Nesting Characteristics

 

 

 

 

This command allows to specify the nesting properties (section, thickness, security area...) of a part or support. This command is available in Part, Assembly and Unfolding documents.

 

 

Creation stages / Use:

Click the icon or select the Tools > Nesting Characteristics Management > Nesting characteristics... command from the drop-down menu.

 

  1. Choose if you wish to define the characteristics of a part to nest or the characteristics of a support that will contains parts to nest.

  2. Select the projection frame or plane of the geometry to nest. The Z direction is indicated by an orange arrow. To reverse the positioning, the frame has to be reversed.

  3. Select the definition mode of section to nest:

  4. Validate .

 

Available options:

 

  • The command allows you to define either the characteristics  

    • of a Part

    • of a Support.

 

  • Frame: The section to be nested is defined on the XY plane of the selected frame. And its Z direction corresponds to the material side of the part.

 

  • Section to nest:

    • Automatic: the section to nest is defined by the projection of the silhouette of the part on the XY plane of the chosen frame.

    • Manual: the section to nest must be chosen manually among the closed sketches of the document.

 

  • Nest the enclosing box ( only available in part): This option allows to use the enclosing box instead of the part itself.

 

  • Nest into holes ( only available in part):

This command allows to place into the internal contours of the parts.

It is applied to all internal contours of the part. If the part has many small cut-outs, it can negatively involve the nesting result. In this case of a part with a big cut-out (to consider) and small cut-outs (to ignore), the good way is to choose the manual mode for the section to nest and choose a sketch with only the big cut-out.

This option has no sense in the case of nesting by the enclosing box. Cut-outs aren't considered.

 

  • Allow flip ( only available in part)

This option allows to flip the part on the support in order to gain in loss rate.

In order that a flip part is properly placed inside the support, TopSolid must knows its thickness. For a sheet metal part this value is retrieved automatically, otherwise it must be entered in the field below.

Into the nesting document, part quantity is global (flipped part or not).

 

  • Thickness : This option allows you to set the thickness of a non sheet metal part that you want to allow to be flipped. Otherwise the part will not be correctly placed in the support. The thickness of a sheet metal part is automatically set.

 

  • Security area ( only available in part)

  • Offset

Offset of security can be entered. It is uniformly distributed around the contour of the part.

  • Section

This option allows to define the section of security around the part : with faces sections or profile.

 

Freedom degrees:

 

  • It is possible to define the possible rotation of the part in the support.

    • Free: This option allows to let the nesting manage the nested part rotation from 0° to 360° with a step of 1°.

    • Interval: This option allows to enter a minimum angle, a maximum angle as well as the rotation step. During the nesting, the part will be able to be rotated following the entered step. If the minimum angle is 0°, the maximum one is 360° and the step is 90°, the part can be rotated to 0°, 90°, 180°, 270° or 360°.

    • Angles: This option allows to enter authorized angles to use.

  • Managed by material/coating isotropic : This option allows to determine the freedom degrees of the part automatically according to its material.

    • If the material and/or coating is not isotropic, the possible rotations are 0°or 180°.

    • If the materials and coatings are Isotropic, the rotations are those defined in the command.

 

 

 

 

Modifications / Additional information:

 

Representation : This option allows to choose the representation to consider.