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Nesting - Rigid materials
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balstestrat
Problem Solver
Do you always RIP your "CNC Routing & Laser Cutting" files?
White Haus
Not a Newbie
e-cut plugin for Coreldraw
White Haus
Not a Newbie
And even if you did, RIP software generally isn't smart enough to perform true shape nesting and not just aligning bounding boxes.
balstestrat
Problem Solver
Goes completely besides the point of this thread but some is and some is not.
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.
The app is online and free for most entry level stuff. Easy to use.
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.
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
New Member
same here!
JBurton
Signtologist
E-cut for corel and illustrator. What software are you using already?
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
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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
Along these lines, someone might find this calculator useful: https://www.firesprint.com/sheet-yield-calculator.html
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?
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My mistake, i mean a nesting software for boards that are cut for channel letters, where we have 95% irregular shapes, like letters, logos...
Pauly
Printrade.com.au
Very pricy!
I would start with Griffin for nesting before looking at Phoenix.
Hot tip,
You can buy Onyx TruFit as a once time purchase. It's basically Griffin but watered down. If all you need is PDF files, it'll do the job.
ONYX TruFit - Onyx Graphics - RIP Software for wide-format print
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fixtureman
New Member
I use Vectric Aspire for my nesting on my CNC