Rolled Materials Catalog

About the catalog

The Rolled Materials Catalog is a depot of rolled materials that you can use for the purposes of nesting job. Using the catalog, you:

Can set up the rolled materials that you plan to use most often.
Make sure that your stocks of rolled materials are updated automatically after each nesting job that involved this type of materials.

Types of materials

The catalog works with two types of materials:

New Rolls. Materials for nesting job on rolled materials. EngView treats as a roll any material whose length is at least five times greater than is its height.
Leftover Rolls. Leftover rolls are portions of rolls that have remained unused after a nesting job on a rolled material has finished. The catalog takes account of what's left over after a roll has been used and updates the availability automatically. EngView distinguishes between two types of leftover rolls: Remnants (an unused roll that is at least twice as long as it is wide) and Pieces (roll material that is less than twice as long as it is wide).

Using the Rolled Materials catalog of materials

The Display Nesting functionality uses a catalog of materials that keeps track of the material quantities and how parts are grouped for processing according to technological criteria. Using the catalog ensures that layout variants are calculated with the available quantities in mind. Keep reading to learn how the materials catalog works and how to use it in your work.

Keeping track of stocks

When processing multipart structures, EngView keeps track of your stock of the materials you work with and updates the stocks after each nesting job. This ensures that each new jobs starts based on the currently available stocks of materials. If in the meantime you replenish your stocks, it's best if you update the catalog by hand to make sure that EngView is up to date with the available quantities of materials and starts the next nesting job by offering solutions based on the available quantities.

Keeping track of parts grouped for joint processing

Apart from stocks, the catalog also holds information about parts that you set for combined processing. Because of technological reasons and to ensure the optimal use of resources, you can choose to group certain parts that you want processed together. Examples include:

Structures that include multiple materials and you want the ones parts that share a material to be processed together.
Parts that share both a material and another technological characteristic — for example, if they have artworks on both sides, processing them together would save time and ensure a compact arrangement.

Learn more about how to use the materials catalog.

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Updating the catalog

There are two ways for updating the catalog:

Automatic. This updating applies to jobs on rolled materials and is done by EngView each time after a job completes. You prompt a stocks update at the last step of the nesting job procedure, and after the nesting job has finished, the catalog is updated with the leftover material (remnants or pieces).
Мanual. This updating applies to jobs on sheet materials. You manipulate the catalog by hand, adding and removing rolls. Also, you can exclude available material from taking part in nesting jobs. This topic describes manual updating.

I. Setting up material and nesting groups

Choosing material

You start by selecting the material that you will be working with in nesting jobs.

On the Tools menu, click Preference, and then go to the Rolled Materials Catalog section.

Click the Materials icon and in the dialog box that appears select the material you will be working with.

Two materials are now in the catalog.

Adding sheets

You proceed by adding the rolls that you have in stock and that you will be using for nesting jobs.

TIP: It is best if you have created the roll in the Sheets database. To classify as a roll, the width must be at least five times longer than the height.

Select the material heading, and then click the Sheets icon .

A vertical list of sheets opens.

In the list, select the roll that you want to add.

(Optional) Repeat Step 2 for each individual roll that you need.

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II. Roll properties

Flute/Grain direction	The options are: fdX: The flute/grain is parallel to X axis. fdY: The flute/grain is parallel to Y axis. fdAny: Ignores the direction of the roll.
Count	Sets how many rolls you have on hand. The default value is Infinite, which means unrestricted number of rolls. Overwrite it with a number that works for you.
Width	How wide (long) the roll is.
Height	How high (wide) the roll is.
Left, Right, Top, Bottom	The values for the roll's left, right, upper and lower margins

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III. Finish

After setting up the technological properties of the rolls, click OK. The next time you start a Display Nesting job, the rolls you have set here will be loaded automatically for the job and will be visible in the wizard's Parameters step (pictured).

Cutting eight parts from the ULTR500 material. As the catalog has information about what roll to use, it is added automatically.

IMPORTANT: After each nesting job, EngView will update the catalog, taking into account the changed volumes of material stocks. The update will include also any remnants or pieces that have come to be.

After cutting the eight parts, 7800 mm has remained from the roll. This quantity is now registered in the catalog.

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