General

This document describes the process where profiles from the production data banks are combined into nested objects. Furthermore, the handling of raw material for profiles and the restrictions applied when manufacturing the profiles are described in this document.

The processing of the nested objects into results such as robot information, manufacturing lists, is not a part of this product. Information of this type can be found together with the product TBR 10515 - Profile Cutting Interface.

The automatic nesting is performed with given profiles, so that the amount of scrap will be as small as possible.

The systems starts by sorting all profiles on possible way of manufacturing (robot or manual), on type, on dimensions, on quality and finally on length.

After this sorting, the nesting is performed, either on user selected or automatically selected material.

Profiles added to a nested profile will be marked as "nested" and will be disqualified when selecting new profiles with the filter for non-nested profiles is set. The "nested" mark will be removed if the nested profile is deleted. The delete operation must then be done via the menu function "Delete on DB" when running Hull Planar Modelling or Hull Curved Modelling