I recently bought a MapBoards Pro plugin for Fusion 360. It’s $25. I still need to mess with it some more but it’s been helpful.
MapBoards Pro | Fusion | Autodesk App Store
Nesting Parts in Fusion 360 with MapBoards Pro (youtube.com)
I originally got it because you need a paid version of Fusion 360 to use it’s Arrange features. This allows you to do that type of thing. It’s a little weird but I haven’t messed with it much. Supposedly it can export files to then use with DeepNest. I tried that and it didn’t work quite right.
The thing I really like about it is how it simplifies DXF exports. My main problems with exporting sketches as DXF is it includes the construction lines. Also, because of how Fusion handles the timeline, sometimes you need multiple sketches that you want combined into one. This does that automagically. It’s interesting that it creates the DXF with layers (which you can see in EstlCAM). So, there’s a layer for perimeters, insets, and cutouts. I’m still at the stage where I’m cutting out parts one at a time but it can create a zip with all the individual DXF exports as well.
