Optimize objects stacking order for vinyl cutting

Question

Hello,
i am looking for a script for optimizing vinyl cutting speed.
The script should be similar to following , but needs to sort the selected objects by the relative position to page origin and not the height from page origin as it does now
script from Arranging stacking order from top to bottm
//David Entwistle
 
var thisDoc = activeDocument;
 
// get selected objects
var selObj = thisDoc.selection;
 
// count the selected objects
var selObjCount = selObj.length;
 
// sort selected objects by their height from the page origin
var byProperty = function(prop) {
    return function(a,b) {
        if (typeof a[prop] == "number") {
            return (a[prop] - b[prop]);
        } else {
            return ((a[prop] < b[prop]) ? -1 : ((a[prop] > b[prop]) ? 1 : 0));
        }
    };
};
 
var symbolsSorted = selObj.sort(byProperty("top"));
 
// for each object in turn in the ordered selection, BringToFront
for(i = selObjCount; i >0; i--){
          var currObj = symbolsSorted[i-1];
          currObj.zOrder(ZOrderMethod.BRINGTOFRONT);
}
 
redraw();
alert("Selected Objects Sorted = " + selObjCount);

Any help is welcome
Panagiotis

Qwertyfly___ · Accepted Answer

Ok its late and its not exactly what you want.

There are also probably better ways to achieve this.

It measures the distance from top right of page to top right of pathitems

then sorts them accordingly.

var doc = app.activeDocument;

var item = doc.pathItems;

var newLayer = doc.layers.add();

newLayer.name = "New Layer";

var newL = doc.layers['New Layer'];

var oldL = doc.layers['Layer 1'];

var list = new Array();

for(var i = 0; i < item.length; i++)

{

list.push(dist(item[i].geometricBounds[0]/2.834645,item[i].geometricBounds[1]/2.834645).toFixed(3));

item[i].name = list[i];

}

list.sort(sort);

list.reverse();

for(var j = 0 ; j < list.length; j++)

{

for(var k = 0; k < oldL.pathItems.length; k++)

{

if(oldL.pathItems[k].name == list[j])

{

oldL.pathItems[k].move(newL, ElementPlacement.INSIDE);

}

function sort(A,B){return (A - B);}

function dist(A,B){return (Math.sqrt(A*A+B*B));}

Qwertyfly___ · Answer

When cutting you want to make sure you cut holes (ie. Center of "O") before cutting the outside.

I cut more with a CNC router so this is probably not as important when cutting vinyl.

But I run all my designs through cam software for cut paths and optimizing of.

not sure how you could decide on start and end position of each cut with illustrator.

Can you clarify what you mean by "relative position to page origin".

Do you mean:

Top left object, followed by next closest object, and so on?

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