SortStrips measured the gap between only the first two strips in original
placement order and replayed that single value between every strip after
reordering by height/width. Real (non-uniform) geometry produces varying
inter-strip gaps, so resequencing could expand the total footprint beyond
the plate's already-fitted work area, crashing StripPlateNester with
"Candidate placement falls outside the usable stock area." Using the
actual required spacing guarantees the resequenced span never exceeds
the original, since real gaps are always >= spacing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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