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Permalink Reply by Rafael del Molino on March 20, 2012 at 9:16am

Hi Thomas,

Yes, you can nest block as a group. What is the problem? 

If you want, send me the file in private or by email and I will check it.

Thanks and best regards,

Rafael del Molino

TDM Solutions SL

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Permalink Reply by Thomas Brandwijk on March 20, 2012 at 9:47am

Hi,

My blocks didn't contain any curves (only surfaces), so that is part of the problem. When I DubBorder and add the curves to the blocks it works fine!

After this I bumped into another little issue. The blocks are renamed to [blockname](Nest0). Because I have to extract the blocknames at the end for a partslist, it is not so easy to compare my partslayout with my nesting.

Last but not least, when I have mirrored blocks the blocks are mirrored back when I optimize position! I my case this is not very good, because I need them to stay mirrored.

e.g.

block1---block1(Nest0)

block2---block2(Nest0)

Thanks in advance!

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Permalink Reply by Thomas Brandwijk on March 20, 2012 at 10:01am

Hi Rafael,

I bump into another little issue, the 3dm file and a jpg is attached! Mirrored blocks are not working well, or I am trying someting that is not possible!

Thanks!

Attachments:

• nest test.3dm, 396 KB
• nesttest.jpg, 395 KB

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Permalink Reply by Rafael del Molino on March 26, 2012 at 10:01am

Hi,

We need to investigate even more to know why these blocks are creating problem.

The solution for now is convert the block to groups. I attach an script to do it.

How to use it?

1. In menu Tools -> RhinoScript -> Load -> Add, and select the attached file.

2. In menu Tools -> RhinoScript -> Run:

3. Select ConvertBlockToGroup and click OK.

4. Select the block and that's it! :)

Please let me know if you have any question.

Thanks and best regards,

Rafael del Molino

TDM Solutions SL

Attachments:

• BlockToGroup.rvb, 2 KB

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Permalink Reply by Thomas Brandwijk on March 26, 2012 at 10:06am

Many thanks! It is a good temporary solution, but in the future we would like to have a 3d model of blocks and a 2d nesting with the same blocks. If that is possible, the changes made to the 3d model are updated in the nesting!! This would be a huge step forward!

Thanks

Rafael del Molino said:

Hi,

We need to investigate even more to know why these blocks are creating problem.

The solution for now is convert the block to groups. I attach an script to do it.

How to use it?

1. In menu Tools -> RhinoScript -> Load -> Add, and select the attached file.

2. In menu Tools -> RhinoScript -> Run:

3. Select ConvertBlockToGroup and click OK.

4. Select the block and that's it! :)

Please let me know if you have any question.

Thanks and best regards,

Rafael del Molino

TDM Solutions SL

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