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Posted by Denis Smirnov on June 27, 2006, 8:04 pm
If you’ve ever cut pieces from glass, metal or drywall sheets you
probably puzzled over finding a way
to cut all required pieces from standard-sized sheets. If you cannot cut
all pieces from one sheet you should
now how many sheets you need to accomplish your project. Probably you've
experienced a situation when
you visited a local store to buy a sheet of one size but it was sold out
and you had to get another size. How
did you figure out how many sheets to buy?
This task is not easy even for experienced workers and therefore using
special optimization software called
"nesting" is a common practice.
There are tens of nesting software packages available for desktop
computers that work well and help people
to minimize waste of expensive materials and reduce the complexity of
the sheet cutting tasks.
The only weak point of the existing nesting software packages is ability
to work only on desktop computers or
laptops. But the most sheet cutting tasks appear and have to be solved
right at your workplace where you
cannot use a desktop computer or a laptop.
Optimalon Software decided to bring the nesting software right where
it's most wanted - at your jobsite.
We've combined the latest mobile technologies and new robust
state-of-art optimization algorithms into our
new product - GNCutter.
GNCutter designed for Pocket PC or Smartphones that you already carry
with you everywhere. It gives you
the ability to solve sheet cutting tasks no matter where you are!
You will never get in the trouble when a store doesn't have the required
sheet size. You can easily specify
all pieces you need to cut in GNCutter and select the sheet size that
results in minimal waste of material and
your money.
You can freely download GNCutter from Optimalon Software's website at
URL:
http://www.optimalon.com/product_gncutter.htm
and run it on your mobile device. You can solve your real-world sheet
cutting tasks or play with the examples
provided by Optimalon Software.
--
Denis Smirnov
Optimalon Software
http://www.optimalon.com
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Posted by on June 28, 2006, 5:31 am
Why does anyone need software to cut pieces of anything? Isn't that
what a tape measure does?
I know, I am replying to a spammer !!!!
Your so called "free" software probably expires after a week and costs
$1000 to purchase. I'll stick to my tape measure !!!
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On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 20:04:44 -0400, Denis Smirnov
>If you’ve ever cut pieces from glass, metal or drywall sheets you
>probably puzzled over finding a way
>to cut all required pieces from standard-sized sheets. If you cannot cut
>all pieces from one sheet you should
>now how many sheets you need to accomplish your project. Probably you've
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Posted by dpb on June 28, 2006, 11:39 am
maradcliff@UNLISTED.com wrote:
> Why does anyone need software to cut pieces of anything? Isn't that
> what a tape measure does?
>
> I know, I am replying to a spammer !!!!
> Your so called "free" software probably expires after a week and costs
> $1000 to purchase. I'll stick to my tape measure !!!
I was curious (and bored) so I looked...30 day free trial, $97 license
fee (intro offer, it says, doesn't say what after that nor how long an
intro period). I didn't try to evaluate the product to see what it
can/can't do nor how well it works.
As for why, only if one is doing a large number of sheets or a _very_
expensive piece of sheet goods does an optimal solution probably have
much chance of saving anything signficant over a non-optimal solution.
For the casual homeowner/handyman, probably no need. If one were
building a bunch of tract houses of the same plan (and it didn't use
even dimensions, which would be stupid, but...) one could foreesee
perhaps making a difference. The obvious application is, of course,
production facilitis such as cabinet manufacturing where they run
thousands of pieces of various sizes in a near continuous production
but in batches of various sizes.
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Posted by Denis Smirnov on June 28, 2006, 6:34 pm
Thank you for checking out our website!
You're absolute right about the purpose of GNCutter, but let me show several
others that can be helpful for every handyman.
Let's say you need to cut several pieces of glass from standard-sized glass
sheets that you have. The straightforward solution would be to cut each
piece from one sheets that results in a huge waste of material, money, time
and efforts. I guess nobody uses this way.
The most realistic solution would be trying to cut as much pieces as
possible from one sheet and then cut the rest from another and so on.
If you had a big experience in this area you probably could do it by
yourself. But the most of people don't have such experience and they
wouldn't be able to find even near-optimal solution. As a result instead of,
for example, three sheets they need to cut five.
Is there a difference between cutting three sheets and cutting five sheets?
I think so.
While the material waste is not a big deal in a home repair, but the amount
of work is, because you make each cut by hands and each cut matters.
When you cut the same number of pieces from five sheets you make longer cuts
than you would do for three sheets, and therefore the chance of braking
glass down is higher.
Using our software you can easily and instantly get idea about where to cut
and how many sheets to use. We hope it would be interested for any handyman
at least to download and play with it. I guarantee you will enjoy it.
--
Denis Smirnov
Optimalon Software
http://www.optimalon.com
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Posted by dpb on June 29, 2006, 10:21 am
Denis Smirnov (use info as user name) wrote:
> Thank you for checking out our website!
>
> You're absolute right about the purpose of GNCutter, but let me show several
> others that can be helpful for every handyman.
>
> Let's say you need to cut several pieces of glass from standard-sized glass...
...
For most of the folks here, the optimal solution is to call the
dimensions needed into a glass shop and go pick them up paying for the
glass used... :)
The basic problem is you're spamming a newsgroup of amateurs and
homewners (for the most part) w/ a product whose target audience would
far better be commercial small manufacturers or at least professionals
who actually do such things routinely.
An individual could find the trial use of some value on the rare
occasion, but probably you would get no sales from that kind of thing...
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