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Release notes

SmartNest ships small and often. Updates install through Rhino's Package Manager. Here is what has changed.

v2.4
May 2026
● LATEST

Auto-bridging lands

  • New
    Auto-bridging finds every island in a cut-out and adds holding tabs so letters and centers never drop through the slats. Pro plan.
  • New
    Tab width and count now tune automatically by material and thickness.
  • Improved
    Remnant matching is roughly 30% faster on large pools.
  • Fixed
    Fixed a rare case where coincident curves were nested twice.
v2.3
Mar 2026

Shared remnant pool

  • New
    Shared remnant pool lets a whole shop nest from the same offcut rack.
  • Improved
    Smallest-fit-first matching keeps full sheets intact for big parts.
  • Fixed
    Origin placement now respects custom CPlanes.
v2.2
Jan 2026

Profiles for every cutter

  • New
    Router profile with tab hold-downs and ramped lead-ins.
  • Improved
    Lead-in styles per process: arc, straight, and ramp.
  • Fixed
    Metric and imperial mixing no longer rounds spacing oddly.
v2.1
Nov 2025

Faster true-shape packing

  • Improved
    New packing core nests true shapes up to 2x faster.
  • Improved
    Free rotation now finds tighter interlocks on irregular parts.
  • Fixed
    Fixed flipped parts on mirrored geometry.
v2.0
Sep 2025

SmartNest 2.0

  • New
    Rebuilt for Rhino 8 with native Mac support.
  • New
    Remnant inventory introduced.
  • Improved
    One-click material and sheet presets.