{"id":78,"date":"2026-09-17T20:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T18:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cut-fab.com\/pavage-reseau-series-identiques\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T20:11:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T18:11:00","slug":"pavage-reseau-series-identiques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cut-fab.com\/en\/pavage-reseau-series-identiques\/","title":{"rendered":"Lattice tiling for runs of identical parts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In free-form nesting, \u201c2D nesting\u201d (then called \u201cSheet metal 2D\u201d) now computes two plans when the same part comes up in quantity: a free placement and a lattice tiling. It keeps the one that leaves the least offcut. Open to everyone, no account needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lattice tiling<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Parts are paired head-to-tail into a motif, which the calculation repeats across the sheet.<\/li>\n\n<li>It is only tried when the run is large enough for a motif to repeat. On a small batch, free placement applies as before.<\/li>\n\n<li>On one of our test batches (310 identical blanks, 2000 \u00d7 1000 mm sheet, 5 mm spacing), the first sheet holds 154 parts instead of 131.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Reading the plan<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The same evening, an \u201cengine\u201d entry was added under the statistics, reading \u201clattice tiling\u201d, \u201cfree placement\u201d or \u201crectangular nesting\u201d. Its tooltip explains the choice.<\/li>\n\n<li>If you change a setting, the plan stays on screen, dimmed, under the \u201cOutdated plan\u201d banner. DXF export stays locked until you run \u201cNest the sheet\u201d again.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a part made in quantity, 2D nesting also tries a head-to-tail tiling and keeps the plan that leaves the least offcut.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mises-a-jour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cut-fab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cut-fab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cut-fab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cut-fab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cut-fab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cut-fab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cut-fab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cut-fab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cut-fab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}