ASCON Releases New Sheet-Material Nesting App for KOMPAS-3D

ASCON has announced a new product, the Раскрой application for automated sheet-material nesting in KOMPAS-3D. It helps manufacturers more accurately estimate material needs and create optimized nesting layouts to reduce costs and accelerate production.

The new application can be used in shipbuilding, general mechanical engineering, metalworking, and other industries.

The Раскрой application is intended for:

• design engineers who create nesting maps, calculate efficiency, and prepare design documentation;

• process engineers who configure nesting parameters and prepare manufacturing instructions;

• procurement and materials specialists who manage warehouse offcuts, control costs, and optimize inventory.

The first version creates nesting maps from FRW or DXF contours in automatic or manual mode. It calculates material utilization and cutting length and can identify usable offcuts manually or automatically. Results can be exported as nesting maps (DXF), usable offcuts (FRW/DXF), and cutting sheets (FRW/DXF).

Layout of part contours on sheet material

Planned enhancements include importing KOMPAS-3D assemblies with automatic contour generation; considering material grain direction; and importing DXF contours from third-party CAD systems with preprocessing. Reporting features will also be expanded. Longer-term plans include integrating Раскрой into enterprise PLM and MES systems.

“We compared conventional ‘manual’ nesting in CAD with nesting in the Раскрой application. We used a product containing 165 sheet-metal parts. Manually creating contours, laying out the sheet, and preparing a report took 11 hours, while the application took 4.5 minutes. Work that used to take two days can now be completed in minutes.”

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