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Vitória, J. and Guedes Soares, C. (2005), “A Method for Automatic Nesting of Ship Plates”, Journal of Ship Production, Vol. 21, Issue 1, pp. 14-27

This work describes a method that provides an automatic nesting method and an optional simple interactive nesting tool for final adjustments. This approach has been incorporated in a system that has been developed for small shipyards and has been connected with a STEP interface that produces the data in a neutral format. In this paper a review is provided of methods for plate nesting and the method adopted is described. Examples of application are given demonstrating the performance of the system with academic examples and with realistic examples with ships parts. It is demonstrated that a good performance is achieved.

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