The P.E.P. Technology Automatic Nesting software will AUTOMATICALLY create a mirrored part from an original part and nest with combinations of both the original and the mirrored part, dramatically increasing the number of parts per sheet. The selection of which parts to be mirrored is controlled by the user in the P.E.P. drawing database.
| P.E.P. without Mirror | P.E.P. with Mirror |
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Drawing: SSM1 / 50 parts were nested |
Drawing: SSM1 / 58 parts were nested (16% increase in material yield) |
As shown in the nest on the right, 30 more parts per sheet went down by mirroring the original part. This is a 40% increase in material utilization.
| Without Mirror / 74 parts | With Mirror / 104 parts |
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Automatic Nesting with Bullet and or Wip will display the parameters fields shown below. Entering Y in field #41 will automatically check for the mirror image of all parts. If the analyzing results in more parts going down then the mirrored image is saved as a P.E.P. drawing and the nest accepted. Entering Y in fields #41 and 42 will result in the software checking the drawing database before attempting to nest the part with the mirrored image.
Parts that have been mirrored are saved to the nest and the drawing directory with the notation that the part is the mirrored image of the original part.
| Without Mirror / 12 parts | With Mirror / 14 parts |
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