WhoCanDo Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 (edited) We need a 2D nesting program for Vectorscript. I don't even know where to start. Can anyone suggest how this process is calculated or is there anyone out there that wants to paid to write one for us. Regards Edited July 24, 2009 by WhoCanDo Quote Link to comment
Pat Stanford Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 I think we need more information on what you mean by nesting. Do you need to draw sticks to make a birds nest? (sorry, I could not resist) ;-) Give us some more details on what you want and we can probably help. Quote Link to comment
WhoCanDo Posted July 24, 2009 Author Share Posted July 24, 2009 Sorry I forgot that not everyone works in the same industry as I do. A nesting program (in this case 2 dimensional) looks at the profiles drawn and fits them inside the perimeter of a stock sheet. Put simply if I had 2 rectangles 100 x 200 and a stock sheet 150 x 600 the I could nest them so the short sides join and the long sides total 600 and I would be left with a 50 x 600 offcut waste. In the above example I could not nest them side by side because 100 + 100 is greater than the 150 wide stock sheet. A nesting program would shuffle patterns around and come up with the best cutting layout with as little waste as possible. A 3D nesting program (which I don't need) might look at how to fill a shipping container with boxes of different dimensions leaving as little space as possible. Regards Quote Link to comment
WhoCanDo Posted August 7, 2009 Author Share Posted August 7, 2009 I am following up a few leads but still need a few more names if anyone you can think of can help me. Regards Quote Link to comment
Pat Stanford Posted August 7, 2009 Share Posted August 7, 2009 mike m oz posted this link in a different thread: This website has a list of Nesting Optimization programs: http://www.fileguru.com/downloads/nesting_optimization[/Quote] The people I know who do scripting sort of for a living are: Charles Chandler Raymond Mullin Patrick Higgins Petri Sakkinen If you have trouble finding them, please let me know via private message and I will get you contact information. Quote Link to comment
mike m oz Posted August 7, 2009 Share Posted August 7, 2009 Thanks Pat - that was careless of me posting the response in the wrong topic. I've deleted the other post so there is no confusion in that topic. Quote Link to comment
TGon Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 Im looking exactly the same to use in OSX, did you find anything? thanks VW Fundamentals+Rw 2009 MacBookPro 17"2.16 GHz OSX 10.5.8 RAM 2GB Quote Link to comment
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