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Electroforged grating · nesting system ready

How many electroforged panels should this job really take?

Grate Nesting converts a job’s grating list into a panel list and cutting plan: fewer customised panels, less nesting waste, and fabrication notes for extra bars and joins.

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  • 3 free runs
  • 500 rows per cut list
  • No card
Anonymised production panel · Completed run Layout detail
6000 mm usable span
  • Panel6000 × 923 mm
  • Grating pitch40 × 100 mm
  • Load-bar thickness3 mm
Panel area
5.54 m²
Nesting utilisation
97.2%
Panel example — Layout Detail 6000 × 923 mm · 40 × 100 mm pitch · 3 mm load-bar thickness
Enlarged anonymised production panel layout containing sixteen customised gratings
Panel area
5.54 m²
Nesting utilisation
97.2%
97.2%utilisation on the production panel above
3free runs, one-off, no card
500rows per cut list on the trial
1–3 mintypical solve time

Built for electroforged grating

Nesting that knows how a panel is made

Raw material is the biggest cost on a grating order, and the cutting layout decides how much of it you keep. Grate Nesting plans cuts the way an electroforged panel is actually produced — on the load-bar pitch grid, with the side-by-side gap and frame-bar spans as constraints, not afterthoughts.

  1. 01

    Built for grating, not adapted to it

    Load-bar pitch, bar thickness, panel bounds and frame-bar spans are part of the model, not notes for the operator. A general-purpose nester knows none of them and will happily plan a panel the machine cannot make.

  2. 02

    More of every panel becomes product

    Pieces are paired across the panel width on the side-by-side gap, so an end strip is not cut off and thrown away.

  3. 03

    Material saved is margin earned

    Every panel that stays unopened stays in stock. The result shows utilisation and offcut per panel and for the whole batch.

  4. 04

    Right first time, in minutes

    Hours of manual layout become a solver run that usually finishes in one to three minutes — and the plan only ever contains what the machine can build.

  5. 05

    The saving carries to the floor

    Fewer panels handled, fewer cuts, and every extra bar or width join listed in the fabrication notes before the job is released.

What changes when the panel plan is known

Material, labour and certainty — accounted for by the plan.

01 · Material

Fewer customised electroforged panels. Less nesting waste.

  • Panels and area the job needs
  • Span chosen for each panel
  • Utilisation and waste by cause
  • Narrow and under-utilised panels
02 · Labour

Less rework after the saw.

  • Panels to be handled
  • Split pieces and width joins
  • Extra load bars with positions
  • Requested and delivered widths
03 · Certainty

A plan your machine can make.

  • Pitch-grid width classification
  • Machine span and width bounds
  • Frame-bar span reduction
  • Preflight before a run is spent

What comes back

Output the shop can use.

The estimator can inspect the result. The fabricator can execute it. Every piece stays traceable to the source row and every adjustment carries a reason.

Panel layoutsCut by cut

Stock-panel drawings with piece labels, dimensions and clear offcut areas.

Delivered dimensionsRequested vs actual

See where pitch alignment changes width and which pieces need an extra load bar.

Fabrication notesStructured instructions

Bar positions, joins, split information and delivered width are data, not buried prose.

Shop-floor packPDF + Excel + CSV

Export the same reviewed result in formats the office and fabrication floor can use.

A utilisation percentage is not enough. See where every piece went and why every offcut remains.

Your demand · Your machine · One inspectable result

Three runs. No card. Your first result in minutes.

Optimise a job — free

Every new account starts with a prefilled machine profile and a sample cut list · 500 rows per cut list · One concurrent run