Hide scanner files
Your scanner’s DXF, read the way your scanner writes it
Conveyor scanners and camera tables each name their layers differently. A scanner profile maps your vendor’s layers to the hide outline, defects and grade zones once; every batch you upload after that is read the same way.
A whole batch at once
Upload the scan of every hide in a batch. Lescut lists each hide with its area, defects and zones before you nest.
Hide groups for shade lots
Label hides that match in shade, or treat a whole batch as one lot, so strict sets never mix shades.
Priced hides
Give hides their own price and nest for the lowest leather cost instead of the fewest hides.
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 of a corner-sofa order on it and uses 79% of its area.
Defects and quality grades
Every part on leather good enough for it
Yield never comes at the cost of a flaw in the wrong place. Defects, grades, grain and the gap between parts are hard rules: the search only ever compares nests that keep all of them.
Defects stay out of your parts
Holes, scars and brands from the scan become no-go areas, with a safety margin you set.
Grades A to D
Unmarked leather is prime; zones carry grade B, C or D. A part sits only on its own grade or better.
Graded sub-zones per part
A seat front that must be prime on a panel whose back edge can take grade C: each zone of the part is checked on its own.
Rotation, grain and flip rules
Set per part, so the stretch direction and the grain of the leather run the way the product needs.
Small parts fill the gaps
Part-in-part nesting puts welts, tabs and piping inside cut-outs and between larger panels.
Your blade’s gap
Set the minimum distance between parts to match your knife or laser kerf.
Cutting
Two ways onto your cutting table
Every hide comes back as its own DXF and SVG with your original layers and curves, for CNC knife tables, lasers and die presses. A cutter profile renames and recolours layers for your table’s tools.
- 01
Nest on the table
Scan the hide, run a 10 to 30 second search while it waits on the cutting table, and cut it where it lies.
- 02
Nest the batch
Scan a batch, nest the whole order across it for a better yield, and line each hide up again with your table’s projector or camera before cutting.
Pricing
Leather nesting plans, free for 7 days
Every plan starts with a 7-day free trial with 60 engine minutes. Add a card when you sign up; you are charged only if you keep the plan after the trial.
Leather Enterprise
from €890 per month
3,000 engine minutes, 8 vCPU per job, jobs up to 30 min
- Everything in Leather Pro
- 5× the engine minutes and jobs up to 30 min
- 8 jobs at a time, each on its own 8 vCPU machine
- Priority queue
- Unlimited team members
- REST API for your own software (on request)
- SSO (planned)
Need more engine minutes or more jobs at a time? Contact us. Nesting fabric on the roll instead? See textile nesting.
Questions about leather nesting
What is leather nesting software?
Leather nesting software lays out the parts of an order on scanned hides so they use as little leather as possible. Unlike sheet or fabric nesting, every hide has its own outline, defects and quality zones, so the software has to place each part where the leather is good enough for it, and decide which hides to open at all.
Which hide scanners does Lescut work with?
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. You map your vendor's layer names to roles once in a scanner profile, and every later batch reads the same way.
How are grades handled?
Hide zones carry a grade (B, C or D, or a defect); unmarked leather is prime. Each part has a minimum grade and sits only on leather of that grade or better. A part can also carry graded sub-zones, so the visible front of a panel needs prime while its hidden edge may take grade C.
What happens when an order does not fit the hides I have?
You choose. Prefer complete sets places as many whole sets as fit, then fills leftover leather on hides already in use with parts of further sets. Strict complete sets places whole sets only, each within one hide group. Maximum utilisation places as many parts as fit, sets or not. Whatever is not placed is listed in the result.
Can I nest across several hide batches?
Yes. A job can use several batches. By default each set comes from one batch, so its components match in shade and grain; you can allow sets to mix batches when that does not matter. Yield, leftover and complete sets are reported per batch and for the whole job.
Can I trace each cut part back to its hide?
Yes. Every cut component records its batch and hide in the job report (CSV), and each cutting file carries a text with the job and hide it belongs to.
How long does a leather nesting job take?
You set the time. A short search of 10 to 30 seconds nests one hide while it waits on the cutting table. For a batch, longer jobs of several minutes keep improving the nest; you watch the yield live and can stop a job at any point and keep its best nest.
Which cutting machines can use the files?
Any cutter whose software imports DXF or SVG: CNC knife cutting tables with an oscillating blade, lasers and die presses. You get one file per hide with your original layers and curves, and a cutter profile can rename and recolour layers for your table's tools.