Thanks Husky for highlighting this useful tool, it is much welcomed
Okay here's my test with this and a few important notes:
1. This is a drawing with 101 thumb tacks I wish to laser cut.
- Thumb Tacs.jpg (78.47 KiB) Viewed 22037 times
2.After exporting the file to SVG in QCAD the first result is not good, as you can see 'SVG Nest' doesn't like Arcs or Splines
- Arcs and Splines don't work.jpg (61.47 KiB) Viewed 22037 times
You can see that some of the thumb tacks have the 'domed' head inverted, these are the ones which are splines.
The domed heads which look good are arcs ... but you have to change the whole of the outline to a polyline in QCAD in order to get this result ... if you don't you will get the inverted result!
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Note - if you try to work with a spline and change this to a polyline it doesn't work either (not for me anyway).
3.So currently for the best results when using SVG Nest, use lines, arcs and change to a polyline .. or of course just use polylines in QCAD. The result worked for me.
- Use Lines and Polylines only.jpg (65.75 KiB) Viewed 22037 times
4.Next, export to SVG in QCAD and upload this to the SVG Nest program. Follow the instructions (so simple) and change the configurations as required.
- Configuration.jpg (33.66 KiB) Viewed 22037 times
5.This is the result after 4 iterations. Not bad hey
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- Nesting Complete.jpg (71.83 KiB) Viewed 22037 times
6. Then download your nested SVG file and open up in QCAD and job done
Once again a big thank you to Husky.
- Result.jpg (65.81 KiB) Viewed 22037 times
