Find Nesting Parts — locate a board on the sheets

What does this tool do?

Find Nesting Parts traces a source board in the model to all of its parts on the nesting sheets — top and bottom faces alike — then selects those parts and zooms the camera to a top view fitted around the whole nesting cluster.

Use it when you need to:

• See where a cabinet board ended up on the nested stock sheets.
• Quickly check a board's parts before exporting DXF/G-code.
• Select all of a board's parts (top and bottom) at once for editing.

Basic steps

1. Select one or more source boards (boards carrying the plugin's board-index — i.e. boards that went through labeling/nesting).
2. Click the Find Nesting Parts icon.
3. The tool finds the nesting root in the model, scans every sheet under it, and selects all parts sharing the board-index of your selection.
4. The camera zooms to a top view fitted to the whole nesting cluster (keeping your current perspective/parallel mode). The status bar reports Selected N nesting part(s) (top + bottom).

Bottom-face parts included

For two-sided work, the parts on both the top and bottom sheets are selected — the status count covers both. This is the fast way to check a board has both faces nested before exporting.

Common problems

• “Select a source board (with a board-index)…”: the selected object has no board-index (never labeled/nested), or nothing is selected — select the actual source board and run again.
• “No nesting (__ABF_Nesting) found…”: the model has not been nested — run Nest first.
• “No nesting parts found…”: that board was not placed on any sheet (dropped during nesting, or added after nesting) — re-nest.
• Selecting several boards at once: fine — the parts of every selected board are selected in one go.