If you’re spending more than a few hundred a week on fabric, you ought to look at good autonesting.
In some industries operators might spend an hour or so tweaking each nest to save a bit of fabric. With autonesting, this is unlikely to take more than a minute or two as a background task on a computer. If you’re spending more than a few hundred a week on fabric, you ought to look at good autonesting.
Time Saving
10 times faster than other software we have used, it can return a valid nest in under 10 seconds on queues with hundreds of patterns.
Waste Reduction
Give it a minute to try alternatives, and you can expect an even greater waste reduction.
Data Saving
Unlike many nesting programs, Autonest+ does not change the data structure of patterns so the integrity of splines and curves is preserved.

The gold standard in autonesting
We all know that time is money but in the technical textiles field, waste fabric is as just as expensive as time… sometimes more expensive. Good autonesting should be fast, efficient and easy to use to the point where you don’t have to ask what it costs because good autonesting software pays for itself in a few weeks.
Tangent’s built-in Autonest+ has an unbeatable combination of speed, fabric savings and features at a very cost-effective price.
Features and Benefits of Autonest+
Aeronaut’s Tangent software is the easiest to use, most flexible and powerful cutter control you can buy. It’s got all the tools you need for importing and nesting patterns as well as revolutionary machine vision systems to trace, digitise, autonest and pattern match.
Speed
This file of 160 patterns is almost 1 kilometre long un-nested. Given 10 seconds, Tangent Autonest+ nested this queue down to something which looked good enough to be cut right away. Given a minute, it returned a nest with just 6% waste fabric. It just doesn’t make sense to nest manually!
Efficiency
This set of patterns is from a Very Big Furniture company and though they probably send zillions on nesting software, Tangent Autonest+ saved another 2.8% fabric on a 17 metre queue. If you are cutting the same queue over and over again, that sort of saving really adds up.
Nest Within Frames
For maximum accuracy, many industries like sailmakers like to nest and cut entirely within frames or the length of their cutting table. Tangent Autonest+ gives you the freedom to nest within or across frames and Tangent controls whether all patterns in the frame are cut.
Nest Around Faults
Faults are a fact of life with textiles. Tangent Autonest+ is fast enough to be able to dynamically nest patterns around faults while the fabric is on the cutting table. With Aeronaut’s SiliconEye machine vision, you can easily recognise and digitise faults, whether they’re a simple pulled thread or a stain area.
Nest into Shapes
Tangent Autonest+ can nest into background shapes as easily as into an open queue of patterns. You can create shapes with Tangent’s Rectangles and Grids function, in CAD software or digitise using Cyclops or SiliconEye, set them as a background pattern and then autonest inside.

Advanced autonesting options with NestFab
NestFab has the full range of nesting features that customers have asked for including nesting within and across frames, batching nest queues, nesting into closed irregular shapes, fault avoidance, time and efficiency based nesting etc.
See advanced nesting with NestFab in action below.

We’ve worked with Aeronaut for over 24 years and have seen our capabilities grow alongside that time. We started with a single 20m x 4m plotting table, then added a second table as demand increased.
With World Class Support
With in-house development and decades of production experience, Aeronaut provides software support that goes beyond troubleshooting, helping optimise workflows, improve efficiency and maintain consistent results.

Comprehensive Operator Training on software
Structured, hands-on training equips operators with the skills to maximise performance, accuracy and productivity from day one.

Advice on workflow improvements
Support isn’t limited to “how the software works”. It includes guidance on Nesting efficiency, Workflow improvements, Material handling and more.

Continuous updates and improvements
Get updates to software to improve performance, add features and maintain compatibility with evolving systems. This means your software stays relevant and efficient over time, not outdated.
Frequently asked questions
Tangent FAQ?
The first decision to make is whether you need a high ply or a low ply cutter. Aeronaut only makes low ply and single ply cutters. As a generalisation, high ply cutters are used for high volume, low cost goods such as garments and upholstery where high accuracy is not required. Low and single ply cutters are used for high-value, lower volume goods where greater cutting accuracy is needed. Low ply cutters can perform tasks such as marking, creasing, scoring, sanding and buffing which are not possible with high ply cutters or conveyor tables.
Low ply cutters are actually used for both low and high volume production, but are perhaps more suited to industries where high accuracy is required, and short runs, just-in-time production or one-offs are made.Our customers do cut multiple layers where the job demands it, but typically, most Aeronaut cutters only cut one layer of material at a time, which can be up to 20 mm in thickness.
Tangent FAQ?
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