Directory Setting

Parts/ IR-Stock Directory

To type in or click the button to choose a directory where your parts and irregular stocks are to be located. (The directory or sub-directory must be created first)

Task Directory

To type in or click the button to choose a directory where your tasks are to be located. (The directory or sub-directory must be created first)

Input Part /IR-stock – Layer Setting

Outer Profile

Inner Profile

Part Leadin

These are the layer, color and the parts’ leadin/leadout  “FILTER” settings that you can specify for the following commands.

These settings are especially helpful if the parts that you are saving or converting contain marking lines that touch or intersect the external /internal profiles of the shapes.

By specifying the layer/ color/ part leadin filters, you will help the above commands to differentiate profiles that are crucial to nesting (outer and inner profiles of the part) against those that are not (markings or folding lines).

You can specify more than ONE colors in the “Color” field by entering for example “1,3”  for colors 1 and 3 (separated by a comma)

Nested Layout Presentation

Units

The units setting of inputs and outputs. There are 4 choices to choose from:

    Metric

    Architectural Imperial   (1’ 3-1/4”)

   Decimal Imperial         (15.25”)

    Engineering Imperial   (1’ 3.25”)

Accuracy

The number of decimal places or the number of digits to the right of the decimal point (0 to 4).

If the units chosen above is Imperial, the denominator of the fractions or the accuracy will be expressed as follows:

  1     for full integers, no fractions

  2     for 1/2"   (half)

  4     for 1/4"   (quarter)

  8     for 1/8"   (eighth)

  16   for 1/16’ (sixteenth)

File Format

This option decides which part file format is to be used when generating graphical nested layout on screen. Three choices are available :

DWG

                VEC

DXF

If you have chosen VEC format, please note the “Nested Layout – Layer Settings” (click the “Layer Setting” button) to define the layers and colors of the nested layout.

If you have chosen DXF or DWG format, the nested layouts will display the layers/ colors of your parts as they were originally created.

Layer / Color

The following dialog box will appear when you click this

button

User can define the layer and color for Part Labels, Stock Sheet and Summary reports.

PARTS

If the Sysdata “File Format” is VEC, the Parts displayed on the nested layout will follow the layer and color settings here. If  DWG or DXF “File Format” are chosen, the Parts’ layer and color settings will be exactly the same as they were originally saved.

See diagram below for explanation of each of the names.

Label Parts

Mark this check-box if you wish to display Part Labels and set the Text size of the Part label when displayed on screen.

To change the layer/ color of the Part labels, click the “Layer/ Color Setting” button.

Text Size

Text size of the part label when displayed on screen.

“Auto” means the text size displayed will always be proportional to the size of the part.

Label Repeated Parts

Mark this check-box if you wish to add a part Label on each and every part on the nested layout.

When this check-box is un-marked, when there are say 10 parts of the same name nested, only ONE of the 10 is being labeled.

Layout Summary

Layout Summary – report on the nested results of a particular nested layout. By default this report is displayed at the lower right corner of each nested layout.

Task Summary

Task Summary – report summary on the nested results of a Task (.job). By default this report is displayed next to the Layout Summary of the last nested layout.

Mark the relevant check-boxes if you wish to display the reports and set the Text Size of the Reports when displayed on screen.

You can change the default position of these reports in ANEST.SET @LAYOUT.

To change the layer/color of the Reports, click the “Layer/ Color Setting” button

Text Size

Text Size of the Reports as displayed on screen.

Display Repeated Layout

Mark this check-box if you wish to display the same nested layout repeatedly.

You are able to pre-define the text size, layer and color of the Auto-Numbering of the cut sequence/Cutting lines of shear-cuts here.

When this “Shear Cut No.” button is clicked, the following dialog box is displayed.

You can preset the text size, color, orientation and layer name of the Auto-numbering of shear cutting sequence, as well as the color of the Cutting lines.

(By default, the Cutting lines will assume the same layer as the Text).

See illustration below :