Ahead of the new laser schedule, three ways a post could silently cut
with the wrong process, and one way its settings silently reset:
- Cincinnati CL wrote no G89 when no cut library matched the nest's
material, thickness and gas (or no etch library for etch features),
so the controller cut with whatever library it loaded last. It now
refuses, unless the new "Require libraries" setting is turned off.
- Cincinnati CL declared G20/G21 from its own setting without comparing
the nest's units, so a metric nest posted 25.4x too large. It now
refuses a mismatch.
- CI Fiber posted any material missing from its table as the default
code (MSN), so stainless or aluminum ran with mild-steel technology.
A named, unmapped material is now refused; the default code covers
only nests with no material.
- Posts saved their settings beside their DLL, inside the install
folder a Velopack update replaces, so every update reset them to the
shipped defaults. Saves now go to %APPDATA%\OpenNest\Posts and the
shipped JSON only seeds them; constructing a post no longer writes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The repo mixed variants such as center/centre and color/colour, so a
name could be spelled either way and searches missed half the hits.
Standardize on the US spelling, matching .NET's own APIs (Color, Center).
Wire values owned by other systems keep their spelling: the material
ledger's "Cancelled" hold status and GitHub's "cancelled" job status.
No behavior change beyond the spelling of a few status messages.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Full circles now take InternalLeadIn/InternalLeadOut like every other
cutout; the ArcCircle lead settings and the cutting panel's Arc / Circle
tab are removed. Circle-specific geometry handling (radius clamp, angle
rounding, pierce zone) is unchanged.
Older nest files and desktop settings still load: their arcCircleLeadIn/
arcCircleLeadOut keys are ignored and no longer written, so re-planned
circles take the internal leads. Saved part programs are untouched.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Steel is "Carbon Steel" in OpenNest, matching the Cincinnati post's cut
libraries. The CI Fiber material-code table only listed "Mild Steel", so a
Carbon Steel nest reached MSN only by falling through to the default code.
List "Carbon Steel" explicitly in the shipped JSON and the built-in
default, and keep "Mild Steel" for nests that already use it.
Tests check both names against the shipped config and the built-in
default; the Carbon Steel rows failed before this change. Posted output
is unchanged, since the default code was already MSN.
Plan Cutting is now the only automatic lead-in assignment, and parts the
support grid cannot hold level are reported wherever they lack a
steadying tab.
- Remove Assign Lead-ins (plate and nest), LeadInAssigner, the lead-in
tool's Auto-Assign button and the Auto Tab size range; old settings
with autoTab sizes still load
- Manual Place Lead-in tabs the clicked entry when support tabs are on
and the grid cannot hold the part (SupportTabSettings)
- New PartSupport finding: Plan Cutting replay and best-effort plans
warn when a drawing pin, a lead-in that does not fit or no single tab
leaves a part unsteady; the pre-post review checks each placed
program's outside tab gap. These warnings replace the advisory
weak-tab notes; only the inside-corner tab note stays advisory, and
never for a pin
- Pinned perimeters keep their pin but carry the support analysis
- Draw grid points as pixel-snapped squares without anti-aliasing
- Post fixtures build lead-ins through a test-only TestLeadIns helper
- Docs: support tabs, pre-post verification and planner notes
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Cincinnati sample used by the CI Fiber tests is a customer production
part. Its geometry and NC were never tracked, but comments named its part
number and fixture file names and quoted its date and a pierce coordinate.
Replace them with generic wording and placeholder values; the fixture stays
outside the repository, configured only in the gitignored test-config.json.
Comment-only change.
The sample regression fixture now carries each part's pierce, lead-in and
cut moves from the Cincinnati machine program as its saved cutting program.
A new test posts those saved programs without reassigning lead-ins and
requires the program body to equal the sample exactly: L2/L4 macro, G41/G42
side, lead-ins and every cut move (21,911 lines).
Mutation checks: dropping the largest-contour perimeter rule from the kerf
fix fails it at the first perimeter (L4 posted as L2), and forcing G41 fails
it at the first perimeter's G42. The existing tests still replace the saved
programs with OpenNest's own lead-ins first; their comment now says so
instead of describing the sample's leads wrongly.
The CI Fiber post selected G42 for every perimeter. Cincinnati's CNC Codes
Handbook defines G42 as "product remains on the left", and imported
perimeters run clockwise with the part on the right, so the controller
offset every outside edge into the part: parts came out a kerf undersize.
Cincinnati's LaserNST samples only use G42 because they cut perimeters
counter-clockwise.
Winding is normalized only at DXF import, so the post can't assume a
direction either. It now takes the largest contour as the perimeter (as
ShapeProfile does) and picks G41 or G42 from each contour's actual winding.
That also stops a reversed drawing from swapping the L2/L4 lead-in macros.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
b0997f6 moved every cut-off after the parts. Plate.Parts order is the
cut sequence, and the user sets each cut-off's place in it (Set
Sequence), so the post must follow it rather than reorder. Cut-offs
still post as uncompensated open lines with no lead-in.
Multi-sheet nests previously went into one program with a single header
size and one M50 at the end, so sheet 2 would cut into sheet 1's
skeleton. New Sheets settings:
- One program per sheet (default on): JOB.cnc -> JOB-1.cnc, JOB-2.cnc,
each a full program with its own size and pallet change (CL-series
batch rule, EM-423 7.4). Single-sheet nests keep the chosen name.
- Off: one program, with /L "L0" + pallet change between sheets;
mixed sheet sizes are rejected.
- Pallet change code (default M50, unconfirmed for multi-sheet CI Fiber
runs; documented as a release blocker).
All sheets are validated and rendered before any file is written.
IMultiFilePostProcessor lets the desktop app confirm overwrites of every
target file and list what was saved, and the console print each file.
A fixed override wrote the same text on every part, making parts
indistinguishable in the program. Each part's ( PART:... ) comment now
always uses its source file or drawing name. Saved configs that still
contain PartComment load normally; the key is ignored.
System.Text.Json rebuilds MaterialCodes with the default ordinal comparer,
so a saved config matched 'Mild Steel' but not 'mild steel' and silently
fell back to the default code. The setter now re-keys assigned maps
case-insensitively.
Posting a nest with a sheet cut-off threw because the CI Fiber writer
treated every contour as a compensated part contour and requires a
linear lead-in after G41/G42 (TF5200 13.2.4.1). Cut-offs are open
centreline cuts with no lead-in and no inside/outside, so they now post
without G41/G42 and run after every part on the sheet so the sheet is
not severed before the parts are cut (matching the CL post).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
New post-processor plugin OpenNest.Posts.CincinnatiCIFiber for the CI
Fiber laser family (nLight CLX / Beckhoff TF5200 / Precitec ProCutter,
e.g. the CI Fiber 4020 8kW). Named by machine family, not table size.
Emits the machine program contract of the Cincinnati-supplied sample NC
(12992-4SS_NEST.nc): V.E.* header, restart jump, per-part V.E.R4 blocks,
per-contour N labels with V.E.R3, skippable /L macro lines (L0/L2+G41
interior, L4+G42 exterior, L6 cut-on, ZHSOFF cut-end), G162 incremental
arc I/J, trimmed 3-decimal spaceless coordinates, CRLF, M50/M30/%.
Contour classification (interior vs exterior) derives from the material
side of the closed cut path, not hardcoded winding. SubProgramCall holes
are flattened to sheet coordinates (rotation-safe). Arc lead-ins are
rejected per TF5200 13.2.4.1 (first motion block after G41/G42 selection
must be linear). Table envelope (default 160.25 x 81.25 in) validated.
Tests: structure golden on a square-with-hole nest, rotated-hole flatten,
coordinate format, arc-lead-in rejection, table validation, suppressed/
scribe skipping, plus a SkippableFact regression against the real sample
NC (109 parts, 2071 contours, L2=1962, L4=109, perimeter vertices match
within 0.001). Fixtures configure through OpenNest.Tests/test-config.json
and the regression skips when absent.
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