Auto-Rotate / Nest in Onyx Thrive?

I would also like to know this, it's something that seems so simple, but onyx has real issues with it sometimes, it only works about 50% of the time for me.

 

We tried this several versions ago and frankly it was a bug ridden mess to use. Cut lines miss, cut marks in the wrong spot, basically didn't work. Not sure how well it works now, but after a few days of wasted time we dropped it. Onyx is supposed to do it though.

http://help.onyxgfx.com/x10/rip-que...Strategies/Placement (Nesting) Strategies.htm

 

I haven't been able to figure this out in Thrive. It is a big let-down after using VersaWorks for so many years. But my new Epson printer is so much easier to use than the ancient Roland, I'm not complaining too much ;-)

 

Are you talking about the placement strategy? "Conserve Media" auto-rotates as needed (click on the gear icon to customise), and you can queue up as many jobs as you like.
We do this with large runs of labels all the time. No issues with cut lines etc. Can often queue up a few thousand at a time.
Just set the sheet size at a comfortable 1-1.5m long for cutting accuracy, and it'll print cut calibration corners at that interval.

We're on 12.2 but I'd assume it's similar in 18.
It's slightly different in x10 and can screenshot if required.

 

You have to do Conserve Media and also check the box for Best Fit and Allow Rotate.

Even then, there are certain files it will not auto rotate. Seems like if it contains bitmaps, transparencies, stuff like that it doesn't want to auto-rotate, though you can manually do it by right clicking the file and choosing job properties.

 

Test it with a really simple file--like just a colored rectangle, saved as an eps file. We find the inability to auto-rotate is file-dependent. They will auto-rotate about 80% of the time.

 

I have noticed a lot of bugs in the 18.5 postershop. Pretty annoying as versaworks was really well and free. I hope they fix most of the issues. Even the phone support said there were bugs and you just have to mess with it.

 

Its a bug in 18 / 18.5 we have to rotate manually for it to nest properly (only when using custom page sizes) Onyx tech said its been fixed in 19

 

I bet, Onyx always tells you it's been fixed on the next version, which you have to pay thousands of $ for by the way.

There is no excuse for this, like you said, versaworks does it no problem at all, I would expect a more professional program that costs thousands of dollars to be able to do something that the free program can, but that is not the case.