"Packing Algorithms" for efficient material usage

Laser
#1

While VCarve has this built into it, I was wanting to write something that packed vector graphics efficiently within a sheet for flat pack furniture design, and I stumbled upon this after a few Google queries:

This leads to:

and their demo site (the thing most of you would care about):
http://svgnest.com/

This seems like a great site to pre-process your laser cuts for the most efficient use of material.

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Nesting software?
#2

That is really cool Kent. Guess you don’t have to build it now. :slight_smile:

#3

Probably have to port it to the language I am using and I am not using SVG data so I would have to make modifications etc. In any event it is nice to find something that worst case provides a benchmark with some citations to research papers.

This thing seems very useful in other situations regardless.

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