I’m not aware of any change of plan from sheetcam to offer upgrade pricing, at some point soon according to my last correspondence with them. You can write them, sales@sheetcam.com, to inquire.
Reminder that you can trial/demo v8 indefinitely to determine and ensure that you like the new features and find value there before purchasing. I highly recommend such a trial.
downloaded it but cant get the nesting to work , do u have tips or info or link to a tutorial
all the v8 tutorials are on the website from where you downloaded sheetcam.
are u talking about the 3 2-minute videos
yes, but after watching them again, I have to agree that they are pretty poor. They fail to describe how to prep for the autonesting feature. Autonesting (menu Nesting) operates on Operations of Parts, and specifically Operations defined with a ‘Contour method’ of ‘Outside offset’.
The nesting ‘container’ size and shape is the job’s material definition, which itself can be an imported dxf drawing, or simply a rectangle defined with XY dimensions as is typical.
See these 3 jobs as examples.
practice autonest v8.job.nested as 4 parts.job (20.6 KB)
practice autonest v8.job (10.4 KB)
practice autonest v8.job.nested as one part.job (12.4 KB)