topic Re: Exclude Components from Nesting in Inventor Forum

Exclude Components from Nesting

petestrycharske — Wed, 24 May 2023 17:34:17 GMT

All,

Good afternoon! I've been working to better understand the Inventor Nesting tool and I can get it close to working for an entire layout that includes many different shapes and thicknesses to nest. To make things work a bit easier for me, I've decided to utilize a Sheet Metal component for each flat shape, whether it be wood, metal, laminate, etc. This is all working, but I'm getting lots of files I don't want in my nest, like solid wood legs and Frame Generator tube shapes. I'd like to get rid of them, or exclude them from the beginning, so I have a few questions.

1. Is there a setting in nesting where I only include Sheet Metal parts?

2. Is there an API for Nesting, so I can write my own iLogic rules / add-in to exclude files from the nest?

3. Has anyone written anything for assemblies, since nesting can only use the "Primary" model state currently, that modifies the "Primary" model state for use with Nesting (i.e. excluding non-sheet metal parts)?

I thought I would post here first, but can post this in the customization forum too. Please let me know if you have any questions and I'll be happy to clarify the request. Thanks in advance for any help and have a most blessed day!

Peace,
Pete

Re: Exclude Components from Nesting

pcrawley — Wed, 24 May 2023 18:54:34 GMT

Good point. (This isn't an answer sorry - just moral support.)

I'm lucky my workflow creates nestable parts in a separate subassembly - so I never noticed this problem until now.

I thought setting QTY = 0 would work, but it still nests the item. Perhaps this could be considered a defect and resolved as such?

(Actually - after unbinding/rebinding - it throws an error saying: "The quantity must be a positive non-zero value." So the defect would be allowing zero-values in the first place.")

Re: Exclude Components from Nesting

engenharia1PGVWR — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 12:42:39 GMT

Hello everyone,

When nesting, please ensure that only Inventor Sheet Metal is enabled in the Providers list. This will restrict the nesting process to sheet metal components only.

Re: Exclude Components from Nesting

pkomatlapalli — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 08:02:18 GMT

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