Cut list import
Upload the spreadsheet you already keep. Map your columns once, and every row is checked and classified before a run is spent — span, width, quantity, and whether the width sits on the load-bar pitch grid.
Cut list importProduct · Overview
One job, done properly.
Take a list of grating pieces and decide how to cut them from standard panels, so the least material is wasted and every planned width is one your machine can actually produce.
Three capabilities
Import, nest, hand over.
Each stage exists because a grating panel is a welded lattice rather than a plate, and a general-purpose tool models none of that.
Nesting optimisation
A mixed-integer solve on the pitch grid, with the side-by-side gap, kerf, forging hold, panel bounds and frame-bar spans taken from your own machine profile. The same input always produces the same plan.
Nesting optimisationFabrication output
Panel layouts, requested against delivered width for every piece, waste broken down by cause, and structured notes for extra load bars and width joins. Exported as a PDF pack, an Excel workbook or CSV.
Fabrication outputWhy a general nester gets grating wrong
Width lives on the pitch grid.
Sheet-metal nesting rotates arbitrary shapes and packs them on a plate with a saw kerf between them. Almost none of that holds for electroforged grating.
| Rule | General-purpose nester | Grate Nesting |
|---|---|---|
| Piece width | Continuous — any value | Only widths on the load-bar pitch grid |
| Rotation | The main packing lever | Never — load bars run along the span |
| Gap between pieces | The saw kerf | Side-by-side gap set by the pitch, plus kerf |
| Off-grid width | Nested as drawn, corrected by hand later | Classified before the run, delivered width shown |
| Frame bars | Not modelled | Span reduction applied from the profile |
| Output | Geometry | Panel schedule, delivered widths, fabrication notes |
A layout that ignores the pitch grid is not a cheaper plan — it is a plan the factory cannot build, and the corrections undo most of the optimisation the tool performed.
Ready when you are
Three runs. No card.
Create your accountEvery new account starts with a machine profile and a sample cut list already filled in.