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Sheet Metal Layout: Arrange Designs to Waste Less

A tip from @Paulinamezajewelry: lay out designs on a computer rectangle sized to your sheet, then print and paste to save time and metal.

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For those of us that cut designs from sheet metal - “A bench tip to save time and material is to first measure the size of your sheet metal. Then, on your computer, make a rectangle and accordingly arrange your designs in it in a way you waste the least space possible. Flip them around and play with combinations.⠀
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Then print and paste, and you are ready to start! This saves time on cutting the individual pieces out of paper and pasting each, one by one. You also have the overview of the whole area and can arrange the shapes closer to each other.” Thank you so much for sharing this @Paulinamezajewelry
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