55 of 56
parts of a corner-sofa order on one scanned hide, around 7 defects and 13 grade zones
13% shorter
textile marker after the engine kept searching past its first fit
DXF + SVG
out, one file per hide or marker, with your layers and curves kept
0 installs
in your browser, with jobs on cloud machines of up to 8 vCPU
Figures from the sample files shown on this page, nested by the Lescut engine.
Nesting by eye leaves leather on the table
No two hides have the same shape, the same scars or the same weak belly. Laying parts out by eye, or with software made for rectangles of sheet metal, wastes hide on every order and puts parts where the customer will see the flaw.
Fabric looks simpler and costs just as much. A marker a few centimetres too long costs you those centimetres on every lay you spread.
Lescut nests every order against the real material: this hide, this roll width, these defects.
Leather nesting that respects every defect and grade
Bring the hide files your conveyor or camera scanner already produces. Lescut reads the outline, the defects and the quality zones, and places each part only where its grade allows.
Defects stay out of your parts
Holes, scars and brands from the scanner file become no-go areas, with a safety margin you set.
The right grade in the right place
Each part has a minimum grade, and a part can carry its own graded sub-zones: a seat front that must be prime on a panel whose back edge can take grade C.
Fewest hides, or lowest hide cost
Fill an order of N sets with the fewest hides, or with the cheapest hide area when your hides are priced differently.
Reads your scanner’s files
Layer-mapping profiles for conveyor and fixed-table camera systems, set once per scanner.
Small parts fill the gaps
Part-in-part nesting puts welts, tabs and piping inside cut-outs and between larger panels.
Straight to your cutting table
One DXF per hide for your CNC knife table, nested in as little as 10 seconds while the hide waits on the table.
What the engine sees in a scanner file
Hide H-2026-0011: 7 defects and 13 grade zones. The nest at the top of this page places 55 parts on it and uses 79% of its area.
Textile nesting
Textile nesting: the shortest marker for your roll width
Enter the fabric width, upload the pattern and set how many sets to cut. Lescut finds a marker that fits, then keeps searching for a shorter one until the job’s time is up.
AAMA/ASTM DXF in
Grain lines and quantities come from the pattern file, and you can change them per piece.
Grain, rotation and flip rules
Set per piece, so directional fabric and prints are never cut the wrong way.
85% fabric use on the sample above
True shape nesting interlocks curved pieces instead of boxing them.
Markers your cutter reads
One DXF and SVG per marker, with your original layers and curves.
From parts file to cutting file in three steps
- 01
Upload your parts
A DXF or SVG of closed outlines. Quantities, grades and rotation come from the file, or you set them per part.
- 02
Add hides or a roll width
One scanner DXF per hide for leather. For textile, just the fabric width.
- 03
Nest and download
Choose how many sets to cut. Get one cutting file per hide, or one marker, with the yield of each.
Pricing
Nesting plans for leather and textile, free for 7 days
Every plan starts with a 7-day free trial. Add a card when you sign up; you are charged only if you keep the plan after the trial.
Scanned hides with defects and grade zones: furniture, automotive, footwear, leather goods.
Leather Enterprise
from €890 per month
3,000 engine minutes, 8 vCPU per job, jobs up to 30 min
- Everything in Leather Pro
- 8 vCPU per job and longer runs
- Priority queue
- REST API (planned)
- SSO (planned)
Fabric on the roll, fixed width, shortest marker: apparel, upholstery fabric, technical textiles.
Textile Starter
€29 per month
60 engine minutes, 1 vCPU per job, jobs up to 2 min
- Roll nesting: fixed width, shortest marker
- Rotation, grain and flip rules per part
- Part-in-part nesting
- DXF / SVG in, DXF / SVG out, layers kept
Textile Pro
€49 per month
120 engine minutes, 2 vCPU per job, jobs up to 10 min
- Everything in Textile Starter
- 120 engine minutes per month
- 2 vCPU per job and jobs up to 10 min
Prices in EUR, billed monthly through Stripe. Engine minutes are the time a nesting job runs on your plan’s machine. Change plans any time; the difference is prorated.
Questions about nesting with Lescut
What is nesting?
Nesting is laying out the parts you need to cut on a hide, a roll or a sheet so they use as little material as possible. Lescut does true shape 2D nesting: it works with the real outlines of your parts, curves and notches included, not the rectangles around them.
What is leather nesting?
Leather nesting places parts on natural hides, where every hide has its own shape, defects and quality zones. Good leather nesting keeps parts out of defects, puts each part on a grade it allows, and fills an order with as few hides as possible. Lescut reads all of this from your hide scanner's DXF files.
How does the 7-day free trial work?
Pick a plan, create your account and add a card through Stripe. You get the full plan for 7 days and pay €0. Cancel from the Billing page before the trial ends and you are never charged; otherwise the monthly price starts when the trial ends.
Why do you ask for a card?
Nesting jobs run on dedicated cloud machines, and a card keeps those for people cutting real orders. Checkout shows the date of the first charge before you confirm, and nothing is charged during the trial.
Which file formats do you support?
Parts come in as DXF (plain or AAMA/ASTM) or SVG. Hides come in as the DXF your scanner exports. You get one DXF and one SVG back per hide or marker, with your original layers and curves, moved and rotated into place.
Which hide scanners work with Lescut?
Any scanner that exports a DXF with the hide outline, defects and quality zones on layers, from conveyor systems to fixed cutting tables with a camera. A scanner profile maps your vendor's layer names once; every later batch reads the same way.
Which cutting machines does it work with?
Any cutter whose software imports DXF or SVG. For leather that is usually a CNC knife cutting table with an oscillating blade; lasers and die presses work too. Set the gap between parts to match your blade or kerf.
How does the nest get back onto the hide?
Either nest while the hide waits on the cutting table, with a short search of 10 to 30 seconds, and cut it where it lies. Or scan a batch of hides, nest the whole order across them for a better yield, and line each hide up again with your table's projector or camera before cutting.
Can I use it for laser cutting?
Yes. The cutting files are plain DXF and SVG, which laser software imports directly. On leather a laser darkens the cut edge, so most leather factories cut larger parts with a knife table and keep the laser for small, detailed parts.
Can I nest parts drawn in Fusion 360?
Yes. Export the sketch as DXF from Fusion 360, AutoCAD, Illustrator, Inkscape or your pattern CAD and upload it. Each closed outline becomes a part.
Is Lescut sheet metal nesting software?
No. Lescut is built for flexible materials: hides with defects and grades, and fabric on a roll. It nests any flat DXF part on a fixed width, but it has none of the sheet metal specifics such as common-line cutting, lead-ins or remnant tracking.
Can I nest both leather and textile?
Yes, as two organizations under one login. Each organization nests one material with its own parts, jobs and plan, and you switch between them from the menu.
How does online nesting work?
You upload your files in the browser and the nesting runs on our servers, so there is nothing to install. Lescut runs in the browser and nesting jobs run on cloud machines sized by your plan, up to 8 vCPU. You watch progress live and download the files when the job finishes.