Nesting Engine · Plugin for Rhino 8
More parts per sheet.
Nesting Engine nests 2D parts automatically on material sheets, so that as little material as possible is lost — for laser, knife and print.
Available now for Rhino 8
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Remnants
Offcuts are recorded and filled first in later jobs.
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Series
Identical sheet layouts for series orders are replicated, not recalculated.
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Per sheet
Material utilisation reported for every sheet of a job.
The problem
Nesting by feel costs time and material.
Free tools are basic; industrial systems are expensive and tied to their cutting tables. Nesting Engine brings dense, automatic nesting to a normal PC — and understands a workshop’s reality: series, remnants, laser limits.
What it does
Fewer offcuts, less guesswork.
Automatic nesting
Press start and watch the sheets fill up. The utilisation is shown as a number at the end.
Manual fine-tuning
Drag and rotate parts by hand — they snap cleanly against each other.
Remnants first
Yesterday’s offcut is filled with today’s small parts.
Series mode
Models × copies: identical sheets appear without recalculating.
Several sheets, full control
Several sheets per job with a report for each one. Spacing and allowed rotations are yours to set.
By hand and with Nesting Engine
By hand
With Nesting Engine
Parts laid out by experience and feel
Automatic nesting on a normal PC
Half sheets end up in the corner
Remnants recorded and reused
Or expensive software tied to one cutting table
Utilisation as a number, per sheet
No number for the waste
Not tied to any cutting table
Made for
Not just footwear: anyone who cuts 2D parts from Rhino — leather, textiles, signs, model making.
Specifications
- Platform
- Rhino 8 plugin
- Operating system
- Windows (Mac currently not supported)
- Interface language
- English
- Files in
- DXF · Rhino geometry
- Files out
- DXF · Rhino geometry · utilisation report
- Licence
- Annual licence · 14-day trial licence
- Status
- Available now for Rhino 8
Works well with
Questions
Frequent questions
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No. Anyone who cuts 2D parts from Rhino can use it — leather, textiles, signs, model making.
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Patterns and nests are exported as DXF, prepared for the lasers and digital cutting tables common in the industry.
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Yes: Rhino 8 for Windows, licensed separately from McNeel. Mac is currently not supported.
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Yes. After the demo call you can test the plugins for 14 days with a trial licence.
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Only on your own computer. The plugins work locally inside Rhino — nothing is uploaded.
See Nesting Engine fill a sheet.
Free demo call in English, German, Italian or Bosnian/Serbian/Croatian. 14-day trial licence afterwards.
Request a free demo call