Manual Nesting

Use the Manual Nesting form to manually allocate prelim marks (prelim nesting only) or mark items (production nesting only) to available lengths of steel. You can access the Manual Nesting form from the Nesting Results/Manual Nest screen of the Nesting Wizard which will be available if you select Manual Nesting from the Actions Button.

The form has four grids:

§ Available Lengths
Suppliers and the lengths of steel that they can supply are listed here.

§ Unfulfilled Mark Items
Mark items that have not been nested are listed here.

§ Cutting Plans
Lengths of steel that are to be used for nesting are listed here. These are the lengths that items in the covered marks will be assigned to.

§ Covered Mark Items
Nested mark items are listed here. These mark items will be assigned to the possible lengths of steel in the Cutting Plans grid.

The following buttons are available:

Button	Description
	Move one instance of each selected bar from the Available Lengths grid to the Cutting Plans grid.
	Move the selected bars from the Cutting Plans grid to the Available Lengths grid, thus un-nesting the bars.
	Move a single instance of the selected mark items from the Unfulfilled Mark Items grid to the Covered Mark Item grid. The selected marks are nested according to the optimal cutting plan determined by the nesting engine.
	Move all instances of the selected marks from the Unfulfilled Marks grid to the Covered Mark Items grid. The selected marks are nested according to the optimal cutting plan determined by the nesting engine.
	Move the selected marks from the Covered Mark Items grid to the Unfulfilled Mark Items grid, thus un-nesting the mark items.
	Move a single instance of the selected mark from the Unfulfilled Marks Items grid to the Covered Mark Item grid. Use this button if you want to by-pass the cutting order determined by the nesting engine and place un-nested marks on the bar manually. You place marks one-by-one, meaning that you can select only one un-nested mark item at a time.
	Move all instances of the selected mark items from the Unfulfilled Mark items grid to the Covered Mark items grid. Use this button if you want to by-pass the cutting order determined by the nesting engine and place un-nested mark items on the bar manually. You place mark items one-by-one, meaning that you can select only one un-nested mark item at a time. If an un-nested mark item has a quantity of more than 1, you can use this button to allocate all of the instances to the bar in one move.
	Move the selected marks from the Covered Mark Items grid to the Unfulfilled Mark Items grid, thus un-nesting the mark item.

To manually nest a mark item:

Take a look at the following illustration. Points 1, 2 and 3 are described in more detail below.

1. Make steel lengths available for nesting.

a. In the Available Lengths grid, select one or more steel lengths that you want to use.

b. Click the button to move one of each selected lengths to the Cutting Plan grid. These lengths can now be used for nesting.

2. Match un-nested mark items with available steel lengths.

a. In the Unfulfilled Mark Items grid, select the mark items that you want to nest.

b. In the Cutting Plan grid, select the steel lengths that you want to use.

3. Use the selected steel lengths to nest the selected mark items. To do this, use one of the following buttons:

§ to nest a single instance of the mar item

§ to nest all instances of the mark item

If, for example, an un-nested mark item has a quantity of 3, the button attempts to nest 1 instance of the mark item and the button attempts to nest all 3 instances of the mark item.

The nested marks are moved to the Covered Mark Items grid.

If you select several marks to nest, the nesting engine determines the optimal order in which they are cut from the bar. See the following note if you want to order the mark items yourself.

§ You can also use the and buttons to nest mark items. These buttons allow you to decide the cutting order of the mark items rather than leave it to the nesting engine. To do this, select a single mark in the Unfulfilled Mark Items grid and click the button to move it to the Covered Mark Items grid. This is the first mark item to be cut from the bar. Repeat this process to place un-nested mark items on the length of steel, one-by-one.
Use the button to nest all instances of the single selected mark item.

§ If you try to add more mark than fit on the selected bar, the following message is displayed:
The manual nest was unsuccessful and could not cover all selected Mark items from the lengths specified.
No mark items are nested. You need to add more bars from the Available Lengths grid or reduce the selected mark items.

§ When you have nested mark items, you can view a graphic of each one in the Cutting Plan Viewer. To do this, click the mark in the Covered Marks grid. The associated graphic is displayed in yellow in the Cutting Plan Viewer.

§ You can reorder mark items on the cutting plan. To do this, click the mark item in the Covered Mark Items grid and use the and buttons to move it to a different location on the bar. This is shown in the Cutting Plan Viewer but does not re-order the list in the Covered Mark Items grid (unless it is ordered by the SequenceOnBar column which can be activated using Grid Options).

Once you have assembled a nest that meets your requirements, you can click next to move onto the Inventory/Suppliers and RFQ screen to continue the nesting process. See About the Nesting Wizard for the remaining steps to complete the nest.