DXNest Fabrication is a CAD/CAM software system for automated production preparation in sheet-metal and facade fabrication. It reads DXF drawings and Excel part lists, nests parts onto stock sheets, and generates CNC programs, bills of materials, packing slips, labels, PDF documents, and Excel reports — replacing hours of manual drafting and CNC preparation.
It is one of the two products of DXNest, the independent engineering-software line founded and developed by Vitalii Vlakh. The companion product, DXNest Motion, covers mechanism design and kinematic analysis.
What it does
- Reads DXF drawings and Excel part lists, detects contours and geometry, and validates parts before production.
- Generates parametric panel geometry — angles, holes, and scaling rules — from drawings or predefined panel types.
- Nests parts across multiple sheet sizes and available stock with rotation, spacing, boundary, and collision constraints to reduce waste.
- Generates CNC programs, bills of materials, packing slips, labels, material estimates, waste calculations, and PDF/Excel reports.
- Provides an interactive interface for part configuration, parametric geometry editing, material/sheet selection, and job management.
Engineering results
- Preparation of a 40-panel job reduced from about 2 hours to roughly 5 minutes.
- A 300-part drawing-to-CNC workflow completed in about 15 minutes instead of nearly a full working day.
- 500-panel projects prepared end to end in 15–20 minutes instead of about two days of manual work.
- Material, sheet-format, and part-template libraries supporting ~10 projects and ~900 sheet-metal parts.
Architecture & stack
Modular architecture separating the interface, DXF geometry engine, nesting algorithms, CNC-generation modules, and export functionality. The Windows desktop application is built with Python, PyQt6, ezdxf, Shapely, pandas, openpyxl, and NumPy; a browser edition runs the same nesting and CNC pipeline with team accounts and shared projects. Development is version-controlled across separate desktop, web, and website repositories.
Intellectual property
DXNest is registered with the Canadian Intellectual Property Office — Copyright Registration No. 1238472 (2025). View the copyright certificate (PDF). Product page: dxnest.io/fabrication.