CNC postprocessors in iFurn.pro automatically convert cutting layouts, drilling/milling/grooving templates and XNC patterns into the native format of a specific machine model. The control program that arrives at the saw, machining centre or drilling-and-doweling station is pre-adapted to the parameters of your actual equipment: kerf, saw blade thickness, part numbering, label format, sheet feed method, controller quirks.
The goal is to eliminate manual editing of programs. The operator does not tweak the file before run, the technologist does not write converters for every new machine model. A cutting card or an XNC template is turned into a ready file for a specific machine model automatically at the moment of program generation.
Who it is for
Furniture factories with an in-house workshop
Plants running CNC saws, machining centres, drilling-and-doweling machines. Anywhere there is currently a "human layer" between the calculation engine and the machine — a technologist or operator who edits the program by hand.
Networks with a mixed equipment fleet
Companies with several workshops where machines from different manufacturers live side by side (often as a result of mergers, expansion, equipment renewal). One source of cutting layouts — many output formats, without maintaining a separate converter per workshop.
Dealers and service companies
Service centres that sell cutting as a service: the same cutting card is delivered to different clients in their native formats.
Supported equipment
Beam saws
- HOLZMA — PTX, CadMatic v4.x, CadMatic v3.x.
- SCM — WinCut v5, MaestroCUT.
- Giben — GVisionXP, G57.
- KDT — KDT-XML, KDT-PreSize.
- Nanxing — CutSawFG, NXCutSaw.
- Biesse — Biesse OSI, NC300/NC500.
- Felder — Format4.
- Homag — CHF 41/44/44 (NPS400).
- Schelling — MCS.
- FastPanel.
Sliding table saws
- Altendorf — ELMO 3.
- GibSaw — program for sliding table saws.
Machining centres (XNC: drilling, grooving, milling)
- HOMAG — WoodWop (MPR).
- SCM — Xilog, Maestro.
- Biesse — BiesseWorks.
- TPA — Genesis Evolution.
- KDT, WDX, Anderson — shared series format.
- CNC G-code — NCStudio.
- HIRZT, Maggi — iLENIA CAD/4.
- XDWoodCam.
- Masterwood — MW310.
Drilling and doweling machines
- Vitap — Bridge.
- Daron — FoxCNC.
The list keeps growing. Over 60 machine and controller configurations are supported out of the box, with no programming required on the factory side.
Adaptation to a specific machine
A standard postprocessor is the baseline for the model. For a frequently used fleet the postprocessor is further adapted to the actual parameters of the specific machine on the floor:
- saw blade thickness, regrip length, minimum offcut, cut multiplicity;
- cut order tuned for easy unloading and packaging;
- part and label numbering following the factory's own convention;
- controller specifics: program length limits, allowed characters, code pages;
- integration with the label printer on the saw;
- handling of offcuts, defect sheets, stack-based sorting.
The adaptation is done once and then automatically applies to every order from that factory. The factory's technologist gets a working "own" postprocessor, not the generic standard one.
What every postprocessor delivers
- Cut geometry with kerf width and machine base offsets baked in.
- Part marking: number, orientation, edge, operations, order, client.
- Operator info: shift statistics, sheet count, material consumption.
- Label link: every part after the cut gets its own label with a QR code that is later scanned in the QR production portal.
- Offcut handling: labels are printed for every remainder of the sheet, including unusable ones — a usable offcut gets a label with its number and dimensions and automatically lands in the offcut stock, while an unusable scrap gets a warning sticker «DO NOT USE»; fragments that are too small are filtered out automatically and get no label. Remainders from a manually built or adjusted cutting map are marked the same way as automatic ones and are included in the machine output together with the rest.
Factory workflow
- The order is calculated and lands in the program generation queue.
- The system picks the machine that will cut the batch and selects the postprocessor configured for it.
- The output is a ready file in the controller format plus a set of labels for every part.
- The file is sent to the machine: directly over the network, via FTP, or to the equipment queue. No USB sticks, no manual edits.
- The operator starts the program. All parts are labelled, the production route is embedded in the QR code.
Integration with shop-floor automation
Postprocessors are the first link in the conveyor from calculation to a finished part. Further downstream: automatic program upload to machines, label printing on the saw, QR production portal, monitoring of parts as they move through operations. The postprocessor hands the machine exactly the data the next links in the chain need.
Documentation
This page is a high-level overview. Full technical documentation for a specific postprocessor, the list of supported parameters, output file formats and integration scenarios with shop-floor IT infrastructure are sent separately to registered factory administrators on request.