Restrict Item Orientations for Placement

[thomascorrie]

Currently, the EB-AFIT algorithm tests all possible orientations of an Item in order to achieve the optimum solution. In some situations, this is not desirable (e.g. placing a book with the bottom facing outwards) and so the ability to omit certain orientations would be a beneficial enhancement

[Vanman989]

Not sure if this is any help for you. This guy has an enable and disable feature for packing. Is in python though.

https://github.com/secnot/rectpack

[thomascorrie]

@Vanman989 that is helpful, thank you, particularly the references to the literature. In the case of the EB-AFIT algorithm for 3D packing, I will have to delve into the sources code to solve the orientation issue but for 2D I can adopt these approaches