NestLoggic Open Magpie

NestLoggic makes nesting software for packaging and print.

Magpie lays dielines onto sheets the way a converting shop does: a print layout of one cutter, a full sheet under one die, or a free nest for laser and router. It hands back layered cutter files, dimensioned guillotine cuts and a costed report.

Open Magpie What Magpie does Free to nest. A plan to download.
The Magpie workstation at 1600 pixels wide: a 1020 by 720 millimetre sheet with seven carton blanks nested across two guillotined cutters, cut lines in red and creases in dashed blue, the sheet count and cutters on the right.

The product

Magpie

Drop a DXF, CF2, PDF or SVG with every design in it. Set the sheet, the gap and the grain. Magpie places the blanks, says how many sheets the order needs, and exports a layered DXF your Kongsberg or Zund cuts as drawn.

  • Print layout: one cutter repeated, pieces sized to it, every cut dimensioned.
  • Packaging full sheet: the most on the sheet within the print bounds, one die.
  • Free nest: gap and margins on any sheet material.
Open Magpie Runs in the browser. Nothing to install.

Who built it

Philip Hubbard spent seven years in structural packaging design and industrial cutting: Kongsberg tables, ArtiosCAD, sample rooms and production floors. Magpie is the nesting tool he wanted on those floors, built by NestLoggic in Malvern.

It speaks the language of the job: sheet size, board grain, grip, gap, quantities per blank, cut and crease. It never asks how it should nest. More about NestLoggic.

Experience
Seven years, structural packaging design and industrial cutting
Tools
Kongsberg, ArtiosCAD
Company
NestLoggic, Malvern, Worcestershire

Price

£49a month
  • The layout drawn, every cut dimensioned, and unlimited exports: layered DXF, SVG, CF2 and the PDF report
  • Free without a plan: nesting, and how many sheets your job needs
  • Cancel any time from the billing portal

One plan, no tiers. What the plan covers.

Open Magpie

Contact

Questions, a dieline that reads wrongly, or a layout you would draw differently: email phil@nestloggic.com. A file attached to the email is the quickest way to an answer.

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