cut-list symetry?

It looks like a cut-list for weldments doesn't recognize a right-hand cut
from a left-hand cut. i.e. if you make a cut list of a 3 piece "U" path, the
left and right parts are said to be identical parts (which they are not if
you are using a non-symmetrical profiles like an angle or C-channel). Sure,
the 2 pieces are both cut 45-angles but not the same way.

Is this a half-baked tool or am I missing something?

Thanks.

 

You can click and drag the "Structural Member" out of the "Cut List
Item" folder drag it to the "Cut List" then right click it and "Create
Cut List Item"

It also sometime doesn't recognise the fact that two items are
identical, in which case you can drag the "Structural Member" from one
"Cut List Item" folder to another.

John Layne
www.solidengineering.co.nz

 

Thanks soo much! The value of this listserv has proven itself over and over.
I hope the vendor support folks consider this to be their "bible". It is for
me.
Thanks again.
Bob, Toronto

 

Hi Bob,

This is a bug that has been reported. In my case I didn't notice it
until too late because it was a counterbored hole in a member that on
one tube bored from the left side and on the other tube bored from the
right side. The cut list showed them as the same part which they are
most definately not as evidence lies in the scrap pile! I wasn't too
hard on myself as the weldment had alots and lots of parts.

Zander

 

This can also be an isue when saving parts out to a file. SW doesn't
recognize that bodies with the same surface area and volume are not
necessarily the same Geometry or something.