{"id":1432,"date":"2025-06-06T06:48:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T10:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/plm-components\/?p=1432"},"modified":"2026-03-26T08:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T12:04:11","slug":"introducing-the-new-kineo-2d-and-3d-nesting-software-components-from-siemens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/plm-components\/introducing-the-new-kineo-2d-and-3d-nesting-software-components-from-siemens\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing the new Kineo 2D and 3D Nesting software components from Siemens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Siemens’ Kineo\u2122 software components have consistently brought cutting-edge intelligence to motion planning, collision detection, and path optimization in complex 3D environments. Built for innovation-driven industries, Kineo has empowered manufacturers, robotics developers, and digital engineering teams to streamline processes, reduce risk, and accelerate time-to-market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Today, Kineo’s portfolio is further enriched with two, brand new Software Development Kits (SDKs) – Kineo 2D Nesting<\/strong> and Kineo 3D Nesting<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These new, powerful software components enable highly advanced nesting capabilities in two and three dimensions, respectively, with a wide breadth of applications, from industrial material cutting to additive manufacturing, logistics and transportation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Kineo 2D Nesting<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Long before the digital era, dressmakers mastered the art of 2D nesting to optimize fabric use and reduce waste.
By skillfully nesting dress patterns, artisans would maximize fabric efficiency without compromising the authenticity of the craft. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the context of today’s industrial 2D material cutting workflows, nesting refers to the process of efficiently arranging two-dimensional shapes on a flat sheet of a variety of raw materials such as metal, wood, plastic, fabric and more, to minimize waste and optimize material usage<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nesting isn\u2019t just a step in the process, but rather a strategic tool that unlocks greater efficiency, precision, and sustainability. The resulting nesting layout serves as the basis for toolpath generation in Computer Numerical Control (CNC) cutting processes such as laser, plasma, waterjet or knife cutting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Optimized cutting layout produced with Kineo 2D Nesting. Complex shapes are arranged efficiently and automatically on a 2D cutting plane, to maximize material usage.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Using a next generation algorithm, Kineo 2D Nesting<\/strong> is a software component designed to generate optimized 2D nesting layouts, dramatically reducing preparation time, waste and costs by allowing to manage materials more effectively<\/strong>. The component can be incorporated into any existing in-house software with minimal integration effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kineo 2D Nesting can efficiently arrange large quantities of complex shapes, using multiple sheet sizes and odd-shaped sheets to reduce tailings. Tailings often result in wasted material, as the odd leftover sheets take up valuable shop space and might go unused. After the ideal nest is found, results can be quickly sent to a computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) system for CNC programming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The key features of Kineo 2D Nesting include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n