This is a software solution for cutting of material. This package is intended to help you save materials when you are planning cutting patterns for CNC machines.

Astra Nesting Solution is a software package includes Astra R-Nesting and Astra S-Nesting. It is a solution designed for companies that needs to cut materials on a large scale. These could be furniture companies, window manufacturers, shipyards and others. It can save materials when you are planning cutting patterns for CNC machines. Cutting requests could be made manually by entering the list of parts or importing parts from a computer aided design system. Printing labels for parts, calculating the deburring of edges of the parts, setting a wide variety of technical parameters are provided for and a range of reports could be generated. Astra R-Nesting is the rectangular nesting software component of this package. This cutting software optimizes sheet nesting and the cutting of particle board, glass, metal or plastics etc. It supports tabular entry of the data and user entry of lists of parts which can be copied from Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Word amongst other applications. You can also quickly edit your cutting layouts, use special functions to create the most precise layout possible and export your cutting layouts for use with CNC cutting machines.

The other component is the S-Nesting application. This does true-shape nesting and to conserve materials. It makes the cutting process quick and accurate. The interface is intuitive and easy to learn. Creating orders, automated true-shape nesting and manual adjustments of layouts are easy and quick. Reports can also be printed and you can output NC data into formats for processing with the cutting machine. Here is a tool that can be used profitably by the businesses mentioned earlier, you must give this solution a try!