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Transcript
00:13
Hi, my name is Bob Van der Donck.
00:15
I'm the UX designer for Inventor Nesting utility.
00:19
In this video, I will demonstrate the push workflow where we bring in an existing assembly into the nesting process.
00:29
I will be using this hopper assembly here.
00:32
And to give you an idea of what composition it has, it has a mix of file types.
00:40
There are sheet metal files in there, there are regular part files in there.
00:44
Some of the parts have a quantity of two, if I can locate them.
00:49
So this handle here is being replicated on the left side as well.
00:55
So it has a quantity of two.
00:57
There is also a subassembly present with parts in steel mile.
01:04
So good ingredients, I think, to get an interesting nest and I will demonstrate that nesting utility can recognize these files automatically.
01:16
So I used the Create Nest context menu from the root node,
01:23
because we didn't add any specific icon in the Inventor ribbon to do so, so keep that in mind.
01:31
You can pick any template file to start from or you can add the New Nest to existing Nest documents.
01:41
Here, I'm just creating a Nest from scratch with default template.
01:47
This starts a new inest document and automatically starts the sources dialogue.
01:53
There's a little dialogue coming up here on top that really asks permission,
01:59
to create the automatically generated materials and corresponding thicknesses into the material library in this nest document.
02:09
And you typically say "yes" to this dialogue of course.
02:13
What then happens is that we extract the 2D shapes from the 3D parts.
02:18
I need to draw the attention to the source provider column here, for a second.
02:25
Most of the parts are recognized as sheet metal files.
02:28
So we look at the flat pattern.
02:30
There are also Inventor part provider parts in there.
02:34
That means that we only look at sketches and extrusions for the generic CAD file, we look at the entire body.
02:41
So different rules of extracting the shape depending on the provider that you pick here.
02:48
And you could change the provider in this column if you would want to for certain parts.
02:59
So the extraction process finished successfully because the error log didn't give me any error.
03:07
Before I go out of the dialogue, I just want to draw your attention to something else.
03:13
The dialogue might be daunting, especially with tables in it because we show by default, a lot of columns.
03:20
So if you don't want to see the parent column, because that column really doesn't add value with a single assembly,
03:27
and you don't want to see the unit rule, you could perfectly do so,
03:32
and you could rearrange those columns, and then save this as your setting.
03:48
And at any time, you can go back to the default display, or you can apply your personal settings.
03:58
And this can be done in all the dialogues.
03:60
So enough said about this dialogue, I just hit OK, which generates the extracted shapes on screen.
04:11
Note also that we have a parent note here with the extracted shape underneath.
04:18
Every specific shape has a distinct color.
04:24
As you can see, we built those files in rows or in a matrix structure and each row represents a single material.
04:33
So why do I know that?
04:35
Well, a better way of looking at it is to use the Material Display mode.
04:40
At this point, we show each material with its own different color.
04:48
One other thing I want to draw your attention on.
04:52
So all those materials that we generated for you, they are placed in what we call the process material library.
05:00
So you can see here you can go in each and every material, look at what the name and thickness is,
05:07
and each material will have a thickness in this case, will have a packaging, I mean, and with the length and width of 20 inch by 20 inch.
05:24
You can hop through these materials and packaging in this way.
05:29
There is also another way of looking at the data.
05:34
That is particularly interesting if you want to do multi edits on multiple materials or multiple packaging.
05:42
So, for instance, if I want to set, if I want to allow rotation on all the materials,
05:49
I can shift-select multi cells in a single column and go to multi edit,
05:54
and say, yeah, allow rotation of the parts in the nesting process over 90 degrees.
06:01
I do the same for the other rotational degrees of freedom here.
06:07
OK. So an interesting way of editing multiple materials in one go.
06:18
The other point I want to make is that if you add a packaging,
06:23
like for instance, I set certain values,
06:27
let's say my default packaging I change from 250 by 100 inch in length and width.
06:39
If I...
06:41
once I've entered values, those values are remembered in nesting utility.
06:46
So whatever you do, the next time I generate a material, I would use a length and a width of 150 and 100.
06:60
It's a difficult concept to understand.
07:03
So you see here every new packaging, we'll use the previously used values.
07:13
So we don't use default values throughout the system, we just remember the last used values.
07:20
Very important point, I think.
07:22
So just to give you an idea of what was automatically created.
07:33
One of the other things I want to show you is the nesting properties.
07:37
So that is sort of the the result of what we brought in.
07:41
And you can see here that the handle was brought in with a quantity of two.
07:46
And you also get an overview of which materials, and which thickness we use.
07:52
This all looks good with the rotational degrees set here.
07:57
So all good and well.
00:13
Hi, my name is Bob Van der Donck.
00:15
I'm the UX designer for Inventor Nesting utility.
00:19
In this video, I will demonstrate the push workflow where we bring in an existing assembly into the nesting process.
00:29
I will be using this hopper assembly here.
00:32
And to give you an idea of what composition it has, it has a mix of file types.
00:40
There are sheet metal files in there, there are regular part files in there.
00:44
Some of the parts have a quantity of two, if I can locate them.
00:49
So this handle here is being replicated on the left side as well.
00:55
So it has a quantity of two.
00:57
There is also a subassembly present with parts in steel mile.
01:04
So good ingredients, I think, to get an interesting nest and I will demonstrate that nesting utility can recognize these files automatically.
01:16
So I used the Create Nest context menu from the root node,
01:23
because we didn't add any specific icon in the Inventor ribbon to do so, so keep that in mind.
01:31
You can pick any template file to start from or you can add the New Nest to existing Nest documents.
01:41
Here, I'm just creating a Nest from scratch with default template.
01:47
This starts a new inest document and automatically starts the sources dialogue.
01:53
There's a little dialogue coming up here on top that really asks permission,
01:59
to create the automatically generated materials and corresponding thicknesses into the material library in this nest document.
02:09
And you typically say "yes" to this dialogue of course.
02:13
What then happens is that we extract the 2D shapes from the 3D parts.
02:18
I need to draw the attention to the source provider column here, for a second.
02:25
Most of the parts are recognized as sheet metal files.
02:28
So we look at the flat pattern.
02:30
There are also Inventor part provider parts in there.
02:34
That means that we only look at sketches and extrusions for the generic CAD file, we look at the entire body.
02:41
So different rules of extracting the shape depending on the provider that you pick here.
02:48
And you could change the provider in this column if you would want to for certain parts.
02:59
So the extraction process finished successfully because the error log didn't give me any error.
03:07
Before I go out of the dialogue, I just want to draw your attention to something else.
03:13
The dialogue might be daunting, especially with tables in it because we show by default, a lot of columns.
03:20
So if you don't want to see the parent column, because that column really doesn't add value with a single assembly,
03:27
and you don't want to see the unit rule, you could perfectly do so,
03:32
and you could rearrange those columns, and then save this as your setting.
03:48
And at any time, you can go back to the default display, or you can apply your personal settings.
03:58
And this can be done in all the dialogues.
03:60
So enough said about this dialogue, I just hit OK, which generates the extracted shapes on screen.
04:11
Note also that we have a parent note here with the extracted shape underneath.
04:18
Every specific shape has a distinct color.
04:24
As you can see, we built those files in rows or in a matrix structure and each row represents a single material.
04:33
So why do I know that?
04:35
Well, a better way of looking at it is to use the Material Display mode.
04:40
At this point, we show each material with its own different color.
04:48
One other thing I want to draw your attention on.
04:52
So all those materials that we generated for you, they are placed in what we call the process material library.
05:00
So you can see here you can go in each and every material, look at what the name and thickness is,
05:07
and each material will have a thickness in this case, will have a packaging, I mean, and with the length and width of 20 inch by 20 inch.
05:24
You can hop through these materials and packaging in this way.
05:29
There is also another way of looking at the data.
05:34
That is particularly interesting if you want to do multi edits on multiple materials or multiple packaging.
05:42
So, for instance, if I want to set, if I want to allow rotation on all the materials,
05:49
I can shift-select multi cells in a single column and go to multi edit,
05:54
and say, yeah, allow rotation of the parts in the nesting process over 90 degrees.
06:01
I do the same for the other rotational degrees of freedom here.
06:07
OK. So an interesting way of editing multiple materials in one go.
06:18
The other point I want to make is that if you add a packaging,
06:23
like for instance, I set certain values,
06:27
let's say my default packaging I change from 250 by 100 inch in length and width.
06:39
If I...
06:41
once I've entered values, those values are remembered in nesting utility.
06:46
So whatever you do, the next time I generate a material, I would use a length and a width of 150 and 100.
06:60
It's a difficult concept to understand.
07:03
So you see here every new packaging, we'll use the previously used values.
07:13
So we don't use default values throughout the system, we just remember the last used values.
07:20
Very important point, I think.
07:22
So just to give you an idea of what was automatically created.
07:33
One of the other things I want to show you is the nesting properties.
07:37
So that is sort of the the result of what we brought in.
07:41
And you can see here that the handle was brought in with a quantity of two.
07:46
And you also get an overview of which materials, and which thickness we use.
07:52
This all looks good with the rotational degrees set here.
07:57
So all good and well.
