I run a fabrication shop. Fiber laser, waterjet, the usual. And like most shop owners, I spent way too much of my time quoting jobs instead of cutting them.
The quoting process was always the same. Customer sends a PO. I open the DXFs one by one. I pull up a spreadsheet. I look up material prices, calculate cut lengths, estimate nesting by eyeballing it, guess at pierce counts, factor in setup and labor, add margin, and type it all into a quote document. For a 10-part job, that's maybe 30 minutes. For a 100-part job with multiple materials and thicknesses, that's half a day. Half a day I'm not on the floor, not running machines, not making money.
So I looked at what was out there. The enterprise CAD/CAM platforms — they're powerful, but they're $10K+ and built for shops with a dedicated programmer sitting at a desk all day. I don't have that. I'm the programmer, the operator, the estimator, and the guy sweeping the floor at the end of the shift. The cloud-based quoting tools were simpler, but they're subscription-based and they stop at the quote. They can't nest with real NFP collision detection. They can't generate toolpaths. They can't post to my machine. And my data lives on someone else's server.
Neither option worked for how I actually run my shop. So I started building.
What PolygonLogix Does
PolygonLogix is a desktop program that handles the full workflow from purchase order to machine code. Here's what that looks like in practice:
A customer sends me a PO as a PDF. I drop it into PolygonLogix and the AI parser reads the document — part numbers, quantities, materials, grades, thicknesses — all extracted automatically and matched against my material database. For a recent 124-part order, it matched every single part correctly.
The parts link to my DXF files. I select the material and thickness, and the TurboNest engine runs — true-shape NFP collision detection with pattern stamping to pack parts as tight as possible. Not rectangular bounding box nesting. Actual no-fit polygon nesting that interlocks irregular shapes.
With parts nested, the quote calculates instantly. Material cost based on actual sheet usage and my real inventory. Cutting time based on my machine's actual tech tables — real feed rates, real pierce times, real kerf widths. Not estimates. Not averages from a generic database. My machine's data.
That 100-part job that used to take half a day? It's done in minutes.
What's Coming Next
The quoting and nesting side is available now. The production side — cut path generation with lead-in/lead-out, tabs, traverse optimization, and machine post-processing — is in active development. The goal is one program that takes a job from purchase order all the way to machine-ready code. No switching between three different programs. No re-entering data. No spreadsheets.
PolygonLogix is a perpetual license. You buy it once, install it on your machine, and your data stays on your machine. No monthly subscription. No cloud dependency.
See It in Action
We have help videos showing real workflows — importing large orders, AI parsing purchase orders, bulk quoting with quantity price breaks, and more. If you're a shop owner who's tired of the quoting grind, take a look.
We'll also be at FABTECH 2026 in Las Vegas this October, booth #N9813. Come see it run in person.