Nesting and Cutting Optimization Software

Cutting Optimization pro 6 is now released for testing purposes by courageous users.

Here is a list of what is new:

• Completely redesigned interface.
• All menus have been transformed into toolbars.
• Parts can have a color.
• Multiple rows of data (Parts and Stock) can be edited in the same time. Just select multiple rows and press the Modify button.
• New Parts and Stock pieces can be added by pressing the Append button, INS key or double-click on the empty area of the table.
• Data editing can be done by pressing the Modify button or the F2 or Enter keys or double-click on a row. If you want to edit a particular column, just double-click on the cell at the intersection of the row and the wanted column.
• Projects are introduced. You can save/load all data (parts, stock, settings, materials and results) to/from a single file.
• Can create adhesive labels for utilized pieces (solutions) only. Can print adhesive label only for 1 piece (by right-click on it and select Adhesive label).
• Can set the font for grids (see menu Settings | Interface).
• Can attach pictures to products.
• Can attach pictures to extra components.
• Can add extra information into a new label column when defining materials, extra components, edge bands.
• Automatic management of edge bands and extra components quantities. When the optimization is accepted, the utilized quantities are automatically subtracted from the stock of edge bands and extra components.
• Rotation column has been removed. Now all rotations are handled by specifying the grain (fiber direction) of the materials.
• Zoom in/out is done with the mouse wheel.
• Can show/hide most of the columns of the tables.
• Can load data(projects) from the command line.
• Optimization progress is shown on a new window.
• Many other small improvements and new features…

From the computer programmer point of view, the motivation was to use only controls offered by the Operating System and nothing else. The transition to 64 bit and ARM would be easier in this way. The outsider control was the grid for data editing, which was replaced by a List View. The main effect is that data cannot be directly edited within the List View control, and a new window is introduced for this purpose.

Cutting Optimization pro 6 can be tried from https://optimalprograms.com/cut6_beta.html

A movie with Cutting Optimization pro 6 is here:

Hi,

We have created a short movie showing how to work with edge banding in Cutting Optimization pro 5.

Here it is:

enjoy

We have improved the loading of Excel and CSV files starting with version 5960 of Cutting Optimization pro.

Recall that loading of the parts (the demand) can be done by pressing the Open button from the toolbar of the Parts / Demand table. There you can specify Excel xls/xlsx/csv file type. Loading an Inventory can be done from menu File | Inventory.

From now you can:

– specify columns from which the data are loaded. For that purpose just press the arrows which are in the header (first row) of the table. For instance, if your first column in the Excel file contains the quantity, just select the “Quantity” word to appear in the top of the first column of the “Import data” table.

– ignore some rows which do not contain valid data. For this purpose uncheck the checkboxes from the first column of the table. Ignoring some rows is compulsory if your excel file contains some header rows and some other rows at the bottom of your data (like Date, Signature, etc)

A movie exemplifying these 2 cases is here:

Cutting Optimization pro saves a backup copy of its almost all files.

These copies are placed in the “backup” folder from the working directory (you can find the working directory by pressing menu Settings | Working directory).

In the backup folder are other folders for inventory, materials, edge bands, extra components etc.

Copies of the inventory are saved in the “stock” folder. The name of these files have the following structure:

initial name_year_month_day_hour_minute_second.extension,

where year, month, day, hour, minute, second specify the date and time of saving.

You can easily restore any of the previously saved inventory by taking one of the old files and by copying its content to the existing inventory file.

Now, you can restore an old inventory with few clicks.

– Go to menu History | Inventory. A list of files should appear. There is a table which has the file name on the first column and date of creation on the second column.

– Select the desired file. At the right (in the preview table) you may see its content.

– Press button Restore.

that is all … below is a short movie:

Starting with version 5.7.0.0 we can export diagrams to dxf format. Just run an optimization and then press the “DXF” button found in the main toolbar.

Currently we save everything (the sheet, the pieces and their sizes) in a single layout … but soon we will introduce more options so that the user can customize to output.

Starting with version 5601 of Cutting Optimization pro we have introduced the ability to move parts from one sheet to another.

There is a temporary panel (placed in the right side of the image) which is used for this purpose.

Here are the steps:

– Run the optimization.

– Drag any piece (from a sheet) to the right panel (in is a grayed area at the right of the sheet). A label with size of the piece (i.e. 100×200) should be created there. Drop the piece on the panel.

– Switch to another sheet where you want to place the piece.

– Drag the piece from the temporary panel to the new sheet. Drop it in the waste where you want to have it.

that is all!

here is a short movie with this operation: