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Hi @Anonymous ,
Thanks for reaching out and providing detailed explanation. I am glad you are considering using Fusion 360 for your CAM requirements. While I may not have an answer for all your questions, I'll respond to the ones regarding "nesting":
"We have a material optimization program (The Itemizer) that we can input the size and quantity of material on hand and then the overall size of the part. The program will then generate different layouts based off of the part based off of its block sizes .It does not take into account the actual shape of the part; it bases everything off of the overall length and width of the part (i.e. if there were two mitered parts it would not nest the miters together. It only looks at overall dimensions.) I typically use this to start off and then use its layouts as a guideline and then see what ways I can tweak things while I am nesting to better our material usage. I would like to see a program that I could directly import the drawing of the parts and then have it nest them automatically for me."
> As you'll see on the Fusion 360 Idea Station, "Nesting" is the 10th top voted idea which has already been accepted and is currently being implement by our team as I type this response
While I can not comment on how soon it will become available in a production release, I can say that its coming soon as preview functionality...This solution will have the same automatic true-shape nesting technology that is also used in our other products - TruNest and Inventor Nesting.
"If I program a part later to find out there is an issue with the part, I go back to autocad (because I find EnRoute incredibly difficult to draw/make changes in), make the changes as required, reimport into EnRoute, then export back to the machine. I know that with Fusion 360 the toolpaths always remain linked to the original model, and I would love to find a way to make the CAM program associative with autocad. However, from what I understand, this is not an option at this time. I think that a CAM program that would allow me to fairly easily make changes to the original drawing would be very beneficial."
"As I stated earlier, most of what we do is flat sheet, so the ability to work off of a drawing rather than having to have the part modelled is a huge plus"
> As we continue work on Nesting in Fusion 360, we are definitely prioritizing "associative nest updates and toolpath updates driven by design changes". However, please note that the Fusion nesting workflows we introduce initially may be limited to Fusion sheet metal models with flat patterns. We do realize there is huge demand for nesting 2D dxf, dwg, and 3D non-sheet metal solids as well. This is something we plan to tackle in Phase 2.
"...an optimization/nesting program that looks at the true shape of the part and allows me to nest multiple, different sized sheets at once"
> Fusion Nesting (once available), Inventor Nesting, and TruNest can all handle this.
How do you program your MultiCam 7000 today?
I am somewhat familiar with ELUMATEC (SBZ130 - not sure how different that is from the one you mentioned). I'll let someone else with more experience chime-in on that topic.
Please let me know if you have any other questions regarding Nesting. Thanks,

Ravi Javia
Product Manager
Fusion