To the machine
How an order reaches the machine after payment, and why the cutting sequence is fixed.
How an order reaches the machine.
After payment the order goes to production, where work is planned per material and thickness rather than per order.
- CollectedOrders of the same material and thickness are gathered and released together — for example when their plates are full enough, when a promised date comes due, or by hand.
- Shared platesParts from several orders are cut on the same plates, which uses less sheet material than cutting each order alone. Your price is the one calculated for your order.
- Cut filesPrepared from the nested layout, one per plate and one per part.
- Cutting sequenceFollows from the machine that cuts the plate.
Cut from the inside out.
On a cutting plotter, the order of the cuts decides whether a round gasket stays round.
On smooth material the vacuum table has to keep its grip until the last cut. So the order is fixed:
Holes before the contour
Holes are cut before the outer contour of their part.
Inner rings first
A ring lying in the bore of a larger one is cut before that ring.
From the middle outward
The plate is cut from the middle of the layout outward.
Each part keeps its own layers in the cut file, so the plotter sees every part on its own.
The sequence follows from the machine. A waterjet takes the classic sequence, because there it is programmed in preparation.