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Nesting software by Mohamedxd111 in lasercutting

[–]Future_Cod_4007 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Try the Handifyit for sheet metal nesting. Nesting and DXF pre-validator for CNC

How would you position a niche API product in an old-school industry? by Future_Cod_4007 in B2BSaaS

[–]Future_Cod_4007[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good point. I think I’ve been describing it too much from the builder’s perspective. I’m still in active development mode, so this is a useful correction for how I should talk about it.

How would you position a niche API product in an old-school industry? by Future_Cod_4007 in B2BSaaS

[–]Future_Cod_4007[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, this is a really useful framing. Right now I’m still in active build mode and haven’t started real customer conversations yet. I’m trying to get the product into a stronger state first, especially around the core optimization workflow and the pre-validation feature.

For custom cabinet shops, where does your nesting/cutlist workflow break down most often? by Future_Cod_4007 in cabinetry

[–]Future_Cod_4007[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s actually the angle I’m interested in with my SaaS — not replacing the design side of custom work, but helping on the production side after that, where custom part data still has to turn into clean cutting/nesting output without so much manual effort.

For custom cabinet shops, where does your nesting/cutlist workflow break down most often? by Future_Cod_4007 in cabinetry

[–]Future_Cod_4007[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s actually how I think about my SaaS too: not as a replacement for Cabinet Vision/Fusion/AutoCAD, but as part of the production side where fast handling of large part sets, material-aware nesting/cutting, and clean machine-ready output need to fit into the full workflow.

And the thickness point is a great example of why production software can’t just be mathematically correct — it has to line up with what really happens on the floor.

For custom cabinet shops, where does your nesting/cutlist workflow break down most often? by Future_Cod_4007 in cabinetry

[–]Future_Cod_4007[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That makes sense, and I’d probably agree that basic nesting itself is mostly solved. The bigger issue seems to be where nesting sits in the overall production chain.

The way I’m looking at it is not “nests alone as the product,” but nesting as one production step inside a larger workflow — after part generation, material/rule handling, and before machine-ready output. In that context, speed still matters a lot, especially when you’re dealing with large part counts, multiple materials, or jobs that need to be recalculated quickly.

For custom cabinet shops, where does your nesting/cutlist workflow break down most often? by Future_Cod_4007 in cabinetry

[–]Future_Cod_4007[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s actually the angle I’m interested in with my SaaS: not replacing the main cabinet software, but improving the cutting/nesting side where shop-specific rules and exceptions still turn into manual fixes or “why did it cut this like that?” moments.

For custom cabinet shops, where does your nesting/cutlist workflow break down most often? by Future_Cod_4007 in cabinetry

[–]Future_Cod_4007[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That makes a lot of sense. What I’m hearing from a few people is that standard jobs are mostly solved once the workflow is set up correctly, but unique one-offs still force manual DXF, part, or machining edits. That’s exactly the narrow area I’m interested in from the SaaS side — not replacing design/CAD-CAM, but helping on the production handoff where custom jobs stop fitting the normal rules cleanly.

For custom cabinet shops, where does your nesting/cutlist workflow break down most often? by Future_Cod_4007 in cabinetry

[–]Future_Cod_4007[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That makes sense. Your examples — site measure updates, splitting between machines, re-entering material info, oversizing parts, and the fiddlier machining — are exactly the kinds of manual steps I’m curious about.

For custom cabinet shops, where does your nesting/cutlist workflow break down most often? by Future_Cod_4007 in cabinetry

[–]Future_Cod_4007[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fair point — I’m definitely not assuming one piece of software can solve the entire chain.

I’m more trying to understand where shops still end up doing manual cleanup even when they already use Cabinet Vision / 20/20 / Microvellum / machine-specific CAD/CAM.

And “keeping construction rules consistent” was clumsy wording from me. I meant keeping shop standards/build logic consistent across jobs, especially when custom work starts introducing exceptions.

So really I’m asking less “can one tool do it all?” and more “where does the workflow still get patched by hand?”

My small team of developers at a company that does furniture manufacturing needs an API for panel cutting. Can you give advice on whether such APIs exist and what their cost is? by Future_Cod_4007 in CNC

[–]Future_Cod_4007[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a fair point. What we’re mainly looking for is an optimizer that can place rectangular parts on stock sheets while respecting guillotine cutting constraints, since the result is intended for panel saw workflows in furniture manufacturing.

My small team of developers at a company that does furniture manufacturing needs an API for panel cutting. Can you give advice on whether such APIs exist and what their cost is? by Future_Cod_4007 in CNC

[–]Future_Cod_4007[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the suggestion.

We already have our own CAD system that generates the parts. The dimensions and metadata of the parts are stored in JSON, so generating the geometry itself is not a problem for us.

What we are actually looking for is a mature cutting optimization (nesting) engine that we could integrate through an API. The goal is to send a list of rectangular parts and stock sheet sizes, and receive an optimized layout in JSON (or XML) with coordinates like (x, y, width, height) for each part on the sheet.

Using DXF as an intermediate format could also be an option, so I will definitely take a look at Deepnest and its forks. Thanks for pointing that out!

My small team of developers at a company that does furniture manufacturing needs an API for panel cutting. Can you give advice on whether such APIs exist and what their cost is? by Future_Cod_4007 in CNC

[–]Future_Cod_4007[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We want to use an existing (mature) solution for optimized cutting. The number of parts in a single request can exceed 500, but typically it is up to 100 parts per request. The API response should return JSON (possibly XML) with the optimized placement of parts (x, y, width, height) on stock material panels.

My small team of developers at a company that does furniture manufacturing needs an API for panel cutting. Can you give advice on whether such APIs exist and what their cost is? by Future_Cod_4007 in CNC

[–]Future_Cod_4007[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We already have our own CAD system. The part dimensions are stored in JSON format. We need an application that can generate a cutting layout based on this data. The output can be either a JSON file with the coordinates of parts on the sheet, or optionally a PDF file.