What's new in the system — updates and improvements.
G-code settings have moved from a single firm-wide set to the individual machine: the machine card now has a G-code tab — dialect, working plane, coordinate mode, cutter compensation, drilling cycle, start X/Y/Z and safe height, program ending, tool change. The fields are grouped into four sections and every field carries a hint with practical reference values. An empty field means inherit: the value is taken from the firm settings, and if it is empty there too, from the fallback. A mill now has its own spindle speed, feed, rotation direction, tool length and coolant.
The postprocessor itself has been pulled up noticeably: it calculates cutter radius compensation on its own, deep operations are split into passes by the depth set on the tool, and holes on the face automatically pick a suitable mill — at least 2 mm smaller in diameter than the hole. If the mill does not fit into a narrow contour or a rectangular pocket, the largest suitable one is picked instead. When data is missing you get a clear error instead of a silently dropped operation.
Viewing the settings is open without paying for the production cabinet, changing them requires payment. The NCStudio dialect is supported; the saw takes no part in G-code, and a drill needs no separate parameters.
The "Edge machining" panel has been rebuilt. Instead of four blocks stacked one under another there is now a row of four tabs, one per side of the part: pick a side and you see only its fields. A side that already has machining is highlighted in green, a changed one is marked with a dot, so the state of the part is visible at a glance. The edge machining icon in the part row also turns green once machining is saved — you no longer have to open the panel to check.
The panel no longer slides under the header or runs off the screen: if there is not enough room below, it opens above the icon and gets its own scrollbar. It closes on a click outside or with Esc, while the edge picker and the hint image no longer close it. The fields are more compact — label on the left, control on the right, dropdowns no longer stick out of the panel, the picture explaining the cut angle now sits next to the Angle field, and Apply has become a check-mark button. Group edge machining lays out in two columns on narrow screens and in one on a phone.
Firm settings, folder "Interface", now have a switch "Enable end-cut edge banding". Many firms never actually glue edging onto the slanted face of a cut, yet the manager still saw that dropdown and picked an edge — an extra line and extra money ended up in the order.
Turn the switch off and the edge picker for a free-form cut disappears everywhere it used to be: in the "Cut" operation card, in the edge machining panel, in the pocket form and in group machining. Any edging already set on free-form cuts is cleared as well. Cuts taken from the end-machining catalogue and edging on inset handles are not affected by the switch. Edging is enabled by default, so nothing changes for those who are happy with the current behaviour. The setting is changed by the firm administrator.
The cutting card is drawn from the saw commands, the very ones the sheet is really cut by: pieces no longer drift against the sheet by the trim cut plus the kerf, and a piece is labelled with the exact strip its command takes off (the bookkeeping nominal stays in the tables and in the warehouse). Next to the card there is now a playback of the cutting process: the commands in the order the saw runs them, a flat sheet diagram and an isometric video with the saw travelling and the sheet being sorted into piles — parts, reusable offcuts and scrap. The video opens in its own window; the screen and the printout show the same thing.
Cutting cards are grouped into tabs: material in the top row, sheets within the material in the second one; sheets are paged through with arrows and the ← → keys. The material totals are shown next to the card instead of a separate list at the bottom of the page.
The "+ Sheet" button in the cutting editor opens a choice: free offcuts from the warehouse of your firm, including those previously removed from the cutting, or a whole catalogue sheet. For composite materials, glued-up sheets and untrimmed offcuts editing is restricted, and the window now states exactly how: where sheets must not be changed, and where parts must not either.
Catalogue goods now carry a texture flag: a switch in the material settings, a "Texture" mark in the material list and in goods search, and the value is set per firm. A new part takes its texture from the material instead of always being created "with texture" — no more clearing it by hand on every part of a textureless board. Minimum sizes of reusable offcuts for such materials are calculated knowing the sheet may be laid in any orientation.
Every import page takes an archive now: BASIS, DXF, the 3D designer, iMOS, HOMAG/MPR and Astra. Previously only the MPR page unpacked archives, and elsewhere picking a .zip was silently refused — even though your own software exports a project exactly as a folder. RAR cannot be unpacked, so the system says plainly that a ZIP is needed, including when a rar has simply been renamed. Every file from the archive is verified by its checksum: a quietly corrupted byte is a hole in the wrong place, not a visible error. One more thing: when converting from BASIS, parts whose front face is undefined in the source file are now flagged with a warning.
Card payment straight from your cabinet: pick a period from 3 to 24 months, see at once the date your access runs to, pay and get back to work. Before that it was an invoice and a wait. Acquiring is connected to Monobank; access switches on automatically after payment, no confirmation to wait for.
The cabinet has separate iMOS/DXF and HOMAG/MPR buttons: these are two different imports, each accepting only its own extension. iMOS/DXF takes one .dxf per project, but with the position of every part in the assembly — the product is shown assembled. DXF carries no material at all and edging is detected from the geometry, so both the board material and the edge material are picked by you. HOMAG/MPR takes a whole set of .mpr files at once, one file per part: the name, the barcode and the edging per side are read and parametric sizes are evaluated, but MPR has no assembly position, so the parts are shown in a row. Machining — boring, grooves, millings and pockets — is read by both. Neither import carries hardware into the order.