Enabling / Disabling the option of Preferential Hole Filling

Preferential Hole Filling

Sheets generated from incremental nesting can possess material islands lying entirely within holes in the sheet geometry. These material islands exist due to the holes present in the parts that were nested on the sheet in the previous nesting session. The user may want to use these material islands first and then nest the parts on the remaining sheet space. Due to this feature, the space lying within material islands will not go waste.

Preferential hole filling is an optional feature. Be default, the Preferential Hole filling option is enabled. The setting to enable/disable this feature is available in the DefaultValues.ini file. (It cannot be set from the 'Create Nesting Job' dialog.)

Editing the settings for 'Preferential Hole Filling' feature in DefaultValues.ini

1. Open the file named DefaultValues.ini located in the CAMWorks Installation folder.
2. Observe the section named [NestingData].  
3. The setting to enable/disable the option for Preferential Hole Filling is given in Lines 11 and 12 under the [NestingData] section.
4. The flag named 'PreferHoleFilling' indicates whether the option of Preferential Hole filling will be enabled or not.
5. When the 'PreferHoleFilling' flag is set to '1', the option of Preferential Hole Filling is enabled. This is the default setting at the time of installation.

[NestingData]

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;Options for PreferHoleFilling: 0 : No, 1 : Yes

PreferHoleFilling = 1

6. To avoid Preferential Hole Filling during the nesting process, set the value of the 'PreferHoleFilling' flag to '0' in order to disable this feature.

[NestingData]

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;Options for PreferHoleFilling: 0 : No, 1 : Yes

PreferHoleFilling = 0