Nesting too many cabinets

[Jason Gooch]

Hi - this is a recurring problem, which is just getting irritating enough to deal with - occasionally I have need to nest one cabinet out of a kitchen. However, when I highlight that cabinet in custom layout, then click on nest, the entire kitchen nests. The same thing happens if I filter everything except that cabinet - basically, it ignores me and nests the entire thing. Am I doing something wrong?

Please help, thanks much - Jason

[Kerry Fullington]

Jason,

You can't select just one cabinet in custom Layout and nest that cabinet but filtering all the other cabinets out of the nest works.

You can also save the single cabinet to file and then use Batch to nest that one cabinet.

Kerry

[Jason Gooch]

Hmmm... I thought that was one of the available features. Maybe I made that up. Filtering actually seems to work now, though it takes forever to nest (seems like it still needs to load all the parts anyway - is this true? Shouldn't it go faster?).

Thanks for the help, Kerry.

Cheers - Jason

[DanEpps]

I think it still has to go through all of the cabinets in the job but it just displays what wasn't filtered out.

[Leo Graywacz]

Yup, goes through the whole thing and then it filters out. I thought it would decrease my nest time and all it did was increase my filter time. LOL

[Kerry Fullington]

Jason,

If you save the cabinet to a file and nest in Batch it will just nest the one cabinet which doesn't take long.

Kerry

[Jason Gooch]

So if I batch it within a larger job (that has a custom layout also), is it possible to just nest that one batched cabinet, or will it attempt to nest the whole shebang?

What if I hold my right hand in the air while clicking the mouse with my left? What if I'm wearing a purple shirt? Now I'm just asking esoteric questions.

Thanks guys, I think I'll go cut something in the shop now.

[DanEpps]

If you want to nest a single cabinet, use batch. You can have a batch that is not part of a job and nest it with the job.

For example, say you have a job with a kitchen and two bathroom vanities. Open the job and click the nest icon. Now before you nest it, click the batch icon and add the individual vanities. Click the Perform Nest button and the kitchen and two vanities will be nested together. This saves you from having to create room layouts for the vanaties but allows them to be nested with the kitchen to more efficiently use material.

If you add a cabinet via batch to a job that already has that cabinet, it will be nested twice.

[Dennis Englert]

Another way.
For the CNC users:

1. Load the cabinet in the cabinet editor.
2. Left-click on the CNC button located towards the bottom on the left.
3. Follow the prompts from there to save your file either at the machine or to your portable storage device.

This will create the twd file for the machine, thus you can cut one cabinet directly from the editor.