Hi everyone,
I work with a large number of items that need to be nested in order to give my production department the information, the fact is that using inventor nesting right now is very time consuming and exhausting.
The problems:
1. Not all features are exported in the dxf format (open contours, bend lines in the nesting, I've noticed that one contour is closed in one particular sheet, but in the next one is open and overall stability issues)
2. the part number should be displayed in the nesting result and not a 1), 2) 3), etc format or We should be able to choose if display the stock number or the part number or any other data. Nowadays I have to do this manually replacing those silly numbers for the stock number inside AutoCAD, monkey business!
3. the overall process to get the parts to nesting is a little long and tired, for instance when creating standard content, if You don't take the precaution to exclude it for the nesting, it will assume it as new material.
Another example is when you have internal cutting or grooves in a part it does not recognize it as an integral part and in the nesting, it is displayed as multiple parts overlapping it with other parts.
Thanks!