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| 16:35.50 | narnia | EricWilhelm, there are no official notes on the new plan. |
| 16:36.17 | narnia | EricWilhelm, what do you by 'nesting'? |
| 18:38.31 | EricWilhelm | narnia, nesting: placing multiple parts as efficiently as possible on a sheet |
| 18:38.54 | EricWilhelm | primarily useful in punching and 2d/2.5d milling |
| 18:40.49 | EricWilhelm | also water-cutting, plasma, and wire EDM |
| 18:41.18 | EricWilhelm | say I have 40 parts of various shapes and I need to punch/cut 5 of some, 3 of others, etc |
| 18:41.45 | EricWilhelm | given a size of sheet or plate, how many sheets do I need and how do I most efficiently cut the required parts? |
| 18:47.12 | narnia | EricWilhelm, that is what i thought you meant just wanted to make sure. |
| 18:48.08 | narnia | EricWilhelm, also useful for the wire edm shops. |
| 18:48.13 | EricWilhelm | Is there a library of nesting algorithms that you'll be building with, or is that being implemented from scratch? |
| 18:50.14 | narnia | EricWilhelm, the nesting lib probably should be rewritten. the person who wrote it is no longer available to maintain it and not available to answer any questions concerning it. their departure was not planned or foreseen. |
| 18:53.20 | EricWilhelm | where is it? |
| 18:59.59 | narnia | EricWilhelm, where is what? |
| 19:02.28 | EricWilhelm | the nesting lib. |
| 19:02.36 | EricWilhelm | Is it part of brlcad? |
| 19:03.38 | EricWilhelm | the emc page seems to say that g-code generation doesn't happen in emc |
| 19:06.12 | narnia | EricWilhelm, the nexting lib is part of my project gnu_cad_cam. the source code has never been released. |
| 19:06.20 | EricWilhelm | oh. |
| 19:06.50 | EricWilhelm | any chance of me getting a brain-dump of this unreleased stuff? |
| 19:06.51 | narnia | EricWilhelm, emc does not generate g-code. emc interrupts g-code |
| 19:06.57 | narnia | EricWilhelm, no |
