Bar Cut Optimizer and Manager plans cutting layouts for linear materials such as bars, pipes, profiles, beams, and cables. It aims to reduce waste by optimizing against current stock or by reusing resulting stubs. Users can track stock by bar type, account for cut thickness, and generate HTML reports covering layouts, costs, required purchases, and statistics.
| Author: | Binrace Ltd. |
| License: | Demo |
| Price: | $170.00 |
| Released: | Feb 1, 2011 |
| File size: | 502 kB |
| Downloads: | 401 |
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| Author URL: | http://www.binrace.com/ |
Bar Cut Optimizer and Manager plans cutting layouts for linear materials and tracks the stock used in production. It is intended for workshops, fabricators, and other operations that cut items such as pipes, bars, tubes, profiles, beams, cables, extrusions, or paper rolls. By arranging required lengths against available stock, it helps reduce offcuts and identify which lengths need to be purchased.
The software offers two optimization approaches: make efficient use of current stock, or plan around reusing the resulting stubs so that usable offcuts can return to inventory. Users can define parts to cut and stock lengths, with no stated limit on the number of different parts or source lengths. A cut-thickness setting accounts for the material removed by the blade, while optional item tags help distinguish individual ordered pieces. Jobs can include different types of bars, described by profile code, material, and color.
Stock management is built into the workflow. For each bar type, users can add or remove stock lengths and adjust their quantities, as well as add, remove, or update bar types. Stubs suitable for reuse can be added to inventory, and the inventory can be backed up. Jobs can be saved and reopened, making it possible to return to a cutting plan or maintain records alongside changing stock levels.
After a plan is calculated, detailed HTML reports present cutting layouts, costs, required purchases, and statistics. Separate reports summarize current stocks. The program supports measurements in millimeters, centimeters, meters, inches, and feet, including decimal and fractional formats. Custom precision controls how lengths appear in reports, and a configurable currency is used for bar prices. These options make it possible to work with different measurement conventions and cost records.
Bar Cut Optimizer and Manager is offered as demo software. Its listed Windows compatibility includes Windows 10, as well as several older Windows releases; Windows 11 compatibility is not stated. It suits users who need a combined cutting planner and basic inventory tool for linear stock, especially when tracking reusable remnants is part of the production process.