Geometric NestingWorks 2017 SP2.0 for SolidWorks 2016-2017 NESTINGWorks is the newest 3D design tool in the SOLIDWORKS environment to help optimize sheet metal and flat stock designs as well as support the transition from design to manufacturing for sheet metal and flat goods. With single dialog box ease-of-use, NESTINGWorks is extremely simple to use and provides industry leading capabilities to help optimize not only the design, but to also optimize material usage when laying out parts on a sheet. TRUE SHAPE NESTING to orient parts true to shape, to optimize how parts can fit on a shape. Many simple nesting tools just draw a box around a part and nest the box, wasting valuable material. PART-IN-PART NESTING enable the ability to maximize material usage by fitting smaller parts in open areas and cutouts on larger parts of the same thickness. AUTOMATIC LAYOUT OF PARTS WITH VARIED THICKNESSES Many assemblies have parts of various thicknesses that need to be nested. NESTINGWorks can sort the parts in an assembly and automatically group and nest parts of the same thickness. USER-SPECIFIED GRAIN DIRECTION Sheet stock has directional material properties that are important in many designs. ASSOCIATIVITY TO SOLIDWORKS As your design changes, any NESTINGWorks layouts will update. COMPATIBILITY WITH DOWNSTREAM MANUFACTURING TOOLS NESTINGWorks creates 3D SOLIDWORKS® assemblies that can be used to communicate with any manufacturing application.