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>
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>
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.
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.
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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.
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