Vision Engraving & Routing Blog

Our Vision PRO engraving software allows you to easily nest into the minimum area on your material, to avoid wasted material. Nesting may also be used to rearrange shapes across a non-rectangular area, such as leftover engraving material.

The nesting command can be found in the ARRANGE menu.

To nest the individual letters of a sentence, use the TEXT TO GRAPHICS command first. Otherwise, the entire sentence will be arranged to fit your engraving material, instead of the individual letters.

• Specify Corners: Choose the corner that you would like the nesting to begin. The objects will begin in that corner, and extend across the plate
• Directions: The direction that shapes will be arranged across the engraving material
• Rotation: Allow rotation of shapes by the specified angle. For example: if you specify 20 degrees, the shape will be rotated in increments of 20 degrees to find the optimum placement on your engraving area.
• Nesting Border: the minimum distance away from the edge of your engraving area
• Clearance Between Objects: The minimum distance between shapes
• Error Factor of Clearance: A value used to adjust nesting based on the average shape sizes
• Allow Mirrored Parts: Select this option to allow shaped to be flipped horizontally or vertically during the nesting process
• Keep Groups Intact: If this option is off, grouped shapes will be separated when arranged onto the engraving area

The International Sign Association conducted a survey to attendees of the 2011 International Sign Expo in May. The responses from the participants; including CEOs, sales, and production staff were very positive. Most attendees are planning on hiring new staff, expanding services, and purchasing new equipment in the upcoming year.

In the next 12 months…

• 74% of CEOs expect to purchase new equipment, Increased from 56% last year!
• 33% of CEOs are expecting their revenue to grow by at least 20%
• 59% of CEOs plan to add staff

Click Here to download the Survey Results.

Do you expect your company to grow in the next year?

We love to hear what Vision Engraving& Routing Systems machine owners think about our machines. We are running a “Love Your Vision?” testimonial contest through July 15, 2011.

To enter, click here and fill out our brief survey. Tell us how your Vision engraving machine or CNC Router has helped grow your company’s revenue, or how reliable your machine has been. A drawing will be held on July 15^th, and one survey participant will be chosen at random to win a $100 Visa Gift Card!

The testimonial collected will be used in future print and web material to promote Vision engraving machines and CNC routers.