Sheet Goods Optimizer For Mac
I'm not the person to ask on this subject, I've never used a sheet goods cutting program. Most of my projects never use more than a sheet or two of plywood so I just lay out the cuts the old fashioned way. Personally, I use computers as little more than fancy typewriters, I never expect them to solve anything. I think that it would be fairly difficult to get a program to effectively lay out the cuts in the best possible layout, there must be a at least a few hundred possible answers to any specific problem. This would probably be a good question to post on the regular Knots site, there are a number of software experts there. Sorry I can't be of more help on this, John W.
2 Dimensional Optimization User Unknown - View 75% Sheet Dimensions: Width (max 25000) Height (max 25000) Cutoff Value (max 999) # No. Of parts (max = 99).
Mac Optimizer Reviews
'I think that it would be fairly difficult to get a program to effectively lay out the cuts in the best possible layout, there must be a at least a few hundred possible answers to any specific problem.' There can be a lot of possible combinations, but the better programs do quite a good job at it. I've been using, and have been surprised a couple of times when it suggested a better layout than I would have come up with by hand. It lets you make various kinds of 'what if.' For example, you can optimize for the fewest number of cuts, care/not care about grain orientation, maximize the size of any offcuts, etc.