Inventor Nesting and DXF Layer Mapping
I am trying to get layer mapping to work properly in Inventor nesting, but I am finding some limitations that I have not been able to find a way around, and the documentation on this topic seems to be very vague and limited.
I am importing DXF files from 2 other programs into inventor for nesting, (one is Autopol - pressbrake programming, the other is MaxiemLayout, waterjet programming)
I have been able to adjust the import config to get it to work, and Export is working too - for the most part.
The limitation I have is that then Importing, there only seens to be one option that is recognised as a nestable contour, (variable '1' in the .cfg from what I can gather), but my cut paths have different cut qualities among them, so in order to get a path to be recognised as a shape and nest properly, I must have all these layers get converted to 'layer 1' (nestible contours). Therefore when I Export, all these items are now combined onto the one cut type, losing their origional cut qualities.
Is there a config somewhere that allows you to set what layers are considered nestible contours? Some research I did mentioned editing a Cut Types config, but I have not been able to find this file, my other hunch is that possibly a custom Providers config needs to be made, but I have not been able to find any info on this either, in regards to editing or making a providers file.
Long story short, I need to have multiple layers that Inventor sees as nestable, so when I export they remain separate.
Also, can I get confirmation that I am understanding the config files correctly,
Import config
"LayerMapping":[
{
"DestLayer": 0, <- What the layer is being converted in to inside inventor
"SrcLayer": "0" <- What the layer is called in the Origional DXF file
},
Export Config
"LayerMapping":[
{
"DestLayer": 0, <- What the layer is currently known as inside inventor
"SrcLayer": "0" <- What the layer will be in the exported .dxf
},
All help is appreciated, Thank you.