Headless CAD: Generating and Nesting DXF Flat Patterns via Chromium
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Traditional approaches to drawing generation rely heavily on bulky desktop software and proprietary APIs. The modern approach shifts the geometric kernel to the web.
In this article, we explore how to use the Chromium engine (via Puppeteer or Playwright) and JavaScript to automatically generate, validate, and nest DXF files.