Small utility to nest multiple SVGs files into a single one, trying to minimize the empty wasted space. This is usually useful for lasercutting projects.
For now, the nesting is ultra basic:
- Rectangle packing using the
rectpacklibrary, considering the bounding box of the paths - files with a single path in it seem fine.
- files that contain multiple paths might
- units are assumed to be mm
- Nesting on multiplate plates|bins is not yet supported
- All paths are brutally styled: removing the fill and putting the stroke to red with 0.1 width
- This was done because I was nesting
.svgfiles exported by OpenSCAD
- This was done because I was nesting
The API to call from Python is minimal:
from svgnest import nest
files = {
'part1.svg': 1,
'part2.svg': 2
}
// nest in a 600x300 mm plate, saving to combined.svg
nest('combined.svg', files, 600, 300)
each file can be added once or multiple times to the plate by specifying in the
files input dictionary.
Dependencies: