[bobim]

Ah! That's a pretty much orphan subject yet the world is constantly moving pallets.

For pallet stability you would like to have a convex perimeter so the stretch wrapping maintains the boxes effectively. And also criss-crossing boxes for shear resistance.

But you need to align as much boxes corners as possible to get vertical stiffness.

A solver proposing stacking patterns with these constraints would be outstanding.

[dist-epoch]

Does center of mass matter? Or not so much.

Should lighter boxes be higher, so they don't get crushed? Or again, doesn't matter.

[bobim]

Yes right, I'm biased toward single product pallet. Then high mass items should be placed on the first lower pallet, low mass on the pallet put on top of the first one in the truck. The solver starts to be complex.

[6510]

> But you need to align as much boxes corners as possible to get vertical stiffness.

The magic might not be obvious?

I've made an animation[0] using the demo image[1] from VladM7's Stack-Solver.

[0] - https://img.go-here.nl/palet-stack.gif

[1] - https://github.com/VladM7/Stack-Solver/blob/master/img/scree...

pallet is 120 long. 21+21+21+21+35=119 pallet is 80 width. 21+21+35=77

> And also criss-crossing boxes for shear resistance.

Mirror the next layer.

Besides useful it also looks impressive to have a full looking pallet with criss-crossing.

[bobim]

And if it can spit out an OpenRadioss input file, one could launch pallets (almost) directly.