I think it would work better if they just handed me the list and allowed me to cut the log. This would be the intersection of maximizing the production from the log while meeting the requirements of the list and minimizing the passes with the saw.Īs Brad_S mentioned where some customers will draw on the log. But rather to organize the cuts on a log to produce lumber from a specific cutlist. I'm not looking to optimize based on a random list or to get the most boards from a log. I use this program in the WW shop to help organize once in lumber form, but it doesn't do round lumber.
I just want to enter the diameter of "meat" on the small end, the blade kerf, the cutlist and go.
I'm certainly not interested in having the program evaluate a scanned photo of the end of the log. I found plenty of plywood/lumber cutlists programs, but nothing for starting in log form. I have not been able to find any programs that do it for a round piece. Then you quit and go home and revert to using MK1 eyeball scanning and brain optimizing and get the same recovery rate per log at about 100MBF less production a day. Every 20 seconds, all shift, every shift, because 20 seconds is how long it takes to feed a log through an optimized canter. 20 seconds later it asks you again with the next log. The system scans the log at the debarker, then hits you with a yes or no series of patterns that takes all this into account. Ie the system optimizes the cut pattern based around the fact that Marge the office girl just took an order for 3x9's, and inventory on 2圆's is low after a big order last week, and we always need 2x12's. I personally like the old curtain scanners, I think that with the newer sensors that curtain scanning is going to get a second life.įrom there it's easy enough to optimize theoretical yield, and a really good system has the optimizing done with regard to inventory.
It's the scanner setup to give an accurate 3D picture of the log that's expensive.
#Free cutlist program software
It's not the software that's the expensive part anyway. But you requested details on something that was good, and free or cheap.