Settings: Assigning Default Values and Enabling/Disabling features

CAMWorks Nesting provides the facility to define and edit default values, settings, options and populate the dropdown fields.

These values can be defined, set or edited in the initialization files (files with .ini extension) present in the CAMWorks Nesting installation folder.

 

Location of the Initialization files

All initialization files are located in the CAMWorksNesting installation folder.

A typical installation path will be: C:\CAMWorksNestingData\CAMWorksNesting 2013\Lang\English

 

The initialization files present in the CAMWorks Nesting folder allows you edit the settings of the following:

• Define and store information on the standard sheet sizes

• Populating the Materials dropdown list

• Defining default part quantity

• Setting default sheet quantity and thickness

• Defining default dimensions for Custom sheet

• Defining default part-to-part distance and part-to-sheet distance

• Setting for enabling/disabling the 'Preferential Hole Filling' feature

• Setting for 'Create separate assembly' feature

• Setting for 'Automatically select sheet' feature

• Setting for enabling/disabling the 'Flattening sheet metal part' option

• Setting for 'Fix component' option

• Setting for Inventory Forecasting (IFM) module's method

• Setting for enabling/disabling the option of saving the nested layouts in the .dxf format

• Settings for enabling/disabling the feature of nesting with multiple tools