Need a NEW box software or system
Looking for help/input on setting up a new system for cutting all of our boxes on our CNC Machine. We have a KOMO Mach Xtreme and were using Inventor -> Smartlister > Router-CIM for years to cut our boxes and it became primitive and was more work than actually cutting our boxes on the panel saw. Open to suggestions for full or custom software. Our shop drawings are all done in 2D which is causing the problem of "redrawing" our boxes that we keep running into. I have attached a sample of our shop drawings for reference. To boil things down, my questions is, does a software or system exist that would make it a simple process for us to get our boxes on the machine from our 2D shop drawings?
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Re: Need a NEW box software or system
I used to use Pattern Systems to do it. You'd just enter the cabinet parts, and it would export the .dxf files for all of the parts, along with a cutlist.
They got bought out, and then disappeared I think. Not sure if anything similar is still around.
I now use an AutoCAD macro that I wrote, that allows me to select from different cabinet types, and just enter the sizes, and it draws and exports .dxf files for all of the parts, along with a cutlist. I then use AlphaCAM to batch nest everything.
Gerry
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