Table Of Contents
1
General
Description_
2
1.1
Language
Selection_
2
2
Cut
2
2.1
General
Description_
2
2.2
Base Sheets
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2
2.2.1
General
Description_
2
2.2.2
Input, edit
2
2.3
parts list
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3
2.3.1
Measurements
4
2.3.2
Edge-bandings
5
2.4
Settings
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5
2.4.1
General
Description_
5
2.4.2
Cutting Width_
6
2.4.3
First Cut
6
2.4.4
Change Sheets
permitted_
7
2.4.5
Revolvable
Parts
7
2.4.6
Minimize Costs
7
2.4.7
Taping/Striping_
7
2.4.8
Autoprint at/autoprint
in_
8
2.4.9
Best sheets to
.. [% cut off]
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2.4.9.1
How becomes a sheet a „best sheet“?
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2.4.9.2
Correct selection of this value
8
2.4.10
Open/Save as
8
2.4.11
Batch-mode
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2.5
Optimization
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2.5.1
Top-Ten-List
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It's
easy to position few parts on one ore two base sheets. With a greater
amount of parts the problem of cut optimization gets bigger for people.
At this point, WoodWorks is to be worth it. Just think about the
expenditure of placing a great amount of parts on many base sheets,
where many different dimensions of them are possible. Persistend trying
cannot be the best strategy for this problem and the result is in most
cases not the best one.
By
choosing the menu common - language you can select one of the shown
languages.
Before
you can start the cut optimization, you must have entered all necessary
data. In this documentation we describe the base-boards, from which the
parts will be cut, as base sheets or sheets. Please recognize, that you
can only use parts and sheets of the same type for one cut optimization.
(for example: no different surfaces or colors for one cut optimization,
but or course different length and width measures).
You
can enter different sizes of base sheets, which will be used for the
optimization. Of course, there are a more possibilities for WoodWorks
to find good solutions, if you enter different sizes of base-sheets. If
WoodWorks may use different base-sheet types in one optimization, you
can chose by the settings entry: change sheets. Enter only sheet sizes,
you want to use for the cut.
By
chosing this menu entry, you can enter length, width, price, and a short
description of this sheet type. The length and width specification are
in millimeters. The price is for one square meter. It will be used to
calculate the complete cut. The short description of the base sheet will
be printed on the cutting-map.
Edit,
add or delete the base-sheets by using the buttons, the context-menu or
double-clicking the corresponding listentry. Click the oddment-checkbox,
if the sheet is an oddment or you have only a limited number of this
sheets.
Edit,
add or delete the parts by using the buttons, the context-menu or
double-clicking the corresponding listentry
At
this menu entry you can enter your parts list. The handling of this
window is nearly the same as editing base-sheets. When you enter length
and width of a grained wood, you must be careful about the direction of
grain. See a sample below:
You
see, the length of a part does not need to be the greater measurement.
Please also take care of the setting: revolvable parts (it must be set
to "off" for grained wood). At the entry field "num"
you enter the amount of desired pieces for this optimization.
There
is information, which part has edge-bandings on which side. This map
also shows the calculated overall length of the edge-bandings. Also see
chapter "optimization".
Since
different settings are needed for different cuttings, you can enter them
here.
The
Settings in Detail:
To
be able to produce an exact cutting plan, it is necessary to consider
the width of the saw blade. You have to round up to the next millimetre.
With
the First Cut you can eliminate damages at the edge of the sheet. The
size of the sheet is reduced by the entered value at each side.
As
described at chapter Base Sheets it is possible to enter some sheets of
the same type having different sizes, since they are available in
different sizes. At greater cuttings it is not easy to find out, which
size of the sheet should be used for a better result. If you check this
checkbox, WoodWorks can position the parts on each size of the sheets
within one cutting plan. It is possible, that you have to provide all
sizes of sheets for one cutting, but WoodWorks has better possibilities
to make a good result. If you want to use just sheets of one size, you
should uncheck this checkbox. WoodWorks tries to find an optimal Result
using each of the sizes. This can be of advantage in buying Base Sheets.
This
parameter causes a consideration of surface texture of the parts and
base sheets. If you set this Parameter to on (checked), the parts can be
rotated for 90 degrees. If the parts have surface texture, a rotation of
them is usually not allowed, so you set this parameter to no. Important:
Revolvable Parts cause a better optimization than not revolvable. You
recognize a rotated part by the direction of a hatching.
If the price of a square meter is very high, it is a good idea to
optimize for the price. This optimization type tries to keep the price
low but eventually causes a less beautiful cutting optimization. Most
time you will set this parameter to <N>o. Important: An
optimization for lowest price is only meaningful with correct entered
price values.
By
setting one of the two switches (lengthwise and crosswise) to on, the
parts are arranged in that way, that many cuttings are possible in this
direction. This saves time while cutting since you have to rotate the
base sheet not that often. Most time you will set this parameter on. If
the base sheets are very expensive, you set this parameter to no, since
taping may cause a not optimal cutting plan. If both switches (lengthwise/crosswise,
horizontal/vertical) are set to off, this can cause more rotations of
the base sheet during cutting. If both switches are set to on, WoodWorks
decides the main cutting direction.
If you enter an other value than 0 in the field “autoprint in”,
WoodWorks will automatically print out the selected map-types (cutting-map
and/or edges-map) after expiration of the so given minutes. On the other
hand, if you enter an other value than 0 in the feld “autoprint at”,
WoodWorks will automatically print out the selected map-types after the
actually computed cut-off is less or equal to the so given value. If you
set both values other than 0, the print-out takes place if one of the
two conditions is true (whatever comes first).
During
the computation of the optimal cut WoodWorks finds again and again
sheets, whose cut-off lies below a certain limit.
You can specify this border with this parameter.
Sheets with a smaller cut-off than this value (= elite plates),
will be used for further computations consulted.
Thus, with this value you can determine, starting from which
limit the sheet becomes an elite sheet.
Unrealistic
values for elite sheets can affect the computing time negatively.
It should move approximately in the order of magnitude of the
expected result, whereby a rather higher estimation is of advantage.
If you have problems to specify this value give a freely selected
value (e.g.: 20 to 30%). Then
you let the optimization run some minutes.
If the best cut has a high deviation from your value for the
elite sheet, it is better to break the optimization off and the reset
the elite sheet border according to the best value you find in the
top-ten. Note that the
cut-off value which can be expected will sink still under the present
value. Set therefore your estimation somewhat lower. A reference to a
too low value is, if after some optimization time the number of elite
sheets is still relatively small (for example:
after 10 minutes optimization time less than 10 elite sheets).
Keep in mind that it is necessary to get an intuitive feeling for
this value, a good selection will increase the efficiency substantially.
This
menu-option is used to store your current cut-data in a file and restore
from file.
In
order to accomplish optimizations completely without user inputs, you are
able to operate
WoodWorks in
batch-mode.
The control is made by
the
import file as well as by parameters and/or Environment variables:
Start,
stop or continue the optimization.
