Features

Powerful Nesting

NestFab saves you time and money, while using your material more effectively – you have full control over nesting settings such as part quantities, sheet sizes and part rotation to meet the demands of any cutting technologies and materials. Finding excellent nests quickly and continuously looking for improvements for outstanding material usage, watch as NestFab makes saving after saving off your bottom-line!

There is no better nesting software than NestFab available anywhere else in the world today! Check out our Ultra-Performance add-on for the smartest nesting that wins even more material savings. Favouring repeated nests where possible can dramatically reduce programming time, while utilizing common cuts can reduce the cutting time.

Interactive CAD Importer

Have a CAD file with a border or title block? No problem – our importer is smart and will automatically find the part to be imported, while ignoring everything else. It’s easy to import your CAD drawings, using our fantastic interactive importer. As multiple parts are identified from one CAD file – there is no need to split out your parts into multiple CAD files! Take full control over which layers and colours should be ignored or imported and their purpose for nesting (e.g. nesting outline or information to attach), the importer quickly checks that imported parts match the original drawing with our linked previews (original on the left, imported on the right). Not forgetting, that industry standard CAD formats are supported up to the very latest versions.

Export Nests

Save nested layouts to industry standard CAD formats, with a huge selection of export options, for maximum compatibility with your existing workflows and toolchains.

 

Printed Reports

Why not print out a variety of nesting reports to assist your production team before and after cutting? By using our detailed nesting report for easier identification of parts after nests have been cut, you’ll speed up the picking of parts by up to 40% (or more!).

Workflow Automation

Using a production planning system to determine cutting lists? No problem.

Export a list of your parts from your planning system as a CSV file (comma separated values) and NestFab will import all of these for you in one operation. XML and CSV based integrations are available via command-line, for seamless integration with other systems and workflows.

Modern User Interface

NestFab makes it easier and quicker to set up your nesting projects than all other nesting software. Spend less time setting up and more of your time nesting and winning material.

You don’t need to be a rocket scientist or a brain surgeon to use our software. We have designed everything to be clean, modern and above everything else very easy to use. We believe that good software should help you get the job done and not get in the way!

Testimonials

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    About three years ago we began looking for nesting software to maximize nesting efficiencies and help reduce our raw material costs. We worked with several software companies, trying out various demo software and even having some on-site software demonstrations. It quickly became clear that NestFab had the best user interface, the best CAD importer, and the best nesting performance. Efficient Software were the only company that would actually talk with us, listen to us, and understand our software needs. NestFab is ideal for our needs and the tool is of great value.

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    Rick Ericson, Starkey Hearing Technologies, USA

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    Nestfab ensures that we, as a shipyard, bear the costs in hand regarding the cutting of the steel. Where we previously had to outsource the nesting of all the metal parts of a yacht which can be around 160 tons of steel, and thus lost control, we have it now again completely in our own hands. Sometimes in smaller projects, we get the cutting files in the tendering stage. So we can also use nestfab to calculate the cutting costs in advance. An affordable program that has already been repaid several times.

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    Marten Buijs, Gebr. Buijs Scheepsbouw B.V., Netherlands

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    We tested and compared several nesting software solutions before choosing NestFab. Some were cheaper, others were much more expensive but, in our case, NestFab was the option with the best performance. With NestFab our company has saved a lot of money from even the first day’s usage.

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    Matthias Otte, Germany

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    Nestfab helps me save a lot of time and money. Our files are nested quickly so our production line is faster as well. We have saved a lot of money compared to the price of the software. I highly recommend NestFab to anyone looking for a powerful nesting software.

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    Alex, Winlok Industrial Ltd, China

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    The Nestfab software is user friendly and has saved our company a lot of time, as well as helping to reduce our material waste. The customer service and support staff have always been helpful, friendly and prompt to respond to any questions or concerns. This software is a great investment to our company.

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    Jason Traxler, Hensley Fabricating & Equipment Co. Inc, USA

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    We have continuously benefitted from the ‘no strings’ perpetual licence, excellent efficiencies, fantastic support and ongoing improvements. NestFab has a performance to rival all other nesting software and does so at a competitive price.

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    Tom Stead, Gurit, United Kingdom

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    A good investment in software, saving us around a 5 hours per week in labour and also a good saving in reduced material waste.

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    Jack Bussey, JBI Corporation, United Kingdom

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    Using Nestfab to automate the nesting of our sail panels prior to cutting has saved us countless hours and thousands of pounds in material wastage costs. The guys at Efficient software always listen to our suggestions and are constantly improving the functionality and efficiency of the software as a result. Nestfab has paid for itself several times over.

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    Andrew Wood, Solo Sails, United Kingdom

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    We are very satisfied with the improved performance in comparison to MyNesting. We are rapidly approaching the busiest time of the year for our company and because of that we are especially happy about every sheet that we can save due to improved nesting performance.

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    Sebastian Koch, Sora Shop, Germany

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    Our customers use NestFab along with our CNC knife machines to optimize a wide variety of materials and applications. It’s simple to use, easy to integrate, and extremely flexible. We have customers in the glass industry seeing 15-30% material savings. We have customers cutting Carbon Fiber, a very expensive material, and NestFab pays for itself in days, not months. We have sailmakers who use NestFab to turn a very time consuming task of manual nesting into one that takes only seconds. NestFab has a very clean user interface, is intuitive to operate, generates thorough nesting reports, and is constantly improving. If you spend more than one or two hours per week nesting, then NestFab is a one year ROI and a no-brainer.

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    Thomas Carlson, Carlson Design, USA