A welded bar is one that is made when two or more shorter bars are "welded together" by the Nesting Wizard. The welded bar is available for prelim or detailed nesting.
You can create welded bars from material in your inventory, material from suppliers or material on a released but not yet received purchase order. The welded bar can be a combination of grades but not a combination of section sizes. Welded bars can only be created for non-linear items.
To create a welded bar:
1. In the Nesting Wizard > Select Suppliers and Inventory Lengths > Lengths/Quantities Available grid, select lengths to "weld" together.
2. Click Actions (button) >
Weld selected lengths together.
The Contract Nesting Welded Bars form is displayed.
The selected bars are listed in the grid. In the above example, the chosen
bars of the same size and grade but have different lengths. There are
10 bars at a length of 6100mm and 20 at 8000mm available. The intention
is to weld two of one size and one of another together.
3. Specify the quantity of each bar that you want to use
to create the welded bar and the number of welded bars to create.
In the above example, 2 bars of length 6100mm and 1 at 8000mm are used
to create 1 welded bar of 20200mm.
4. Click OK.
The welded bar is displayed in the Lengths / Quantities
Available grid (where you can type values into the Unit
Price and Price Unit fields) and
is available for the nesting engine to use. Welded bars have this icon
.
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§ If you use supplier lengths as a source for your welded bars, any purchase orders that are created list the individual lengths required to create the welded bar not the welded bar itself. § The individual lengths become one long welded bar only when they are "cut" using Production cutting, production control or production console. |
