Beam nesting

[desigan2015]

Hi  All,

I  am using advance steel 2018 - UK Environment.

usually once created the beam list, I will pass to my QS  for Material  Procurement and they order themselves the materials. ( in Singapore all the beams are available in 12 meter length and  they sort out the wastage manually ).

Is there any option in advance steel to prepare the beam Nesting to order material without wastage.

[alickomay]

i use 

http://www.gonest2d.com/product-pipe-cutting-software.html

its pretty cheap 

u can import from excel 

i haven't tried to make a list that works with it but should be possible 

[alickomay]

i made a list that worked

just needed to take all unneeded stuff out

and the profile size/name must mach an it case sensitive

if u put in a capital X  in PFC150x75   it can be hard to change it i ended up going to install folder 

opening   "stock options.stk" in note pad to edit the  names 

[Anonymous]

Check out https://www.construsteel.com/solution/job-preparation/

In the Job Preparation you can import the Advance Steel material list into ConstruSteel. In ConstruSteel al the needed material can be nested with minimal waste. After that, the QS can get busy with procurement.

[BKSpurgeon]

I wrote a program - an early prototype to handle this:

https://www.bepin.tek1.com.au/landing

It requires a custom excel spreadsheet (with the correct headers).

You feed it into the calculator and it spits out the answer. It solves the problem by sheer brute force calculations: some 100,000 iterations per profile. 

It is a very early prototype so anyone who uses it is an early adopter

hopefully that will solve your nesting problems.