Hello Bryan,
Thank you for sharing the project here.
Here is my feedback on my scenario.
I cut the packaging boxes from pre-cut cardboard sheets in 600x350 and 500x400 mms. I have 3 different sized boxes which I’d like to cut as many as possible from these sheets. First of all, in all the nesting applications I had tried in years so far, I haven’t seen an option to just give the sheet size (with unlimited or by specified amount of sheets) and the shapes by quantity then to let the process work on the best fit for/on the least amount of sheets. This would have been handy in my case.
After fitting 7 shapes into the given sheet dimensions, it stopped (as intended on time limit) with 17 shapes remaining.Would be nice if in continued into further sheets (by choice) to fit all given shapes into given sheet sizes. (attached image)
Secondly, first I uploaded a lightburn file with the grouped shapes of each box type (3 different layers with my brand on it and folding perforations etc.) - this was not recognized. Then I have taken off all layers but the outline layer - joined the lines (they apparently came out broken up from the box generator software) and uploaded the file with box templates arrayed as single shapes only. It worked this way. (as attached here)
My 3rd comment would be about the nest preview; I did not take a screenshot or paused it at that moment but I think I might have seen one corner of my shapes (it was rotated by around 45-50 degrees) was overlapping another’s edge - which didn’t repeat again to the last generation and when it was stopped.
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