OpenCutList - a Crowdfunded Extension - ✅ Beta 7.0 Available!

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Promise #5 : Nesting Parts and Optimal cost

Cutting Diagram is one of the most important features of OpenCutList. It’s important to us that this feature evolves with your needs. Therefore, we’re excited to make the promise to add nesting in the next release.

We will also take advantage of the complete rewriting of the algorithm to propose the calculation of the optimal cutting cost with several material sizes.

The following video gives you an overview:

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man, I bought (and later resold) my laser cutter 8 years too early… this is good stuff !

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It’s maybe not too late to rebuy a new one :joy:

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Love this. :heart_eyes:

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In response to a user, here is a demo of the implication of drilled parts where the hole could be used by the nesting algorithm to place smaller parts into it.

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Yeah :tada:

So what are the next steps ?

  1. Financial Contributors are invited to play with a beta version. This beta gives us the perfect opportunity to add translations, fine-tune everything and squash any bugs before the official launch.
  2. A public beta will probably follow in the coming weeks.
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  1. champagne. that’s what the 95$ are here for :slight_smile:
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… Or maybe offer this money to Trimble so that they can reinforce the extension verification team so that it takes less than 3 weeks to be validated… :thinking: ?

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Please don’t try and bribe the extension team, they have enough on their plate without having to get embroiled in the reporting system of the compliance department :wink:

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Arg, I got caught :face_with_peeking_eye:!

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It does look to be approved today.

Yes, thank you!

Hello,

OpenCutList 7.0 : Entering Public Beta Stage

We are pleased to open the OpenCutList 7.0 beta to everyone.

Find all the information you need to download and test this new version in the following news:

Important information

  • This is a version under development, take care if you use it in production!
  • Not all languages ​​are available yet. They are coming gradually.
    • Please contact us if you would like to help with the translation.
  • Documentation on new features is currently being written.
  • The beta 7.0 RBZ file is not signed
  • There will be very frequent updates. Remember to update, when notified by OpenCutList.

Your feedback is important. Let’s finalize the best version together.

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Hi @boris.beaulant,
I noticed the following under the ‘What’s New’ heading:

‘Export drawing with overflows’

What does this feature do exactly, and how do we access/configure it?

Best.

Hello @Early_Hominid,

This feature allows the projection algorithm to understand the part geometry and detect borders where overflow can be useful for machining with CNC :

It can be useful for tenons :

Or steps :

You can enabled this feature from export configuration forms by setting the Merging mode to Outline + Drillings + Overflow with an Overflow dimension.

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