Operations and Manually Nested Drawings
Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2019 4:54 pm
Hey Les, i have a few things ive noticed again lately... may be bugs or may be possible suggested improvements.
1) When breaking up a manually nested drawing, each generated part starts with a rapid from the machine origin. I don't see where this causes a problem with the cutting process, but it makes the rapid distance and time in the reports grossly incorrect.
2) When breaking up a manually nested drawing, if there are 280 parts nested, 280 separate parts are made and the job report shows 280 individual parts instead of 1 part being cut 280 times. This makes the job report numerous pages long and also makes further editing of operations extremely time consuming.
3) When breaking up a manually nested drawing, open contours (lines that are used for etching on our laser) are interpreted as separate parts. Saving each part in the nest as a block does not affect this.
4) The operations list is specific to each part and not each layer. I remember reading a post about this somewhere in the forum, but cannot find it now and i do not remember the outcome. But if i break up a manually nested drawing with 280 parts and then realize i need to change a leadin, then i have to change it 280 times or start over. This is extremely time consuming.
5) The leadins of parts in a manually nested drawing that has been broken up sometimes overlap other parts in the nest. Obviously, this causes a big problem.
6) Could a setting or checkbox or something be added in the operations dialog to choose the optimum start point location of an operation. I remember reading another post about start points and i cannot find it either. But it seems a lot of times, the start points are placed on corners of parts when it would best be placed in the middle of a straight edge or vise versa. Could a setting be added to choose corners, centers of edges, arcs, etc.?
7) Would it be possible to add an option to the import drawing dialog to rotate the drawing 90, 180, 270 degrees? I know this can be done with the nesting mode, but if you know it needs to be rotated when you open it would be helpful too.
If you need any more details or explanation of these, let me know.
Thanks for everything you have done Les!
1) When breaking up a manually nested drawing, each generated part starts with a rapid from the machine origin. I don't see where this causes a problem with the cutting process, but it makes the rapid distance and time in the reports grossly incorrect.
2) When breaking up a manually nested drawing, if there are 280 parts nested, 280 separate parts are made and the job report shows 280 individual parts instead of 1 part being cut 280 times. This makes the job report numerous pages long and also makes further editing of operations extremely time consuming.
3) When breaking up a manually nested drawing, open contours (lines that are used for etching on our laser) are interpreted as separate parts. Saving each part in the nest as a block does not affect this.
4) The operations list is specific to each part and not each layer. I remember reading a post about this somewhere in the forum, but cannot find it now and i do not remember the outcome. But if i break up a manually nested drawing with 280 parts and then realize i need to change a leadin, then i have to change it 280 times or start over. This is extremely time consuming.
5) The leadins of parts in a manually nested drawing that has been broken up sometimes overlap other parts in the nest. Obviously, this causes a big problem.
6) Could a setting or checkbox or something be added in the operations dialog to choose the optimum start point location of an operation. I remember reading another post about start points and i cannot find it either. But it seems a lot of times, the start points are placed on corners of parts when it would best be placed in the middle of a straight edge or vise versa. Could a setting be added to choose corners, centers of edges, arcs, etc.?
7) Would it be possible to add an option to the import drawing dialog to rotate the drawing 90, 180, 270 degrees? I know this can be done with the nesting mode, but if you know it needs to be rotated when you open it would be helpful too.
If you need any more details or explanation of these, let me know.
Thanks for everything you have done Les!