The writer omitted an empty rail sheet when its size, quadrant and zones
matched the defaults, ignoring spacing, so a sheet left at the old part or
edge spacing after a defaults change (configured stock under C17) was
dropped on save. The comparison now includes edge and part spacing.
PM 455f6763-f0aa-40da-b9ad-11de4b2ea95b
Commit can attach the stock's rail to a sheet whose nest has no (or another)
default rail, but only the default rail was saved and the reader re-attached
sheets only to it, so the removed clamp and its time vanished on reload. A
sheet following a rail other than the default now saves it in an optional
per-plate clampRail (read leniently, omitted otherwise), and the reader
re-attaches the sheet to it.
PM 22daec3d-dabb-4aae-95f7-c1d090d5dcdf
Changing the nest defaults (Nest Info, Set as default, Edit Plate on an
empty sheet) left the editor's trailing empty sheet on the old size and
quadrant, so the writer's clamp-preserving empty-sheet rule saved it as a
stale extra sheet. PlateManager.ChangePlateDefaults wraps a defaults edit:
a trailing empty, cutoff-free sheet that exactly matched the old defaults
(and followed their rail with no removed clamps or explicit zones) takes the
new defaults; every other empty sheet keeps its configuration and is still
written.
PM cade6901-5f4a-4503-85bf-0ea681d9ca7f
Every plate was written with "removedClamps": [], so files without the
feature changed. The key is now omitted unless a clamp was removed, like
the other additive sections; nest-file-format.md documents removedClamps
and removalMinutes and their lenient reading.
PM 6ded8ac4-84fd-4e8b-9a3b-6f41e494542c item (c)
A clamp is an avoidance area, so a clamp that only partly reaches a
sheet (for example centered at 60.5" on a 60" sheet, or near the
origin) now keeps its whole 1.5" x 0.625" footprint instead of being
clipped to the sheet; clamps wholly beyond the sheet are still left
off. Job validation accepts a zone that hangs past the sheet edges and
still rejects one that does not reach the sheet at all. Both packing
lanes already block keep-outs extending past the bin; a hanging-clamp
solve through Rectangles, Irregular and Default keeps every part clear
of the whole inflated footprint.
User decision 2026-10-12, settling the plan's pending D2 question.
The empty-plate rule drops a rail-following empty sheet only while it
still matches the plate defaults; a trailing sheet created before the
defaults changed is written. Say so instead of promising that the
editor's trailing sheet is always dropped. Comment and documentation
only; behaviour unchanged.
Delta review minor finding, Project Memory 4e5f566d.
Omit an empty clamp-carrying plate only when a new plate from the saved
defaults would recreate it: same size and quadrant and zones the saved
rail recreates. A rail-following empty sheet with another size or
quadrant is written again instead of being lost.
Read plateDefaults.clampRail through a lenient converter so a wrongly
typed rail (a string or null width, non-numeric centers, an array in
place of the object) loads as no rail while every plate's saved zones
still load, as the file format documents, instead of failing the whole
nest.
Review findings 4 and 5, Project Memory 4e5f566d.
Write the nest's machine clamp rail under plateDefaults.clampRail
(width, depth, centers) so plates created or resized after a reload
still get the clamps. The key is omitted for nests without a rail, and
a missing, empty or malformed rail loads as none while each plate's
saved zones still load.
On load a plate follows the rail again only when its saved zones are
exactly the rail's for that sheet; other zones are kept as written.
The empty-plate filter now drops an empty sheet whose zones the saved
rail recreates, so the editor's trailing empty sheet is not written
for every clamped nest; empty sheets with other zones are still kept.
Add the additive per-plate clamps array (id, x, y, length, width) to the
nest DTO with writer and reader support. Files without the key load with
zero zones; an individually malformed entry is dropped while the rest of
the nest loads. A plate carrying only clamp definitions now survives the
writer's empty-plate filter; genuinely empty plates remain omitted.
Format documented in docs/nest-file-format.md.
Add NestStatus (Quote/ToBeCut/HasBeenCut) plus MadeBy on Nest, written as
additive camelCase nest.json fields with PascalCase enum strings matching
the units convention. Legacy files and unknown status values fall back to
Quote. The nest info dialog gains a Status dropdown and Made By box.
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