Linear cutting is cutting in one dimension: bars, tubes, profiles and beams cut to length. 1DNest works out how to spread the parts across the bars so you buy, and throw away, as little as possible.
The parts list with length and quantity, typed in or brought from Excel, and the stock lengths you have in the yard or in your supplier's catalogue. The price of each length, if you want it.
The cutting plan for every bar with its measurements, the cut list for the operator, the summary of bars to buy and the total waste. Print it or export it to PDF.
Type, or paste from Excel, the length and quantity of every part you need to cut.
Enter the stock lengths you can use: what you have in stock or what your supplier sells.
Click optimize. In seconds you have the cutting plan with the least waste, ready to print.
No subscription, no limit on the number of parts and no Excel macro to depend on. You buy the program once and it is yours.
Many cutting optimizers are sold today as subscriptions: they stop working when you stop paying. Optimumcut warns that the license «will become deactivated»; MetalOpt, that «the macros will not work after the expiration date». This is what three years of cutting cost:
| Program | How you pay | Three years |
|---|---|---|
| 1DNest, single computer | $173, once | $173 |
| ROMAC Systems, length optimizer | $100 a year | $300 |
| Web cutting optimizers | $7 to $32 a month | $252 to $1,152 |
Public prices of each vendor in September 2026. The single computer license includes every 4.x update and email support.
Cutting any linear material to length, in any shop that pays for its bars by the metre.
Beams, profiles and angles for structures, towers and buildings. Fewer bars bought per job and fewer offcuts on the floor.
Profiles for windows, doors, façades and curtain walls, where a metre of profile is expensive and the extruder sells fixed lengths.
Round, square and rectangular tube, and open profiles for metalwork, furniture and machinery.
Anything that is cut along its length: steel bar, rod, PVC, timber battens, cable or hose.
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The Enterprise license covers every seat. If you also want the optimization engine inside your own software, there is CutLib DLL.
Ask usNo. You pay for 1DNest once and the license is for life. There is no subscription and no annual renewal.
The single computer license works on one computer and includes one free re-activation if you change computers. The Enterprise license covers every computer in your company.
No. It is a one-time payment of $173 (single computer) or $675 (Enterprise). The program keeps working afterwards, with no fees.
For 30 days you can use it with no limits. After that a free version stays available, limited to 5 cut lines and one stock length per job, with no expiry date.
Yes. 1DNest works with Excel: bring the parts list in from your spreadsheet instead of typing it.
Yes. You enter the cut thickness (kerf) and the end trim of each bar, and the plan deducts them at every cut.
You set the minimum offcut length worth keeping and 1DNest counts it as reusable stock instead of waste.
1DNest is a desktop application for Windows.
The program is available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian and Arabic. Support is in English and Spanish.
21 years and more than 3,000 customers cutting with 1DNest around the world.
No registration and no limits. If it works for you, the license is $173, once.
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