ProNest® LT (formerly known as TurboNest®) is a powerful CAD/CAM part nesting software designed for light industrial, mechanized cutting in production environments. It provides a single software solution for all your conventional plasma and oxyfuel cutting machines.Benefits
Ease of use
Incredibly easy to learn and use, with intuitive screens, and a wide variety of helpful features.
Built-in design tools
Import CAD files, artwork, and signs, or create your own designs using powerful built-in tools.
Better part quality
Hypertherm’s built-in expertise means the best possible cutting parameters are applied for each job’s unique needs, resulting in sharper corners, cleaner edges, and improved hole quality.
Supported applications
Cut process support
- Plasma – conventional air/oxygen (ex. Powermax®, MAXPRO®)*
- Oxyfuel
Standard features
Comprehensive machine support
- All major brands/manufacturers/models
Advanced part design and development
- Integrated 2D CAD program to create and edit CAD files
- Variable Shape Parts library to develop common parts from templates
CAD/CAM import and conversion
- Import CAD files (industry-standard file formats)
- Import PDF
- Raster to vector converts static images to CAD
- Automatic CAD file correction and error notification
- Automatic spline/ellipse smoothing and reduction
- Separate multiple parts from a single CAD file
- Automatic mapping of CAD layers to processes (cut, mark, etc.)
Fast, easy job setup
- Material database (with grade and gauge)
- Custom remnant creation (define irregular shapes for nesting)
- Grain constraint
- Safe zones for plate clamping applications
- Multi-head cutting
SureCut™ technology and built-in process enterprise
- Material type, thickness, grade and class-based process parameters:
- Separations for part, plate, and pierce spacing
- Kerf compensation and feedrate
- Lead-in/out style optimized for part geometry and quality
- Cutting techniques
- Disable automatic height control based on part geometry
- Pre-pierce and edge pierce
- Pre-heat timing for oxyfuel
- Cut sequencing (automatic or manual)
- Pre-pierce and edge pierce
Interactive manual nesting
- Group parts into clusters for nesting
- Color parts according to part property
- Drag, drop, bump, and auto-bump parts on the nest
- Move, mirror, and drag to rotate parts
- Click and drag to automatically array parts
- Prohibit/permit nesting inside of a part
- Part interference detection
- Edit lead-in/out position and properties within the nest
- Animated cutting sequence simulation
- Control cut direction and cut sequencing on part-by-part basis
- Plate cropping
Detailed reporting
- Management and shop reports
- Export reports directly to PDF, Excel spreadsheet, CSV, or webpage
Simplified costing
- User-defined machine and labor production costing
- Automatic calculation of part production costs and part/nest utilization
Choice of output
- Post-processor with NC output
- DXF output
Modules
Productivity modules
- Automatic Nesting
- Common Line Cutting
- Chain and Bridge Cutting
- Skeleton Cut-up
System requirements
| Internet | Internet connectivity required for subscription license |
| CPU | 1.3 GHz processor or faster (3 GHz recommended) |
| Memory | 4 GB RAM (8 GB recommended) |
| Display | VGA display with at least 256 colors and a resolution of 1024 x 768 |
| Disk space | 2 GB available disk space |
| Microsoft® Windows® operating system | Windows 10, Windows 8 or 8.1, or Windows 7 (SP1) (32-bit or 64-bit OS) |
| Spreadsheet program | Microsoft Excel® 2007 or later is recommended for editing ProNest settings spreadsheets. |
Resources
Manuals and documents
What's New in ProNest 2025 LT (R1)