Platform News

For joining countertops (the tie/lock template) a new mode has been added for cases where the wall is not at a right angle. Previously a non-square angle could only be made with a slanted seam; now there is an alternative — "trim to the walls".

How it works

• The lock stays straight (90°) — at the front the joint looks like an ordinary flush connection.
• The back part of the countertop is trimmed with a through wedge cut exactly along the wall line at the required angle.
• Dowels are available again — they work because the lock itself is straight (with a slanted seam dowels were disabled).
• Ties are repositioned automatically onto the remaining seam, and the layout matches on both parts of the pair.

What to choose

The joint parameters now include a "Non-90° joint" switch: "Keep dimensions" (the previous slanted seam) or "Trim the back part to the walls". For L- and U-shaped countertops the mode is set separately for each joint. For angles over 90° enter the length of the adjoining countertop. The system will warn you if the angle is too sharp and the cut reaches the lock or the ties.

The cutting-map editor now has a support button: if something goes wrong, you can send a request without leaving the editor.

How it works

• The "Support" button creates a request with a description of the problem.
• An exact snapshot of the current cutting state is attached to the request.
• A support specialist reproduces your exact situation — with no lengthy back-and-forth about "what you clicked and where".

This noticeably speeds up handling non-standard cases and getting back to work.

The 3D part view now includes machine selection: you can see the part exactly as the chosen equipment's program will process it.

What it gives you

• A choice of machine and format from those available for your company.
• Display of operations filtered for the specific machine's control program.
• A clear check of what will go into production before it is sent to the equipment.

The feature helps you make sure in advance that the part and its operations will be performed correctly on the right machine.

Managing payment for access to your personal account is now fully self-service. Clicking the "Paid until" date opens the payment window.

What's available

• Payment history with page-by-page browsing — all past payments in one list.
• Invoice request for the period you need — with convenient date entry and a calendar (the dd/mm/yyyy format does not depend on the browser language).
• A "Have a question" button — creates a support request right from the payment window.

The part table settings also gained a switch for the default part view — 2D or 3D; your choice is remembered for your account.

Previously, the platform could only calculate the corner joint of two worktops as a right angle — 90°. Now, when ordering the milling of a corner joint, you can set any joint angle in the range from 80° to 100°, and the system fully recalculates the joint geometry for the chosen angle.

What the system does

• Automatically builds the seam line at the specified angle.
• Recalculates the shape of the female/male locks so that the halves meet without a gap.
• Determines the positions of the connecting bolts and the correct router paths — including acute angles below 90°, which are handled by separate, more precise logic.
• Shows a diagram of the lock right in the interface: even before the order is submitted, you can see the cut geometry and the placement of the connecting bolts.

Angle calculator based on room measurements

You do not need to know the angle in advance — the built-in calculator will work it out. Next to the “Joint angle” field there is a helper button: following the animated diagram, enter the lengths of the four walls and the two diagonals of the room, and the system calculates the angles of all corners. The second diagonal serves as a check — if the measurements do not agree, a warning appears that the measurement should be double-checked. The “Use” button inserts the required angle directly into the template field; for a U-shaped worktop, the left and right joints are set separately. After applying a template with an external lock, a hint shows by how much the part must be enlarged for the lock.

Clear description of the operation in the order

The corner joint operation now gets a clear name in the interface language: lock type (female/male), abutment (left or right), joint angle in degrees, number of joints, profile shape, joint length and presence of dowels. The order and accompanying documents show the essence of the operation, not a set of technical codes.

Error protection

For corner joint templates, the choice of milling side has been removed — machining is always performed from the face side. This rules out erroneous orders with milling on the reverse side. All parameters selected in the template form are guaranteed to reach the calculation and the operation description.

Who benefits

Kitchens with non-standard geometry — bay windows, splayed corners, islands — no longer require manual fitting of worktops: a joint at the required angle is calculated and milled automatically, with the same precision as the classic right-angle joint.

Cutting plans now open in a completely new editor — fast, visual and beginner-friendly.

Key features

• Drag and drop. Place a part on the sheet by dragging it; the mouse wheel rotates the part while dragging.
• Buttons on the card. Every cutting plan has buttons for printing, preview and inserting a part in a rotated orientation.
• Small time-savers. Clicking a dimension copies it to the clipboard; the stack search finds a part by number or name.
• Clear labels for joined parts. Double-sided (joined) parts get distinctive markers — you can see at a glance which half you are looking at.
• Training hints. A hint toggle that remembers its state and a separate help window let a new employee master the editor without training.

Saw kerf — from production settings

The kerf width in the editor is read-only and comes from the production equipment settings. Discrepancies between the on-screen plan and the actual machine are ruled out.

The result

Manual fine-tuning of cutting plans is no longer a job “for the chosen few”: the editor guides you, protects against mistakes and turns routine operations into a single click.

A series of improvements for postformed countertops — worktops with a curved front edge. The goal is simple: the countertop must be machined in the correct orientation at every stage, from project import to the machine.

What changed

• Postforming is set automatically. For countertop materials, the postforming attribute is assigned when the project is imported and the material is selected — it cannot be accidentally lost during editing.
• Correct machining direction. Milling of postformed countertops is oriented so that the tool enters from the bottom edge, and the pass depth is calculated by uniform rules that account for the material thickness and the tool capabilities.
• Safe 180° rotation. Rotating a part during nesting is allowed, but the postforming orientation is preserved — the machine receives the part in the correct position. Countertops with a strictly defined grain direction are fully protected from rotation.
• Unambiguous cutting maps. CNC operations on countertops are mirrored consistently, and postforming is always drawn on the top edge of the map — operations and edge match in orientation, and the map reads without ambiguity.

Result

An entire class of production defects is eliminated: a countertop machined “from the wrong side” or with lost postforming. Everything the client sees in the project matches what comes off the machine.

If a cutting layout was edited manually, the order is now flagged automatically.

What the shop floor sees

Printed forms — the raw material slip and worksheets — display a large “ATTENTION! MANUAL CUTTING” banner. The shop immediately knows the layout is not machine-generated and requires extra care. After a full automatic recalculation of the layout, the flag is removed automatically.

Manual-cut offcuts — with labels

Labeling has been fixed too: offcuts produced during manual cutting are now included in the machine program export with labels — previously they had to be labeled by hand.

Result

Production always knows the origin of the layout, and manual-cut offcuts are processed just as neatly as automatic ones.

Two cases have been fixed where the cost of processing could be understated or drop out of the order total entirely.

What changed

• Installing inset handles is now counted per piece rather than in running metres — previously a single handle could shrink to a thousandth and fall out of the price.
• Chamfer, rounding and bevel along a cut-out now correctly account for the processing length — before, such work along an inner cut-out could yield zero running metres.

Additionally, in the short order form the saw size of a side with an inset handle is calculated more precisely — allowing for the fact that the handle profile takes up part of the dimension.

Any part from the 3D view can now be exported to DXF — the standard format for CAD/CAM and machine software. The export is packed into a single archive and contains two models at once.

What's inside

• 2D — a flat projection of the part's front side with the full contour and cut-outs.
• 3D — a solid model: the part slab and the edge bands.

The file opens in any editor that understands DXF — handy for passing a part to a technologist, to a third-party machine, or into your archive. Export is available on the part operations page.