A tail separator that landed on a front-edge clamp was skipped outright, so
a plate lost its whole remnant (19.5 in on a 48 x 120 sheet with the part
ending at a rail clamp) over a 1.5-in clamp. The separator now steps to the
clamp's far edge plus its clearance, repeating for any clamp it then meets,
and reports ClampMovedTailSeparator. The kept tail is shorter by that
distance and must still meet the minimum tail length; a separator pushed off
the sheet still reports NoSafeTailSeparator.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The last strip line stops at the remnant's full-length horizontal
separator, so it never counted as separating the sheet and the planner
cut it wherever the route passed it, often first (N26-264). That frees
the X-tail remnant early and loses the mass that absorbs heat while the
parts are cut.
A continuous line from a sheet edge or separator to another now counts
as a separator too (CutOff.Separators, found in rounds), so Plan Cutting
and Part Sequencing cut it after every part, just before the separator
it stops on. The problem-nest harness now adds scrap cut-offs with
KeepHorizontalRemnant, as both desktop entry points do.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Reopening a nest regenerated its cut-offs with built-in defaults (no
overtravel, a different minimum segment) rather than the machine's
settings it was made with, so a nest saved, reopened and posted could
cut scrap that never separates. Plates now record the settings their
cut-offs were last generated with, and files carry them; older files
still load with the defaults.
Saving over a nest file truncated it before writing, so any failure
part way lost the only good copy, and the error reached the user as an
unhandled exception after the save path had already changed. Nest and
settings files are now written beside the target and swapped in, and a
failed save is reported with the old file left intact.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Limits are plain coordinates, so moving a cut-off left the lines trimmed
to it stopping where it used to be. A drag now takes along perpendicular
lines with a limit or gap edge on its center, extending or trimming them
to keep meeting it.
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>
Trim refused the piece between two crossing cut-offs because a cut-off had
one start and one end, so a line could not be stopped short around a pocket
of parts without deleting it and drawing two. A cut-off now carries Gaps,
stretches between its limits left uncut: segment generation excludes them
like parts, so the line splits into segments that each take their own place
in the cut sequence. Trimming a middle piece adds a gap from one crossing
centre to the other (merged with any it touches), Extend near a gap's edge
closes it, and Swap Through-Cut refuses a junction a gap touches rather
than guess which side of the gap should run through.
Every reader of the limits treats a gap as uncut, so nothing waits for,
warns about or credits a cut that never happens: segment spans stop at a
gap, the cutting dependencies skip a part inside one, the clamp check
ignores a clamp inside one, the cutting-state and overlap stamps go stale
when gaps change, and a gapped line is never full span for the expected
remnant or automatic cut-offs. Gaps persist as an optional gaps array;
older versions ignore it and would cut straight through.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A manual cut-off ran the full sheet even when another cut-off crossed it,
leaving a Trim/Extend pass to clean up what Automatic Scrap Cutoffs does
on its own. New lines now run from their start edge, set by the cut
direction, and stop at the first crossing line. Tab switches to full
length for the lines that should run through, and the choice lasts until
the nest is closed.
Suggested-by: alexvyperus
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
When a part's outline is open (a tab gap, say), cut-off trimming falls back
to a convex hull. That hull still included lead-in/lead-out points, so it ran
from the lead's pierce point back to the part and stopped cut-offs far short
of the material. Cutting through a lead is harmless, so the hull now uses the
material contour only, as the closed-outline path already did.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Operators could only drag or delete a cut-off, so changing which line runs
through a junction (e.g. letting a vertical split the sheet to keep a whole
remnant beyond it) meant deleting and re-adding lines. Trim/Extend edits the
existing start/end limits instead, so no file-format or planner change is
needed: trims stop on the crossing line's centre, extends run to the next
crossing or the sheet edge, and Swap Through-Cut (right-click a junction)
does both at once, trimming the through line's far side because only the
origin-side edge is certain. Edits undo as one step and re-place the changed
segments with PlateSequencing.PlaceCutOffs so a new separator is cut last.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Regenerating a cut-off into more segments than were saved inserted each
segment at its old index, pushing later parts and cut-offs down; a reloaded
nest could cut its sheet separator before parts it splits off. Segments now
go after the parts saved before them, so a changed segment count never shifts
anything else. Files record every segment's place, and an older file's
sheet-separating cut-off loads last.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Strip lines now stop at a full-length horizontal cut-off that clears the
parts instead of slicing the band beyond it. The desktop dialog and Plan
Cutting also propose their own horizontal separator when that band beats
the X tail (opt-in for API callers via KeepHorizontalRemnant); a kept X
tail beside the band becomes a corner piece whose separator stops there.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Stock can arrive up to 1.5 in wider than nominal, so only the origin-side
edge is certain. A cut-off with a head-locked overcut cuts past the nominal
far edge with the head height locked, covering the oversize. With that lock,
Plan Cutting may start the far-edge segment at the far edge: overcut outward,
rapid back still locked, unlock, cut toward the origin. Without it the
direction stays fixed, as decided in Project Memory a20ea455.
- CutOff.HeadLockOvercut / FarEdgeFirst, persisted in .nest; HEAD HEIGHT
LOCK/UNLOCK comment markers; far edge is quadrant-aware.
- Planner offers the reversed far-edge segment in the joint search, the
safest route and segment insertion; Apply records the direction.
- Cincinnati CL and CI Fiber posts gain lock/unlock code settings and refuse
head-locked cut-offs while either is empty.
- Automatic cut-off dialog setting (off by default, 1.5 in), kept between
sessions and used for new cut-offs.
Lock codes and machine behaviour with the head locked are unconfirmed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Plates with staged automatic scrap cut-offs could not be planned: P260810-01
plate 1 ran out of budget even at 10x effort, while the same plate plans
Ready in 3.6k expansions without the lines. A cut-off was one fixed program
cut whole before every part its line passes through, which dragged the tour
to the middle of the sheet and left the head at the far edge of the line;
and cutting every line first (the rejected alternative) weakens the sheet
and breaks the containment operators rely on when they fast-forward a
changed program.
A cut-off stays one definition, but Plate.RegenerateCutOffs now makes one
part per trimmed segment, each with its own place in the cut sequence.
CutOffSegments gives each segment the span of the nominal line it stands
for (end of the segment before it to start of the one after), and the
dependency rules of the planner and Part Sequencing use that span, so a
segment precedes only the parts beside it. The free-order search plans the
parts as if the segments were not there, so adding lines no longer changes
a plate's route, then CutOffInsertion slides each segment into the latest
gap before its first part where the rapid into its pierce and the rapid
from its end cross nothing cut before; only when one fits nowhere is the
plate searched with the segments among the parts. The search looks through
segments wherever they sit (entries face the next part, hole routes rank
from the pre-segment position, rapids are still checked from the segment's
end), so an applied plan replanned with the order kept replays Ready.
Segments saved out of consecutive order are recorded per segment in the
.nest file (`segments`); older readers load them consecutively.
P260810-01 plate 1 now plans Ready in 3639 expansions with every check
passing; rapid travel 1836 against 1547 without the lines. Plates without
cut-offs keep their PlanningCharacterizationTests digests, and the
problem-nest corpus has no plate below its baseline.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Rotated imported arcs whose start and end radii differ by ~5e-11 are
converted without refitting their centre, so their rebuilt start point
lands just outside the cached part bounds. The allowance scaled with
coordinate magnitude (4096 steps, ~2.9e-11 here) and rejected them,
which stopped Plan Cutting's "Add scrap cut-offs" with "Converted
material extends outside cached part bounds". Use the existing 1e-10
cap as an absolute allowance; larger mismatches still block planning.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
When the end tail was shorter than the minimum tail to keep, the planner
dropped the separator but still stopped the strip grid at it, so the last
strip ran to the sheet end and could exceed the maximum spacing (e.g. a
39-inch strip from 105 to 144 with 35-inch spacing). The grid now spans the
whole sheet whenever the separator is skipped, keeping every strip within
the spacing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A direct CutOff.Regenerate(plate, settings) call with no perimeter
cache argument trusted Part.BoundingBox plus a sub-epsilon roundoff
allowance. A legitimately larger arc refit (ConvertProgram fitting
an imported arc's center to its chord) can protrude past that cached
box by more than the roundoff, so an uncached manual cutoff could
emit a segment crossing the part's true converted material.
Every production call site (Plate.RegenerateCutOffs,
AutomaticCutOffPlanner, the desktop cutoff tools) already builds and
passes a Plate.BuildPerimeterCache dictionary, so this only affects a
direct/uncached caller. Extract the per-part conversion out of
BuildPerimeterCache into Plate.BuildPartPerimeter and use it as a
lazy, on-the-fly fallback in CutOff.ComputeSegments whenever no cache
dictionary is supplied at all, so the uncached path gets the same
conservative envelope as the cached one instead of silently trusting
the bare bounding box. Cached behavior (including a cache's own
explicit null entries from a failed conversion) is unchanged.
OpenNest PM 13f7a685-0564-4cbf-8f46-a7805a0288a0.
A cut-off line passing exactly through a vertex of the clearance outline
got duplicate intersection hits and fell back to the part's bounding box.
Automatic strip lines sit on a 0.05 lattice that often lands on such
vertices, and the strip search preferred them because the box fallback
measured as less cutting, so planned cut-offs looked box-trimmed while a
slightly moved manual line was trimmed correctly.
Slice the polygonal clearance outline exactly with half-open edges:
crossing vertices count once, touching vertices zero or twice, edges on
the line are excluded whole. Zero clearance and non-polygon outlines keep
the existing path and its conservative fallback.
Avoid shortest round-trip decimal text for already-integral doubles. The failing tie regression and the independent 9,163-case exact-integer sweep now keep the fewer-pierce result.
Reserve nominal-line slots in the candidate lattice, compare rounded lengths in exact micro-units before pierce ties, and report real fixed-grid cut length. Per-line notices name local increases instead of negative savings. Failing-first regressions cover dense spacing, decimal ties and the legacy summary.
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
The automatic cutoff planner tested only the proposed X against active
clamp spans, then certified a tolerance-close existing line at its own
X. A manual line just inside a clamp edge could therefore be reported
as a verified tail separator. Test the proposed X and every equivalent
existing definition before regenerating.
Also keep a same-line limited manual cut blocking the whole plan when
it lies on a clamp, as it did before clamp checks were added.
Project Memory: opennest 51597040-cff6-4304-87dc-3c2a13edf45a
A cut-off's place in Plate.Parts is its cut sequence number, but
RegenerateCutOffs removed every cut-off part and appended it again, so
any part drag, fill or cut-off move sent the cut-offs to the end. The
nest file didn't store the position either, so reopening did the same.
RegenerateCutOffs now puts each cut-off back at its previous index (new
cut-offs go at the end), and CutOffDto.Sequence saves the index. Older
files without it load the cut-offs at the end, as before.
Per-entity offsetting left spikes and inverted loops wherever a feature is
narrower than the spacing (1.nest), and RemoveSelfIntersections only
caught proper crossings. The callers that already flatten to polygons now
take a single Clipper region offset instead:
- PolygonHelper (BestFit) and PartBoundary use the conservative mode, which
keeps their never-under-estimate guarantee. PartBoundary also keeps holes
that appear when a perimeter curls back on itself.
- NestValidator offsets perimeter and cutouts in one region; Clipper drops
collapsed cutouts, so the collapsed-or-flipped heuristic goes away.
- CutOff.IntersectPerimeter offsets through the bridge. The old
OffsetEntity(Left) grew CW perimeters but shrank CCW ones, so with the
plate's perimeter cache a cut-off ran through the part; slots narrower
than twice the clearance now close up instead of leaving a gap.
- GetOffsetPartLines (3 overloads) and the AddOffset* helpers had no
callers and are removed, as is EntityView's never-defined DRAW_OFFSET
block.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Repo-wide sweep with the pinned CSharpier 1.3.0 tool. Whitespace and
line-wrapping only; OpenNest.Engine.Tests (109) and OpenNest.IO.Tests
pass after reformat, full solution builds 0 errors.
Added .csharpierignore so csproj/config XML keeps its existing layout
(CSharpier's XML wrapping churns attributes with zero benefit).
Formatting is now enforceable: dotnet csharpier check . passes.
Move 43 root-level test files into feature-specific subdirectories
mirroring the main codebase structure: Geometry, Fill, BestFit, CutOffs,
CuttingStrategy, Engine, IO. Update namespaces to match folder paths.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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