Interactive nesting
Interactive nesting can be used to create a nest plan for a single part, a few parts from a job, a single job, or multiple jobs. It allows you to select machines and materials, set sheet parameters, and review the nesting results interactively.
Right-click on a part or a job and select Plan Part…/Plan Job… → Run Interactive Nesting… option.
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The Interactive Nesting window opens.
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By default, the interactive nesting window switches to Select Machine & Material page.
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Machines are shown with color bars indicating available production load:
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Green bar: Scheduled hours
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Grey bar: Available hours (out of an 8-hour shift)
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Under each machine, selected Parts are grouped with their Raw-Material (Parts/Total Quantity).
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If a part does not have a valid tooling solution for a machine, that part and material are ignored for processing for a given machine.
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If a raw material is selected for one machine, it won’t be available for other machines.
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Once the machine nest plan is set, select the preferred sheet and override sheet parameters like Priority, Quantity, Margins, etc.
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You can filter sheets to show All Sheets, Standard Sheets, or Remnant Sheets. Click Next.
| It is not possible to increase the quantities at this stage. You can either keep same as sheet inventory quantity or reduce it and check nesting results. |
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Update Qty appears in Interactive nesting plan window.
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By default, Pick All (F5) includes all parts for nesting, or you can manually pick priority parts and adjust part quantities. Click Next.
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Nesting starts and part nested in sheet are updated with blue color status.
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The machine’s production load updates based on the nest result.
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The nested layouts are drawn to the scale and are displayed in the Nest Results tab.
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If some parts remain unnested, the message Some parts remain unnested appears — these parts stay in the original job.
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Reason for not nesting may be sheet not available to nest
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Interactive Nest result are prefixed as: factory → settings → Job→ Nest settings, Interactive sheet-name prefix.
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The interactive nest layouts are prefixed with Letter L.
