DXNest Fabrication · CAD/CAM
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.
It replaces the slowest part of fabrication — manual production preparation — with one automated workflow. Engineers review and adjust results instead of redrawing, recalculating and copying data between tools.
DXF files and Excel part lists, or parametric panel types — DXNest Fabrication detects closed contours and builds the parts list.
Parts are packed onto your real stock — multiple sizes, per-material, with margins — for the highest utilization.
CNC programs, nested DXFs, BOMs, packing slips, labels and reports — ready for the shop floor.
Capabilities
Under the hood
DXNest Fabrication opens your DXF drawings, validates the geometry and automatically detects closed contours — each one becomes a part with a name, material and quantity. The parts list builds itself; you only review it.
Parts can also come from the built-in parametric panel library: pick a panel type, feed it dimensions from Excel, and DXNest Fabrication generates exact geometry including corner angles, hole patterns and edge rules.
The nesting engine distributes parts across the sheet formats you actually have — multiple sizes, limited quantities, per-material assignment and safety margins. An accelerated placement search keeps utilization high and scrap low, even on projects with hundreds of parts.
Every layout is exported as a nested DXF plus a visual PDF/PNG report your operators can check at a glance.
For each nested sheet DXNest Fabrication generates a ready-to-run CNC program with your machine parameters per material and thickness, plus engraved part names so nothing gets mixed up after cutting.
Alongside the programs you get the paperwork: bills of materials, packing slips, part labels and material usage reports in Excel and PDF.
Built by engineers who prepared production by hand, DXNest Fabrication removes the repetitive work — redrawing parts, recalculating sheets, copying data between CAD, Excel and the CNC — and lets your team focus on the parts that need judgement.
Services
DXNest Fabrication is delivered as a working solution for your production, not a box of features.
We examine your drawings, DXF files, BOMs and CNC programs, map the workflow and find bottlenecks and error sources.
We configure DXNest Fabrication for your materials, sheet formats, panel types and CNC machines, plus nesting, labels and BOM formats.
Extra import/export formats, ERP/MES integration, custom calculations and reports, special nesting logic for non-standard parts.
We launch on real projects, train engineers and operators, collect feedback and keep optimizing after go-live.
Specifications
| Platform | Windows 10/11 desktop application (64-bit); browser-based web version |
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| Input | DXF drawings, Excel (XLSX) part lists, parametric panel types |
| Output | Nested DXF layouts, individual part DXFs, CNC programs |
| Documents | Bills of materials, packing slips, part labels, PDF/PNG nesting reports, Excel summaries |
| Units | Metric and imperial (including inch fractions) |
| Materials | Aluminum and steel sheet, composite panels; multiple thicknesses with per-material machine settings |
| Automation | Command-line runner and HTTP API with JSON job descriptions |
| Licensing | Per-seat licenses; the browser edition is open at fabrication.dxnest.io |
| Documentation | Full user manual, readable in the browser |
Open the browser edition and put a typical project through the full pipeline yourself — import, nesting, CNC programs and documents.