Tabs suit thin plate, but on anything thicker than 0.25 in the parts
are too hard to break out of the sheet, and the Cutting Parameters
dialog was one global set for every job. Its settings now live on the
nest's machine thickness: leads on the existing Outside/Inside Cuts
tabs, and lead-in angle rounding, tabs and pierce on a new Tabs &
Pierce tab (ThicknessConfig.Cutting). In Database mode every
workstation gets the same settings through the shared machine.
The dialog and the Place Lead-in panel say what they edit, and save
back to that thickness (MachineCuttingDefaults.WriteTo, converted to
the machine's units). A thickness with no Tabs & Pierce of its own, or
a nest the machine has no thickness for, keeps this PC's settings as
before. If the machine can't be saved (server offline, a conflict),
the edit is kept on this PC for that job and the user is told.
Machine Configuration can copy one thickness's Tabs & Pierce to
thinner or thicker ones, so the 0.25 in rule takes a few clicks.
An older desktop saving a shared machine would silently erase these
settings, since it doesn't know them. Machine configuration classes
now keep unknown fields, and the server refuses a machine save that
leaves out a field the stored machine has a value for, telling the
user to update OpenNest.
The Plan Cutting status line now reports tabs from SupportTabs; since
"Tab every part" was retired it always said off.
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A clamp rail can now carry its own Clearance, the gap parts keep from
every clamp footprint, independent of part spacing. Unset, it keeps the
sheet's bottom edge spacing as before. Clamp blocks drawn under the
sheet can use close to zero so the laser only stays off them.
Plate.ClampClearance and NestPlateStock.ClampClearance resolve it once;
the engines, interactive fill/pack/push, the layout check, Expander walls
and automatic cut-off placement all read it. The interactive push now
holds clamps at their square clearance keep-out (the layout check's
shape) instead of the part spacing, so parts no longer tuck into its
corners; the clamped fill characterization digests are re-pinned after
checking the new layouts validate.
Persisted as an optional `clearance` on the .nest clamp rail and the
machine clamp settings; edited in Nest > Clamps and the machine's
Clamps tab.
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Clamps are physical fixtures that differ between machines, but one global
clamps.json served every machine, so a plasma table and a fiber laser could
not have different rails.
- MachineConfig.Clamps holds each machine's rail in the machine's units,
edited on a new Clamps tab in Tools > Machine Configuration.
- New and BOM import give a nest the rail of the machine they assign;
Nest > Clamps loads and saves the nest's machine's clamps. Each nest keeps
its own copy, so machine edits never move existing nests' clamps.
- At startup, while no machine has clamps, the legacy clamps.json (or the
server's shared copy) is copied once into the default or only machine;
with several machines and no default the user picks one.
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