FS#1439New CAM feature proposal: Cutplan (nesting)
- Type
- Feature Request
- Status
- Closed
- Resolution
- Won't implement
- Category
- QCAD (main)
- Severity
- Low
- Priority
- Low
- Reported version
- 3.15.3
- Operating system
- All
- Reported
- 2016-06-24 by caigner
- Closed
- 2016-06-24 by andrew
After designing one ore more parts you may want to produce them.
Maybe it is a flat part, made out of copper sheet metal. You need several copies of the part and you wonder how you can arrange them on your sheet metal in a clever way, so that you end up with as little waste as possible.
And here software could really speed up the process. It would be a great addition to QCADs CAM abilities if it would be able to produce a cutplan.
Enter the size of the sheet metal (or whatever material), select the part(s), enter number of copies and let QCAD find the best way(s) of arrangement. Additional parameters could be clearance between parts and border margin.
Comments (1)
This is generally called 'nesting' and there are many existing solutions for this out there.
For QCAD/CAM, I'd consider such a feature to be out of scope.