Oli Nest 1.3.gh (53.9 KB)
I have made a definition that handles entire solid assemblies and nests them to sheets utilizing Opennest 2 by Petras. You can input an entire cabinet or in our case retail display and nest by thickness. This is not an optimized process or definition so if anyone has improvements, please let me know.
Most of the variables come from open nest, the other functions are outlined below.
Sheet Distance: The Y distance for each nested row.
Thickness Path: Path for each thickness, in this case {0} is .5” and maybe {1} would be .75” or something.
Part Naming: If the part is named in rhino, that name will be boolean differenced from the part for Fusion 360 workflow. This works really well on flat large surfaces, holes and organic forms are prone to failure.
There are a lot of plugins being used for this and I have been using this setup for nesting before CNC programming in Fusion 360 for over a year.
Again, let me know if there is anything that would make more sense.
Thanks!
-Oli
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Wait, so you put all geometry at once and it sorts the geometry by thickness and nest it or do you have all geometry of same thickness and just tell what the thickness is to the definition?
User provide solids with variable thicknesses, think a cabinet or something similar. Then the definition will nest each thickness. The user then needs to change the path to nest the next set of thicknesses and the layout distance.
@Petras_Vestartas does Open Nest 2 support nesting multiple trees?
Yes, it does for the inputs, but not for the outputs, tree structure is flattened.
Supercool work!
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Very nice
I wonder if it works together with https://www.food4rhino.com/en/app/sheepmetal from @felix.brunold
We could have some serious automation on the work here 
Yeah! Sheep metal is awesome, definitely easy enough to add in before the nest. Great idea!
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Hi there!
Super cool definition! If you want to give SheepMetal a try @Oliver_Cattlin it could look a bit like this:
From there, you could use Opennest to pack all of that for production.
// The solids need to have an even thickness and need to be sheet metal like breps
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Whoa! This is amazing. I will give this a try.
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