I have run into this problem multiple times with multiple shops over the years, and with both Weeke BHX machines and Biesse machines alike.

These vertical machining center utilize clamps to hold the parts and move them in the X axis. Typically parts like cabinets sides or doors are oriented sideways, so the (typically) longer edge is down, and against the rollers/fence.

When it comes to drawer fronts or drawer divisions, these parts are an anomaly of sorts, and that same edge is the narrow edge of the part. There is a  minimum width this edge can be before the machine will not accept the part. I've found this to be between 8-9".

My questions is, has anyone else run into this issue? If so how have you resolved this?

In the past, I have resorted to complex logic in these subassemblies to look to a global variable for the minimum part height, and if it is below that threshold, change machine points, and rotate the parts to still get the correct grained output at the saw, but to come out rotated on the P2P only.

It would be ideal if this could be a parameter in the toolfile to handled this, and invert x and Y parameter, but I am not sure how to handle this in an IPP toolfile.