you do know that the have nesting programs for your CNC equipment that does this automatically and far more efficiently than you can do by hand placing/guessing??
Of the 50 or so sheetmetal vendors we have used I couldnt imagine someone actually hand nesting the parts..
Nesting programs are cheap compared to the time you spend doing it manually.
Something like this http://www.striker-systems.com/
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