AutoForm-Nest

Software for Cost-Optimized Nesting of Blanks

Minimizing material usage is one of the most important factors to reduce the cost of a sheet metal part, since material costs represent up to 80% of the total cost of the part.

The AutoForm-Nest software module is specialized for determining the optimal nesting layout on the coil, and is ideal for job costing, bidding and planning.

It is the only software on the market that automatically calculates the best nesting layout – while taking into account the variation in costs of different coil widths. This is a very important feature because material costs can vary by up to 25% depending on coil width.

The main benefits of AutoForm-Nest are:

• Minimization of material costs
• Minimization of material usage
• Optimized bidding as a result of more accurate calculation of material costs

AutoForm-Nest’s main features for cost-optimized nesting of blanks include:

• Four different types of nesting layouts (one-up, two-up, one-up/one-down, two shapes nesting)
• Powerful and flexible set-up features (min. and max. coil width, cost table, max. pitch, etc.)
• Simultaneous handling of several nesting layouts
• Semi-automatic / manual result manipulation
• Consideration of pierced blanks
• Export of calculated layouts
• Parametric link to all AutoForm software modules