I had a project this summer that involved the use of a laser cutter. I was cutting out a number of stars. I used Lightburn for that, because that was the software my friend had and knew. That software has a number of optimization settings to minimize travel time and based on the laser path's cut and traverse speeds. See the linked youtube video for Lightburn's cut optimization options and considerations:  https://youtu.be/w1hG1wv8tS4?si=uLvwx5FiYVGd9-jY

To further my understanding of 3DExperience, I thought it'd be interesting to build a manufacturing cell in Delmia Laser and Waterjet Cutting to recreate that workflow. It was neat to be able to directly reference the physical products I had used to design the project in CATIA, certainly. 

I was able to use the nesting feature to nest a number of stars inside the stock size with appropriate spacing and rotation values. 

When it came to the cut ordering, though, propagating the guide contour for one star to the rest seemed to pick a fairly linear order based on the order in the tree underneath the NC Machining Assembly. I wasn't able to find any options or guides on how to optimize the guide contour ordering and start/stop points automatically to minimize traversal time (perhaps I missed something obvious?). This is 2023x Cloud.

Is there a different (heh) order that I should be doing things in? Should I not propagate guide contours to each nested item and instead use some other way to link those? 

I guess another possibility is that I should be using an intermediate control software (such as Lightburn) to do the actual direct control of the laser cutter, and simply use Delmia to generate (and simulate) the overall paths, without worrying too much about individual contour ordering.

The video posted on the below Swym post seems to corroborate that behavior https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexperience.3ds.com/#community:45/iquestion:6FBcIy2cR6-j0AB6UTl9nA

 Thanks for any insight!