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Overview
Raise your productivity and professional level of service using the latest optimization
technology!
Take a look at what GoNest 2D does for you:

Significantly reduces raw panels waste and cost due to high material yield and
reuse of scraps.

Maximizes productivity by saving time needed to create and analyze patterns.

Determines the number of raw panels to order in advance by stock tracking.

Efficiently tracks scraps.

Saves engineering time through simplified programming and more efficient

machine output.

Drags, drops, and bumps features.

Freely switches between automatic and manual rectangular nesting.

Maximum flexibility in file conversion and importation.

Calculates accurate raw panels cost estimates.

Eliminates drawing errors and drastically reduces operators mistakes.

Supports DXF, TXT, EXCEL, CNC G Code.

Supports Circle/Ellipse/Triangle/Trapezium shape and AUTOCAD DXF

profile.

Supports guillotine/nested/rolling.

Auto harp rack manager.

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GoNest 2D
is a Professional 2D Nesting Software Package to maximize the use of panel
material by generating most optimized nested layouts. It is based on a highly
advanced board cutting algorithm, specially designed to optimize the cutting
layouts, such as shear sheet, table saws, sheet metal cutting, panel saws, glass
cutting, woodworking plans, cutting board, gas cutting and de coiling operations, in
the panel metal, woodworking, furniture, glass and similar industries. It helps in
cutting down wastage in Material, Time, Labor and Process.

Installation and Uninstallation

Since you are reading this help file, it is likely that you have successfully installed
GoNest 2D.
GoNest 2D is installed by running a self-extracting file. The self-extracting file is
usually called gonest2dc.exe, but may have a name such as gonest2dc.zip.
During the installation, you can change the default destination directory and the
location for the program icons.
The installation is non-destructive. All files are added only to the destination
directory that you choose.
Uninstalling GoNest 2D
To Uninstall GoNest 2D from Windows 95:
From the Device Manager, select: Install / Uninstall Programs.
Select GoNest 2D and click on Next.
To Uninstall GoNest 2D from Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/NT/Vista/7:
From the Control Panel, select: Add / Remove Programs.
Select GoNest 2D and click on Add/Remove.
Or select Start->All programs ->GoNest 2D->Uninstall GoNest 2D
Note: Windows removes only the files originally installed, and doesn't remove folders
if there are files remaining. That means that if you have used the program and made
data or configuration files, you need to manually delete them to remove all traces
from your system.

System Requirements
GoNest 2D requires at least:
Pentium 500 MHz processor
128 MB of RAM
40 MB of free hard disk space
Graphic system capable of displaying 800x600 pixels in 256 colors
Windows 95/98/NT/ME/2000/XP/VISTA/7
To print plans drawn with this application, you need a graphics capable printer

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installed in the Windows system.
Almost any printer likely to be used with a desk top computer is graphics capable, so
if you have a machine running Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP/NT/VISTA/7, and a
printer, you are probably ready to use GoNest 2D.

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Input panels data

Enter panels data in cells.

'Panels Type' column, the panels will be used by the parts with the same
'Panels Type'.

'Priority' column is used to set the order of using raw panels or scraps, the
program will try to use the panels with higher priority first, all scraps default
priority is the highest (0-highest, 9-lowest).

'Save' button to save the panels data to the current table file.

'Load' button to open another panels data table file.

'Save as' button to save the panels data to the specific table file.

'Append' button to append from another table file.

'Delete' button to clear the current record.

'Delete all' button to clear all records.

'Import' button to import raw panels data from TXT or EXCEL file.

TXT file format: One record per line and each field should be delimited with TAB.

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'Export' button to export all raw panels data to TXT or EXCEL file.

Click any column of the first row, data will be sorted by the current column.

Input parts data

Enter parts (Rectangle/Circle/Ellipse) data in cells.

'Rotate' column to define rotation, 'R' means it can be rotated, 'N' means it
CANNOT be rotated. If raw panels have grain, put 'N' in cells.

'Rec/Cir' column to define parts shape, 'R' is rectangle, 'C' is Circle or Ellipse (if
length is equal to width, it's circle, otherwise it's ellipse).

'Panels Type', the parts are only allowed to be cut in the same 'Panels Type'
panels.

Find best Size, fix the width of raw panels, scan the best dimension of length.

'Save' button to save parts data to the current table file.

'Load' button to open another parts data table file.

'Save as' button to save parts data to a special parts table file.

'Delete' button to clear the current record.

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'Delete all' button to clear all records.

'Append' button to append from another table file.

'Import button to import parts data from TXT or EXCEL file.

TXT file format: One record per line and each field should be delimited with TAB.

'Export' button to export all parts data to TXT or EXCEL file.

'Delete empty' button to delete all parts which qty is zero.

Click any column of the first row, the data will be sorted by the current column.

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Input scraps data

The first column shows the slots number.

Data can be modified in grid.

'Load' button to open a harp rack table file.

'Save' button to save the harp rack table file.

'Save As' button to save the data to a special harp rack table file.

'Delete' button to clear the current record.

'Delete all' button to clear all records.

'Print' button to print all the harp rack data.

'Export' button to export all the harp rack data to TXT or EXCEL file.

'Reset' button to reset the quantity of the slots in harp rack.

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Input profiles data

Select standard shape (Triangle/Trapezium/Disc) from standard shape list,

input Values in table, click 'Add' button to add a new profile material.

Click 'Import DXF' button, select a DXF file, input label, click 'Add' button to add
a new profile material.

'Save' button to save profiles data to current table file.

'Load' button to open another profiles table file.

'Save as' button to save profiles data to the special table file.

'Delete' button to clear current row record.

'Delete all' button to clear all rows records.

'Add' button to add standard profiles or AutoCAD DXF profiles.

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Settings

Input Length edge, width edge, Min. Length, Min. Width and blade
width in positive number, it supports 3 decimal points and fraction (Ex: 1,
1.2, 1.23, 12.345, 10 1/8), the edge area can't be used, default is 0.

The 'Measure' can be any character (Ex: 'cm', 'mm', 'inch'), the measure of
all the data (length, width, edge, blade width) must be consistent.

The 'Guillotine' to select cutting mode (Guillotine or Nested), if you check

the guillotine mode, the cutter can only cut the panel in beeline, and will
break the panel into two pieces. The nested mode will get higher utilization,
like pack or loader.

The '<<fastest | Max. Optimization>>' scrollbar to control the epitomizing

speed, more optimization, more utilization and need more competing time.

The 'cost optimize' to find the minimum cost plan, when you need to order
panels material, you need select different type panels with different price, this
program can help you select which size panels you need and how many
panels is the best, example, you can select 2 types panels :
panel1

80x80inch

$100

panel2

75x85inch

$95

quantity=100
quantity=100

program will find the best order according to the parts, find the best purchase

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order to save money, like that :
panel1
panel2

quantity used = 11
quantity used = 9

quantity left = 89

quantity left = 91

The 'panels color', 'parts color', 'edge color' and 'scraps color' to control
color of layout.

The 'Min. Length' and 'Min. Width' of scrap to decide which scraps will be
saved and reused, when you click layouts->update all button, program will
find all Recyclable scraps and put them to table according to the 'Min.
Length' and 'Min. Width'.

The 'Print Title' will be printed in the paper title.

Custom caption is used to change print report, HTML report, AUTOCAD DXF
caption, you can modify it to any language and material, such as
'panels'->'container', 'parts'->'boxes', 'length'->'X', 'width'->'Y', all the
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'Minimum Scraps Size' to setup the scraps must larger than the special
size; some materials need that the scraps must be large enough to break
from parts, like glass.

'Panels Type', the parts only can be cut from the same 'Panels Type'
panels, for example "4cm glass", "2cm glass".

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Start to optimize

Click

button in toolbar to start the optimization.

If you input some wrong format data, it will stop the optimization, and
automatically go to the error place and hint you to correct it.

If the size of the parts is larger than that of the raw panel, or there arent
enough raw panels, the optimization will stop and then hint you to correct
it.

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Layout display

Select the 'layout' tab.

Move scroll bar to view layout.

Select 'Name', 'Dimensions', '(left, top)' and 'scrap' to decide which will be
displayed, printed and exported to DXF, HTML or G code files.

'Auto Rearrange' button to rearrange the current layout.

'Print Current' button to print the current layout.

'Print All' button to print report and all layouts.

'Export DXF' button to export all layouts to AUTOCAD DXF file.

'Export HTML' button to export summary report and all layouts to HTML file.

'Export G code' button to export all layouts to G code file.

The 'Parts in Layout' shows all parts in the current layout.

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Report

List all raw panels data.

List all parts data.

The total used raw panels.

The total left raw panels.

The configure data.

The Utilization.

Last board Utilization.

Total used area.

Total wasted area.

Last board wasted area.

Print layout

Select 'Layout' tab. Click 'Print all' button to print report and all
layouts. Click 'Print current' button to print current layout page, Click

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'Print report' button to print the report.

Select 'Name', 'Dimensions', '(left, top)' and 'scrap' to decide which

will be displayed, printed or exported to DXF file.

Auto resize layout to fit the printer paper.

Print the raw panel data per layout.

Print the list of all used parts per layout.

Change the printer font size, please select 'Configure' tab, and modify the
'printer font size'.

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Manual layout

Select 'Layouts' tab. Click 'Manual' button, left click any part you want to
move, move mouse to where you want to place this part, left click again to
put it down , right click to rotate this part.

Click 'Confirm' button or 'Cancel' button to finish manual.

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Export layout to AUTOCAD DXF file

Select 'Layouts' tab. Click 'Export DXF' button to export all layouts to
AUTOCAD DXF files.

Select 'Name', 'Dimensions', '(left, top)' and 'scrap' to decide which will be
displayed, printed and export to DXF file.

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Export layout to CNC G code file

Checkbox 'Z Axis' is a switch to enable or disable to output Z axis code.

Enter data in 'Drill Depth' and 'Safety Height'.

Select 'Layout' tab. Click 'Export G code' button to export all layouts to
CNC G code files.

Export layout to HTML file

Select 'Layout' tab. Click 'Export HTML' button to export summary report
and all layouts to HTML file.

Select 'Name', 'Dimensions', '(left, top)' and 'scrap' to decide which will
be exported to HTML file.

Open it with IE, WORD, EXCEL etc.

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Harp rack manager

Supports managing parts and scraps harp rack (TAB scraps and TAB parts harp
rack).

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After the optimization, Click Layout->'Update all' button to

put all scraps (limited by minimum scraps length and width) to harp rack of scraps
put all parts to harp rack of parts
remove the used raw panels from raw panels table
remove the used parts from parts table
remove the profiles from profiles table
remove the used scraps from harp rack table
display the slot No. of scraps in layouts

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display the slot No. of parts in layouts

Disable the harp rack of scraps.

Disable scraps Rack: The program will put all recyclable scraps to raw panels table, and
wont display the slot No. in layouts.
Disable Parts Rack: The program will not put all used parts into slots, and wont display
the slot No. in layouts.
Scraps details :

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Custom Caption

Click 'Load Caption file' button to load a custom caption file.

Click 'Save Caption file' button to save the current captions to file.

Click 'Set as default' button to save the current captions to 'default.cap' file, and
it will be load when start program.

Select one message, the current caption string and hint will be displayed, modify
them and click 'confirm' button.

'Confirm' button won't save the changing, if you want to save them, please click
'Save Caption file' button or 'Set as Default' button.

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Step by Step

Enter panels data in raw panels TAB-> panels grid.

Enter parts data in Parts TAB->parts grid.

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Setup options.

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Start

to optimize

Get a solution.
Display layouts

1. Options of displaying, printing and exporting (DXF, CNC).

2. Select the layout.
3. Sort layouts.
4. The detail of current layouts.

Display report

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Update all panels, parts and scraps.

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How to get a better utilization

Guillotine option

Disable Guillotine mode will get a very high utilization sometimes, but make sure
your CNC machine support it.
Guillotine mode
Nested mode
Rolling mode

Fast optimize option

Scroll the scrollbar from left to right, will get a better result, but need more time and
more RAM.

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Max Qty (parts TAB->parts grid->max qty field)

If you need to cut one type of parts (the same size) frequently, for example, you
need 100 part 1(13inch X 47inch) today, and anticipate that you will need 50 part 1
tomorrow. For getting a better utilization, you put the Minimum Quantity 100 and
the Maximum Quantity 150=100+50, then click , the utilization will be better than
the fixed parts quantity (Minimum=100, maximum=100).

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You can cancel the lower utilization layouts, and then append the rest parts to
another project.

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Advanced features

Priority of raw panels

From highest 0 to lowest 999, when you update the optimize result, the default
priority of scraps is 0 (highest). The program will try to use the raw panels with
higher priority first, when all higher raw panels are used or too small for parts, it will
find the lower raw panels. You can choose the raw panels you want to use first by
assigning higher priority.

Cost optimization

Normally we will get a result with maximum utilization and minimum scraps area,
but if you check Cost Optimize option, the result is a minimum cost result. It is used
when you plan to purchase raw panels.

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The negative numbers in REST field are the quantities of raw panels need to
purchase.

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Scraps
Scraps are the rest pieces when raw panels are cut. Some can be reclaimed
according to configure TAB->Scrap criteria - scraps to keep, Minimum Length and
Minimum Width.

How to reclaim pieces?

1.
2.
3.
4.

Click
to start the optimization.
Assign the Min. Length and Min. Width.
Click layout TAB->update all.
If you disable scraps Rack, program will reclaim all useful
scraps and put them in raw panels table, otherwise the scraps
will be placed in harp rack of scraps.

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Support: [email protected]
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This software is "try before you buy" software. The original, unregistered copy of this
program may be copied and distributed freely; in fact we encourage you to share it!
However, every registered or installed copy of GoNest 2D and its files are protected
by copyright laws and may not be distributed or used on more than one computer at
the same time.
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