Laser cutting quoting and nesting software

Price it from the geometry, not the paperwork.

Lasertally is Windows desktop software that quotes laser-cut parts straight from the CAD file. Drop STEP, DXF, IGES or NC1 files in and get a priced, itemized quote in seconds. Pierce counts and cut lengths come from the CAD solid itself, because customer drawings miscount and geometry does not. Win the job and the same file nests itself, on sheet or on tube.

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Windows desktop app · quoting engine calibrated to the cent against real shop quotations

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One tube job, start to finish: STEP files dropped into Lasertally and priced, sent to Lasertally Nest, nested onto real sticks, then played cut by cut in Preflight before anything is posted.
$1,955.08a real shop's three-part tube quote, reproduced to the cent
442 piercescounted from one 6 x 6 HSS STEP file, priced in under two seconds
3,655reference cases the release has to reproduce before it ships
0 per-quote feesflat subscription, unlimited quotes, no cut of your margin
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Quoting

From CAD file to customer-ready laser cutting quote.

Lasertally opens the solid, measures it, and prices every operation from what it found. No hand-counting holes off a PDF, no spreadsheet that somebody last updated in 2019.

Every number traced back to something measured.

  • Pierces, cut length, bends and bounding box read straight off the geometry, in the units your shop works in.
  • Pre-quote checks that refuse to guess. Material priced, cut speed known, geometry priceable, part fits stock. A missing figure shows as a gap, never as a zero.
  • Your rate card, to the cent. Programming, loading, run rates, pierce rates, travel, admin, markup, lead-time tiers, secondary ops, and operations you invent yourself.
  • Formed parts unfold. A bent bracket is priced on its developed flat pattern, with the bend allowance the metal actually needs.
The detail panel for one STEP file in Lasertally: Tube1.STEP recognized as a 6 inch by 6 inch by 3/16 inch square tube, 152.4 mm across the flats on a 4.76 mm wall, 3,340.1 mm long, with both end cuts at 1,949.8 mm, 26 contours and 416 circles making 442 total cuts, all five pre-quote checks passing with the reason beside each, and a chart splitting the cut length between circles and end cuts.
One STEP file, measured: 442 pierces, 26 contours and 416 circles, both end cuts, the section read off the solid. Five checks had to pass before it would price.
The Lasertally quote workspace with the job CT40 plus HSS rail open for Apex Furniture. Six parts and twenty-five pieces: five aluminium DXF profiles and one square tube read from a STEP file, each row carrying quantity, file, recognized type, pierce count, cut length, part length and material. The detail panel on the right shows the selected plate with its geometry and five of five checks. A banner across the top says no rate card is set up for this shop, so the built-in demonstration card priced the job.
A mixed quote: five flat DXF parts and a tube STEP file on one job, each line carrying the pierces and cut length measured out of its own file.

How the quoting engine works

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Tube nesting

Tube laser nesting, on the sticks you actually have.

Lasertally Nest packs tube parts onto the stock lengths in your rack and posts the rotary program for them. Tube gets the same lead-ins, kerf compensation, micro joints and cut sequencing it already ran on plate, not a second half-finished engine bolted on beside the first.

Three 236 inch lengths of 6 by 6 by 3/16 inch square tube drawn in three dimensions, one above another like stock on a rack. Two lengths each carry a 131.5 inch part and a 95.5 inch part packed end to end, with a single green cut line where they meet, labeled one cut both parts. The third length carries one 95.5 inch part and a long pale remainder bracketed as a 132.85 inch offcut with 124.97 inches usable. The real hole pattern is wrapped onto the visible faces of every part, and the chuck allowances are hatched at both ends of each length.
A real nest, drawn on the real stock. Five ordered parts across three lengths, the hole pattern sitting on the actual surface, and every inch accounted for.
The Tube tab of the Nest page in Lasertally Nest with the same nest inside the application: three 6000 mm lengths of 152.4 mm square A500 drawn as bars, the first two 99.4 per cent full and the third 41.8 per cent with 3,374 mm going back to the rack, and the stock drawn in three dimensions below them with every pierce on it. The footer reports 1,848 pierces and 2,372.9 mm saved to common lines.
The same nest inside Lasertally Nest: five pieces on three 6 m sticks, two shared cuts saving 2.37 m, and the whole of the drop left as one 3,374 mm length.

Shared cuts, and a leftover you can still use.

  • Where two parts meet end to end, the cut is made once. That saves a pierce, a kerf of stock and the whole length of one contour, and on plain square-cut work it is close to half the cutting time.
  • The chuck allowances are real. Front margin and dead zone come off the usable length before anything is placed, so the nest is measured against what is left of the stick rather than against the whole of it.
  • Slack goes to the tail, in one piece. A long offcut is stock and a scattered one is scrap, so the leftover is racked, priced pro rata and labeled with a barcode and the length it can actually hold.
  • It tells you what it left out. Requested, placed, still loading, cannot nest. A nester that cannot say what it dropped is not finished.
10 sectionsround, square, rect, obround, ellipse, triangle, angle, C and U channel, H beam
STEP and IGESa solid is read, the axis found by measurement, the section classified or honestly called free form
Rotary G-codeplus an unrolled DXF, so the job runs even before a controller's post is dialed in
Miters and copescompound miters and saddle cuts generated from three numbers, not drawn by hand

Tube sections, shared cuts and machine output

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Nesting and CAM

Won the job? The nesting is already done.

Lasertally Nest takes the quote you already priced and turns it into a cut program: true-shape nesting on your real stock and your real offcuts, cutting technology, lead-ins, kerf, micro joints and sequencing, then a posted program for the machine.

A solved sheet nest on a 48 by 96 inch plate of 5052-H32 aluminium: a console top, shelves, legs, hook bodies and an angle strip packed true-shape, with smaller parts sitting inside the window cut out of a larger one. The stats strip beneath reads 63,953.2 mm of cut, 340 pierces, nothing saved to common lines, two sheets, and fifty of fifty pieces on metal.
A solved plate, 50 of 50 pieces at 87.6% used. Small parts sit inside the window of a larger one, because a hole big enough to nest in is stock.
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Your stock, not a catalog

Nests onto the sheets and the offcuts you actually have, oldest first, and reaches for the shortest piece that can still do the job so the rack does not silt up with unusable ends.

[B]

Cut order that respects gravity

Holes before outlines, wraps before end cuts. Once a part is free it can tilt into the head, so the sequence treats that as a rule rather than a preference.

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Books the metal it uses

Writing a program draws the stock off the rack once, records it against the job so a re-print cannot draw it twice, and puts the usable leftover back with its own tag.

How sheet nesting and CAM work

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Preflight

Watch the program run before the metal does.

Preflight checks every compiled program before it can be posted. On tube it puts the length of stock on a schematic tube laser and plays the program over it: the stick feeds and turns under the head, every cut traces in the order the machine will make it, each finished piece slides off, and every problem the checks found is pinned on the metal where it is.

The Preflight page of Lasertally Nest on a length of 6 by 6 inch square tube: the stick sits in a schematic tube laser with its front chuck, cutting head, rear chuck and roller supports, the two parts on it painted in their own colours and labelled 1 and 2, pins on the metal where the checks found something, the list of findings grouped by piece on the right, and the timeline of every cut with the transport controls and the playback speed slider underneath.
A length of 6 x 6 x 3/16 HSS on the stage: two parts, every pierce and cut in order on the timeline, and each finding pinned on the piece it is about.
7 viewsoperator, top, side, head, whole machine, loading end and unloading end
Next problemthe camera flies to each finding at the moment it is cut
Cut earlier, laterreorder the pieces on the stick and the program recompiles
One stick, one lookeach part wears the same colour and shape on the Nest page and here

How tube preflight works

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How it works

Quote a laser-cut part in three steps.

Quoting a part in Lasertally takes three steps and about thirty seconds: drop the CAD file in, confirm the material, send the quote.

[01]

Drop the files in

STEP, DXF, IGES or NC1. Each part is opened and measured on your own machine by the bundled geometry engine.

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Confirm the metal

Pick material and thickness, or let the detected form pick a default and change it in one click. Rates come from your card.

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Send the quote

An itemized price with every figure traced to a measurement, ready to save, print or email while the customer is still on the line.

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Cloud sync

One rate card. One material library. Every seat in sync.

Your shop's data lives on your machines and syncs through your Lasertally account, so the price a second estimator quotes is the price you would have quoted. Materials, rates, customers, saved quotes and library parts, consistent across every seat and backed up.

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Pricing

Pay for what you cut. Everything else is included.

Every plan is the full product: cloud sync, roles, five seats, unlimited quotes, every CAD format. The only choice is which machine you quote for.

Sheet

$479/mo
flat and sheet-metal quoting · or $4,790/yr, 2 months free
  • Flat parts from STEP, DXF and IGES, exact geometry
  • Flat patterns and bend pricing for formed parts
  • Whole-sheet billing and a sheet price book
  • Cloud sync, roles and the full quote pipeline
  • 5 seats included, plus $49/mo per extra seat
Buy Sheet

14-day full refund. Email me and I refund it.

Tube

$479/mo
tube and pipe quoting · or $4,790/yr, 2 months free
  • Automatic tube detection from STEP and NC1, exact geometry
  • Sections matched against the standard sizes in your material card
  • Shared-stick pooling, so you never overbid material
  • Cloud sync, roles and the full quote pipeline
  • 5 seats included, plus $49/mo per extra seat
Buy Tube

14-day full refund. Email me and I refund it.

Complete

$759/mo
sheet and tube, saving $199/mo · or $7,590/yr, 2 months free
  • Everything in Sheet and Tube, one subscription
  • Mixed jobs on one quote, flat and tube parts together
  • Cloud sync, roles and the full quote pipeline
  • 5 seats included, plus $49/mo per extra seat
  • Onboarding call and priority support
Buy Complete

14-day full refund. Email me and I refund it.

Nest ADD-ON

$349/mo
nesting and CAM, on top of any plan · or $3,490/yr, 2 months free
  • Won the job? Send it straight from the quote to the nest
  • True-shape nesting on your real sheet stock and offcuts
  • Tube nesting with shared cuts, chuck allowances and automatic offcut racking
  • Cutting technology, lead-ins, kerf and cut sequencing
  • Bent parts nest as their flat pattern automatically
  • Layered DXF out, plus rotary G-code for tube
Add Nest

14-day full refund. Email me and I refund it.

Buy, set your password, sign in. Your login is your license and it unlocks the desktop app on your machine. No per-quote fees and no revenue cuts, ever.

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FAQ

Questions fabricators actually ask.

What is Lasertally?
Lasertally is Windows desktop software that quotes laser-cut parts for fabrication shops. It reads a STEP, DXF, IGES or NC1 file, measures the pierce count, cut length, bend count and bounding box from the CAD solid, and prices the job against your own rate card. The separate Nest add-on then nests the won job on sheet or tube and posts the cut program. It is not a marketplace and it does not take a cut of the work it prices.

What file formats does Lasertally support?
Lasertally reads STEP (.step, .stp), IGES (.igs, .iges), DXF (.dxf) and DSTV NC1 (.nc1). It handles solids, 2D profiles and tube, including automatic tube-section detection. SAT and DWG are not supported: export STEP or DXF from any CAD package instead. The full breakdown is in the CAD format support table.

Is there a free trial?

Yes. Every shop gets its first month free: 30 days of the full product, exports included, and no card. The month starts the first time you sign in to the Lasertally desktop app, not the day you sign up, so it does not run down while you are still getting the installer onto a machine. Lasertally opens your STEP, DXF, IGES or NC1 parts, measures the pierce counts, cut lengths, bends and bounding boxes off the real geometry, and prices them against a rate card you configure.

After the month you are not locked out. The account falls back to the free preview, which still opens and prices your files and simply will not export: no quote PDF, no posted program, no nest output. The preview has no end date, and a plan turns exports back on whenever you are ready. Start your free month.

How much does Lasertally cost?
Lasertally costs $479 a month for Sheet, $479 a month for Tube, or $759 a month for Complete, which is both. The Nest nesting and CAM add-on is $349 a month on top of any plan. Every plan includes five seats, and extra seats are $49 a month each. Annual billing costs ten months for twelve. There are no per-quote fees and no percentage of the jobs you win. Full breakdown in pricing.

Can I get a refund?

Yes. Email hello@lasertally.app within 14 days of your first purchase and you get a full refund, no questions asked. This is written into the terms of service, so it is a commitment rather than a policy that can be quietly withdrawn. Renewal charges may be refunded at our discretion as well.

What happens if I cancel my Lasertally subscription?

Lasertally and Lasertally Nest keep working to the end of the period you have already paid for, and then they stop: the desktop apps will not sign in again until you resubscribe. Nothing is deleted. Your quotes, your rate card and every file you exported live in local files on your own machine and stay yours, and your synced shop data stays on the account, so resubscribing with the same email picks up where you left off.

Every question, answered in full

Get Lasertally

Download Lasertally and price the part before the customer hangs up.

Lasertally runs on Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit. Start your free month or pick a plan, set your password, download the app and sign in. Your first quote is minutes away.

Worth knowing before you click: the installer is about 75 MB, and you need an account to sign in. Your first month is free: one email, no card, and 30 days of the full product with exports, counted from your first sign-in. After that the account falls back to the free preview, which opens and prices your files and will not export a quote PDF or post a program until you subscribe.

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Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit, with an auto-updating installer. macOS and Linux are not supported.