Case study 02 / Windows desktop

Nestform

A clearer Electron workflow with explicit physical units, SVG and DXF handling, and exact round-trip validation.

Conceptual artwork / product evidence follows

Product direction, interface modernization, unit-boundary work, and verification by Kirsten Trimaley; built on the attributed Deepnest foundation.

I use AI to explore and accelerate, but I own the product decisions, the verification, and the responsibility for what ships.

The real product

Built to be used,
not just viewed.

A modern Windows nesting workspace for laser cutting and CNC, built around the preserved Deepnest engine.

Complete application frame · source aspect ratio preserved · privacy-safe data

Modernized the desktop workflow while deliberately retaining the proven upstream nesting engine.
Added physical-unit handling at import, export, and presentation boundaries instead of altering the engine's internal geometry.

The fixed 72-units-per-inch engine scale and upstream Deepnest behavior must remain intact.
Ambiguous unitless drawings require review; presentation strokes must not change physical extents.

Convert SVG and DXF measurements at the product boundary and preserve source measurement metadata.
Keep the physical 3 mm gap consistent across project units and use six rotation candidates during nesting.

The unit smoke test verified DXF INSUNITS=4 and an exact 100 × 50 mm import, export, and reopen round trip.
The local 0.5.0 approval build passed type checking, 24 tests, production build, packaged workflow smoke, and unit smoke.

Foundation and attribution: Nestform is a fork of Jack000/Deepnest. The upstream GPL-3.0 engine and its history remain explicitly credited.

Publish the locally verified 0.5.0 work only after the release candidate, documentation, and unsigned-binary disclosure receive final approval.