DXNest · Engineering software
DXNest Fabrication turns your DXF drawings and Excel part lists into nested layouts, CNC programs and shop-floor documents in minutes. DXNest Motion turns a mechanism sketch into a solved cycle with trajectories, velocities and comparison graphs.
DXNest products
DXNest develops engineering software for digital fabrication and mechanism design: DXNest Fabrication automates sheet-metal production preparation, while DXNest Motion helps engineers construct, simulate and analyze planar mechanisms.
CAD/CAM for production
DXNest Fabrication is a CAD/CAM software system that automates production preparation for sheet-metal and façade fabrication: it reads DXF drawings and Excel part lists, generates panel geometry, nests parts onto stock sheets, and produces CNC programs, bills of materials, packing slips, labels and reports.
Kinematics in the browser
DXNest Motion is browser-based kinematics software for constructing, simulating and analyzing planar mechanisms, including linkages, sliders, gears, racks, eccentric drives, rollers and rolling segments.
What DXNest Fabrication does
One workflow carries a project from incoming drawings to CNC-ready files and shop-floor documents.
By hand, today
With DXNest Fabrication
Opening every DXF, checking contours and cleaning up geometry before anything can be cut.
DXNest Fabrication automatically reads and validates DXF files, detects closed contours and removes manual prep work from the workflow.
Redrawing each panel by hand with its angles, holes and edge rules.
Generates precise panel geometry from drawings or parametric panel types — with angles, holes and scaling rules — ready for fabrication.
Arranging parts on sheets in CAD and hoping the layout is close to optimal.
Optimizes part layouts on sheets to minimize scrap and improve material utilization.
Post-processing every sheet and re-typing machine settings for each material.
Creates ready-to-run CNC programs for fabrication lines in a few clicks, with per-material machine settings.
Tracking sheet formats and leftover stock in a separate spreadsheet.
Works with multiple sheet sizes and available stock, following real production constraints.
Counting panels, hardware and materials into a bill of materials by hand.
Automatically builds detailed BOMs for panels, hardware and materials.
Splitting a large project into batches because the tools cannot take it whole.
Handles thousands of parts with parallel processing and an accelerated placement search.
Rewriting packing slips, labels and reports after every change to the project.
Generates packing slips, labels, PDFs, Excel reports and production summaries automatically.
Time savings
Measured end to end on real projects: import, nesting, CNC programs and documentation.
50 panels
5 minutes
instead of 2–4 hours by hand
100 panels
10 minutes
instead of 1 day by hand
500 panels
15–20 minutes
instead of 2 days by hand
How it works
Import DXF drawings or pick parametric panel types. DXNest Fabrication detects closed contours and builds the parts list for you.
Load dimensions and quantities from Excel, choose material types, thicknesses, sheet formats and available stock.
One click runs nesting, CNC program generation, BOM, packing slips and labels — minutes even for 500-panel projects.
Hand the shop floor nested DXF layouts, CNC files and PDF/Excel reports that are ready to use as-is.
Get DXNest
The full engine on your Windows workstation. Works offline and processes 500-panel projects in minutes.
The same nesting and CNC pipeline in your browser — nothing to install, projects available from any machine.
DXNest Motion
Nothing to install: construct a planar mechanism, solve its full cycle, read the motion data and export the results. Projects stay in your account.
FAQ
DXNest Fabrication is a CAD/CAM software system that automates the entire preparation process for sheet-metal and façade production. It reads parts from DXF drawings and Excel files, performs nesting on available sheet sizes, and generates DXF layouts, CNC programs, bills of materials, packing slips and material reports.
DXNest Motion is browser-based kinematics software for constructing, simulating and analyzing planar mechanisms. Engineers can build mechanisms from links, sliders, gears, racks, eccentric drives and rolling contacts, animate a full cycle, calculate motion parameters, compare graphs and export results.
DXNest Fabrication is intended for façade engineering companies, metal fabrication shops, and manufacturers that work with aluminum or steel panels, cladding systems and other sheet-metal components. It is especially useful when you have many similar parts and need to prepare nesting and CNC files quickly and accurately.
You can use DXF drawings with panel contours and an Excel spreadsheet with project parameters, material types, thicknesses, quantities and sheet sizes. DXNest Fabrication automatically detects closed contours, builds a parts list, and prepares optimized nesting layouts based on the available materials.
Partnership
DXNest is independent: both products are designed, built and supported by their author, and the technology has a single owner. Alongside licences, that makes several kinds of collaboration straightforward.
Run the DXNest nesting, CNC or kinematics engine inside your own product — under your brand, with the formats and interfaces your workflow needs.
Represent DXNest in your region or industry. We back partners with configuration, training, client-specific development and second-line support.
Joint product development, long-term technology alliances, and strategic or investment discussions — with a single owner on this side of the table, they move as fast as both sides want them to.
Say what you have in mind. Enquiries go straight to the author of the software, and are answered within one business day, in confidence.
Contact
Ask about DXNest Fabrication or DXNest Motion, get current access and licensing details, bring us a project to configure — or open a partnership conversation. We reply within one business day.