Nesting - Rigid materials

[EddieBS]

What software do you use for nesting acrylic sheets, pvc, acm/acp... ?

 

[netsol]

don't you nest in the RIP?

 

[balstestrat]

don't you nest in the RIP?

Do you always RIP your "CNC Routing & Laser Cutting" files?

 

[White Haus]

e-cut plugin for Coreldraw

 

[White Haus]

Do you always RIP your "CNC Routing & Laser Cutting" files?

And even if you did, RIP software generally isn't smart enough to perform true shape nesting and not just aligning bounding boxes.

 

[balstestrat]

And even if you did, RIP software generally isn't smart enough to perform true shape nesting and not just aligning bounding boxes.

Goes completely besides the point of this thread but some is and some is not.

 

[LizKeenan]

We always used Illustrator, and sometimes Flexi. You could probably use any vector based software. I believe Graffix has made a nesting plug in for illustrator but I’m not sure.

 

[sbergman]

If you are nesting rectangles and you don't think your RIP is getting you the best yield then I recommend www.optimalon.com. I have an old version of caldera and optimalon does a better job than caldera when I have hundreds of different size images to nest on various size (48x96 and 60x96) rigid sheets.

The app is online and free for most entry level stuff. Easy to use.

 

[EddieBS]

Isn't RIP for printers? I want to use the nesting for cnc/laser machine.

 

[ikarasu]

The best nest I've found,.which is coincidently free... Is deepnest. It only works with svg and DXF files sadly, but it works really good and I use it to nest all my laser/CNC items.

Illustrator has a nesting plugin as well from o2 creative... Used to use it, but I like deepnest better.


Enroute has a best as well, but I find it the least useful - vcarve is great at nesting.... But still prefer deepnest.