SCN 4516 Broke the Delay After Shear feature. SCN 4516 to enable the Stitch Mode when omitting Shears resulted in a reorganization of the stitching code. This change was required to allow multiple items to be stitched together using the omission of shears.

Prior changes had been made to support stitching on a Break and Hump line, SCN 4418 and SCN 4419.

In order to support all of the Delay after Shear options and Brake and Hump the length of the uncut Blank must be known. The changes required for SCN 4516 combined with all of the other changes made, and all of the new options created by SCN4516 made it an extensive problem to know what the final stitched blank size will be at the start of the blank, which is required. A new setup parameter was created so that a blank size can be provided for stitched parts. It is called Average Stitched Blank Size. This is the blank size that will be used for Stitched parts when considering Delay After Shear and the Short Part and Very Short Part outputs used in Brake and Hump applications.