After extracting shapes and before creating a nest, you can customize properties for the shapes in your nest.
The Source Nesting Properties dialog box opens. It contains a table of your shapes and their associated properties.
Non-editable values are highlighted in gray. Values that you change from the default are highlighted in orange. (Some values cannot be changed unless you deselect Bind.) The total number of shapes listed is shown in the upper right corner.
Each material has default orientation settings that are defined in the Process Material Library dialog box. You can deviate from these in the Source Nesting Properties dialog box for each shape that will be nested. You can change the orientation before the nest is calculated, or set allowable options that can be used during calculation for optimal material use.
To change the shape orientation before the nest is calculated:
This specifies the order in which nesting places the parts on the sheet. Inventor Nesting uses this first, then part size. A part with a higher priority number nests before a part with a smaller value, regardless of efficiency.
With Mirror enabled, the shape is flipped along its Y-axis.
This is the same as the Material Grain setting in the Process Material Library. It creates an angled grain for the part by offsetting the shape from the natural layout angle of the material.
To change allowable orientation options that can be used to optimize the nest while it is calculated:
Designate parts that can be "kitted" together to count as one part in a nest.
The shape Properties dialog box opens. It contains the same properties available in the Source Nesting Properties dialog box. Edited values that differ from material defaults are highlighted in orange.