This is awesome! Unfortunately, my paying corporate desk-engineer job offers no opportunity, but as a grad student I did quite a bit of laser-cutting-prototypin

This is awesome! Unfortunately, my paying corporate desk-engineer job offers no opportunity, but as a grad student I did quite a bit of laser-cutting-prototyping (mostly acrylic and delrin). At one point I searched around quite a bit for reasonably priced nesting software, to no avail, only high priced professional stuff for shops. Forwarded it to my former lab, I'm sure they'll get some use out of it. Very interesting to read the implementation details, too.