Blog & Changelog
Feature releases, nesting engine upgrades, and notes from building a DXF nesting tool for laser, plasma, waterjet, and CNC router shops. Every major feature lands here with the date it shipped.
The nesting engine now packs parts so the free sheet area survives as one clean rectangular strip you can bank and reuse — highlighted on the canvas, listed with its own utilization number, and drawn into the DXF. Parts also keep their original DXF colors, and manual placement got friendlier.
Read more →A new Convert tool in the sidebar turns a DXF, DWG, or SVG drawing into machine-ready G-code — no nesting, no CAM detour. Preview the toolpath, then download the .nc for your laser, plasma, waterjet, or router.
Read more →A new Manual entry in the sidebar opens a standalone hand-placement editor: drag parts onto a sheet, rotate, duplicate, snap against real geometry, and export the result as a DXF.
Read more →Draw a defect zone and see its dimensions live, click any zone for size and area, share a read-only layout link, and get self-describing DXF filenames.
Read more →The genetic preset now runs NFP candidates at full strength, scores layouts on trapped voids, and is guaranteed to never pack fewer parts than simpler strategies.
Read more →A new top-tier preset built on No-Fit Polygon geometry. L-brackets, jigsaw profiles, and other concave parts now lock together instead of wasting their bounding box.
Read more →Stop the nest the moment every part is placed, when scrap drops below a target percentage, or after a time budget you set.
Read more →Scan a QR code with your phone, photograph the actual sheet, and the photo appears under the canvas so you can trace knots, rust, and damage as no-go zones.
Read more →Save your machine setups as one-click presets, engrave part names into the exported DXF, and load a cut list straight from a CSV.
Read more →Save parts you cut repeatedly into a personal library and drop them into any future job without re-uploading the DXF.
Read more →Try the nester with one click, print a placement report for the floor, bank your leftover sheet as a reusable offcut, and put a price on every nest.
Read more →Nestpact grows up: subscription plans with feature tiers, secure checkout, and email-verified accounts.
Read more →Uncut tab bridges hold parts in the sheet, router mode adds real Z motion with stepdown passes, and the NC viewer goes 3D.
Read more →Upload a 3D solid and Nestpact finds its largest flat face, projects the silhouette, and nests it like any DXF part, with thickness detected automatically.
Read more →Generate machine-ready NC code for laser, plasma, and waterjet straight from the nested layout, with lead-in/out, per-layer operations, and a built-in simulator.
Read more →Open contours, duplicate entities, and stray geometry break nests and cuts. The checker finds the problems and fixes most of them automatically.
Read more →Upload a sheet and your parts, get an optimized true-shape layout, and download the nested DXF. Free online nesting that runs in your browser.
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