*Markdown alternate of . Lasertally is Windows desktop software that quotes laser-cut parts for fabrication shops from CAD files, then nests the won job on sheet or tube. Unrelated to "laser tally" in oil and gas.* Tube laser nesting software # Tube nesting, on the sticks you actually have. Lasertally Nest is tube laser nesting software. It packs tube parts onto the real stock lengths in your rack, makes one cut where two parts meet end to end, subtracts the chuck allowances before placing anything, and posts rotary G-code plus an unrolled DXF. Tube gets the same lead-ins, kerf compensation, micro joints and cut sequencing the engine already ran on plate, not a second half-finished engine bolted on beside the first. [figure] 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. ## 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 sections round, square, rect, obround, ellipse, triangle, angle, C and U channel, H beam STEP and IGES a solid is read, the axis found by measurement, the section classified or honestly called free form Rotary G-code plus an unrolled DXF, so the job runs even before a controller's post is dialed in Miters and copes compound miters and saddle cuts generated from three numbers, not drawn by hand ## Tube sections Lasertally Nest recognizes Lasertally Nest classifies ten standard tube and structural sections from the solid itself. A section it cannot match is called free form rather than guessed at, and it still nests. Table: Tube and structural section support | Section | Recognized automatically | Nested | | --- | --- | --- | | Round tube and pipe | Yes | Yes | | Square tube | Yes | Yes | | Rectangular tube | Yes | Yes | | Obround | Yes | Yes | | Elliptical | Yes | Yes | | Triangular | Yes | Yes | | Angle | Yes | Yes | | C channel | Yes | Yes | | U channel | Yes | Yes | | H beam | Yes | Yes | | Anything else | Called free form | Yes | ## What Lasertally Nest writes for the machine Table: Machine output | Output | For | Notes | | --- | --- | --- | | Rotary G-code | Tube | Written with the axis word, units and rollover your controller expects. | | Unrolled DXF | Tube | The whole nest, flattened. Imports into TubesT, CypTube or any CAM package, so a job runs on day one while the G-code post is still being dialed in. | | Layered DXF | Sheet | Cut geometry on layers, for any CAM package that reads DXF. | | .zx and .ctds | Not written | Those formats are undocumented. A guessed implementation produces files that open, look plausible and cut wrong, so Lasertally does not write them. | On your particular machine. You will notice there is no table of machine brands on this page. That is deliberate: I will not publish a compatibility list I have not actually posted to, because a wrong yes in that table costs you a scrapped stick and costs me the account. Email me your controller and I will tell you straight whether the post is dialed in for it, whether it needs work, or whether you should run the unrolled DXF through your existing CAM in the meantime. ## Nest tube on the sticks in your rack. Nest is $349 a month on top of any plan, and it nests sheet as well as tube. Full refund inside 14 days. Start a free preview See pricing ## Keep reading Sheet nesting and CAM True-shape nesting on your real sheet stock and offcuts, with a cut order that respects gravity. Pricing Nest is a $349 a month add-on on top of any Lasertally plan. Questions and answers Controller compatibility, file formats, what happens if you cancel. © 2026 Lasertally LLC