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.

 

[micadesign]

e-cut plugin for Coreldraw

same here!

 

[JBurton]

I want to use the nesting for cnc/laser machine.

E-cut for corel and illustrator. What software are you using already?

 

[netsol]

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

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

my mistake, BUT i print on all those matierials
probably aspire? (i never had enough work for the big cnc to have a chance to give enroute a workout

 

[jimdtg]

Deepnest is an open source nesting application, great for laser cutters, plasma cutters, and other CNC machines.

 

[FireSprint.com]

We use Phoenix. It's pricey but pretty powerful.

Along these lines, someone might find this calculator useful: https://www.firesprint.com/sheet-yield-calculator.html

 

[EddieBS]

E-cut for corel and illustrator. What software are you using already?

I use e-cut also.

But I have a lot of leftovers/remaining materials that i want to re-use it for future projects.
And i can not find a software that keeps inventory on my leftovers sheets and automatically do the nesting on the sheets from inventory (rectangles or irregular shape (svg, dxf,...)).

Do you know a software that does that?

 

[EddieBS]

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

my mistake, BUT i print on all those matierials
probably aspire? (i never had enough work for the big cnc to have a chance to give enroute a workout

My mistake, i mean a nesting software for boards that are cut for channel letters, where we have 95% irregular shapes, like letters, logos...