Cutting: nesting/arranging all bodies to fit material/cutting bed

[temperli]

Hi there

I'm building some 3D models made of laser cut plywood. I have now all the parts copied and somewhat arranged beside the actual model, with CAM/cutting i can easily create a vector drawing to feed to the cutter.

What now doesnt really work yet is neatly arranging/nesting all the parts. All i can do is precisely align one body in relation to another body.

What i'd need to do is:

- Have a defined spacing between two bodies (this body is 2mm away from that line/body)

- make groups and align/move them or position them also with a defined spacing (select a group and then align one point of that group with another point)

- Have some guidelines or other means to represent the available (or desired) material size or size of the cutting bed 

A regular nesting algorithm is probably at the moment out of reach for fusion360?

Thanks in advance!

[Matthew-R]

@temperli

Thanks for posting your questions on the forum.  With regard to nesting, here's a Fusion 360 What's New blog post that discusses nesting in out planned Sheet Metal functionality.

https://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/blog/fusion-360-sheet-metal-status-update/

This may be a workflow that will work for you even when designing parts that are made out of plywood.  Our target for the public release of sheet metal is July 24th.  Please let me know if you have any more questions.

[philip]

Now that Sheet Metal has been released can anyone point me to documentation/tutorials on nesting for a CNC router & sheet plywoods, etc.? 

[LibertyMachine]

That (nesting) has not yet come to fruition. It's still on the Roadmap, but I'm uncertain of it's possible release date

[dmorris750]

Any new word on the ability to nest parts on sheet goods??

This is the only thing keeping me from really investing into fusion 360.  I can't imagine that it wouldn't benefit a very large number of users!?

[Anonymous]

This would be a wonderful add-in right now we use vcarve to nest then we export the dxf to fusion.

[krummeck]

Evening Folks

I have stumbled across an online application called Nest&Cut. I don't know if anyone has heard of it, or possibly use it to nest in Fusion. Seth maybe you are aware of it? Uses DXF files which I presume would be fed back into Fusion to post G-code. 

Let me know what you think

Warren

[seth.madore]

@krummeck  I have not, no. I will try to look into that this week and see if it's something we can leverage.

I do know that Inventor has nesting, so it would only make sense to eventually see that functionality in Fusion

[scalci]

this will be great to have a nesting feature.

When will this will be available?