Nesting

[routerman7030]

Why does nesting in mastercam not always do the best thing with nested parts? I find myself doing a better job nesting the parts than mastercam does.

[Camdude®]

your brain is loaded with fuzzy logic, nesting packages are not. i use Nestor, it has a pretty powerful algorithm that does a good job of nesting.

 

it was originally designed for the fabrics industry. cutting patterns and the like.

i use it for waterjet nesting and it works like a charm.

[routerman7030]

The part i was nesting didn't really need too much "fuzzy magic", it was a simple square part, i would think the program is powerfull enough to do a simple square part. Where can i get Nestor?

[cadcam]

Routerman how about some samples of what it does and what you have done?

Show us what the issue is for you.

[routerman7030]

I did send an email to a greg from mastercam this morning whith the file attached. The part is 14.5 X 15 with a large radius on one end, to look at it from far away you would think it was square. I had a piece of material that was 30.375 X 96 inches long. I used a .5 inch tool to cut it. Mastercam Nesting would not put 2 rows of parts just one, with mastercam i got 6 parts off the sheet and when i did it i got 12 off the same size sheet. I could email you the file if you would like.

[cadcam]

Sir please feel free to send this my way to.

 

thank you Jay

[routerman7030]

What is your E-mail address and i would be happy to send it to you as well.

[routerman7030]

CADCAM,

I just had and email sent to you to show my nesting problem, the file has the parts how i nested them manually, if you can show me how to get the same result with mastercam that would be great.