Minimizing material usage is one of the most important factors to reduce the cost of a sheet metal part, since material costs represent up to 80% of the total cost of the part.

The AutoForm-Nest software module is specialized for determining the optimal nesting layout on the coil, and is ideal for job costing, bidding and planning.

Photo: AutoForm-Nest - Courtesy of Allgaier

It is the only software on the market that automatically calculates the best nesting layout – while taking into account the variation in costs of different coil widths. This is a very important feature because material costs can vary by up to 25% depending on coil width.

The main benefits of AutoForm-Nest are:

	Minimization of material costs
	Minimization of material usage
	Optimized bidding as a result of more accurate calculation of material costs

AutoForm-Nest’s main features for cost-optimized nesting of blanks include:

	Four different types of nesting layouts (one-up, two-up, one-up/one-down, two shapes nesting)
	Powerful and flexible set-up features (min. and max. coil width, cost table, max. pitch, etc.)
	Simultaneous handling of several nesting layouts
	Semi-automatic / manual result manipulation
	Consideration of pierced blanks
	Export of calculated layouts
	Parametric link to all AutoForm software modules

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Last Update September 01, 2008