# Cutting nested items with common sides **URL:** \ **Category:** Help & Support\ **Created:** [August 25, 2022, 6:54pm UTC](https://community.wazer.com/t/cutting-nested-items-with-common-sides/523 "2022-08-25T18:54:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![AJStubbsy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@AJStubbsy](https://community.wazer.com/u/AJStubbsy)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2022, 10:40am UTC](https://community.wazer.com/t/cutting-nested-items-with-common-sides/523/2 "2022-08-26T10:40:48Z")
As far as I’m aware, there isn’t a way to control the cut as you would like. You need to be aware that, depending on how they were drawn, each edge of a square has it’s own line, so even though they may appear as one, because the shapes are overlapped, WAM will see two lines to cut. One option is to draw the shape so the two internal, vertical lines, are slightly shorter, so they don’t touch the large outer rectangle (perimeter). This way the two vertical, internal lines will be cut first and then the outer perimeter will cut-out the 3 squares. There’s a few other topics discussing WAM control that might help. Here’s a few: - > [@Finally Up & Running Part 2](https://community.wazer.com/t/finally-up-running-part-2/481): > > I may be betting well ahead of myself here, as I still have so much to learn in the CAD side, etc, But here’s my next questions How do you/can you control the cut order of something? So, for example if I wanted to cut a sheet of circles, with a little circle off set from the edge (round decorations with hanging hole, cutting glass) - I presume it would be preferable to cut the inner hole before the circle - so that the whole piece stays in place? What happens if I am doing a sheet of say 10… > [@WAM Suggestions](https://community.wazer.com/t/wam-suggestions/511): > > Hi, I have no doubt you will already have considered a lot of potential improvements for the WAM software but since there is a Feedback section, I thought I’d start this topic. From my point of view, it would be great if there were these features considered for future WAM updates. Option to: - Keep closed-loop position when splitting imported file. Assign cut order to grouped lines or closed-loops. Split all closed-loops (i.e. loops within loops) or select lines to be split, so that m… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.wazer.com/t/cutting-nested-items-with-common-sides/523)._