Nested groups, components or what

[mwm5053]

I'm working on a Chippendale Tallboy since I saw Tim Killen at Design,Click and Build model a ball and claw leg and used Dave R's fan for some added features. So I'm doing the dovetail drawers making the parts components (copy,flip and such) but I want to move,copy as a group or nested component? I want to latter use Cutlist to manage my parts correctly not sure what is better for Cutlist and file size?

Thank's

[Dave R]

Walt, I use components exclusively even for nesting but you could nest the components together in a group, too. Or you could skip the nesting altogether. As far as the cut list plugin is concerned, it doesn't matter and you don't necessarily have to use nested components. It drills down to the lowest level components anyway. The key thing is that every part you would make in wood needs to be a component of its own. Don't make the mistake I frequently see in newbie's models. They draw a part, make it a component, draw the next part and select all that new geometry along with the first component and make a new component. Then they continue on drawing parts, selecting everything and making another component. When they get finished, only the first part they've drawn is included in the cut list because it's the only one at the lowest level.

As far as overall file size goes, skipping the nesting will result in the smallest file size all other things being equal.

[mwm5053]

Gotcha thanks