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Gemini NestCONNECT is a free application which provides pay‑as‑you‑go cloud nesting for apparel, upholstery, technical textiles, digital printing and other industries.
If you are in Fashion & Apparel manufacturing,
NestCONNECT will help you
- Create your markers fast
- Save fabrics while preserving the quality
- Solve all problems concerning – piece grouping, fusing blocks, alignment, color shading, fabric defects
- See the matching for plaids and checks on screen on the real fabric
If you are in Upholstery & technical textiles,
NestCONNECT will help you
- Save fabrics and increase output by automatic nesting
- Mix products or add automatically fillings to maximize fabric usage
- Easily recognize and collect the cut parts after nesting, using CutCollect
If you are in Digital Textile Printing,
NestCONNECT will help you
- Imposition and nest ready-to-print PDF or AI files to generate your printer jobs
- Save transfer paper, media and fabrics by ensuring a high efficiency placement
- Preserve your color management info
- Keep the output file small even for very long print jobs (80-100m)
Pay as you go
Gemini NestCONNECT is FREE to download and to use for manual nesting.
A very simply system of Prepaid Cloud Credits allows you to access automatic cloud nesting whenever you need to get fast, highly‑efficient results.
With no up-front investment but still keeping the full advantages of having an automatic nesting solution at hand, NestCONNECT is the perfect choice when you are not a regular user of nesting.
NestCONNECT is also a good choice for you if you appreciate the advantages of SaaS solutions: always have the latest version installed and no need to own a powerful computer yourself as the powerful cloud infrastructure will do the nesting for you.
Not sure if to buy or to rent?
Check the comparison below to see the main features of each variant
- On-premise solution
- Lifetime License
- Works with or without an internet connection
- FREE Software Update in the 1st year
- FREE Standard Support in the 1st year
- Dedicated appointed local distributor
Own
Rent
CAPEX
OPEX
Lifetime
SaaS
- SaaS solution
- Free app, pay only when you create markers
- Suitable for any type of computer
- Always use the latest version
- Scalability for peak seasons with no cost
- Harness cloud computing power
Are you a NestEXPERT user?
NestCONNECT uses Prepaid Cloud Credits based on Time and Number of nested pieces
- On-premise solution
- Lifetime License
- Works with or without an internet connection
- FREE Software Update in the 1st year
- FREE Standard Support in the 1st year
- Dedicated appointed local distributor
- SaaS solution
- Free app, pay only when you create markers
- Suitable for any type of computer
- Always use the latest version
- Scalability for peak seasons with no cost
- Harness cloud computing power
Learn in‑depth details about Gemini NestCONNECT
Fully automatic & high‑efficiency marker nesting optimization
Gemini NestCONNECT is a software application used for automatic marker optimization in garments industry designed to be able to use multi core technology for fast processing.
Optimize with NestCONNECT
Gemini NestCONNECT optimizes the nesting of cut parts onto the material surface, obeying various restrictions and nesting rules.
Harness the power of cloud computing
You can now get the best nesting results on your light notebook, because all the computation is done in the cloud. No need to invest and to constantly update your hardware. With Gemini NestCONNECT you can get up to 32 Cloud Modules working for your marker. The virtually unlimited cloud resources are allocated to each marker automatically depending on the its complexity.
Generate production files
Gemini NestCONNECT generates the optimized machine file output for for single ply, multi-ply, laser, knife, ultrasonics or waterjet cutters, plotters and textile printer.
Integrate with other solutions
Gemini NestCONNECT can be used together with Gemini PatternDESIGNER or FashionSTUDIO, integrtated with Gemini CutPLANNER, or with any other CAD application which can export shapes for nesting.
Key Features of Gemini NestCONNECT
- Capacity to import parts for nesting from a large variety of proprietary and standard CAD formats
- High-speed, high-efficiency automatic nesting
- Can handle matching on stripes / checks
- Can handle rotation / flip restriction
- Can handle fabric defects and shading
- Can handle parts grouping, by size, by bundle, by piece types and fusing blocks
- Can generate and optimize the cutter file for best cutting results
- Can nest parts with digital printing content and PDFs
- Can be used as an add-on together with other CADs which do not provide similar automatic nesting performance
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Main Benefits & Advantages of Gemini NestCONNECT over similar solutions
- Provides fabric saving up to 6% compared to manual nesting and 2% compared to competitor algorithms
- Unlike other CADs which are using third-party nesting algorithms, Gemini NestCONNECT is based on a proprietary algorithm
developed in-house by Gemini CAD Systems, ensuring a continuous evolution and adaptation to client’s requests - Nesting rules & restrictions, parts quantities, fabric properties can be retrieved automatically from upstream product development stages
- Up to 32 core parallel nesting, instant cloud resources allocated to each marker automatically depending on the marker complexity
Innovative elements or unique features
- On screen fabric visualization, WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) for nesting on fabrics with matching
- Cloud connected: Gemini NestCONNECT can retrieve fabric properties, cutter and plotter profiles, parts nesting and cutting manufacturing profiles from the online platform
- Gemini NestCONNECT keeps the nesting process transparent and interactive, allowing you to see the results in real time and to interact with marker on-screen.
- Can be used as a tool for digital printing imposition, generating optimized textile printer files, in printable PDF format
Integration with complementary solutions
- In mass apparel production, Gemini NestCONNECT is typically used together with Gemini CutPLANNER, providing real time nesting for entire orders consisting in multiple markers and multiple fabrics
- For small scale applications or in technical textile applications it is typically used directly with design software (Gemini PatternDESIGNER or other CAD source)
- Can be used together with Gemini NestEXPERT SERVER to serve larger operations and manage nesting queues and over-night jobs
- Provides logical data for down-stream CAM applications such as VisionCUT (for matching cutting) or CutCOLLECT (pick-by-light drop-by-light)
Testimonials
Maria Lucia Hohan,
Founder @ Maria Lucia Hohan
Since 2009 we have implemented Gemini CAD Systems’ software solutions to achieve product development and manufacturing. We chose to collaborate with Gemini CAD Systems due…
Grigorela Dimitriu,
CEO & Founder @ YOKKO
The software provides all the features necessary for a garment factory regardless of its size. It’s easy to use and learn. Offers an excellent price-quality…
Tatiana Crihan,
Owner @ Tania BLU
The use of the Gemini program meant a radical change in the way things operate at the company where I used to work in 2007.…
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FAQs
Find answers for common questions about NestCONNECT and Gemini experience
Gemini NestCONNECT is a software application used for automatic marker optimization in garments industry. Although this application offers specific solutions for nesting on textile fabrics, NestCONNECT can be used successfully for cutting also a wide range of materials such as plastic, metal, wood. We offer trainings and premium support for the guaranteed period in which whenever there are questions of functionality we help the user.
When Gemini NestCONNECT performs the automatic nesting, the rules and restrictions of each pattern are respected. These rules are defined for each pattern since the design phase, and refer to the rotation freedom and position on the grain axis, at the minimum distance between patterns, at matching the project on the stripes and plaids, to the alignment and matching with other patterns.
In NestCONNECT application can be realized markers on simple layer fabric, on strips and plaids fabric, on double layer fabric or tubular fabric. The result obtained in Gemini NestCONNECT application is an optimized marker, which can be printed on plotters at scale 1:1, can be sent to in a particular form to an automatically cutting machine or can be printed on a printer as a mini-marker for user checking.
The installation kits for all of our latest versions can be found in the Installation Kits in my MyCAD account.
Users of Gemini applications receive full support throughout the warranty period. If the user is no longer in the warranty period, he must purchase a subscription that can be made from his MyCAD account.
Subscriptions can be purchased from my MyCAD account. To purchase the subscription, you need a card to pay online. We accept Visa and Mastercard and we use Recurly in order to provide the highest level of security for our customers’ credit card information. Recurly is PCI-DSS Level 1 compliant. Here you can find all you want to know about our payment service security features: https://recurly.com/product/security-and-compliance/pci-compliance/
If you cancel your Update Subscription, you will revert to the latest allowed version you purchased before subscribing to the Software Update. You can check the latest allowed version for each license in your organization on the License page in MyCAD. You can find installation kits of your lifetime license in the Installation kits section of MyCAD. Please note that files created with the new version of the software are not readable by old versions, so we strongly advise you to save your models with Save as compatibility mode functionality. The functionality will allow you to save your files (models, orders) in a software version of your lifetime license and keep important data intact.