Welcome to Inventor Nesting Learning

Inventor Nesting is a nesting solution that helps manufacturers optimize material yield and minimize waste from flat raw material cutting operations. As a part of Autodesk Inventor, Inventor Nesting offers many advantages, including:

  • Geometry import with intelligent BOM associativity
  • Automated multiple sheet nesting
  • Quick efficiency comparison and cost estimation
  • Export of nested results as DXF files or tool paths, as well as NC generation through export to HSM

To learn more about Inventor Nesting, use the panel on the left to browse the table of contents. To get back to this home page at any time, in the upper-left corner, click the Inventor Nesting logo.

Inventor Nesting release notes

2025

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  • Nesting 2025 can be installed only on Inventor 2025.

2024

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  • Nesting 2024 can be installed on Inventor 2024, Inventor 2023 and Inventor 2022.

2023

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  • Nesting 2023 can be installed on Inventor 2021, Inventor 2022 and Inventor 2023.
  • To support Sheet Metal Mark feature, add the mark layers to the default extract configuration file.
  • Support for license idle mode state.
  • Include part Length and Width dimensions on Nest Report.

2022.0.2

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  • Updated or removed several third-party components due to potential security vulnerabilities.

2022

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2021.0.1

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  • Updated or removed several third-party components due to potential security vulnerabilities.

2021

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  • "Update" in the context menu has been renamed to "Refresh."
  • The Create Nest Study and Edit Nest Study dialogs have been updated to a tabbed design.
  • Create Nest Study has a new option: "Automatically Manage Nests."
    When enabled:
    • Whenever new sources are created, they are added to the nests in the nesting study.
    • New nests are created if a new source is created with a new material that wasn't used before, or if an existing source is changed to a material that wasn't used before.
    • Nests are deleted if there are no more sources in the nest, which can happen if the sources were deleted or if their material was changed to a different material.
  • The browser context menu for the Nest Study, Nest, and Sheet nodes now includes a "compare" option that enables you to compare two or more results.

2020.0.4

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  • Updated or removed several third-party components due to potential security vulnerabilities.

2020

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  • Product name changed from Nesting Utility to Inventor Nesting.
  • Icons updated to Inventor 2020 light theme.

2019.3

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  • New languages: French, Spanish, and Italian.
  • Support for 3D Detailed view for source files.
  • Nest Authoring feature for modifying nesting properties of source files.
  • Create 3D Model can now create assembly files using the extruded shape or the 3D source.
  • Extractions of Generic CAD source files using the Silhouette Curve Inventor command has been improved.
  • Improvements for invisible and derived sketches to be used for nesting.
  • Construction lines for Inventor Part provider are now ignored, as expected.
  • Improvements for showing shape number in Nesting Properties dialog box.

2019.2.1

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  • Support for excluding assemblies or parts from nesting.
  • Thickness is now automatically calculated for Generic CAD providers.
  • HTML report languages: German, Japan and Simplified Chinese; determined by your Inventor version.

2019.2

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2019.1

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2019

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  • First release of Inventor Nesting (Nesting Utility)