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Lines start with "#" character denote comments. There is no limit to the number of comment lines.

The 'AutoNEST V9 English', must be in one of the comment lines. The ‘V9’ reference number is used to check the different formats of (.VEC) files of different software releases. ‘English’ indicates what language version of current AutoNest you are using.

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'@ Vec not Compressed' is a file header identifier to indicate this vec part file has not been compressed. It will be followed by a section of an external profile of a part.

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9.346454   7.998023   51.850286   48.609869   9.997714   8.402318   10.014353   8.221825        -5.107422

First two values are always assumed to be the part’s Insertion Point.

The X and Y co-ordinates in real numbers. No restrictions on the length of field.

3rd value is the Part Area.

4th value is the Part Perimeter.

5th & 6th values are the Length & Width of the “Enclosing rectangle” of the part in real numbers.

7th & 8th values are the Length & Width of the “Minimum Enclosing Rectangle” of the part.

9th value is the angle of rotation in order to obtain the “Minimum Enclosing Rectangle”.

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X and Y co-ordinates of each vertex of the external profile.

X and Y co-ordinates in real numbers.

No restrictions on the length of field.

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'@ Hole 1' is file header identifier to indicate the starting of an internal hole profile section of this part

‘1’ is the hole number of a part.

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‘A’ is an arc indicator.

12.796370      7.857398       A       0.388339

The first two real numbers are X- and Y- coordinates of starting point of an arc, the last real number is the bulge value of the arc. The ending point of the arc will be the first two real numbers at the following line. If the following line is starting with ‘@’, the ending point will lie in the first line of this section.

This section means the first hole is a polygon with two arcs.

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‘@ Hole 2” indicates the starting of second hole profile section of this part. This hole number is 2.

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‘C’ indicates circle.

9.804096      9.580049       C       0.868615

The first two real numbers are X- and Y- coordinates of center point of the circle.

The last real number is radius of the circle. That means the second hole is a circle.

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‘@ Hole 3” indicates the starting of third hole profile section of this part. This hole number is 3.

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A list of X- and Y- coordinates of each vertex of a polygon.

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“@Leadin 1” indicates the starting of one leadin / leadout section of part profile (in this example, it is for external profile).

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A list of X- and Y- coordinates representing the leadin / leadout lines or arcs. ‘A’ indicates Arc - same as the foregoing.

Line 35-37

Other leadin / leadout for part inner profiles.