I hit a snag with opencutlist, when I to generate parts list, one section of my piece does’t come out right. It says “cross section unidentified” but all other pieces are correct when i generate. I was hoping someone could help me figure it out. I’ll upload my project and i hid everything else to show the part I’m struggling with. Thanks in advance.
Thanks for the reply! Both of those are showing up with CutList but only when I join all of those into one component but when I do join them Cutlist seems to see them as one big rectangle instead of trying to cut out each individual board.
What happens if you make the end one a group instead like the others are of leaving it as loose geometry and then in the non-solid one, delete the stray edge?
I just tried doing that and it didn’t seem to matter
Maybe @boris.beaulant will pop in.
I might’ve figured it out. When i was copy, pasting, and moving i must’ve extended one board a tiny bit so that the dimensions were wrong on the rest and messing up cutlist. I’ll get back on here and update if it worked or not.
Hello,
As I can see, all your parts are subgroups of a component. OpenCutList does not consider groups as parts. So it considers the whole component as a part and it measures 58 7/16 x 11 9/16.
→ You need to convert each parts to components.
But be careful that dimensional material are grouped by full section. So this will produce this kind of result :
Loose edges is not necessary a problem because OpenCutList compute part size by measuring only faces bounding box.
You were right about the boards, they did need to be individual components and I also needed to change their dimensions to match the dimensions in cutlist. Thank you for your help and advise!
I am also having trouble. I read through the posts, including the solution, and I am either still doing it wrong or don’t understand the answer (I am honestly not understanding the solution description or graphic, so I am sure that is part of the problem). I am running into the same message and I made sure the component is stand alone (not part of a group) and the material is dimensional, but I am still getting the error. It is also not giving me the length, width, and thickness. It appears it is trying to give me length twice.
Boris, I wanted to tag you to ask you to review my latest post in this thread. I’m still not understanding it, and am doing something wrong. Thank you!
Hello,
What result do you expect ?
I would like the cut list to display length, width, and thickness. I would then like the cut diagram to put both boards on 1 piece of wood, if they fit. The example I made are two distinctly different boards. I would like the cut list to display their length, width, and thickness, and be able to put them on 1 cut diagram, so I can optimize the cuts. Right now, I can only figure out how to put boards of the same width together. In this example, I can only create a cut diagram for each individual board, but I want to have OCL display them both on one board, since I know they will fit.
The Dimensional material type is designed for parts with a fixed cross-section. By definition, it does not group parts with different cross-sections. It can represent everything you will only cut in ONE direction : the width.
So, if your parts have a common thickness but variable lengths, you should choose the Sheet Good material type.
And if your parts do not share any dimensions (length, width, thickness) : no cutting diagram available…
