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rulingA decision by Aristide or Jordan. True because it was decided; it can be superseded, but it cannot be stale.
Content last changed 2026-08-27 — computed from the item itself, not typed.
Vocabulary — Nest stage
True nesting = the same part duplicated over and over on the sheet (Jordan, 2026-08-27: 'When the same part is duplicated over and over (we call this true nesting)'). The LS1156258 384-piece sheet and the 3A76 lattice sheets are true nests.
Pipeline order: toolpath FIRST, then nest. The single part is tooled completely — leads, cut order, slug tabs — and the nest duplicates that finished toolpath: 'that way we use one short piece of GCode duplicated over and over.' This is why MetaCam's array spacing measures the toolpath bounding box and why the flip-every-other-column trick aligns pierce points (confirmed by Jordan same day) — what gets arrayed is a toolpath, not bare geometry.
Contrast: part-by-part nesting. Full ruling and consequences: true vs part-by-part nesting.