The idea of the Combined Machining ribbon is it lets you combine multiple little batches of components (parts) and nest them to prepare one combined job. It is also possible to create a job which has repeats of the current job.

Example

If you put one cabinet on the screen and export its machining, you could add it to the current job 5 times with a repeat count of 5 to get all the parts needed to make 5 of these cabinets. You might also have exported machining for a different group of cabinets, and you could combine that with the current job as well to get one big combined job.

When you combine multiple machining exports and save the result (see Add File), you get one DXT which contains all the references to every part needed, gathered up from the individual DXT’s you have combined. Often you will want to combine the parts to be cut for a specific material, e.g. you might combine the whiteboard only from multiple jobs. A Material drop down, therefore allows you to select from the materials present in the combined job.

Example

In this example, we placed a single Floor 2 Door cabinet for Export.

Current Drawing

Export Machining

Using the keyboard shortcut [F8] or this command button will generate one batch of part files (DXF files) for each material used in the current drawing/job. For more information on this command see Machining Current.

Include current drawing

Ticking this check box will allow you to create a job which has repeats of the current job.

Copies

Specify how many repeats of parts to combine with the current job.

Nesting

See discussion on Machining View Current.

Add File

When you click on this command button, it opens the Save As dialog where you can create a file name (e.g. My Input File.dxt).

This will be added to the Input File list and you can specify the number of Copies for repeat.

Example

Click to view Save As dialog