Some alpaca shaped soap trivets. Most from Corian, about 4” square. These will go with some homemade soap a friend makes that are wrapped with felted alpaca fleece. Basically, the soap is surrounded by a wash cloth. She had some poorly made wood ones but asked me to come up with something a bit nicer.
This project brought up a question about the nesting function within Aspire. Is there a way to nest a two sided objects so its correct on both sides of the material as one step? I did six of these on a scrap but could have packed a few more in but didn’t know how to to do this with a two sided job.
Soap Trivet & Nesting Question
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Re: Soap Trivet & Nesting Question
The following steps are what I would do;
Use guide pins so the part is exactly in the same position when turned over horizontally
I place 1 guide pin hole, draw a short line in the center of the part, then flip the hole about the line create a mirrored object box checked
Set alignment at the center
After nesting select all ctrl A then center F9
Flip horizontal using mirror selected objects with create a mirrored object box checked
Move the copy to a new layer
This method works for me insuring everything is exactly where it belongs
I only use 2 guide pins and since the object is flipped horizontally the part is also flipped horizontally on the pins
Some prefer to use 3 or 4 pins to prevent flipping the part the wrong direction
Other methods are likely available too
Dale
Use guide pins so the part is exactly in the same position when turned over horizontally
I place 1 guide pin hole, draw a short line in the center of the part, then flip the hole about the line create a mirrored object box checked
Set alignment at the center
After nesting select all ctrl A then center F9
Flip horizontal using mirror selected objects with create a mirrored object box checked
Move the copy to a new layer
This method works for me insuring everything is exactly where it belongs
I only use 2 guide pins and since the object is flipped horizontally the part is also flipped horizontally on the pins
Some prefer to use 3 or 4 pins to prevent flipping the part the wrong direction
Other methods are likely available too
Dale
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Re: Soap Trivet & Nesting Question
Thanks. Took me a minute to get my brain around this but basically, you're using two different layers as the top and bottom of the material rather than doing the project as two-sided in Aspire. I tried this and all lines up but in the case of the soap trivet, the diagonal vectors need to be in the opposite direction on the second side so just a matter of mirroring the vectors in each of the items on the second layer one at a time. This does work to get a nice nested design that uses the material efficiently.
Guess I was hoping for something like a shift-control-A that would select vectors on both sides of a two-sided job that could then be used within the nest function. Thanks again for the workaround!
Guess I was hoping for something like a shift-control-A that would select vectors on both sides of a two-sided job that could then be used within the nest function. Thanks again for the workaround!