Industrial components for Quotation and Production platforms
From customer CAD files to accurate quotes and production-ready CNC programs
The sheet metal industry is rapidly moving toward fully digital, real-time business processes. Customers now expect instant, reliable and transparent pricing, making online quotation and production platforms essential infrastructure.
To deliver accurate quotes, these platforms must rely on clean geometries and powerful computational engines capable of precise shape analysis and reliable cost calculations. Building such technologies internally can be complex, costly and time-consuming.
By integrating proven industrial components for CAD import, automatic unfolding, nesting and costing, platforms can accelerate time-to-market while ensuring accuracy, speed and scalability.
Almacam CAD Import Components
Import and analyze 2D & 3D CAD files automatically.
Almacam Import Component handles both 2D (DXF/DWG) and 3D (STEP) CAD files, including complex and large assemblies.
When processing 3D models, it automatically detects sheet metal parts — whether already flat or still folded — and performs reliable unfolding with no manual operation required.
Key Benefits
• Full Automation from CAD to Flat: Clean Geometry Import STEP files and retrieve the related 2D geometries for each item thanks to powerful unfolding algorithms.
• Quicker, More Accurate Quoting: Instantly extract meaningful geometric and bending information to generate precise cost drivers in seconds.
• Industrial Technology Without Development Overhead: Integrate a proven import and unfolding engine instead of building, maintaining and updating your own core technology.
• Scalable Performance for High-Volume Platforms: Robust architecture designed for large assemblies, multiple users and demanding SaaS environments.
Key Features
• Comprehensive CAD Compatibility Import DXF/DWG (2D) and STEP (3D), including complex and multi-part assemblies.
• Automatic Cleaning & Sheet Metal Unfolding: Stitch open contours, remove duplicates, detect bent sheet metal parts and generate flat geometries automatically.
• Advanced Geometry Intelligence Extraction: Thickness, bend count, bend length, area, perimeters, contour count and other key metrics for quoting and production workflows.
• Highly configurable & production-ready output: Machine-compatible DXF export, layer-to-machining mapping, scaling control and detailed error reporting.
Integration
• Available as a WebService
• Full API control for tight integration with your platform
• Scales from instant quotes to production batch optimization
Almacam Nesting Component-automatic and efficient
World-class nesting intelligence for quotation and production platforms
Almacam Nesting Component is a true-shape 2D nesting engine granting precise evaluation for material consumption.
It is the core optimization engine behind quoting and production workflows.
Key Benefits
• Production-realistic results, with accurate material estimations and alignment with real shop floor conditions.
• Industrial robustness, with stable performance on complex geometries and large production batches.
• Fast processing speed with immediate results ready for instant online quoting.
Key Features
• True-shape 2D nesting technology for accurate part placement
• Advanced features: common-cut, multi-head, sheet defect specification, and many more
• Multi-objective optimization balancing material, energy and consumable savings with improved productivity.
• Industrial-grade robustness, even with complex geometries and demanding nesting scenarios
• Scalable performance, from small batches to large-scale industrial production runs
Integration
• One or several components available as Web Services
• Full API control for tight integration with your platform
• Scales from instant quotes to production batch optimization
Why Quotation & Production Platforms Choose Almacam Components
More than technology — a long-term industrial partner.
Quotation and production platforms require speed, accuracy and robustness to deliver reliable results at scale. Almacam Components provide one or combined industrial-grade algorithms built on more than 45 years of expertise in sheet metal processing and cutting technologies.
The same core engines used in production guarantee consistency between quotation results and manufacturing reality.
Designed for demanding digital platforms, our components offer scalable performance, continuous innovation and long-term technology stability — helping you build faster, more reliable and future-proof solutions.
Build faster. Quote smarter. Nest better.
Deliver accurate quotes and optimized production with the most efficient nesting engine on the market.