For CorelDRAW and any PDF · Mac & Windows (beta)
Drop the PDF of your kit. TrueNest finds the pieces by their shapes, nests them on your roll and gives you back a vector PDF with your design, your spot colours and, if your file has them, thin CutContour lines.
For print shops, sign makers and decal shops working in CorelDRAW or any other software that exports a PDF.
Half price on the monthly subscription · cancel any time.
Trial: the full version of both tools, panel on 1 computer, no payment card. It stops by itself.
Included with every TrueNest Pro licence: one key, both tools. The panel inside Illustrator, and TrueNest CorelDRAW for PDF kits from any software, CorelDRAW included.
TrueNest CorelDRAW is in beta. It has run on real decal kits, including one from our own workshop, and checks every nested PDF before you save it. The Windows version is brand new: if anything looks off, write to us and we will fix it fast.
TrueNest CorelDRAW is included in your TrueNest Pro download link, right after your order, for Mac and Windows.
Working in Adobe Illustrator? The TrueNest Pro panel nests right inside your file. See the panel →
01 · Four steps
Your settings are remembered from one session to the next. After that, a kit is a drop, a click on Nest and a save.
From CorelDRAW, File > Publish to PDF (on a Mac, File > Export, then PDF), or the PDF export of any other software. Put the kit on the first page: that is the page TrueNest reads.
Each sticker is found by its shape. Every spot colour and layer has a Print tick box, so guides and notes stay out.
Set your roll width, the longest sheet you allow, the space between pieces and a search time from 10 seconds to 2 minutes. The best layout appears live, with the vinyl used and the fill. Stop and keep the best whenever you like.
You get a vector PDF with your design and spot colours as they were. If your file has cut lines, they follow their sticker and come out as thin CutContour lines. Up to 19 checks are read back from the written PDF before you save it.
02 · Pieces by shape
Everything that prints and touches makes one piece: backgrounds (white ones too), strokes with their width, texts, images and gradients. The bleed is already inside the piece. No need to group.
A sticker made of separate letters with no background needs its cut line, otherwise each letter becomes a piece. The same goes for two stickers whose designs touch: without cut lines, they become one piece.
03 · One sheet or several
If the kit fits on one page of your max length or less, you get one page, cut to the length used. If it does not, the kit is spread over several sheets of that length, the last one cut to what it uses. There is no box to tick: sheets are automatic.
All the sheets are searched as one job, and pieces move from one sheet to another during the search. The search runs on several cores of your computer at once: each one tries a different start and the best layout wins.
While it searches, you see the best layout with the real drawing, the vinyl used, the fill and the number of sheets. Stop and keep the best at any time.
Example on our test Mac: a 62-piece kit spread over 3 sheets of 1000 mm took about 30 seconds with 10 seconds chosen.
04 · Finishing
Tick only what your workflow needs. With every option off, the PDF is exactly what nesting alone gives.
Graphtec CE7000 / FC9000, Summa OPOS X (roll cutters), Summa F Series (F1612), Summa Invicta and Valiani (beta: check your first sheet). Marks are pure black, on their own layer (Regmark by default), and by default room is reserved for them while nesting, so no piece lands on a mark. Each preset shows the setting to check on your machine.
Cut lines go on a Cut layer and the artwork on a Print layer. Rename them the way your RIP expects.
CutContour by default, Cutting Table, or a name you type. Every cut line is then written in that spot colour: 0.25 pt, 100 %, overprint.
Printed as outlines, so the RIP needs no font: 8 mm high, with a cut frame 3 mm around it, and with 1/3, 2/3... on a kit of several sheets. It is never kept for the next file.
Cut a test sheet before a big job, especially with registration marks. If your cutter reads a mark wrong, tell us: that is how the next version gets your machine right.
05 · Your files
TrueNest CorelDRAW is an app on your Mac or PC. Reading the PDF, the search and the checks all run on your computer.
06 · Will it run here?
Monthly plan · −50 %
The Illustrator panel and TrueNest CorelDRAW come with the same licence. Monthly subscription at half price, new versions included while it is active, cancel any time from your customer account.
TrueNest CorelDRAW is included in your TrueNest Pro download link, right after your order, for Mac and Windows. Already a customer? Use the download link you received, or write to support@gettruenest.com.
The free trial gives the same link, and its key opens TrueNest CorelDRAW too.
Activate it with the key from your TrueNest e-mail (TN-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX), once on each computer.
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7 days · panel on 1 computer
€29,99 / month
€59,98
Panel on 1 computer
€49,99 / month
€99,98
Panel on 2 computers
Or pay once
The same two tools, with every feature. Pick how many computers for the panel.
€499,00 once
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The computers of your plan count the Illustrator panel only. TrueNest CorelDRAW opens with the same key and does not use one of them.
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07 · Questions
Anything else? Write to support@gettruenest.com: a real person answers.
No. It comes with every TrueNest Pro licence: Solo, Studio, Lifetime and the free trial. The same key opens the Illustrator panel and TrueNest CorelDRAW, and TrueNest CorelDRAW does not use one of the computers of your plan.
The TrueNest Pro panel: it nests inside your Illustrator file, with nothing to export. TrueNest CorelDRAW is for kits drawn in CorelDRAW or any other software that exports a PDF. Your licence opens both.
No. Without cut lines, every separate shape of the drawing is a piece. With cut lines in a CutContour spot colour, each line travels with its sticker. Two cases need cut lines: a sticker made of separate letters with no background, otherwise each letter becomes a piece, and two stickers whose designs touch, otherwise they become one piece.
In the download link you receive right after your order: the Mac and Windows installers of TrueNest CorelDRAW are in it. Already a customer? Use the download link you received, or write to support@gettruenest.com.
The installers are not signed by Apple or Microsoft. On a Mac, right-click the app, then Open, then Open. On macOS 15 or later, go to System Settings > Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway. On Windows, click More info, then Run anyway. Stuck? Write to support@gettruenest.com.
No. The PDF is read, nested and checked on your computer. Only your licence key is sent to TrueNest, to check it, about once an hour of use.
It is the full version of both tools for 7 days (the panel on 1 computer), with no payment card, and it stops by itself. The download link comes right after your free order. If you use only TrueNest CorelDRAW, the 7 days count from that order, so start the trial when you have a real kit to nest. One trial per e-mail address.
The online demo shows a kit nesting in your browser, and the result stays on the screen. TrueNest CorelDRAW is the full app: it saves the nested PDF ready for your RIP, on several sheets when needed, with the finishing options. It opens PDF files only: export an .ai file to PDF first.
Full version of both tools, 7 days, no payment card. Drop one real kit, nest it, and cut a test sheet from the PDF.
