Enabling / Disabling the option of Flattening sheet metal parts

With respect to nesting of sheet metal parts, you can choose whether the nested layout is to be computed based on the flattened or non-flattened sheet metal parts.

The setting to determine whether the sheet metal parts are to be flattened or not flattened can only be set from the DefaultValues.ini file. (It cannot be set from the 'Create Nesting Job' dialog.)

Editing the settings for the feature of 'Flattening sheet metal' in DefaultValues.ini

1. Open the file named DefaultValues.ini located in the CAMWorksNesting Installation folder.
2. Observe the section named [NestingData].  
3. The setting to enable/disable the option of flattening sheet metal parts before nesting is given in Lines 17 and 18 under the [NestingData] section.
4. The flag named 'FlattenSheetMetalPart' indicates whether the sheet metal parts will be flattened before nesting or nor not.
5. When the 'FlattenSheetMetalPart' flag is set to '1', the option to flatten sheet metal parts before generating the nested layouts is enabled. This is the default setting at the time of installation.

[NestingData]

...

...

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

FlattenSheetMetalPart = 1

6. When the 'FlattenSheetMetalPart' flag  is set to '0', the feature for flattening sheet metal parts is disabled.

[NestingData]

...

...

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

FlattenSheetMetalPart = 0