News of TOLfab 4.8. version

Part creation

• Addition of colors in selection in complement of their number
• Analysis of the repertory according to the date of modification of the files
• Automatic micro-junctions for the problem of getting out of shape of the big parts
• Automatic rounded according to angles
• Calculation of the cost price of the parts
• Smoothing of straight elements
• Smoothing of curve elements

Selection of parts

• New selection box with display of various lists of parts (references, orders, assemblies) and new possibilities
• Scroll menus on existing elements to allow the search of parts
• Search of parts with near orthograph
• Display of the list of parts to be selected progressively with the addition of parts to the selection

Selection

• Addition of edge distances
• Addition of sheet standard sizes in relation with materials

Nesting

• Modification from the sheet size to the used size in one click
• Addition of nesting of part on sheet edge
• Automatic function symmetry/rotation on successive areas
• Function "Push" in automatic
• Possibility of nesting of part millimeter by millimeter

Tool path

• Possibility to manage several kinds of bridge on the same sheet
• Management of the distance Bridge/Part for each kind of bridge
• Possibility to add manual micro-junctions after the toolpath is done
• Management of the cutting of skeleton in scales
• Management of automatic micro-junctions on blocks of common cut
• Possibility to ask the position of piercing on internal and external in automatic toolpath
• Quotation of parts in relation with the result of the toolpath
• Display of errors of nesting in common cut
• Warning messages pointing out possible errors

Manufacturing documentation

• Possibility to display drawings of parts and their size in the lines of the part board
• Possibility to get out bar code for each kind of part
• Possibility to display the bars under the sheet
• Management of several kinds of printed documentation
• Creation of a documentation "Labels" to print self-adhesive labels

Orders

• Management and save of order informations for following up and selection
• Management of new orders, current orders and finished orders

Quotation

• Management of cut perimeters in relation with the size of the contours (small, middle, big) and with the cutting kinds (cutting, marking, common cut, open contours…)
• Management of "machine" data (speeding up / speeding down, cutting speed and full speed movings, head rising up and down times…)
• Management of consummables (number of piercing, life duration…)
• Management of consummation of gas (diameter of the nozzle, gas pressure, kind of gas…)
• Management of the costs (gas, material, horary price, consummables)

Part

• Addition of assemblies of parts for standard manufacturing
• Store and display of data about price cost in the parts
• New functions for the search of parts
• Function "Exportation of part and sheet" in DXF including various kinds of cutting and all the informations about the management of the part (in text format)

Material database

• New display and management of materials to make easier the access and the modification
• Management of the materials for the parameters machine, use and cost
• Database pre-configurable according to the machine

Scrap sheet

• Display of cutting skeleton in scales during work on scrap sheets
• The parts already cut are put in "grey" in the manufacturing documentation

Driving of the machine (depends on the machine and on its possibilities)

• Management of height control (collisions, qualities, cutting in hidden time)
• Management of speeds in relation with the size of the contours
• Management of piercing on sheet edge
• Management of machine equipped with a W axis (moving of the table for cutting)