It is complex. When I moved from PA to AZ, a friend of mine that was a packaging engineer was in charge of fitting the various sized boxes and items on the truck. It was like a giant jig-saw puzzle. When we got to AZ, we unloaded the truck into my brother's garage because the house wasn't ready yet. Two weeks later, when the house was ready, we had the same size truck as we moved in, but it took 2 truck loads to move. And those 2 truck loads sure seemed like they were full, but they were not packed as carefully as the PA-AZ move was.
Fred On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Michael Madigan <[email protected]>wrote: > This sounds like an extremely complex issue. > > > ________________________________ > From: Vassilis Aggelakos <[email protected]> > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, May 9, 2013 3:51 PM > Subject: Re: Container packing optimisation > > > I have worked for years on similar problems in the past, but at last I > decided to use a 3dparty library from http://www.optimalprograms.com/ > works nicely with VFP. > > > Hope this helps > Vassilis Aggelakos > > Sent from my iPad > > On 9 Μαϊ 2013, at 22:41, Mark Dimmock <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Evening all, > > Has anyone come across any code for working out efficient loading of > shipping containers with various sizes of packages? I can easily work out > the total volume of the packages and compare to the space available, but > this doesn't take into account how they all fit together. I guess this is a > science in its own right but hope there is some clever person who has > tackled this before in VFP. > > > > Regards, Mark > > > > Mark Dimmock > > Acton Gate Systems Limited > > Automotive Components Park > > Hallens Drive, > > Wednesbury WS10 7DD > > T: 0121 505 6533 > > F: 0121 505 6943 > > M: 07977 431106 > > *: [email protected] > > Web<mailto:[email protected]%0BWeb>: www.actongate.co.uk< > http://www.actongate.co.uk/> > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. > > For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- > > multipart/alternative > > text/plain (text body -- kept) [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/cajcbkspacz0ubfb3hmfuelkjjc1qf0hpx9qkuynbu10u00-...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
