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Circle Packing

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brentma711

Mechanical
Jul 26, 2006
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Hello,
I am looking for a way to optimize material usage from cutting circles out of rectangular sheet metal. If there is a LISP for AutoCAD, or even a decent program to do this, it would be of great help.
 
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I've always found taking circles out of a sheet pretty much nest themselves. Stagger them by 1/2 diameter per row, and they stack "pyramid style". You aren't going to get any more compact of a cut pattern than that.
 
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