Manufacturing Extension — Nesting and fabrication

Preparing for nesting

This video shows the process of preparing your designs for nesting by using the Nest Preparation tool to specify which components of your design transfer across to the nesting study.

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Materials and packaging overview

This video shows an overview of the Process Material library, including how to work with materials and packaging, how to obtain presets from the Fusion web client, and how to set default nesting parameters for sheets.

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Component Sources overview

This video shows an overview of the Component Sources dialog, including how to control what information is shown in the dialog, changing parameters for individual components, and adding external components.

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Creating and editing nest studies

This video shows how to create and edit nest studies by specifying job quantities, adding or removing materials, adjusting global parameters, and configuring the output for your manufacturing requirements.

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Viewing and comparing nest information

This video shows how to view and compare information between one or more nest studies, nests, or sheets.

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Nest reporting

This video shows the process of creating reports for your nests using custom or pre-existing templates, then saving the output as a HTML report or a PDF file.

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Manufacturing nests

This video shows how to create setups from manufacturing models and specify the operation type. You'll also see how to output DXF files that can be run directly on your machine tool.

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Associativity between the design and the nest

This video shows how nests are linked to the design and material settings when making changes and recalculating the nest.

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