We hate watching good steel hit the scrap bin.
SmartNest started on a shop floor, not in a boardroom. We were hand-nesting plasma jobs, eyeballing gaps, and tossing offcuts that should have been the next bracket. So we built the tool we wished we had.
The problem we kept hitting
Every fabricator knows the feeling: a sheet of steel comes off the table half scrap. Parts placed by eye, safe gaps everywhere, drops too awkward to reuse. That waste is real money, on every single sheet.
What SmartNest does about it
SmartNest auto-nests your parts with true-shape interlocking, reuses every offcut from a shared remnant pool, and bridges cut-outs so nothing drops through the slats. It lives inside Rhino, so there is no exporting and no second program to fight.
- Tighter nests mean more parts per sheet and a smaller scrap rate.
- Remnant reuse turns yesterday's offcut into today's job.
- Auto-bridging saves the letters and centers you used to fish out of the bed.
Representative figures from a shop running SmartNest3D. Your numbers depend on your parts and stock.
Built by ChargedStudios
SmartNest is made by ChargedStudios, a full-stack development studio that builds anything, web apps, mobile, AI, APIs, and CAD plugins. We obsess over the boring details, kerf, lead-ins, remnant matching, so you do not have to.
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