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Nesting, quoting and the software around it, measured.
Benchmarks, buying guides and honest comparisons for laser and plasma job shops. Every outside figure links to the page it came from, with the day we checked it.
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Free nesting software for laser and plasma: what you really get
The free ways to nest sheet-metal parts — CypCut's built-in nest, Deepnest, Lapas Free, NestorCut Free, SheetDXF Free and Zorocut Free — with their limits, checked on the vendors' pages.
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How good is Zorocut's nester? 13 ESICUP benchmarks, honestly
Zorocut's nesting engine on the 13 classic ESICUP strip-packing instances: 76.94 % mean density in 3 s, 78.67 % in 30 s, against PackingSolver and sparrow's published results.
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Nesting software for Mac: what runs on macOS for laser and plasma
Which sheet-metal nesting programs run on a Mac: ProNest LT, CypNest and CypCut are Windows-only, Deepnest has no macOS build yet, the rest run in a browser. Zorocut Nest is native on macOS.