X5 not nesting contours

[Pacific Aerospace Limited]

Hi there,

 

Has anyone else had any issues with x5 router not nesting all the operations programmed within a part.

 

when adding ''operation cluster from file'' how we usually nest, only the drill and pocket opps come thru.

I have tried reprogramming from scratch, Change NC file name, purging the levels, i just cant seem to get it to work.

 

if i tick the box as if to accept the nest it will take a very long time to eventually give me the following error.

 

‘ELEMENT 5’ OF ’11-10377-1 D.MCX-5 – 1 – CLUSTER

[NESTED=0, MINIMUM=1]

 

‘ELEMENT 6’ OF ’11-10377-1 D.MCX-5 – 1 – CLUSTER

[NESTED=0, MINIMUM=1]

 

‘ELEMENT 7’ OF ’11-10377-1 D.MCX-5 – 1 – CLUSTER

[NESTED=0, MINIMUM=1]

 

And so on,

 

Does anyone know how to overcome this problem?

Any help would be appreciated

 

Thanks Gareth

[charlieb]

sounds like your sheet size is to small or you don't have create necessary quantity checked on the sheet parameters

[Pacific Aerospace Limited]

Hi Charlieb,

 

Thanks for your responce, sheet size is set within the programme correctly and within the nesting paramaters.

In the dialogue box when nesting parts the image is missing the contour too.

 

I have only come across this issue on one part not all of them.

We can have the job transfered to the laser and have it laser cut

but that doesnt solve the issue at hand.

 

perhaps it is our version of X5 as it does crash an awful lot in comparisin to X4 but that doesnt explain why it is only happening on one part.

 

does yours crash much?

 

Cheers Gareth

[charlieb]

so the original program with geometry you are nesting your toolpaths from runs fine? i'm guessing it does. even so, i'd look for stray lines under the geometry you have pathed. same thing if it's from a solid. most of the problems i have with nesting are some variation on the theme of stray lines.

as far as crashes go, i find x5 pretty stable. no worse than x4 anyway.

[Pacific Aerospace Limited]

Hello again,

 

Yes the origional programme will run fine if you generate the code as per if you were to cut one of.

 

Trying to generate a nest with this part or nest with others of the same material type is where the problem is.

 

I have taken a look at the dxf for any lines or anything which look like they shouldnt be there, it all looks preety good to me.

 

Our laser software doesnt have any issues nesting the part? So could this be a config issue?

 

One thing i have noticed about nesting in X5 is that sometimes there are traverse lines which cannot be nested over top of,

as though they were apart of the programme too. could this be linked somehow?

 

Apart from that all other parts we have nested and cut within X5 have worked fine.

 

i will try and add a link to an image for you

 

Cheers Gaz

[Pacific Aerospace Limited]

This is what we see from the nesting dialogue box,

 

You can see the drill cycle and pocket cycle have come thru ok but not the contour of the part,

 

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/25086202/pal_pic.bmp

 

Cheers Gareth

[Pacific Aerospace Limited]

Customer support has identified that our master cam was not installed on C/programme files.

IT uninstalled from previous location and reinstalled C/programme files.

Now part nests fine.