newsletter April/May 2013

Own a CNC? Still using the stock Nesting Software for your production? Take a look at what switching to Optinest will provide.. This month we will take a look at he benefits

and reasons why a company should switch to

a dedicated nesting application rather on rely

on the stock nesting utility that was bundled

with your machine. As we discussed last

month many manufactures and also standard

cam software packages include basic nesting

feature. The features vary, but the basic requirement

is that they have is to be able to import parts

automatically taking notice parameters of

parts such as quantity, grain information and

other descriptive information about cabinet a

job that the parts belong to that can be

included in part labeling. While most

application can do this and then take the

parts and arrange them in a nested sheet.,

the nested arrangement and other advanced

features such as part labelling, and off-cut

management, either are non-existent or leave a lot to be desired. So to promote the benefits of switching to a

real true shape nesting application we

present the following 5 Points... To view the full blog article click here!

Using Polyboard for designing custom Office furniture Polyboard is a unique & powerful tool for

designing and manufacturing stand alone or

built-in furniture. whether you produce

standard furniture pieces from a library or if

you do custom units and fit-outs every day

of the week, Polyboard will work for you and

make your manufacturing process so much

more efficient and profitable.

Polyboard as many special features that will

enhanced your creativity whilst being able to

offer designs that meed and exceed the

customers specifications and expectations.

• Easy Design of all standard office

furniture pieces e.g. desks with built-in

drawers, mobile pedestal units,

credenzas, hutches, bookcases

meeting and boardroom tables etc.

• Design shaped office furniture such as

bow desks ‘P’ shape desks, and

curved top reception desk very easily. • Design shaped workstations with

integrated partitioning with ease.

• Arrange furniture, cabinets and

partitioning in 3D room layout with full

graphic representation renderings and

workshop drawings.

• Get automated detailed costing

reports, Export cut-lists, to Opticut or

other saw optimiser. Export parts to

CNC PTP machine centre or flat-bed

nesting router via Optinest or other

CAM software.

To view the industry page on creating

custom office furniture with Polyboard

Click here!

April / May 2013 Welcome to the Third Newsletter for 2013. As we

have been focusing on in previous issues, we have

continued work on our industry specific information

pages so that you can clearly see how our design

and optimisation software will benefit you in your

industry. So this month we have completed the

Office furniture and fit-out page. showing, just how

useful Polyboard is when designing both

standalone office furniture and custom office suite

fitouts. Continuing on from our article in our last issue (if

you missed it see the blog section of our website)

where we discussed the design and production

benefits to manufacturers switching over from

spreadsheet design applications to a cost effective

solution like Polyboard. In this issue we show you

the benefits in switching over from the stock

nesting application that was bundled with your

machine in to specialised nesting software like

Optinest. Finally we have a unusual special offer: We have a

good used Aussie made Tekcel CNC nesting router

for sale. So we decided to bundle it together with a

full featured software package. Check out the

details below.

Automatic office layout plans and drawings

CNC nesting Machine & Software Package We recently found a company that is selling a good used cnc router and we though we should offer you a a package deal i.e. Machine + design and nesting Software! The machine itself is a Aussie made Tekcel K series router with 2400 x 1200 process area and vacuum table, 8 position auto tool change 10hp HSD spindle and comes with high velocity Kerrick dust extraction system! As a special offer we are offering the machine + the ultimate design and nesting package Polyboard and Optinest as well as Enroute Entry ATP 5 tool-pathing software to run the machine itself. While the machine is not the fastest in the world for cabinet making as it does not have a multi drill head it still drills at 300mm/s - any size hole by picking up the right drill bit from the tool changer and drilling one at a time. you can also set it to pocket out the larger diameter holed with the router bit and save time in tool changes and positions on the tool rack. Its a really great start-up package for anyone looking into CNC at an affordable price, with machine + software $29,900.00 + GST (Machine transport not included) For more information: click here!

Did You Know? The new version of Polyboard finally came out of the pre-release software stage and is available now as the first final 5.01 release. While we plan to do a full wrap-up of the extensive list of new features included in version 5 over version 4, there are a number that we would like to highlight in this column. one of the stand out features is that the new cut-plane option to give cross sectional views and drawings of layouts so that you can see clear elevation views of for example: back walls when you have a ‘U’ shaped kitchen. In the latest release not only can you do this but if your cut plane goes through the middle of one of your cabinets you now have the option to either leave out the cabinet of to cut it and give a true cross sectional view of cabinets.