dynamic bin size?

[RobMayer]

Hello,

I see you haven't worked on this in some time, but I'm wondering if there's any possibility of seeing a Dynamic Bin size. Essentially instead of feeding it the size of a sheet, let it grow the bin to include all items in some some configuration that minimizes the Area used?

I'm also slightly confused as to what SortStrategy does, as it doesn't feel like it makes a difference to any layouts that I've done.

[RobMayer]

I figured out the various options of the sorting, splitting, and what not does.

I've got a couple things that I learned in my exploration, if its meaningful or helpful:
if "allowRotation" is true, it doesn't always find the an optimal solution that would be found as though "allowRotation" were false. I thought about adding the rotation option to the Cartesian and letting it decide which results in fewer pages.

speaking of which: the reducer makes no distinction on which is better past the number of sheets. I've been making a variant that picks a more optimal solution if two solutions have the same number of sheets. I've mostly been going with "choose the solution that has the smallest cumulative bounding box perimeter". One could add another option to set the thing you want to prioritize, too.

In any event, thank you for all this - it's been fun to play with :)

[tyschroed]

Hi Rob - thanks for your comments! Unfortunately I haven't had much time lately to work on this, but would would of course gladly accept contributions. Love your approach for choosing the best possible option and the rotation option findings.

[RobMayer]

I will absolutely dig into it and submit a PR.

If you were curious, by the way: https://thatrobhuman.com/gridfinity-gamma/ this is what I used it for.