Minimize material waste with Inventor Nesting
Nesting is a process by which flat part profiles are positioned in an optimal way in order to reduce the waste of raw material. Inventor Nesting is CAD-embedded, true-shape nesting software that helps you optimize yield from flat raw material by optimally laying flat patterns on a sheet of raw material such as sheet metal, wood panels and others. Explore the workflows associated with creating, modifying, and exporting a nesting study within Inventor Nesting.
Course overview
Nesting is a process by which flat part profiles are positioned in an optimal way in order to reduce the waste of raw material. Inventor Nesting is CAD-embedded, true-shape nesting software that helps you optimize yield from flat raw material by optimally laying flat patterns on a sheet of raw material such as sheet metal, wood panels and others. Explore the workflows associated with creating, modifying, and exporting a nesting study within Inventor Nesting.
Over the duration of this content, you will be:
- Preparing and performing a Nesting Study
- Manufacturing your Nesting results
- Editing and exporting in 3rd party formats
- Nesting 2D files received from a 3rd party
Course outline
Preparing and performing a Nesting Study
This content series introduces you to the core concepts of Inventor Nesting, enabling you to prepare and complete your first nesting study.
Module outline
This content series introduces you to the core concepts of Inventor Nesting, enabling you to prepare and complete your first nesting study.
This content takes approximately 20 minutes to review. During the duration of the content, you will learn the following:
- Inventor Nesting Push: Shape Extraction
- Inventor Nesting Push: Nesting Study
- Inventor Nesting Push: Authoring
Prerequisites
This content series requires user-level knowledge of Inventor and is focused on best practices and its industry applications. If you don't have experiences with this product, we recommend you to take foundational training using one of the resources below:
- Built-in tutorials, available via in-product Help
- eLearning Partners
- Authorized Training Centers
About the author
This content series was recorded by one of the creators of Inventor Nesting - Bob Van Der Donck.
Before you start
- Please make sure you have the Inventor software loaded.
- Download Inventor Nesting from your Autodesk Account (available only for subscribers of Design and Manufacturing Collections).
- If you have technical difficulties, please reach out to product support.
- To collaborate with other industry professionals taking the module, or if you have questions or feedback during the module, please visit the module Forum.
Manufacturing your Nesting results
Having completed your nesting study, this content series will cover the workflow steps required to prepare the nested components for manufacture using both milling and cutting operations.
Module outline
Having completed your nesting study, this content series will cover the workflow steps required to prepare the nested components for manufacture using both milling and cutting operations.
This content takes approximately 20 minutes to review. During the duration of this content, you will be:
- Inventor Nesting Push: CAM Cutting
- Inventor Nesting Push: CAM Milling and Cutting
Prerequisites
This content series requires user-level knowledge of Inventor and is focused on best practices and its industry applications. If you don't have experiences with this product, we recommend you to take foundational training using one of the resources below:
- Built-in tutorials, available via in-product Help
- eLearning Partners
- Authorized Training Centers
About the author
This content series was recorded by one of the creators of Inventor Nesting - Bob Van Der Donck.
Before you start
- Please make sure you have the Inventor software loaded.
- Download Inventor Nesting and Inventor CAM from your Autodesk Account (available only for subscribers of Design and Manufacturing Collections).
- If you have technical difficulties, please reach out to product support.
Editing and exporting in 3rd party formats
This content series will demonstrate how you can make modifications to an existing nesting study and the steps required for exporting the results to 3rd party formats to support manufacturing.
Module outline
This content series will demonstrate how you can make modifications to an existing nesting study and the steps required for exporting the results to 3rd party formats to support manufacturing.
This content takes approximately 20 minutes to review. During the duration, we will cover:
- Inventor Nesting Push: EditNest and Report
- Inventor Nesting Push: Export
Prerequisites
This content series requires user-level knowledge of Inventor and is focused on best practices and its industry applications. If you don't have experiences with this product, we recommend you to take foundational training using one of the resources below:
- Built-in tutorials, available via in-product Help
- eLearning Partners
- Authorized Training Centers
Before you start
- Please make sure you have the Inventor software loaded.
- If you have technical difficulties, please reach out to product support.
Nesting 2D files received from a 3rd party
This content series will demonstrate how you can develop a nesting study from existing 3rd party file formats such as .dxf.
Module outline
This content series will demonstrate how you can develop a nesting study from existing 3rd party file formats such as .dxf.
This content takes approximately 20 minutes to review. We will cover the following:
- Inventor Nesting Pull: DXF Pull
Prerequisites
This content series requires user-level knowledge of Inventor and is focused on best practices and its industry applications. If you don't have experiences with this product, we recommend you to take foundational training using one of the resources below:
- Built-in tutorials, available via in-product Help
- eLearning Partners
- Authorized Training Centers
Before you start
- Please make sure you have the Inventor software loaded.
- If you have technical difficulties, please reach out to product support.
