Optimalon’s Online Panel Cutter Tool Got New Post-Processing Module Resulted in Efficiency Improving by 17 Percent

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Optimalons Online Panel Cutter Tool Got New
Post-Processing Module Resulted in Efficiency
Improving by 17 Percent
1888 Press Release - Optimalon Software has
released a new version of online panel cutting
optimization tool that introduced advanced
post-processing algorithm. This innovation
improves efficiency of the optimization by 17
percent and boosts productivity of any
fabrication shops. The soaring cost of materials
and supply chain disruptions have forced many
wood and metal working companies to strive for
better utilization of their stock while still
providing products to their customers. However,
finding an optimal way to cut wood, metal or
glass panels is no trivial task and it usually
requires hours of manual labor with a pencil and
drawing paper. Optimalon Software has been
providing software solutions to facilitate the
process of finding the perfect cutting plan. One
such solution is the online panel cutting
optimization service accessible to hobbyists,
handymen, workshops and industrial plants. Denis
Smirnov, marketing director of Optimalon Software
explains Since we first released our online
service, we have been constantly adding more
features and improving the core calculation
engine, CutGLib, to produce better cutting plans.
The recent release includes a post-processing
algorithm that combines several sparse cutting
lists into one, which produces the least waste
possible. It works exceptionally well for
borderline cases where squeezing two or even one
part into existing cutting layouts would prevent
a whole stock to be used unnecessary. In order
to minimize the total waste produced from several
projects, the online cutter supports the usage of
leftover material by designating some stock as
waste during a project setup. It forces the
algorithm to use leftovers, even if they produce
a non-optimal cut list. Denis Smirnov continues
We provide two-tier accounts free and premium.
Our premium users pay 9.99 monthly or 79.99
annually to get import/export parts and stock
from Excel spreadsheet files, and exports
calculation results to Excel, PDF, or DXF files.
We recently added the ability to export the
results into a pattern exchange format (PTX).
That is a standard format for describing parts,
boards, patterns and cutting information that can
be used directly for some CNC saw machines
including HOMAG, SCM and others.
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The online panel cutter supports both metric
(millimeters, centimeters and meters) and
imperial (feet, inches) units. Users can specify
inches in fractions or decimals in a convenient
and simple way. Users can designate any parts
that need to be cut from the stocks as
non-rotatable during the calculation to
preserve the grain orientation. In a
labour-intensive and fast-paced cabinetmaking
environment, reduction of cutting operations and
time is highly important. The online cutter has
an option to minimize the number of cutting
layouts. Hence, several stocks can be place in a
pile and cut at once. The web-applicaiton has
been providing layout minimization functionality
that is very important for wood cutting, allowing
the operator to load several panels into the
cutting machine and process them at once.
Recently introduced option Maximum Layout Size
allows defining the maximum number of panels
allowed in one layout. This function is critical
when the cutting machines hardware limits the
number of panels it can process
simultaneously. The calculation result summary
gives the used and waste areas, utilization rate
and number of cut parts and un-cut parts (if
any). For each cutting layout there is graphical
web page with navigation and zoom-in and zoom-out
functionalities. The online panel cutter is free
to anyone and accessible from Optimalons website
at the following link https//www.optimalon.com/o
nline_cut_optimizer.htm