Why not invest in a more efficient business? Nesting is all about increasing manufacturing efficiency by minimizing material waste, shortening machine cycle times, and reducing production costs. Make a sound investment by implementing Fusion 360 Nesting software into your production workflow! Optimize the placement of machined components to eliminate repetitive cutting motion, saving tooling and machine wear. Reduce wasted stock material, scrap, and inventory overhead. Simplify design changes and streamline your CAD to CAM programming workflow. Minimizing human interaction during the fabrication process means reduced labor time. Save on materials, time, and labor while increasing productivity and profitability!

Whether you're laying out kitchen cabinets, designing resilient product packaging, or analyzing item placement in a shipping container, manually arranging components can be inefficient, laborious, and often costly. The Advanced Arrange options in Autodesk Fusion 360 software's Nesting and Fabrication extension offer automated solutions to optimize component placement, maximize material usage, employ multi-sheet true shape arrangement, implement grain direction control, and much more! In this class, you'll learn how Advanced Arrange can save you time and money by taking the guess work out of arranging, orienting, and nesting components for manufacturing. We'll discuss workflows for Object Selection, Rotation, Quantity, and Envelope Setup. We'll also cover Arrange Solvers for 2D Rectangular, 2D True Shape, and 3D Arrange.

Autodesk Fusion 360 software continues to evolve for design and manufacturing in a single package. Sheet metal components can be designed using Fusion 360 or imported for virtually any CAD package to have the cutting toolpaths created using the Fusion 360 Manufacture workspace. This class will demonstrate methods for creating nests using both the Arrange command as well as the Nesting using the Nesting and Fabrication Extension. This class will demonstrate how you can use both Advanced Arrange and Nesting to arrange components on a sheet that can be cut using the Fusion 360 Manufacture workspace. The presentation will cover creating or importing files to be nested, setting up nest materials, creating nests, and finally using the Manufacture workspace to add cutting toolpaths to cut out the nests.