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Short English guides for shop owners and process engineers. Each article explains common laser-cutting practice and how AllTerra Calculator handles the same topic at calc.1cterra.ru.
Prepare DXF for laser cutting
Closed contours, units, layers, holes, and what happens when a file has no closed contour.
Sheet utilization in nesting
What utilization means, why 100% is impossible, and a synthetic demo at 25.06%.
Estimate laser cutting time
Cut length, pierces, corner slowdown, idle travel — and how the nest feeds the clock.
Common-line (shared) cutting
When shared edges help, when the engine skips them, and the live Shared cut option.
Price a laser-cut part in a quote
Material, machine time, margin, VAT, minimum price, and how line prices are split.