intersects each candidate pair's hole-aware
material once with Clipper2, in part-local coordinates on a 1e-8 grid.
Each operand is its outline minus the union of its holes (positive
fill rule). Regions become connected islands: a counterclockwise
outline plus clockwise Holes, including an island that both parts'
holes enclose together. PolygonAreaMoments.TrySubtract gives each
island's net moments. A pair is reported when its total shared area
exceeds Tolerance.Epsilon. Out-of-range or nonfinite coordinates make
the pair incomplete rather than clear. The overlay and the cutting
inspection highlight fill outlines with their holes.
On 389 real PEP-converted plates the pair, clamp-finding and issue
sets are identical to the previous kernel. Pair areas are equal or up
to 0.0002 larger: the kernel drops fragments below its area threshold.
With material prepared, the per-plate clipping maximum fell from
2.6 s to 52 ms (total 5.0 s to 0.5 s).
Engine and validation checks still use Collision.
Expand now reads the plate on a worker while its Cancel window pumps
messages, so a still-running fill could commit parts into the plate the
search is enumerating (InvalidOperationException: collection modified).
Refuse the command while whole-job nesting, a NestProgressForm or a fill
on any view of the nest is active. The usual plate-action guard is not
reused: ActionSelect reports busy whenever parts are selected, which
Expand requires.
Plate.ClampZones are stored relative to the sheet's lower-left corner,
but cut-off positions, motions and part poses use the signed quadrant
frame. The automatic cutoff planner, manual cut-off contacts, clamp
rapid warnings and whole-plate overlap capture compared the two
directly, so in quadrants 2-4 a cut or rapid through a real rail clamp
was neither avoided nor warned about.
Add ClampZoneFrame.ToPlacement, which maps live zones into the
placement frame exactly like the sheet and engine stock, and use it in
every Slice 5 consumer. It rejects missing or malformed zones (bounds
stay publicly mutable); pre-post verification reports those as an
incomplete clamp check instead of a clear result. Overlap freshness now
treats a size or quadrant change as moving the zones.
Tests use real ClampRail zones in all quadrants; the hand-signed
quadrant fixtures that hid the defect are converted to rails.
Project Memory: opennest 274836d5-fb76-4619-b3cc-0c811e767dd6
Nests converted from another CAM system carry its seam overcut inside the
clean contour: the last cut runs on past the contour's own start along its
first cut, then a straight jog returns to the start. The ring then touches
itself at its seam, so neither the cutting planner nor the overlap analyzer
could certify it and the whole plate refused.
SeamOvercut recognizes exactly that shape (same line, or same circle and
direction) and trims it from an owned copy; the retraced tail encloses no
area, so material is unchanged and the drawing is never edited. Any other
self-contact still refuses. Arcs of one circle whose centers were each derived
from their own endpoints agree only within Epsilon, so their spans are now
compared at the seam tolerance: shared spans still refuse as overlap, while
arcs that only meet at a joint or lie apart no longer do.
Plates with parts nested in other parts' cutouts then failed to route, since
the host is cut last and every straight approach from the middle of a crowded
cutout crosses a finished neighbour. CuttingNestedOrder tours each host's
inner parts as one run ending beside the host's own contours, hosts follow
the parts beside them, and learned rules still win. Outside entries are
ordered by clear sight lines to the next cut, the look-ahead toward a host is
its nearest contour point rather than its centre, a cutout containing the
arrival point is routed from that point, and a pass that teaches an order
rule ends the round instead of repeating the blocked approach.
Tests: SeamOvercutTests and CuttingNestedOrderTests; the cutting-planning,
diagnostics and overlap tests in OpenNest.Tests pass (1023 passed, 6 skipped).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The multi-phase lattice fill (linear, pairs, rectangle best-fit, remainder) is
no longer meant to be the engine used by default, so it gets a name for what
it does. The registry lists it as Fill and maps the old name Default to it;
PlateFillService, PlateNesterFactory and NestJobOptions use Fill, and every
fill-strategy caller still accepts Default. Console --autonest now validates
engine names through NestingEngineRegistry.ResolveName so renamed names work.
Layouts are unchanged: Default and Fill resolve to the same fillers and the
golden layouts pass under the new name.
A tab trims the perimeter short of its entry, but the lead-out was still
generated from the nominal entry point. An arc lead-out therefore started
off its own radius (ExecutionMotionReader rejected it as inconsistent), and
a line lead-out ran diagonally back toward the entry.
Every lead-out style on a tabbed perimeter now leaves from the trimmed
cut's actual end, on that entity's normal, so arcs are tangent and the tab
gap stays uncut. Untabbed contours and the corner run-out rules are
unchanged. Malformed legacy output is still refused, never refit.
Red before the fix: the three tabbed arc cases threw "Arc has zero or
inconsistent radius" and the line case ended at y=5 instead of 4.8. Keeping
the entry's normal at the actual end fails the curved-perimeter case.
Nest windows now rerun the overlap check once the layout has been
unchanged for 0.5 s, instead of leaving 'Overlaps: not checked'. Edits
show 'Overlaps: check pending...'; drags are caught by the paint-time
pose stamp, collection edits by their events. The check waits while a
mouse button, modal dialog or fill is active, supersedes a running check
when the layout moves again, and does not retry a canceled or failed
layout until it changes. Rechecks use the incremental analyzer, so only
the moved parts' neighbors are recomputed.
Automatic results update only the canvas label (the status bar keeps the
last command's message) and keep Display > Off. Check Active Plate still
runs immediately. InvalidateOverlapCheck now also drops cached material.
A straight lead-in at a convex outside-perimeter corner now runs along the
extension of the edge cut first, so the torch enters on that line and keeps
cutting it. The result no longer depends on which of the corner's two edges
auto-assign or the manual cursor picked, which made placement flip between
straight and 90 degrees. The approach angle is ignored at such corners.
The straight lead falls back to the first-cut edge normal when its pierce
would be closer than PierceClearance to the contour (very flat or tessellated
corners). Reflex perimeter corners bisect the notch. Line lead-outs run on
straight past a convex corner along the last-cut edge, except on tabbed
perimeters. Program generation and the Place Lead-in preview share
ResolveLeadIn/ResolveLeadOut.
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