Works with
Where Lapas fits in a shop that already runs everything else
Lapas has no integrations. No ERP connector, no CAD add-in, no CAM plugin, not one. These pages explain the file handoff instead, and say where it is the wrong answer.
The short version
Everything here is the same shape: DXF in, nested DXF and a PDF report out, both on the free plan. Your CAD writes the part files, Lapas decides where they sit on the plate, your CAM turns that into machine output. Nothing is installed on either side.
Most fabrication ERPs do not nest either. They hand geometry out and take numbers back, through an integration or by someone moving files. Lapas sits in that gap as a plain file step. If your ERP already has a working nesting integration, that will beat this, and the individual pages say so.
CAD and CAM
The tools that make the part files and the ones that drive the machine. Lapas goes in between.
LightBurn
Good fitLightBurn imports DXF alongside .ai, .svg, .pdf and .plt/.hpgl. A nested sheet is just a DXF with the parts already placed, so it comes in as one job. Cut layers, power and speed stay in LightBurn, and so does talking to the laser.
SheetCam
Good fitSheetCam accepts DXF drawings along with HPGL, SVG, G-code drawings and Excellon files. Nest the plate first, then set tools, lead-ins and the post processor in SheetCam exactly as you do now.
SOLIDWORKS
Good fitSOLIDWORKS writes a flat pattern DXF straight from the part document, without flattening the model or making a drawing, and their help names laser-cutter programming software as the destination. Clear bend lines on the way out.
Fusion 360
Good fitFusion exports a flat pattern or a sketch as DXF, and imports DXF back as a sketch for your 2D toolpaths. Worth knowing it writes bend centre lines, bend extend lines and text to their own layers.
ERP and MES
Where the job lives. These pages are blunter, because several of these systems sell a nesting integration that beats moving files by hand.
Fulcrum
Good fitFulcrum does not nest. It packages job DXF files into a zip for external nesting and reads the result back from a nesting PDF, which is why Fulcrum say their workflow works with nearly all nesting software. DXF in, PDF out is exactly what Lapas does, on the free plan.
Global Shop Solutions
Only if you have no integrationGlobal Shop Solutions builds nesting integrations per customer, running bidirectionally with remnant drop parts and nesting labour time fed back into the job detail. Lapas cannot do that. If you have that integration, keep it.
JobBOSS²
Only if you have no integrationJobBOSS² groups jobs for nesting with its Job Grouping Utility and sells a nesting integration that syncs plate stock and pushes jobs automatically. Lapas is not one of the supported providers. Covers E2 Shop, which ECI merged into JobBOSS².
Plex
Only if you have no integrationPlex nesting integrations create nesting work orders, sync them to the ERP and track remnant inventory. Lapas creates no work orders and writes no remnants. If yours is integrated, keep it.
Epicor Kinetic
Only if you have no NESTLinkEpicor sells NESTLink, an API-based nesting integration for Kinetic that exists specifically to remove data re-entry. Lapas is not a NESTLink partner, so re-entry is exactly what this workflow keeps.
Paperless Parts
Usually you do not need usPaperless Parts nests in-app, and positions it as removing the need for a separate nesting licence. It nests to price a job; Lapas nests to cut one. If those are the same job for you, they have it covered.
Not covered yet
ProShop, SecturaFAB, Lantek Integra, Mach3, FastCAM, AutoCAD. These are not written yet because we have not read enough of each vendor's own documentation to describe the handoff accurately, and a guessed page about someone's production system is worse than no page. If you run one of them, tell us what it expects and we will write it properly.
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