Almacam Nesting Component
The world’s most efficient nesting engine, fast, robust, full featured.
Maximize material yield and productivity, saves time, consumables and energy. Leverages the full cutting machines capabilities.
What it does
Almacam Nesting Component (formerly known as Powernest) is a powerful true-shape 2D nesting software library.
It reduces the material waste by optimizing the placement of parts in raw material. It addresses a wide range of industrial sectors involving cutting parts in flat raw material, such as sheet metal, wood, composite, foam, cardboard, paper and much more.
The library can be integrated into your CAM, ERP or quoting application. It is available as a DLL or as a Web service.
Benefits
• Maximize material yield beyond standard nesting engines
Achieve industry-leading material savings with true-shape optimization and advanced placement strategies.
• Handle the most complex industrial nesting scenarios with confidence
Robust algorithms designed to process intricate geometries, dense part mixes and large-scale production nests without failure.
• Boost productivity across the entire cutting workflow
Reduce calculation time while increasing machine throughput and overall operational efficiency.
• Ensure high accuracy between digital nesting and real production
Generate reliable, production-ready results aligned with real machine constraints and cutting behaviors.
• Accelerate time-to-market with seamless integration
Embed a proven industrial engine via API, avoiding costly in-house development and long validation cycles.
• Adapt to multiple industries and cutting technologies
Support a wide range of constraints (sheet metal, composites, plastics, wood…) and production strategies.
• Reduce operational risks with proven industrial technology
Algorithms validated in real production environments, ensuring stability and repeatability.
• Benefit from long-term partnership and expert support
Dedicated teams ensure integration success, continuous improvement and long-term roadmap alignment.
Main Features
• High-performance true-shape nesting component
Delivers optimal part placement using real geometries (not bounding boxes), maximizing material usage.
• Advanced constraint management for real production conditions
Supports complex rules including common-line cutting, multi-head machines, priorities, grain direction, orientation rules, positioning constraints, defects handling and nesting zones.
• Multi-objective optimization engine
Simultaneously optimizes material consumption, machine productivity, cutting time, energy usage and consumables.
• Scalable performance from simple to large industrial nestings
Efficiently processes both small batches and very large nesting problems with consistent performance.
• Adaptive optimization time control
Generate fast results in seconds for instant quoting, or extend computation time to reach higher optimization levels.
• Interactive nesting capabilities via API
Enable manual or semi-automatic nesting workflows with full control over placement strategies.
• Remnant and drop management
Advanced evaluation and reuse of remnants to improve long-term material efficiency.
• Robustness on complex geometries and dense layouts
Maintains stability and performance even with highly detailed parts and tight nesting conditions.
• Flexible integration architecture (C++, C#, etc.)
Full API access allowing deep customization and seamless embedding into CAD/CAM or SaaS platforms.
Bring Advanced Nesting Intelligence Into Your Applications
Industrial-grade CAM algorithms designed for software integration.