CAM Sidebar Workflow

Recommended test

Use at least two contours and one pocket so the grouped operation workflow has meaningful content.

1. Enter CAM. The sidebar should open on Setup.
2. Confirm Setup is ordered Stock, Tool, Job zero, then Machine. Stock opens initially while the other sections start collapsed. Their carets should work by mouse or keyboard, Stock containment should be a single unboxed status line, and the Objects list should not consume space here.
3. Select Operations. Confirm Layer 1 starts collapsed, its caret toggles the object list, and the Objects panel ends directly after the layer or last visible object instead of filling a fixed height. With no operation, only the Add contour and Add pocket buttons should appear—no warning or Return to CAD link.
4. With stored work, confirm Job sequence & output, Contours, and Pockets appear as compact single-line toggle cards containing only the heading, count, and caret. Each parent card uses a solid category background matching its thick left rail: amber for job output, cyan for contours, and green for pockets. Nested operation cards retain their dark backgrounds and colored rails.
5. Confirm rectangular panels, cards, buttons, and input fields use square zero-radius corners throughout CAD and CAM. Semantic dots, numbered sequence markers, help markers, and loading spinners should remain circular.
6. Expand Job sequence, Contours, and Pockets. Each category's child cards must appear immediately beneath its own header, use the matching color-coded left rail without a full enclosing border, and never collect below a different category.
7. Open two different operation cards. The second should open while the first closes. Selecting its canvas geometry or its row in Job sequence should reopen and reveal the matching card.
8. Confirm Cutter placement, Entry, Holding tabs, Start point, Clearing strategy, and Wall finishing use compact dashed-leader setting rows. Their active choice should use a quiet accent underline and tint rather than the solid gold Create/Add treatment. Cutter-placement guidance should live in its adjacent question-mark tooltip, valid placement should show no success banner, and changing to an unsafe side should reveal only the relevant warning.
9. Choose Add contour and select a boundary. Confirm setup appears directly beneath Contours without an extra path-source card. Cancel and verify that no unused item remains.
10. Select Verify. Confirm the operation summary, Motion preview, and Shapeoko/GRBL G-code tools appear without the editable machining controls.
11. Open several lightweight information links. Each explanation should expand directly below its link, and clicking it again should close it.
12. Use the keyboard to Tab to a help control and press Enter or Space. It should toggle with a clear focus outline.
13. Confirm the simplified Setup panel does not restore the removed clamp, cutter, or local-export notice cards.
14. Switch repeatedly between all three tabs. Stock values, contour values, manual tabs, start point, and validation state must remain unchanged.
15. Confirm the sidebar begins directly with three uncluttered text tabs—no duplicate CAM heading, icons, or secondary status lines.
16. Open G-code inspection and export preflight from Verify. Both existing dialogs should behave exactly as before.
17. Return to CAD and confirm simple circles and rectangles show only their drawing properties. Multi-segment paths may show a compact Path status diagnostic, but no CAM action.