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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