Since October 20, you can nest on the sheets you will need to buy rather than on your stock, bar nesting offers a standard bar for profiles that have none, and a sheet metal part turned in its assembly unfolds to its real dimensions.
Sheets in standard sizes
- In the “Sheets” panel of 2D nesting, choose “My stock” or “Standard sizes”: the latter nests on sheets in commercial sizes, in unlimited quantity.
- A proposal is shown first, for each thickness: the sizes kept, those left out with the part that does not fit, margin included, and the blanks too large for all of them. Nothing changes until “Use these sizes”.
- 2000 × 1000, 2500 × 1250, 3000 × 1500 and 4000 × 2000 are checked by default. Your sheet and the sizes you entered are kept: “My stock” brings them back unchanged.
- When a blank fits on none of your sheets, “See standard sizes” takes you straight to this proposal.
- With a shear, one size per thickness: among those that hold every part, the one that uses the least sheet.
One standard bar per profile
- In bar nesting, when profiles of your cut parts have no dedicated bar in the project material, a button offers to create one bar per profile, at the length of your next bars.
- These bars are added in unlimited quantity to the project material: your workshop stock is not changed.
Parts placed at an angle unfold straight
- A sheet metal part turned in its assembly, a stair stringer for instance, kept that orientation once unfolded: the blank came out at an angle, and its dimensions, read along the axes, were far too large.
- The blank is now laid flat, long side horizontal, bend lines parallel to the edges where possible: the displayed dimensions, the DXF and the quote area are correct.
- With rotation allowed, free-shape nesting also tries the orientation that lays a tilted part flat, instead of rejecting it as too large.
- Blanks already added to your projects are straightened when opened, with no new unfolding and no credit used. Their stored DXF stays tilted, as the part card points out: recompute the blank to get a straight DXF.
Nothing changes for a blank that already came out straight.