Hi Anis,

> I am aware that boundingbox cant calculate nesting for
> me automatically.
> But here I just hope that one day you can use boundingbox as the
> first step to build nesting mechanism inside MoI.

Yeah but all the steps that come afterward are difficult.


> Can you please refer to me software that can work like what
> I have described in my first post of this thread ?

I'm not directly familiar with any myself. But just do a Google search on something like "software for 3d nesting" - by just doing that search I found this one:
http://www.tecsol3d.com/materialise/prod05.htm

You may want to direct your search towards STL processing software, since it looks like that may be more common in that area for optimizing the placement of 3d parts that will be generated in a rapid prototyping machine.

Also you might try looking for research papers for 3D nesting and see if that leads you to any products that were produced by the authors of the papers.

- Michael

Hello,

Some low cost packages to do package design, load planning and optimization. I have no experience with any of them, and in no particular order, but will eventually use one of them in the next few months:

http://www.koona.com/

http://www.topseng.com/

http://www.coptimal.com/

http://www.softtruck.com/

http://www.cargooptimizer.com/

There are also a group of higher cost options out there, but I won't bother researching those since I will not utilize those features for the foreseeable future.