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Manufacturing: Nesting of Parts and BOM extraction

smedlockX5F3M
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Manufacturing: Nesting of Parts and BOM extraction

smedlockX5F3M
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Greetings! I am new to the AutoCAD community. One division of my company is fabricating countertops out of pre-purchased slabs in 3 different lengths and multiple styles. I am needing to Nest multiple sizes of parts, drawing from mulitple sizes of the same material, and I need the software to tell me how many of the various sizes I will need to use. For example: I need to cut 28 random length parts, all measuring more than 30" in length, and I need to know the best yield utilizing 8', 10' and 12' slabs (i.e.: (2) 8' slabs; (3) 10' slabs; (3) 12' slabs. I also need to be able to set up a database of materials with these sizes in hundreds of colors. I need to be able to output shop drawings, pricing, quotes, etc. This is just an overview of the fundamental needs. Is AutoCAD the right program for this, or does AutoDesk have another program that is well suited for my manufacturing operation? Can anyone give me some direction? Thanks in advance.

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I know hundreds of AutoCAD users doing this kind of work. In particular, they design furniture and countertops too. AutoCAD is well suited for such simple drawings, but no other features are built into it. Usually, separate programs are used to work with large catalogs of materials, or at least external Excel spreadsheets. For nesting and cutting, you also have to use external programs such as OptiCut, OptiNest, Cutting3, CutList Optimazer, optiCutter and others. You will need plugins for AutoCAD to quickly measure the dimensions of your parts and export them to tables suitable for external nesting programs. For curved parts, export to dxf is used.
In principle, all these tasks can be solved in one specialized program designed only for your task. It's comfortable. And there are many such solutions. Basically, these are also add-ons to well-known CADs. However, the price of such solutions, together with all the necessary add-ons, is usually ten times more expensive. For example, AutoCAD + AVC Plugins + Excel + optiCutter is about 1-2 thousand dollars a year. And, for example, TopSolid + furniture add-ons - this is 20-40 thousand per workplace. In addition, it is quite difficult and expensive to hire engineers who know rare programs. Therefore, many still prefer AutoCAD.


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smedlockX5F3M
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Thank you very much. I appreciate the rapid response. :cara_con_una_leve_sonrisa:

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