Getting started
Considerations before use
Please carry out the following steps once before you start using the manual offcuts management:
- Define the number and sizes of the shelves (see also Tips and tricks)
- Suitable for the existing and resulting remnant sizes
- Suitable for the material
- Suitable for the amount of hand remnants
- Label the compartments on the rack with the compartment numbers (recommended)
Set up the manual storage rack in the software
To set up the manual manual offcuts rack on the “CADmatic” saw control system once, you must be logged in as an administrator (i.e. change user if necessary).
The manual offcuts management runs via installed “woodStore components”. To set this up, please open the woodStore application in the powerTouch menu.
Change user to administrator mode (1) and open the woodStore application (2).
After starting woodStore, a predefined manual offcuts rack appears, which you can then easily adapt to your existing manual offcuts rack.
Click on Set up (or F3) in the standard toolbar and the processing window for setting up the storage will appear.
Initial view with menu bar (1), the standard function bar (2) and the template of a offcuts rack (3).
Set up the software image of your physical remaining rack in the editing window.
Editing window for setting up the offcuts rack.
Here you will find the storage location name (1) [changing the name creates a new storage!], the size of the entire manual offcuts storage (2), the definition of the individual compartments (3) and the graphical representation of the storage structure (4). Please confirm the changes by clicking OK (5).
Please note the following when adding/deleting/resizing the shelves:
- “Number” defines the number of equally sized compartments next to each other
- A semicolon (;) in the “Height” column is used to create overlapping shelves
Booking in existing offcuts
The following steps are required to post existing offfcuts to the digital version of the manual offcuts rack:
- Open the storage dialog
- Enter size, quantity, grain and material code, if applicable
- Select or assign a compartment
- Label and place on the rack
You will find the storage dialog under Extras in the assistant graphic on the saw.
You now need the material codes, if available, as each offcut must be assigned a material code when it is entered. Either a list of codes is available or the codes are taken from the label of the offcut to be stored. After entering the size, number (package) and grain, a compartment can either be assigned automatically by the storage or you can select a compartment yourself. A label indicating the newly assigned compartment is printed for each offcut when it is entered. Stick the label on the offcut and then place it in this compartment.
When selecting the storage compartment, only those compartments are displayed in which the offcut fits due to its size.
After clicking the Store panels button, the panel data is transferred to the woodStore manual offcut management system and the compartment in which the offcut is to be stored is displayed.
A label is also printed out, which must be stuck to the edge of the offcut . This allows the information to be read when the offcut is on the rack.
To call up the putaway dialog from the assistant graphic.
This is how you store your panels: Enter the details of the material code (1) (select existing code or add new one), generate a offcut code (2) (always start with “X”!), enter dimensional details of the offcut (3), if necessary the number of identical offcuts (4) and, if applicable, the grain (5).
Processing window for storing the panels.
After you have entered the offcut details, activate the storage in the offcut rack (6), select the storage bin (7) and confirm (8).
Offcut label attached to the edge of the panel.