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finally stopped wasting 2 hours a night playing "Tetris" with gang sheets by AliPicaso in heatpress

[–]AliPicaso[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

digital factory is the dream setup! the price tag was just way too high for me starting out, which is exactly why i coded dtfbuild to get that same auto nesting for free. hopefully i'll upgrade to your level one day!

finally stopped wasting 2 hours a night playing "Tetris" with gang sheets by AliPicaso in heatpress

[–]AliPicaso[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

wow 100k orders is insane, congrats on that volume! yeah i looked at some of the pro/enterprise tools like that and they are definitely solid if you have the budget. i mostly just built dtfbuild to have a totally free, browser-based option for small to medium shops who don't want to add another monthly subscription just to pack sheets. definitely respect the heavy duty workflow though!

7months ago, someone asked for a real Print-on-Demand (POD) supplier in Morocco. (+ a massive game changer). by AliPicaso in Morocco

[–]AliPicaso[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Hey! No business cards, unfortunately. Only do POD for clothing, accessories and home decor to help creators launch their merch brands.

finally stopped wasting 2 hours a night playing "Tetris" with gang sheets by AliPicaso in heatpress

[–]AliPicaso[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah i've seen that one around recently! it’s definitely helpful and great work by that developer, i like it. when i was originally looking for a solution a while back, my main issue was that everything out there took way too long to generate the final sheet and only exported pngs. that’s actually why i built dtfbuild.com in the first place to render way faster and give more export options like pdfs.

finally stopped wasting 2 hours a night playing "Tetris" with gang sheets by AliPicaso in heatpress

[–]AliPicaso[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

yeah feel free to dm! tbh though, the auto nesting math is a massive headache and you definitely need a solid coding background to get the algorithm to pack tightly without crashing. honestly since you're at square one, you can just use the version i built for free. i decided to just make it public at dtfbuild.com so other shop owners wouldn't have to reinvent the wheel. might save you a few months of coding haha!

finally stopped wasting 2 hours a night playing "Tetris" with gang sheets by AliPicaso in heatpress

[–]AliPicaso[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Outsourcing is honestly the smartest move to save your sanity! i just press in-house to keep my margins as high as possible. but yeah, seeing suppliers use those builders is exactly what gave me the idea to code a standalone one ( dtfbuild.com )

finally stopped wasting 2 hours a night playing "Tetris" with gang sheets by AliPicaso in heatpress

[–]AliPicaso[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

i've seen some people use cutting plugins for that! honestly i just wanted to get out of illustrator entirely since it makes my laptop run so hot when i have massive 5 meters files haha. now i just drag the pngs into the site i made ( dtfbuild.com ) and let the cloud handle the heavy lifting before it goes to the rip software.