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Cut 2D X
is an Automation component - within a dll - used for obtaining
optimal cutting or nesting layouts for two
dimensional sheets and parts.
Cut 2D X can be used for cutting
and nesting rectangular sheets made of glass, wood,
metal, or any other material used by industrial applications.
Cut 2D X
is based on COM technology and
can be used
within any programming environment such as
Delphi, C++Builder,
Visual Basic, VB .NET, VC++
.NET, VC#, Excel VBA, Java etc.
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Features
- Guillotine cutting optimization - The cuts are performed from one side to
the other of the material. This feature is very useful for glass, wood, termopan, ...
- Non-guillotine nesting optimization - The cutting machine can follow
the shape of the material. In this case you need to have a complex
machine based on laser or flame blade.
- NEW Multi-Stage cutting optimization - The optimization is done in
multiple
stages. In each stage all cuts have the same direction (First cut
direction is decided by you). This is useful when you have many sheets
to cut and you are interested in obtaining faster cutting results. This
optimisation is useful when it is hard for you to rotate the sheet.
- Four independent cutting optimization algorithms - There are
3
optimization algorithms for guillotine cuttings and 1 for nesting. Combining these algorithms you will have a good
optimization with a minimal waste generation.
- NEW Manual arrange of pieces after cutting optimisation - If you
are not satisfied with the current result you can modify them manually.
Cut 2D X offers you a complete set of functions which help you
to arrange the layouts with the mouse.
- Independent measurement metric - The way in which you
introduce the data is a general one. You don't have to specify a metric.
Just choose a metric in your mind and enter all data using that metric
only.
- Trim margins - useful
for handling faulty sheets whose margin must be trimmed.
- Adjustable cutting blade thickness - For glass cutting with
diamond the cutting blade width is 0, but for wood, metal handling you
need a saw blade with a greater width.
- Adjustable cutting length - One may specify the maximum
length that is permitted for a cut. This feature is useful for glass
industry where too long cuttings can break the glass. Also, if you cut
manually you cannot reach any position on the cutting table, thus you
have to perform shorter cuttings at the beginning of the process.
- Adjustable optimization level - One may specify how many
layouts to be generated before the solution is outputted. If you don't
have too much time and you don't have a good computer you may set the
Optimization Level to a low level. This feature helps you to run
your program on any kind of computer (from 486 to the best processors
available today)
- Adjustable breakage width - useful for cutting materials by breaking
them - e.g. glass.
- Any size less than 2 billion units - the size of the pieces
is limited by the size of the data types introduced by the C++
language.
- Features for optimizing materials with fiber - such as wood or PAL.
You may specify if a piece can be rotated or not. This will help to cut
along or perpendicular to the material fiber.
- Statistics related to the current optimization - At the end
of the optimisation process you will have access to the many statistics
about nesting: number of
cuts, cut's definition (starting and ending point), number of
waste rectangles, the waste rectangles (the coordinates of the top-left
and bottom-right corners), number of utilized pieces, the placement of
the utilized pieces, used surface, ...
- Can be embedded within any language that supports
COM Automation and
dynamic link library (dll) - Visual Basic (VB), Delphi, C++Builder,
VC++, C#, Excel VBA, Java etc
- Very fast algorithms - This small running time is due to the state of art Artificial Intelligence optimization algorithms.
- Full featured examples of utilization - The Cut 2D X package
contains examples for Borland C++Builder, Borland Delphi, Microsoft
Visual Basic 6 and 2005 .NET, Visual C++ 2005 .NET, Excel 2003 VBA and
Java.
- Already used in award winning products - Check our product
Cutting Optimization Pro
which uses this component.
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