Nesting programs

[Ralph2]

Hello
Anyone have any nesting programs they would recommend? All of our cutting is done by hand or a radio-graph that follows a pattern drawn by hand or a full size CAD sketch.
We are looking for something that we could import a shape (AutoCAD drawing) into and have the optimum placement indicated on a given size of plate.
Other features might include cutting time, gas used, material previously cut out to be considered in the next job..
Thanks for any information / recomendations

 

[berkshire]

We use a program called fast cut which prints out a page showing optimum placement of parts and sorts for best use of material from given sheet sizes including utilization of drops. I have a link here but I do not know if it is the correct one.

http://www.plasmasouth.com/fastcam/fastcut.htm

Anyway see if this will do you any good.
B.E.