by bdring » Sat Dec 31, 2011 12:40 am
I use the nesting features in Vectric Aspire. It helps improve the yield. It is especially helpful on a bunch of oddly shaped objects, like if you needed to cut all the letters of the alphabet. It allows you to control rotation, so if the material has a grain that matters to you, it can preserve that angle.
I also use 1D nesting for my MakerSlide cutting. You think you can mentally do a decent job, but it totally blows that away. I regularly get 95-100% yield on material. It is fun to shave off 1 mm piece of scrap as the last cut. If you don't get 100% yield, you enter enter the scraps into list of material and it tries to eventually use the piece.
Bart
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