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SVG Sheet Nester

Material is the cost you can still change after the design is finished.

Nothing is uploaded. It runs in your browser, so your files never leave your machine — and it stays free.

Part of the Maker Toolkit: fourteen tools that share one shop profile and one product list, so what you set up here is already known everywhere else.

How it works

SVG Sheet Nester, step by step

Drop in your cut files, set how many of each you need and what sheet you’re running. It packs them onto as few sheets as it can, reports the fill honestly, and gives you a separate file for anything that wouldn’t fit.

  1. Add your cut filesOne or many. Set the quantity you need for each.
  2. Set your sheetA common size or your own, plus part spacing and edge margin.
  3. NestQuick, balanced, or best fit. Best fit tries several packing orders and keeps the winner.
  4. DownloadOne sheet, all sheets, or a combined layout to eyeball the whole run.

Why it is built this way

The decisions behind it

Honest about the fillParts pack by bounding box, so an L-shape reserves its whole rectangle. The tool says so rather than overselling the percentage.
Respects the grainTurn rotation off for directional material and parts are placed only the way you drew them.
Nothing disappearsAnything too big for the sheet lands in its own file, so you can’t lose track of it.

Questions

SVG Sheet Nester — common questions

How does SVG nesting reduce material waste?

By packing parts against each other rather than laying them out by eye on a grid. The nester uses a rectangle-packing pass that tries rotations and fills the gaps left by earlier parts. On a mixed run the difference between a hand layout and a packed one is routinely a whole sheet.

Can it nest parts across more than one sheet?

Yes. Give it the run and it fills sheets in turn, telling you how many you need and how much of the last one is left. That last number is the one worth watching, because it is the offcut you either use next time or throw away.

What if a part is bigger than my laser bed?

The nester will tell you it does not fit rather than quietly cropping it. Send it to the Panel Splitter, which cuts it into bed-sized pieces with joints that mate, then nest the pieces.

Next in the workflow

What most makers open after this

These are not a list of everything. They are the tools this one hands off to, and they already know what you did here.

FreeLaser SplitterTurn a design that’s bigger than your bed into pieces that fit it.FreeYour ProductsMeasure it once. Price it once. Every other tool reads from here.FreeProduct PricingPrice it so you actually get paid.

Free, and staying free

This one costs nothing. No account, no limits, no watermark.

Ten of the fourteen tools are free for good. If you want the generators that design the product, and the planner that tells you whether the batch fits your week, that is what the Hub is for.

See what the Hub adds