Solution Sawing Panel

To open the Solution Sawing panel, press the Sawing button on the main toolbar of the application (Main\Optimization\Sawing). There is also a similar command in the menu of the Marking-out panel (x\Solution Sawing).

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When saving the resultant solution, only one sawing design is recorded in the Marking-out panel instead of the whole tree of possible designs. To obtain all the designs again, it is necessary to press the Calculate button.

Drawing

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Sawing Lines

To draw the chosen sawing pattern on the diamond, press the Draw Lines button. A template with new type of lines - "Sawing" - is used to form the line to draw.

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This template is the same as template in file DrawLineTemplate.dlt file (located in root folder of program, C:\Program Files (x86)\OctoNus Software\Pacor Client 6 by default) that could be loaded by executing the Import Draw Line Template... command from the menu of the Marking-out panel. The template uses a new line type, Sawing, as an addition to the line types introduced earlier (Diamond, Layer, and и Bound). The settings of the template from the DrawLineTemplate.dlt file are so that different line styles correspond to different stages: Solid line for Stage 1, Dotted line for Stage 2, Dashed line for Stage 3, and Long Dashed line for Stage 4 and all the following stages. Hereafter, it is useful to save the startup file of the application with this template or with another template built on the basis of a similar scheme and more suitable for the needs of a specific enterprise.

Pie Option

At the moment, the algorithm tries to choose the sawing plane so that to separate one or several diamonds from the other diamonds and then recursively processes the residual pieces. If a single plane is not enough to complete this task, the Pie algorithm is used. This algorithm implies cutting off a piece by means of two half-planes, which is similar to cutting a pie. Since not every manufacturer is armed with such a technology of diamond sawing, there is a special checkbox, "Use 'Pie' option for sawing process", in the Options panel of the Marking-out tab.

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By default, this option is turned on. To turn off the Pie option, uncheck the checkbox and save the System.bin file.

Example

Use the SolutionSawingDemo.Mmd file to execute this example.

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