What's new in Corte 7.2.6
Nov 14, 2017
- Fixed a bug when copying and pasting placement poles.
- Introduced the Auto Collection used to traverse items whose proprietary is other launch object different from the very collection. This collections are re-created automatically every time such items are assigned to their proprietary object and allow neither insertions nor deletions. Examples are the Shapes assigned to parts, the Cuts and Placements of a pattern assigned to cuts.
- Fixed a bug that could show empty columns in Solution sheet of Bars launches.
- Improved management of Report menu.
- Fixed a bug in LITE version related to properties disabled in inspectors.
New in Corte 7.2.5 (Nov 14, 2017)
- Fixed a bug that prevented rotation of shapes originally not fitted in the placement area.
- Fixed a bug when processing nested user puzzles.
- Fixed a bug that left traces in graphics scrolling.
- Action Mirrow in Placement Editor automatically deletes the poles originally selected.
- Fixed a bug in Placement Editor that could activate incorrectly the phases of calculation from the status bar.
New in Corte 7.2.4 (Nov 14, 2017)
- Fixed a bug when nesting shapes with limited material stock.
- Fixed a bug in Prolan function (folderdlg).
New in Corte 7.2.3 (Nov 14, 2017)
- Hodographs calculation speeded.
- Fixed a bug in shapes nesting that could provoke parts overlapping in patterns.
- Fixed a bug when showing selected colors in the Options dialog box.
- The application's updatable working files are installed in the application data folder of the system. The demo files continue being installed in the personal documents folder.
New in Corte 7.2.2 (Nov 14, 2017)
- The property Place of shapes which enables them for complex shapes placements calculation. Shapes with placement disabled are distributed in part cuts at rectangular increments.
- Fixed a bug when refilling patterns containing inactive parts.
- Fixed bug "Canvas does not allow drawing" when zooming graphics with inspectors hidden.
- Generalized treatment given to the distance between parts with support to:
- Patterns with variable distance between parts.
- Controlled parts overlapping.
- For that aim the auto properties Distance, Margin and Overlap of parts and the two technological options Overlap Parts and Parts Margin are introduced new (the option Shapes Margin becomes obsolete and so it is deleted). When overlapping is active, the distance between parts is applied counter-wise (negative).
New in Corte 7.2.1 (Nov 14, 2017)
- Fixed a bug in Placements Editor that could affect calculation of INSIDE placement.
- Sorting of placement poles is realized by the top-right coordinate of the circumscribing rectangle. This guarantees nested poles come out first.
- Fixed a problem with the precision used to calculate standard contours.
- Improved memory management for hodographs calculation.
- Improved the Shapes Editor with several bugs fixed and support to select individual segments in contours.
New in Corte 7.2.0 (Jul 21, 2015)
- Improved calculation for irregular shaped parts. For that aim the effect of calculation options Combine, Nest and Refill Patterns is modified.
- Fixed a bug when controlling the number of part types during completion of the offcut.
- The property AproxLin of contours is defined auto and takes its default value from general configuration of placements.
- The property Puzle of shapes enables them for combined puzzles that are calculated automatically.
New in Corte 7.1.4 (Jul 21, 2015)
- Fixed a bug in calculation of cuts total length.
- Fixed a bug in Shapes Editor that could leave cursor trash.
- Fixed a problem with the update events of the launch.
- Fixed a problem with pending parts quantities in patterns refill that could eventually invalidate the completion of the integer solution.
- Fixed a bug in automatic adjustment that invalidated the IDs of placement poles.
- Improved offcut adjustment which passes to be always realized during patterns optimization or refilling, leaving as configurable just cuts adjustment. In consequence, the Output option Adjust Patterns is substituted by Adjust Cuts.
- The adjustment option Fit Placements which allows to join placements in adjacent semi-products by moving the shapes in the direction orthogonal to the given cut. To activate this facility during cuts automatic adjustment, an homonymous Output option is introduced.
- Improved several aspects in the interface.
New in Corte 7.1.3 (Jul 21, 2015)
- Data copied from Excel or text files (with values separated by the TAB character) can be pasted into CORTE and vice versa.
- Fixed some problems related to reentrace of the application.
- Fixed a bug in cells multiplication.
- Fixed a problem related to precision adjustment of dimension values.
New in Corte 7.1.2 (Jul 21, 2015)
- The application working files (templates, examples, reports, formats) are installed in the personal documents folder of the system. This fixs the error "access denied" in Windows 7 or later when tried to update these files after running the program with no administrator rights (installation does continue needing administration rights).
- Two editions of the program are released: a limited one suporting just sheets and bars cutting and a full one supporting, in addition, complex shapes cutting. The limited edition uses the same cutting patterns calculation general procedure.
- In bars launches all properties and fields related to dimension "Width" are hidden automatically and miniatures are activated like in sheets launches. Bars formats can be differentiated when a color is assigned to them since their dimensions are always hown the same. With miniatures activated, you can drag materials or parts into the patterns sheet when editing them manually.
- Introduced the Auto properties which take their default values from launch's technology whereas they have not been directly assigned. Once assigned, they can be restored by introducing the string "auto" or, when being numerical, the value -1. This mechanism leaves property Blockade Techno obsolete and so it is deleted.
- The properties Cut Width and Margins of patterns which copy, respectively, the distance between parts from cutting technology and the margins of the associated material, avoiding this way a necessity to clear the solution when these options were modified. The Cut Width is applied to both intermediate cuts and single parts repeated incrementally without using complex shapes placements. Placements guarantee themselves the distance between parts by applying shapes indentation at the moment of being calculated.
- The technological options Shapes Hold and Shapes Margin which define, respectively, a width for a secure zone without complex shapes placements at the bottom of the material (that could contain layouts for standard rectangular parts) and a width to reduce the shapes placements area inside final cuts. These two options allow to combine in a single pattern parts manufactured with different cutting machines but from the same material. For example, standard formats for plateshears cutting (no distance between parts) and complex shapes for CNC contouring (the shapes indent must be assigned directly).
- The option Margin in cuts which receives the Shapes Margin during calculation and modified manually reduces the area for placing parts, being them shaped or not.
- The reference parameters for material margins are applied just to the pattern reference format.
- The label parameter #PRT that returned a part index now returns true if the cut to which it is applied repeats a single part at rectangular increments (part cut).
- Introduced the label parameter #PCY which returns true if a cut contains a shapes placement (placement cut).
- Introduced the label parameter #PRF which returns references to all the parts, standard or not, contained in a final cut.
- The reference parameter #DBP (distancia between parts configured at launch's technology) is substituted by parameter #CWD returning the cut width of a pattern.
- The label parameter #DBP is deprecated and so deleted.
- The group code is automatically initialized with the formula every time inherited groups or the operation to combine them is modified.
- The group formulas are updated dinamically to omit inactive groups.
- The property Group in patterns which contains the current formula of the associated material's group at the moment of generatig the pattern.
- Fixed a bug in the Reports Editor that prevented access to fields from material group, contour segments, contour references and placement figures.
- Faster recovery after forcing or canceling the calculation.
- Faster Excel export.
- Placement areas and perimeters are calculated according to Output configuration for shapes.
- Fixed a bug in tool bars visualization.
- Fixed a bug in pattern labels visualization.
- Fixed several bugs in the graphic editors.
- Fixed other bugs in the interface.
New in Corte 7.1.1 (Jul 21, 2015)
- Fixed a bug that could stop irregular shaped parts placements calculation indefinitely.
New in Corte 7.1.0 (Jul 21, 2015)
- Modified treatment given to changes realized in launch technology to options Rotate Parts, Reflect Shapes, Shapes Rotation and Material Margins which, in addition to remain as default values for formats added new, update the corresponding properties in all existing formats. To avoid this last modification, the property Blockade Techno is introduced for parts and materials.
- Noticeably improved complex shapes calculation perfomance for realizing patterns refill in an extra optimization level executed lastly.
- The material margins are incorporated into Ideal Consumption calculation.
- Fixed a bug that caused loss of standard contours parameters when reading launches.
- Fixed a bug in detecting the limit time for theoretic solution calculation that added one extra minute.
- Improved several aspects in both interface and calculation.
New in Corte 7.0.3 (Jul 21, 2015)
- Fixed a bug in reports engine that could hide master field values when applying a selection filter to recovered registers.
- Fixed a bug in Prolan interpreter for reports that prevented correct execution of user-defined functions.
- Fixed a bug in edge-covering strips calculator that could show results incorrectly.
- The Prolan property Selection is introduced for main data collections.
- Improved the example Prolan program "Calcular ubicación".
- The edit options "Insert", "Append" and "Delete" are added into the context menu of the Solution sheet.
New in Corte 7.0.2 (Jul 21, 2015)
- Some adjustments to the calculation engine.
- Fixed a bug when nesting shapes.
- Fixed the bug "Incorrect Printer Index" when previewing reports supplied with the installation.
- Improved the grid in the Shapes Editor.
New in Corte 7.0.1 (Jul 21, 2015)
- Fixed a bug when copying and pasting cost values in the Material sheet.
- Fixed a bug when deleting materials in launches with irregular parts.
- Fixed the bug that did not save the user's placements area default dimensions.
- The Emptied type of contours is deprecated and so deleted.
- The calculation options PUZZLES LEVEL, ORTHO PUZZLE, ORTHO REFILL and EXPAND REFILL are deprecated and substituted by the new options COMBINE SHAPES, NEST SHAPES and REFILL PATTERNS.
- Introduced option REFILL in Solution and Patterns menus to refill a posteriori the patterns distributing irregular shaped parts.
- The Distance between Parts is incorporated into Ideal Consumption calculation.
- The POLYLINE entity is recognized when importing DXF files.
- Improved closed contour detection when importing DXF files.
- In parallel processing with the aim of reducing critical processes calculation time. The calculation option PROCESSORS defining the number of dedicated CPU's cores is introduced.
New in Corte 5.6.4 (Jul 5, 2014)
- Corrected some properties issues.
New in Corte 5.6.3 (Jul 5, 2014)
- Property Patterns is introduced new for parts and materials to indicate the number of patterns distributing or using the corresponding format
- Improved the label format interpreter to show parentheses associated with no format function as part of the label text
- Corrected some issues in the interface
- Fixed a bug in reusable offcut initial calculation after loading launches
New in Corte 5.6.2 (Jul 5, 2014)
- Greater control over fields that can be multiplied in launch sheets
New in Corte 5.6.1 (Jul 5, 2014)
- Fields customized in data and solution sheets are extended to the rest of program outputs and inputs
New in Corte 5.6 (Jul 5, 2014)
- Interface supporting Windows themes
- Online help in HTML format
- Improved patterns labeling:
- Dimension info in default labels
- Smart labels that adjust themselves automatically to avoid overlaped texts in patterns
- Introduced new a LISP-type format specification, much more flexible and compact
- Introduced new the General Label format which can be programmed independently
- Improved material costs assignment:
- The field Cost is enabled for writing which gives you two complementary ways of defining costs: per material unit via Cost field or per area unit via Cost/uA field
- Fixed several problems related to Excel 2007 import and export.
New in Corte 5.5.5 (Jul 5, 2014)
- Adjusts calculation of internal areas during optimization.
New in Corte 5.5.4 (Jan 13, 2010)
- New optimization method
- improved optimization engine