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V3.4.0

It's a big one!

• Enhancement - improved layout refinement - ability to find more efficient arrangements
• Enhancement - more natural rip and cross-cut layouts
• Enhancement - guillotine cuts shown for rip & cross-cut strategies
• Enhancement - ability to highlight guillotine cuts for commercial cutting machines
• Enhancement - significantly faster calculation time for certain layouts
• Enhancement - better cut visualisation, now to scale
• Enhancement - exports to PDF and DXF
• Enhancement - added various statistics, including stock efficiency
• Bug fix - aspect ratio correction for main layout

V3.3.1

• Enhancement - much better last stock tidying
• Enhancement - better layouts when stock isn't full
• Enhancement - improved validation of inputs
• Bug fix - in certain situations we would generate stock in a loop forever and ever
• Bug fix - optimization algorithm wasn't showing the best layout. Cat ran across the keyboard.

V3.3.0

• Enhancement - add the costs of your stock and you'll get an estimate for your project
• Enhancement - ability to lock a part to a piece of stock
• Enhancement - improved the winning layout selection - this gives much better results

V3.2.2

• Enhancement - improved rip and crosscut layouts - thanks to Andy O for helping with this
• Enhancement - can now save optimization preferences
• Enhancement - various performance improvements
• Bug fix - prevent layout tidy if rip / crosscut selected

V3.2.1

• Bug fix - - minor code correction in the algorithm

Front end update

• Enhancement - updated the visualisation for long thin stock to make it easier to see - thanks to Daniel W for helping with this
• Enhancement - a small user guide is now available
• Enhancement - removed the 'helpful' dots, turns out they don't help with small shapes
• Bug fix - Some minor dark mode tweaks
• Bug fix - Inputs now default to blank rather than 0 - this makes inputing data much quicker

V3.2.0

• Enhancement - ability to rotate and move shapes if you need to tweak the layout
• Enhancement - helpful dots to locate a shape position if there is overlap
• Bug fix - the page would occasionally load half way down - not any more!

V3.1.0

Added rip and crosscut preferences!

• Enhancement - added optimization strategy preferences
• Enhancement - added crosscut and rip options for each stock
• Enhancement - much better single and final stock layout patterns
• Enhancement - better user experience when inputting on mobile
• Bug fix - fixed an issue with the stock navigation
• Bug fix - progress would sometimes report inaccurately

V3.0.1

• Enhancement - added efficiency data for each stock
• Enhancement - improved dark mode
• Bug fix - in rare situations a cut would be missing

V3.0.0

Major release :)

• Import shapes from spreadsheet
• Generate example shapes
• Set blade width by stock individually, or globally
• Options to automatically add stock when required
• Add and name stock
• Add and name parts
• Calculate the best layout and view progress
• View layouts per stock
• Move shapes if required
• View individual shapes and cuts
• Tables of shape and cut data