Online nesting that gets more parts out of every hide and roll

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.

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.

Textile nesting, or marker making, lays out every pattern piece of an order on a fabric roll of fixed width so the marker is as short as possible; every centimetre saved is saved again on every ply. Lescut keeps pieces on grain, matches stripes and plaids, nests folded and tubular fabric on half the width, and reads AAMA/ASTM DXF from your pattern CAD.

Sheet nesting places the parts of an order on stock sheets, plywood, MDF, acrylic, composite panels or metal, so the order needs as few sheets as possible, or costs the least when your sizes have different prices. Lescut nests on one or several sheet sizes, keeps wood grain and face-up sides where you ask, drops small parts inside the cut-outs of larger ones, and can place complete kits first.

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.

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.

Parts come in as DXF (plain or AAMA/ASTM) or SVG. Hides come in as the DXF your scanner exports; for fabric you enter the roll width, for sheets their sizes and counts. You get one DXF and one SVG back per hide, marker or sheet, with your original layers and curves, moved and rotated into place.

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.

Any cutter whose software imports DXF or SVG. For leather that is usually a CNC knife cutting table with an oscillating blade, for fabric an automatic multi-ply cutter or a single-ply knife table, for sheets a CNC router, laser, waterjet or plasma table. A cutter profile renames and recolours layers for your tools; set the gap between parts to match your blade or kerf.

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.

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.

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.

Lescut nests flat parts on stock sheets, wood, plastics, composite panels or metal, on as few sheets as it can, and returns DXF and SVG with your original layers. It does not write toolpaths: lead-ins, cut order and common-line cutting with a kerf stay with your CAM or cutter software (for knife tables it can cut shared straight edges once), and offcuts are not yet kept as stock.

Yes, as separate organizations under one login. Each organization nests one material with its own parts, jobs and plan, and you switch between them from the menu.

Yes. Pro and Enterprise plans include a REST API: create an API key from your account, and your ERP, CAD, scanner station or script sends parts and hides, a roll width or sheet sizes, follows the job's progress, and gets back the placements and the DXF and SVG cutting files. The API docs list every endpoint with curl examples.

Yes. If you make pattern CAD, cutting tables, hide scanners or cutting-room software, Lescut can be the nesting module behind it: your software sends the parts and the hides, roll or sheets through the API and draws the nest it gets back, in your own interface. Your customers' outlines can travel with each job instead of being stored with us. Offering nesting to your own customers runs on partner terms; contact us to set them up.

Yes. The API is described in an OpenAPI document, so you can load it into an agent framework, a custom GPT action or a client generator and give the agent an API key. The agent then uploads parts, starts jobs and downloads cutting files like any other client, within your plan's engine minutes and request limits, and the error messages tell it how to fix a request.

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 16 vCPU. You watch progress live and download the files when the job finishes.

Yes. Your patterns, hides and results stay yours and are visible only to your organization. They are stored encrypted in the EU, and the job data sent to the machines that run the engine is encrypted with a key we hold. We never share them with other customers, use them to train or tune the engine, or show them in marketing without your written consent. To keep nothing with us, send the outlines with each job through the API instead of uploading files: they exist only as part of that job, which is deleted when you delete it or 24 hours after it ends.