Aside from buying remainders «as is» without cutting (see Buying remainders and cut-offs without cutting), the factory’s stock remainders can be used directly in the client’s project cutting. The calculation automaticall…
ReadAutomatic cutting arranges the order parts across the material sheets so that there is as little waste as possible. The layout is built by the optimizer; the result is shown as a cutting map — a diagram of the sheets wit…
ReadThe manual cutting editor is a visual editor in which the parts are laid out on the material sheets by hand. It is needed when a finished layout has to be adjusted: to move a part, add a sheet, or take a part off a sheet…
ReadA business leftover is a free piece of a sheet that is left after the order parts have been laid out on it. If it is large enough, it is not written off as waste but kept to be put to use. The firm's leftovers are the bu…
ReadWhen the cutting is done from the customer's material, the business leftovers of that material belong to the customer. Such a leftover is called a client leftover: it is not posted to the firm's stock but returned to the…
ReadIn practice, narrow edge-banded parts are cut as an oversized blank and trimmed to size only after edge banding — otherwise a thin strip cannot be clamped and banded neatly. How this is accounted for in cutting The cutt…
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