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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Plate > Set as Default and Nest > Edit's Defaults tab only changed the
open nest, so new nests never picked up the values. Set as Default now
also saves the new-nest defaults, and the Defaults tab gains an opt-in
"Use these defaults for new nests" check.
Machine thicknesses can now set part and edge spacing. A nest takes them
when its material, grade, thickness or machine changes and when a release
creates it; BOM import seeds its groups from them. Spacing edited in the
same dialog stays, and only an untouched trailing sheet follows.
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Machine Configuration held one lead-in and lead-out per thickness and
applied it to every contour. Each thickness now has Outside Cuts and
Inside Cuts tabs; inside cuts follow the outside leads until "Same as
outside cuts" is cleared, and configurations without inside leads keep
applying one pair to both.
The lead type lists, per-type fields and preview from Cutting Settings
are now a reusable LeadsEditor control that both dialogs use. The
machine tabs hide what the configuration cannot hold: the arc sweep,
the clean-hole kerf (taken from the thickness) and Line + Line.
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Thicknesses take an optional name or gauge shown beside the value in
the tree. The Machine Configuration form keeps the selected tab while
moving between thicknesses or machines, and opens fully expanded.
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