Nesting & Packing

hey guys!

i need your help! is there another way not using "rhinonest" to nest/pack groups of curves.

i tried to use antonio turiello's nesting component, ading a roator and a jitter, works quite well, but i kant nest goups of curves (outline+tag)

do you have a definition or a hint how to do this?

thanks bea

PS: i added my definiton, feel free to test!

Tags: laser, nesting, packing

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Permalink Reply by Antonio Turiello on May 17, 2012 at 11:34am

Hi,

try this! ;)

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Permalink Reply by bea franko on May 17, 2012 at 11:54am

hey!

thank you for your answer!

verry interessting! what are the Rnd components doing? are the generated numbers just random? if yes,thats why i used galapagos to find the the best angle for rotation and the best order (jitter).

what i tried to say was, how tho nest geometries consisting of for exmaple two lines (ill send you an example) you have the outline and a tag of this part. is there a way to put them together and nest them?

expected result:

thank you for your help!

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Permalink Reply by Antonio Turiello on May 17, 2012 at 6:03pm

There is no unique way to nesting...
In that definition Rnd generates pseudo random numbers (updatable with Timer and Recompute)
for the "seed of shuffling engine" and the "rotation angles in radians".
However all your requests will be resolved in a definition i already thought to share.
You just have to wait a little! :)

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Permalink Reply by bea franko on May 18, 2012 at 1:25am

Thats great! when will you share your definition? is there a already a version to test? you can send it to me by email if its not ready for the public. bea.franko@googlemail.com

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Permalink Reply by Luis Fraguada on May 18, 2012 at 2:26am

I use Packrat if my pieces are more or less rectangular. In your case, that might not work out so well.

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Permalink Reply by bea franko on May 18, 2012 at 5:57am

thats just an example... maybe thats a way using packrat...

but how to pack a group of lines? do you have a definiton?

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Permalink Reply by Luis Fraguada on May 18, 2012 at 6:04am

I make my closed curves into thin solids (planarsrf + extrude) then I try to pack them in a thin box that is less than 2 times thicker than the amount I extruded my closed curves.