Why won't this nest?

[Jason Gooch]

Howdy - I've created a cross-grain sheet stock to get some long horizontal-grain panels for this kitchen. I've created some cabinets with side panels and doors with continuous grain. When I nest, the side panels will nest just fine, but the doors won't. Any ideas?

Thanks - Jason

[Kerry Fullington]

Jason,

Everything nested for me.

[Jason Gooch]

Hey Kerrie - that's strange. The doors are supposed to be cross-grained. They should nest with the "dark ceruse sideways" stock, not the plain old "dark ceruse" stock. So something still ain't right....

[Scott G Vaal]

Jason,

The doors are not out of the sideways material when I load the cabinets from this job. If I delete and re-add the doors using the sideways material, it nests them OK for me.

[Jason Gooch]

Ok, starting to make more sense - I had incorrectly made the doors out of the standard 4x8 stock, not the cross-grain 8x4 stock. So I was unable to nest the tall doors properly. However, it seems weird that when you guys loaded the job, the doors weren't mounted cross-grain, and went ahead and nested properly.

Anyhoo - thanks for looking it over - Jason

[Kerry Fullington]

Jason,

If I delete the doors and re-apply them using the sideways material they do not nest for me.
Did you know that your sideways material displays the grain running vertically with the length not cross grain?

[Jason Gooch]

Weird again - it works for me (once I corrected my door material choice). The cross-grain material (Oak rift - dark ceruse sideways) appears on the nest diagram correctly. When mounting doors, I have to change the grain 90degrees so it goes horizontal. Same is true for the cabinet sides - in const settings I rotate the grain 90 degrees. It's all nesting correctly.

[Kerry Fullington]

Jason,

If I rotate grain everything works fine. What was the purpose of the sideways material?

[Jason Gooch]

Clients want a horizontal grain on everything, including the refrigerator side panels. A standard grain (4x8) sheet stock won't cover a frig panel that's 635mm long x 2300mm wide, so I had to generate a new one with cross grain configuration. Whoopee!