Blog · Siemens NX · 23 October 2026

Nesting a 300-part sheet metal order in Siemens NX with Teamcenter

A 15-part cabinet times 10 stations nested in Siemens NX: 15 sheets down to 12, a DXF per layout, and every part stored in Teamcenter.

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A 15-part sheet metal cabinet, multiplied for a 10-station order, was nested in Siemens NX: 300 parts in three materials fit on 12 sheets instead of 15. Every part and the assembly are stored in Teamcenter.

What was asked

NX model of the SH-CS500 conveyor control station cabinet — The SH-CS500 control station: a steel cabinet with door, stainless rain hood and aluminium floor kit.

The SH-CS500 conveyor control station is a steel cabinet with a door, a stainless rain hood and an aluminium floor kit. SphereHarness built every part in NX and assembled the station, and the video opens it from Teamcenter. It has 15 different sheet metal parts, 30 pieces per station, and the customer orders 10 stations, so the shop has to cut 300 parts in three materials: 130 steel, 80 stainless and 90 aluminium.

What the agent did

NX developed the flat pattern of every part, and SphereHarness exported all 15 as DXF files with the bend lines on a layer of their own. Each material is nested on its own stock sheet.

Nest settings card listing three materials with 130, 80 and 90 parts, edge margin 10 mm, spacing 5 mm — The nest settings: three materials, 10 mm edge margin, 5 mm between parts.

The settings are a 10 mm edge margin and 5 mm between parts. There are two passes: pass A is a simple row layout without rotation, and pass B is an optimised true-shape nest where parts may rotate.

What we measured

Result card for S235JR steel, 9 sheets at 69.3 percent versus 8 sheets at 78.0 percent — Steel: 9 sheets in a simple row, 8 when optimised.

Steel, S235JR 2 mm on 2500 x 1250 mm sheets: 9 sheets at 69.3 % utilisation in the simple row, 8 sheets at 78.0 % optimised. Its first layout is cut twice and uses 93.6 % of the sheet.

Result card for stainless steel 3 sheets down to 2 at 75.3 percent — Stainless 1.4301: 3 sheets down to 2.

Stainless 1.4301 1.5 mm on 2000 x 1000 mm sheets: 3 sheets at 50.2 % down to 2 at 75.3 %. Aluminium EN AW-5754 3 mm: 3 sheets at 44.3 % down to 2 at 66.5 %.

Optimised sheet layout of aluminium pedestal plates and corner gussets — One of the sheet layouts, each written as its own DXF cut file.

Every distinct sheet layout is written as its own cut file with outlines, holes and bend lines that are marked but not cut, plus a report for each material. The steel cut file opens straight back in NX, where sheet layout one reads in as clean geometry.

Teamcenter

Everything is stored in Teamcenter: the 15 parts are items 89 to 103 and the assembly is item 105. For the whole order the video states 15 sheets down to 12, three sheets of stock saved, and all 300 parts placed.

Try it yourself

The NX page is at /nx, and the first-run steps are in /help/getting-started.