Project description
Our furniture workshop cuts chipboard, MDF and plywood every single day, and right now our production engineer lays out the parts on each sheet by hand. That manual work is slow and it wastes material: on a busy week we throw away roughly fifteen percent of every board simply because the layout was not planned well. We are looking for a developer who can build a self-contained desktop program that takes a list of parts with their dimensions and quantities and produces optimal cutting maps with the smallest possible offcut.
The program must run under Windows without a permanent internet connection, keep a catalogue of the boards we use together with their formats, and store a history of past jobs so we can reopen and reprint them. It has to respect the saw kerf, allow an edge-banding allowance, honour grain direction so that parts with a visible pattern are never rotated, and group parts by colour and thickness. The result should print as clear diagrams for the operator at the saw and, at the same time, export a control file that our panel saw can read directly.
We expect solid experience with rectangular packing and optimisation problems, a tidy interface a non-programmer can learn quickly, and clear written documentation. Key requirements are listed below:
— import parts from a table and enter them by hand;
— account for kerf, edge banding and grain;
— print cutting maps and export a file for the machine;
— report on material usage and remaining offcuts per board.
The program must run under Windows without a permanent internet connection, keep a catalogue of the boards we use together with their formats, and store a history of past jobs so we can reopen and reprint them. It has to respect the saw kerf, allow an edge-banding allowance, honour grain direction so that parts with a visible pattern are never rotated, and group parts by colour and thickness. The result should print as clear diagrams for the operator at the saw and, at the same time, export a control file that our panel saw can read directly.
We expect solid experience with rectangular packing and optimisation problems, a tidy interface a non-programmer can learn quickly, and clear written documentation. Key requirements are listed below:
— import parts from a table and enter them by hand;
— account for kerf, edge banding and grain;
— print cutting maps and export a file for the machine;
— report on material usage and remaining offcuts per board.
Software development Cash, Bank transfer
