Rectangular Nesting Software, Astra R Nesting

By: Dmitro Udovitsky

The tools of Astra R-Nesting will allow you to quickly and easily create a nesting order and also to perform automated nesting. Layouts can be edited with great precision using this solution and you can also calculate and save offcuts. Viewing and printing out detailed reports is also easy and you can use the software for printing labels for sheets and parts and also formulating and printing off invoices and calculating their costs. Data can be output for a wide variety of CNC cutting machines.

Using Astra R-Nesting lets you create nesting orders by allowing you to import data from other computer aided design software or manually entering the parts. You can also use the standard assemblies library which allows you to store layouts for future orders. This greatly helps to reduce data entry times since all you will need to do once this feature is configured is run a few commands and the order will then be ready.

Automatic nesting is also performed using the organizational and technological options of the production. You can use these options to set edge trimming options, end-to-end cutting settings, nesting style, minimal distance between the saws and kerf width. This unique set of options and settings is a distinctive feature of this advanced nesting software, providing you with everything that you need to get the very best results.

The process of manually editing your cutting layouts is also simplified, offering you a number of different methods for the quickest and most precise adjustments to the layout. You can place groups of parts into the cutting width, align to the common base and set snap limits and more. Zooming in and out of the nesting windows and undoing actions is also supported, so you don't have to worry if you end up making a mistake.

This nesting software also gives you a full account of any reusable offcuts and it can complete order reports. Full sets of technological reports are created for any nesting order. This includes a draft and a complete specification which contains all of the information needed for creating parts as well as providing the workflow analysis. Several layouts may also be printed on a single page and the following information is also provided: nesting order specification, report of the material status, specifications of edge banding, part labels and the invoice for the materials and work included in the order.

Astra R-Nesting software also integrates with CAD, CAM and ERP systems. Data from these systems can be loaded into the software and the software can provide you with the results of these calculations. The nesting software may be executed from a command line, data can be imported automatically, offcuts can be calculated and the order's cutting layout can be generated. The nesting software can also be run in an invisible mode so that the program's window is not displayed.

You can find out more about this nesting software from the product website at http://www.techno-sys.com. Here you can find a detailed overview, list of features and purchase information.