cnc nesting

[Dominique Meuris]

Hello

we are thinking of buying a cnc to help us increase our production capacity.

We are currently discussing on buying a cnc nesting machine. But I'm wondering about 1 thing.
our cabinets are 100% solid wood. so we would be producing solid wood sheets.
but ofcourse the size wouldn't alway's be exactly the same. sometimes it will be 2800mm x 1200mm, sometimes 3000 x 1200mm, ...
would this be a problem?

+ if we have cut out a complete furniture piece, but we have a few pieces remaining. how are these commonly used then?

thank you!

[William Adams]

In theory, one can store the left-over parts and cut from them later, in practice, that’s rarely worth the effort.

Best practice seems to be to determine the smallest stock size which can be cut from left-over material, if your storage system allows, store the remnant w/ that size stock uncut — if when you pull it you can use more than that size, bonus, if not, well, at least you got that much value out of it. If storage doesn’t allow for over-size bits to be store w/ standard-sized stock, rack it near your saw and when time is slack, cut it to a standard stock size and then store it.

[Gerry Grzadzinski]

Some of the higher end software packages can track your scrap material, and nest parts in it.