I'm trying to cut a bunch of identical copies of a 3D part out of one big block of wood. I can fit 15 of the 3D parts in a 12" X 48" X 2" piece of wood.
The problem:
It takes about 10-15K lines of code to cut out one of the parts so times that by 15 and you're up in the 200,000 lines of code range. Also, the part has about 500 faces on it because it is a cad representation of a laser scan of the actual part. It's hard to go from laser scan data to solid parts without ending up with a bunch of faces. Therefore, with 15 parts, we're dealing with 7500 faces. If I try to create a cut path for all 15 at once, I run out of memory on my computer during the number crunching.
Question:
Is there a way to reuse the same block of 15K lines of code over and over again (like make that block of code a "feature") or something like that? Then hopefully, I could have the 15K lines for the part and then just a few more lines that would specify where the local MCS for each part would be.
I would imagine that NX would have some built in functionality for this... but I can't seem to locate it.
Thanks in advance!
Brad