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PowerNest product flyer Nesting and cutting optimizationWorld’s best library for 2D-shape automatic nesting! Target industries : Sheet metal working Packaging & Printing Foam products Woodworking manufacturing Any material you Synthetic & Technical nest and cut! materials As a pioneer for 35 years in the field of cutting World’s best nesting. optimization and automatic nesting of complex shapes for the cutting of materials in sheets, Alma • Unparalleled nesting performances provides CAD/CAM software developers with its • 35 years of expertise in nesting optimisation unique experience through the PowerNest library. • Any shape, any material PowerNest is powerful and comprehensive library for automatic nesting. It has been designed to Stand out from competitors. develop optimization applications for 2D nesting or CAM cutting and can be used in a wide range of • Make nesting you trump card sectors for various cutting techniques: oxycutting, • Performances unmatched by your competitors plasma and laser cutting, punching-nibbling, • Domain-specific features milling, waterjet, knife, saw blade, etc. Value-added service. Visit nesting.almacam.com and try PowerNest’s nesting • Fast and easy integration • Consultancy and support from optimization experts with your parts! • Customization to your needsAlma You save money. So do your clients.CAM software15, rue Georges Perec - 38400 Saint-Martin-d’Hères - France • Save on R&D costsTel. +33 (0)4 76 63 76 20 - [email protected] • Help your customers maximize material yieldsnesting.almacam.com - www.almacam.com (corporate) • Refine material consumption estimation

PowerNest product flyerVery powerful options built right inOutperforms competitors by 1% to 15% Manual nesting capacity © Alma 2015 - Non contractual documentThe PowerNest library uses Start a nesting manually andthe best of machine resources complete it in automatic modeto deliver outstanding • Improve an existing nestingperformances: • Interactive mode also enables• Fully use multi-core processors• Take advantage of full memory “smart” manual nestings using 64-bits Production-ready nesting taking into account all your constraintsUses true shapes and gets the best of it Integrate your expertise into specificOur algorithms use real shapes for better requirements such as relativeperformance: positions, patterns to avoid falling• Best orientation is chosen by the between bars, priority groups, etc.: • Improved quality algorithms among allowed orientations • Customized to your domain• Parts recesses are used to recursively nest Part protection area parts into other parts Defines a custom security areaMulti-format around parts for better quality: • Security areas may overlap for betterGlobal optimization on multiple sheets to save more material:• Sheets of different sizes and offcuts may be reused performances• Improve productivity by using the same layout several times • Customized security areas improve (multiplicity) performances much more than using global offsets valuesArbitrary non-rectangular formats Quality zone and defectsNests parts into non-rectangular sheets: Defines different quality zones• Perfect for specific industries where parts can or cannot be nested.• Allow reuse of offcuts • Perfect for heterogeneous materials • True-shape defect definition forFully automatic better performances• No human intervention needed, runs as “black box”• Simple to use: give it more time to get better performances Common cut Nests parts sharing one segment just at tool distance, so that they can be cut in a single pass: • Reduce cutting cycle time • Save material Try PowerNest’s nesting with your parts. A free cloud-based demo application available from our website: nesting.almacam.comPowerNest: world’s best library for 2D-shape automatic nesting!