Anyone using “Best Cut” by VR Soft Ltd.?? I stumbled across it today while looking for a bill of sale form. Based in Romania, which simply triggered visions of spam in my brain, so thought I’d check.
forestgirl — you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can’t take the forest out of the girl 😉
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FG, I have been using "CutList Plus" for about a year and like it.
In response to your your inquiry I did a Google search, for best cut, and couldn't find it, but did stumble onto something from the Forest Products lab, called ROMI-RIP.
It sounds really interesting but I need to email the lab and see if they are still distributing copies. It allows you to grade stock, and input coordinates for defects, and then will optimize cuts to miss them. I will try to get a download tomorrow, and see how it works.
Since it is a government publication I think the cost will be quite low, if anything.
My apologies to FG for the hijack.
Jigs,
How do you like the cutlist plus? Which version do you have, and do you see any problems/limitations with the software? I bought a copy of the manual, and was contemplating the gold version, so I could catalog 30 or 40 different cabinets and combine them into each job as needed. Needless to say, I haven't gotten around to finish reading the manual. One last thing, do you find it easy to set up and use?
Lee
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Sorry FG~!
I have the 2006 "Silver Edition". I'm a hobbyist so the financial part, or ability to import dxf files isn't really useful to me.
The learning curve isn't bad, I was up and entering my first project in about 2-hours. It took some getting used to, but once you get the hang of it, it is pretty straight forward.
It will do quantities for face frame or banding materials, and miscellaneous shop supplies if you enter them in. In the gold version you can enter costs on materials, and track inventory, including offcuts, and you generate and print invoices, and the rest of the paper work you need if you're doing this professionally.
It is designed around rectangular sheet goods, though and excels at those. I wish it would let me do odd sized shapes on sheet goods, for some of the things I do, but if all your doing is boxes, it would be hard to beat. It does a good job on hardwood stock, but I occasionally use "2Xs" for benches and miscellaneous shop projects, and it is kind of clunky on those, just because you have to enter lumber in 1/4 thicknesses.
I would recommend it to anyone who is looking for a program to optimize material use in a cabinet shop.
Here's the link for the program at Shareware Connection. If you Google on VRsoft Ltd you get lots of hits.forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
FG, from what little I can determine from that site, it is very similar to Cutlist in function.
Since Cutlist has been around for years, and consistently gets good reviews in the magazines, and from most users that I have come across, I think it would probably be the safer bet.
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