Question. The other I day I manually created a pattern for a job in pattern amendment with 30 different piece sizes fitted tightly into a single board. Just as an experiment I also tried to optimise the list and found that the optimiser did not find the 1 board solution and the waste was consequently much worse. Is the optimiser working properly?
Answer. Yes the optimiser is OK but you are asking rather a lot of it. If you were presented with just the list of 30 pieces you would also be unlikely to find the tight fitting solution - you are looking for a needle in a haystack unless you already know the answer!
