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Advanced Cutting Wizard: nesting of the Parts in the Foam Block(s)

Advanced Cutting Wizard: nesting of the Parts in the Foam Block(s)

This wizard includes 3 pages:

• Selected parts for Cutting - you can set here the properties of the Part to cut
• Nesting of the Parts in the Foam Block(s)  - (the actual page) you apply the Nesting operation
• Cutting path creation - you create the Cutting path and export it

The following dialog will appear:

In this page you will apply the Nesting operation, to place the Parts you selected in one ore more Foam blocks.

The first thing to do is to set the Foam block dimension, see the 'Setup Foam block dimensions' frame.
You can read there also the minimal dimension required, calculated using the selected parts dimensions and adding the Min. space between the Parts.
The Min. space between the Parts must be larger than the Kerf, or your Cutting path can intersecate the Parts.
You can select if you want to apply the labels, using the Name of the parts defined in the previous page. This can be useful if you have many Parts, to locate them after the Nesting operation

Now you can press the 'Apply nesting !' button.

The parts will be placed on one or more foam blocks, you can then see each of them using Combobox included in the 'Select the Foam Block in picture' Frame

You can also customize the nesting using the 'Nesting setting' button. The Nesting settings  dialog will appear

I suggest also to take a look at this page, to better understand some important concepts of devFoam: DevFoam FAQ and important concepts