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Software develops handheld cutting patterns
An
Optimalon Software product story
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk editorial team
Jul 17, 2006
Sheet cutting software is for handheld devices and generates cutting patterns at any workplaces in less than a second, eliminating any needs to generate cutting patterns by hand.
Sheet cutting software is for handheld devices and generates cutting patterns at any workplaces in less than a second, eliminating any needs to generate cutting patterns by hand.
Many professional activities require cutting standard-sized rectangular sheets of glass, metal or veneer by smaller pieces.
One of the major problems arising here is finding a way to cut as many pieces as possible from fewer sheets.
The solution of this problem has a direct influence on such valuable resources as material usage, working time and equipment usage.
Finding the sheets' cutting pattern that minimizes the material waste is not easy process - it involves consideration of many possible patterns and requires an extensive experience in this field.
Industries recognized the problem as hard to solve by hand and created several ad-hoc software packages to automate design of sheets' cutting pattern.
Many organizations improved productivities using these packages, but there are still some situations when sheet cutting done by hand.
For example, it occurs for many residential and industrial glass companies working in fast-paced environment when they need to cut the glass sheets on site.
The wide usage of handheld devices, their high performance and new software technologies allowed us to satisfy a growing demand from the industrial companies, workshops and individuals.
Optimalon Software has released the sheet cutting software GNCutter for handheld devices that generates cutting patterns at any workplaces in less than a second.
GNCutter dramatically improves operational efficiencies by eliminating any needs to generate cutting patterns by hand.
The main features of GNCutter are as follows.
* Nesting and guillotine sheet cutting calculation methods.
* Integrated graphical viewer for visual inspection of the patterns.
* Unlimited number of pieces for optimization.
* Import pieces from Excel spreadsheets.
* Export layouts to AutoCAD DXF and Excel spreadsheets.
* Export cutting instruction to Excel spreadsheets.
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