DIGITIZING THE HIDE

Material capture for leather

The software allows you to capture leather hides, interactively or automatically edit contours, defects, and quality areas, as well as manually or automatically nest parts. You can define the stretch direction of the leather and capture material contours and defects. Material capture is fundamental to optimizing layouts, minimizing waste, and achieving optimal material utilization.

The contour of the leather hide, material defects, and up to five quality zones are automatically detected. You can also interactively validate and correct results, as well as define additional quality zones and stretch directions.

Calculate the precise area of the leather material and compare it with the area delivered by the supplier for better cost control.

NESTING

Nesting, interactive or automatic

Whether you’re dealing with irregularly shaped materials such as leather hides, or textile materials from a roll, you can easily nest pattern pieces interactively on either. You can rotate, arrange, and place them as desired using the mouse. For maximum efficiency, it is possible to distribute multiple jobs over multiple hides with offline nesting.

Mind offers advanced and specialized automatic nesting algorithms for natural materials, combined with interactive tools to further optimize results.
Depending on requirements, you can also have the software automatically nest parts on hides or rolled materials. Parts nesting on patterned roll material will automatically position parts in relation to the pattern.

When nesting, the software takes into account defective areas and quality zones previously defined by you. Scan-to-order and scan-to-stock modes are available for maximum efficiency in multi-part nesting.

CUTTING AND SORTING

Special functions for leather

Inline and offline process
Mind software supports both scan-to-stock and scan-to-order workflows. In the offline process, hide capture, digital marking, classification, and parts nesting is done via standalone solutions such as MindCUT DIVA (digital inspection and virtual annotation) rather than on the cutter. The hides are captured, physically or digitally marked and classified. In the scan-to-stock workflow, hides are digitized and then held in stock until needed for production. In the inline process, by contrast, the hides are captured and parts are nested directly on the cutter.

While the inline workflow offers advantages when it comes to making on-the-fly adjustments because of differences in materials, the offline workflow is ideal in terms of nesting efficiency and productivity.