Nesting - Saw cut and board size

[GKPByDesign]

Hello quick question, I have the inventor nesting tool, it works great, but I have two questions,

Often I need to create cutting lists that use a saw cutting machine rather than a CNC, if there an option to change the cutting tool to a saw cut, which then would change how boards are nested.

Also how do you edit board sizes? and how do you edit board sizes based on thickness? 

[phillip.doup]

Hello @GKPByDesign ,

Support for saw cutting is actually a significantly different nesting algorithm that is supported in TruNest, but not supported in Inventor Nesting (yet). Support of this algorithm in Inventor Nesting is on the radar, but I can't promise when it'll be available.

With regards to board sizes, it is handled in the "Process Material Library", where you will find materials are defined by thickness. Each material, which has a specific thickness, then has a list of "Packaging", where you can define different sizes of boards. Once you've defined these sizes, you can save the nesting document as a template for later use so that every new nesting document has these sizes defined in it, which helps you not have to define these sizes of materials every time.

[hansDPQMN]

you can define a part distance in the nesting