Working Within the Cut Parts Tab
The Cut Parts tab is where parts within the product are located.
If the Cut Parts tab does not contain any parts, they may be contained in a subassembly.
Parts can be added manually to the Cut Parts tab. A minimum of five fields are required to manufacture parts: Part Name, Quantity, Width, Length, and a valid Material. Additionally, edgebanding can be applied to the edges of a part.
There are more fields required when a part needs to be drawn. To draw parts, you will need the following: Base Point, X Origin, Y Origin, Z Origin, X Rotation, Y Rotation, Z Rotation, and a 3D Drawing Token.
To have a part receive or distribute machining, you will need to provide a machine point and any necessary machine tokens and their parameters.
Refer back to the Part Properties section for more information on origins, rotations, base points, and machine points.
Right-clicking with a cell selected in the Cut Parts tab will display the following menu:
- Save Cut List to Disk – Allows you to save the product as a CUTX file.
- Cut – Allows you to cut a cell, or range of cells, from the spreadsheet.
- Copy – Allows you to copy a cell, or range of cells, from the spreadsheet.
- Paste – Allows you to paste a cut or copied cell, or range of cells, to another location.
- Paste Special – Allows you to select special formatting when pasting cut or copied cells.
- Microvellum Clipboard – Allows you to add, or paste, a part from the clipboard. When working in the machine token portion of the Cut Parts tab, you can add, or paste, a machine token to/from the clipboard.
- Select and Copy Parts – Allows you to select the entire row and copy the part and all its properties and machine tokens.
- Change Material – Allows you to select or create a new project-level material to assign to the part (only visible when a cell within the Material column is selected).
- Change Edgebanding – Allows you to select or create a new project-level edgebanding material to assign to the part (only visible when a cell within the Edgebanding columns is selected).
- Insert Columns for Token – Inserts the required number of columns for a machine token (must be working in the machine tokens portion of the spreadsheet).
- Delete Columns for Token – Deletes the required number of columns for a machine token (must be working in the machine tokens portion of the spreadsheet).
- Delete Machine Instructions – Deletes all the machine tokens for a part.
- Remove Material from Parts List – Changes the material of the selected parts to become a negative material (draw only).
- Insert Function – Allows you to access the Formula Editor for the selected cell.
- Insert Row(s) – Inserts a row, or rows, above the selected row(s).
- Delete Row(s) – Deletes the selected rows.
- Clear Contents – Clears the contents of a cell.
- Workbook Designer – Allows you to access the Workbook Designer interface.
- Close Product Editor – Closes Edit Design Data.