Nesting and Cutting Optimization Software

Real Cut 1D version 12 will be release soon. Here is a list with what is new:

Bug fixing

• Bug fixed in the optimization engine (1D) for some particular cases with Priority different from 0, which can result in the crash of the application.

New features

• High DPI support.
• Adhesive labels can be printed for pieces from solution.
• Pieces from the solution are shown in tabular format (which includes start and end coordinates).
• Can show/hide columns from the Results table.
• Added Export selected data to Project commands.
• Added the possibility to insert a comment when exporting a project.
• Added the About command under the Project menu, which will display information (comments) about the imported project.
• An error message is shown when pieces with angles different from 90 degrees have 0 height.
• A new command for manually grouping identical parts and stock.

Reorganization/Improvements

• Better optimization.
• Statistics have been moved to a different window.
• Load and append, Save as, Import and append, Export, Duplicate (for Parts) commands have been moved under the Additional button in the Parts’s toolbar.
• Some commands for Stock have been moved under the Additional button in the Stock toolbar.
• Which columns are visible (for Parts and Stock) has been moved from the toolbar under the Column button.
• Find optimal stock size has been moved under the Stock|Tools toolbar.
• Parts are saved, by default, to Working folder\\Parts.
• Language menu has been moved as submenu of the Settings menu.
• Updates menu has been moved to the top menu.
• Two panels options has been moved to the Settings menu.
• Fractional values are not rounded (up or down) anymore. Instead, an error message is shown if fractional values are not rounded correctly.
• Undo Accept button has been moved from the main menu to the Results toolbar.
• Made clear that Project commands are for importing/exporting data and not for loading/saving them. When modifying an imported project, data will not be overwritten on the existing file. Instead, the project must be explicitly exported.
• Error messages are shown with a red icon on them. Information messages are shown with a blue icon on them.
• Improved language translations.

We have just released version 10 of our linear optimization software.

We have a lot of new things and improvements here:

– fractional input (now you can enter the data either as real values: 100.5 or as fractional ones: 100 1/2)

– advanced import from Excel: you can choose what is on each column of your table, you can also skip rows etc.

We invite you to test this new version …

In version 9 of the Real Cut 1D we have changed the order of columns for Demand parts. We did that in order to improve data exchange with Excel.

If you previously saved your data in native files (with extension 1d) you dont have to do anything. Real Cut 1D knows how to load its own files.

However, if you did saved your data in csv or excel files, you will have to modify them by reordering the columns.
Here is what you have to do:

– open the csv or xls file in Excel.
– move the angle1 and angle 2 columns at the right of the existing columns.
– delete the empty columns 3 and 4 which have resulted as effect of moving columns with angles.
– exchange the height column with quantity column.

Here is an example:

– csv file from version 8 or less:

Length;Height;Angle1;Angle2;Quantity;Material;Label
1000;0;90;90;5;wood;john

2000;0;90;90;12;wood;mike

in version 9 this becomes:

Length;Quantity;Height;Material;LabelAngle1;Angle2
1000;5,0;wood;john;90;90

2000;12;0;wood;mike;90;90

Pay a special attention to list separator. In some regions the separator is “,”. In some others is “;”. If the separator is incorrectly set you will get an error.
You may change the separator from menu Start | Control panels | Region and language | Additional settings| List separator of the Windows 7.