Hi friends, I’m trying to nest these objects using OpenNest: [Nest] But it doesn’t nest the circles, it seems like it doesn’t work with curves in a degree other than 1 (it does work if I rebuild the curves to degree 1 but that’s not a good solution for me). I’ve also tried using control points …

Roy, You need a polyline sheathing on circles [NestCircle]

Thank you @eddi for the detailed screenshot, unfortunately in your suggested method I can’t get any of the curves to stay one inside of the other like they are before the nesting: [Nest2] In this video tutorial I saw that if you want to have objects inside other objects it has to be with the “Rh…

Thank you @Petras_Vestartas , that did the trick. Many thanks for this awesome plug-in.

[image] Roy: Turning the circles to Degree 1 with 100 control points each takes more time to nest and more time to view the irretations and is not the best solution as it’s not a true circle. Therefore a hull is created, how many points are used, dictates the curve geometry and desired precis…

Thank you @eddi for your answer, it’s interesting and good to know but sometimes combining a polygon outside and a curve inside is a must, so Petras solution with the surfaces does cover it and does it well. But thanks again :slight_smile:

Trying to nest degree 2 or 3 curves

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Trying to nest degree 2 or 3 curves

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