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• Sort the collumn in the window additional prompts

  Hi, I can't have my collumn right swing and left swing side by side. See the pictuce. Can we have this in a update please?

• Good-one-side designation

  We regularly have Good one side board that is required for doors and drawer fronts (with holes needed in the degraded side) and for other panels with holes or rebates needed in the good side, as well as panels with no holes.  Rather than having to setup

• autolabeling reprint

  Hi;  to remake  parts outside of Microvellum, Just scan the barcode of face 5 for the unit program and remake the part, its work perfectly! but I find it difficult to reprint the label, because the name of the label is not saved on the DB. Can you add

• AXYZ CNC Nesting

  Has anyone ever used a AXYZ flat table to process nests on out of Microvellum?  If you have what are your opinions regarding the run times and such?  What are your biggest problems, concerns, dislikes?  

• Drawer export as a .csv file

  Hello, We are developing an ERP for a client who is a drawer manufacturer. Most of our manufacturer's customers use Microvellum.   Our client would like to offer its Microvellum users the ability to export drawer dimensions so that this export can be

• Copy room from one project to another

  It would be great to be able to copy a single room from one project and place it in another project. This would be helpful when doing our builder work that mix and match from previous projects.

• How to delete a Batch within a Work Order

  Is there a way to delete a Batch within a Work Order once it is created?  We do write on top of existing Batches if they are incorrect, but sometimes it would be beneficial to be able to delete the batch.  

• Tool File - Field Offsets

  Does anyone use the field offsets in their tool files? We run a decent volume of parts on our matrix table and offset certain parts 10" in X and Y to prevent part movement. Our operators typically make these changes on the fly at the router CPU but very

• Sort Nest By Material Name

  When nested based processing, does anybody know of a way to force the sheets to be placed in a particular order? Example: I'm nesting 50 sequence & end-matched custom-layup panels.  The individual panel definition is at the end of the material name (e.g.

• Exporting CSV from from a report

  Does anyone have any experience exporting CSV files from their reports? I seem to be having mixed results. I was able to export a spreadsheet with all of the part data I needed. Now I'm trying to create a report that will export all the hardware within

• adding routes to nest

  is there a way to add a route in a nest and have it run after the border route. we use an 1/8" bit to go back and clean out inside corners but it needs to be done after the part border is already cut. we created a 2 pass bit to do this because the smaller

• PO Numbers

  It would be great if Microvellum let us add a PO Number to the job we are working on in the Project Properties. That way we could pull in that data and print it out on our labels and put it on all of our products for easy tracking. Is this a feature we

• best way to do small parts in nesting?

  Hi, Just want to discuss this again. Most of time, for small parts we put it in center or do onion skin to avoid the part move when it is in nesting. Now we want to try out reduce speed in order to prevent the small parts move. Is it good way? So for

• Drilling In Multiple Steps.

  Is it possible for MV to output the code to drill a hole in multiple steps? I just finished a project where there were multiple 1" deep Ø5/64" holes. Since drilling in one pass would likely break the bit the CNC operator had to go through the time consuming

• Face 6 first - reversed for shaker doors

  We have a job coming up with shaker doors similar to the attached. We are set up to do face 6 first machining and I'd like to do as much as possible on the cnc. Is it possible to do face 5 first, then flip? I think the sheet will lose too much suction

• Feature Request: Show Work Order number from within the Processing Center interface

  We use "Products.WorkOrder.WorkOrderNumber" as an identifier on our reports. This gives us a unique, MV generated ID Number for each work order (work order name is often duplicated and easy to mistake one for another). We would like to be able to see

• Rotate Nested Parts

  Recently  our CNC operator point of that it would be nice if the the parts in the nest were rotated 180 deg so the backs of the cabinet where against our fence instead of the face of the cabinet.  See image below for example.  Is there away to tell microvellum

• Give choice to change the part quantity in processing station

  I would like MV have a choice for cnc programmer to change part quantity in processing station. For batch job or for replacement part. I don't want to process all the quantity, i only want to do  1 or 2 or 3... see below image for change quantity.

• Shelf Line Bore Holes

  Hello Everyone, I am having a problem with my line bore holes, They aren't there. The last project I just did worked fine, Started a new project, same spec group, same everything and no shelf pin holes. I have copied the spec group from the last job with

• Product List/Overdrive Pro

  Why does the Product List/Overdrive Pro window close every time I redraw a product? It would be very helpful if it would stay open until I manually close it, or until something significant happens like changing projects. Anyone else agree?

• Sending jobs to multiple CNC

  Hi All Looking at a job that would evolve sending finished jobs to multiple different companies for CNC cutting. eg. One project is drawn and detailed in MV, processed then the cut files and sent to company A for cutting and assembly etc. Then project

• Adjusting Machining Post-Processing

  Hello All, I just processed a job through the Nesting Process Station and found that a single cabinet has the door swing (hinges) on the wrong side. Is there a way to manually add and delete hinge holes to the cabinet's sides without re-processing the

• FEATURE REQUEST-2D DRAWING

  how hard would it be to number the rows in the parts list when working in 2d drawing? currently if a part is on row 73(example) you have to count down the rows to update the part. very time consuming and inefficient.

• true shape nesting

  i'm curious as to how many here use true shape nesting and is it worth the cost. we do a lot of odd custom designs ans use SMA quite a bit, will true shape nest save me time?

• Map Material to Processing Station

  Has anyone ever seen the benefit of 'mapping' materials to a specific CNC machine? That would let you set up each material so that each part would be populated to the processing center with a combination of stations already assigned. Instead of a manual

• True Shape Nesting

  I have noticed that all Toolbox Release after #21.1.0420.641, True Shape Nesting will put a border around most non-rectangular parts like it is not doing True Shape Nesting. I have tried moving the True Shape Control Slider to max, but it still puts a

• Sheet order in nesting report

  I'm running into an issue with my nesting report from a work order this morning. I have two different materials and two different processing stations, one material on each. So if Material 1- Station 1 = M1S1 and Material 2 - Station 2 = M2S2, the report

• Feature Request- Interface for Shop to process remakes in MV ERP

  Imagine this...Let's say you run a work order on the floor, and there are 4, 6, or a dozen damaged parts....they slide on the router, or got dropped, etc.  What if the operator could scan the filename on the part labels, and it would automatically create

• Bringing parts from other Workorders to be cut with Other Workorder

  Some parts moved while cutting and need to be re-cut. I have the space on another Workorder nest which was not been cut yet in the shop. Is there a way to bring in just the part that moved (or whole product) other than AutoCad copy and paste?  With Autocad

• Parts Excluded from Optimization

  Using multiple sheet sizes of a certain material we sometimes get an error 'there is not enough material' for a given material when processing. We can usually resolve the error by adjusting sheet quantities and optimization priorities using the Modify

• 3D Polyline Path for Routing

  Hello! I am looking to figure out how to make a 3D polyline path that would be able to make profile edges on tops or other parts. It appears that this would be possible to do with some combination of multiple polyline route tokens, but is there a way

• AB Material Upside Designation for CNC Operator

  Our operators would like to know what side is up for AB materials (Sheets with different finishes or backer). At this point in time we have been marking the paperwork by hand, but is there a way to enable them to know which side is up for face 5 and 6

• Combining face 6 with face 5

  We have two librarys the same build in one library we can combine face 6 & face 5 the other wont.

• Anyone use Lamello Cabineo connectors? Machining issue drilling vs. routing

  I figured out how to use the Cabineos and successfully have the edgearray machine token and all that. But when it goes to machine these, it is picking up our 5mm and trying to bore the 15mm hole with that bit. I cannot seem to find a place to change it to rout and setting a different bit like our 1/4" or 3/8" compression. We do not have a 15mm drill bit but can get one. But where would I even set that tool number? As you can see, it is using the 3/8" bit for the pline which is for the Cabineo cap

• Changing Product Numbers in Product List

  I have a project with approximately 45 rooms. I am processing the rooms to get material quantities and I have 2 different Specification Groups. When I change the spec groups, quantities and product numbers to process, I get an error message when I change

• Machine Technology Priorities - Open Discussion

  Investing in machine technology can be an overwhelming and nerve-racking process. No one wants to make the wrong investment and purchase a solution that doesn't meet the needs of the company. But where does a company start when beginning research into

• Machining Practices: Pain Points and Solutions - Open Discussion

  In our ever-growing world of automation and machine technology, coupled with economic and supply chain uncertainties, working efficiently and accurately while minimizing waste and rework is more important than ever. First off, what are some of the pain

• Higher true shape slider results in duplicate identical nests

  I have discovered that increasing the true shape slider to the middle (or higher) results in nests with a quantity of one.  This is quite wasteful when there are identical nests.  For instance, a recent project only had one nest to be run twelve times

• Selective Machining with the Part Name Filter Question

  I am working on setting up a doweled drawer box and have a question regarding the machining for locks. With our existing drawer sub-assemblies we cut a 3 sided notch all the way through the sub-front of the drawer for the lock body, this cutout was driven

• Tooling Not Recognized - Nesting

  I am having some issues with a panel that has .196" holes. The toolfile is set to drill .19685 holes. I updated it to match exactly. The holes on the composite file match in diameter but it will give the following error when I go to update the machi

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