Cut Ready

Cut-ready fabrication

Treat cut-ready as a verified status, not a synonym for "file created." Do not claim it until the applicable evidence, geometry, readback, visual, and vendor gates pass. For an audit-only request, report findings and readiness without modifying or uploading files.

Load the required references

Read a reference when its manufacturing decision or validation step is needed; do not load every file for a narrow revision. Re-check the named vendor's current official requirements when material, thickness, minimum-feature, tolerance, bend, or file-format rules could have changed.

Required outcomes

Satisfy each outcome that applies to the requested job. Adapt the working order while preserving dependencies: resolve controlling inputs before modeling, and validate exports before claiming readiness.

1. Classify the production job. Identify flat profile cutting, cut vinyl or stencil, printed contour-cut artwork, production vector drawing, formed sheet material, or machined 3D solid. Record the process, physical substrate or stock, thickness when relevant, units, finished size, quantity, finish, critical dimensions, tolerances, application face, handed or mirrored variants, and target vendor when known. Ask one focused question only when a missing answer changes geometry, output, fit, or safety.
2. Build an evidence ledger. Classify controlling dimensions using the intake reference, keeping measured and specified values separate from assumptions. Never turn a photo estimate into an exact historical or physical dimension. State the scale anchor, perspective limits, and uncertainty for reconstructions.
3. Freeze accepted work. Before a revision, record the baseline, frozen elements, editable elements, invariants, and acceptance checks. Create a new revision unless the user explicitly asks to replace the baseline. Treat "change nothing else" literally.
4. Maintain one authoritative model. For new work, establish a base model and shared dimensional specification; for accepted work, reuse them. Derive every revision, variant, drawing, preview, and new format from that source. Prefer native CAD, a parametric model, or a checked-in generator over hand-edited exports. Reuse accepted components and canonical assets; encode controlling dimensions and expected features as assertions. Follow the CAD-generation reference for lineage and cross-format checks.
5. Run technical preflight. Apply every relevant reference. Open the exported file in a second compatible tool or independent import path. Compare units, physical bounds, layers, bodies, contours, features, orientation, and critical dimensions with the source. Treat unexpected counts or importer healing as failures to diagnose.
6. Run visual and semantic review. Render the actual production export at actual size and useful magnifications. Inventory every visible object and inspect negative space, alignment, z-order, occlusion, overlaps, arrow and leader termination, mirrored text, cut direction, feature placement, and installed orientation. Reconcile labels with measured geometry and the current variant. Compare with source references and the accepted baseline. After a correction, regenerate dependent outputs and repeat affected numeric and visible checks; a parser-only check is insufficient.
7. Verify the manufacturing handoff. When the vendor is named, use its current official design rules. If authorized and available, upload the file without ordering and inspect the vendor preview. Confirm displayed size, material, thickness, services, bend directions, and feature count. Never place an order or approve production without explicit authorization.
8. Package the result. Return the requested production files with the source and preview needed to use or verify them. Summarize relevant process, units, assumptions, checks, and gaps in the handoff. Add a separate README or validation report only for a requested package or when manufacturing details would otherwise be lost.