NestFab

Hi Dustin,

NestFab is coming into its 8th year now.  Over this time we have continuously improved the software to make what we believe is the easiest to use and best performing nesting software on the market today.  However, this has come with a cost as we have built up, what is known in the industry as, "technical debt".  Basically, over time, the software source code has become more complicated and unwieldy than it needs to be.  This complication can often make adding new features complicated and affects our speed of development. Rather than battle again what is currently there, we have decided to restructure the existing software code to untangle the complication which will, in turn, make future developments quicker.  This will mean NestFab v4 will take longer than anticipated but ongoing developments and addition of new features thereafter should be quicker.

Stick with us.  NestFab v4 will have multi-material / thickness support, filler parts and further efficiency upgrades to the nesting along with a bunch of other improvements.

Hi Dustin,

We are still working on v4.  

We should be adding the following:

- Different top, bottom, left, right sheet edge spacing values (useful to avoid clamping zones)

- Ability to limit the number of sheets chosen in a nesting (i.e. use only 1 sheet size out of the available options)

- Filler parts (add specific parts only to fill up available space on the sheet)

- Shear/guillotine nesting

- Nesting efficiency improvements

We are investigating if we can add the following:

- Floating license capability

- Additional command line options

Will keep you posted when we have a firm ETA.