Hi, I was wondering if anybody knows of a panelization library or algorithm.
I have a bunch of shapes that want to laser cut (close curve shapes)
I'm actually exporting them as individual PDF files and them combining manually with illustrator to waste less material...
For a few of them is fine, but for processing a lot of them, as you can imagine is not the best approach.
I was considering writing a basic algorithm to put them on a grid and export all of them together in a single PDF, but the more I think how it should work, the more out of my scope it is.
A simple grid would waste a lot of material obviously, if you set the grid resolution according to the bigger piece.
So I get that the direction would be adjusting the grid resolution to small parcels, and then analyze every shape to try to fit them on the empty parcel groups, which starts to go out of my skills since there is a lot of variables involved in making it right...
So then I realized, there are libraries for everything... so shouldn't be something already coded for that?
I even remember some old Flash 'sketch' used to fill the screen with random words in different sizes... which basically was making something similar.
Would be nice if somebody can point me in the right direction, I don't have much knowledge of Processing.
