Yani in building mode... he *** at drawing and as accuracy goes he needs a computer. A pencil snapper that can't draw a straight line. Lucky for the tools, like a laser level.
A router "look at those oh so cute joins"
So I did a month of homework and found a few things that are interesting and curious.
https://www.mozaiksoftware.com/
Every wonder how these kitchen companies do the software? Do they draw it up on Autocad from home grown templates?
NUP the whole thing is a package from shop front to shop back.
"Exports to Paperless Shop" It is a parts list but I suspect it includes billing components.
https://kcdsoftware.com/doors-plus/
If doors and drawers are your company’s specialty, KCD Software’s Doors Plus is a stand-alone, template design software to communicate with your nested based CNC router.
Hundreds of templates are included in the software like doors, drawer fronts and dovetail drawer boxes. It’s also easy to create your own one-of-a-kind custom templates. Parametric tool paths can be assigned for your multiple tool operations. Create your own custom libraries for doors, drawers, wine racks, fluted pilasters, valances and more for traditional and CNC manufacturing.
Doors Plus includes over 300 ready-to-use custom component templates. The order-entry system makes it easy to enter your custom items and modify details on the fly. Doors Plus gives you more custom product capacity, flexibility and efficiency than ever before.
What's interesting is the narrow vertical market and the end to end nature of the software.
My deepest apologies :) It's not for lots of things.
If you need a thing so big that it doesn't go on a router table, then a jigsaw would likely be good enough.
It's not for me either. I don't want to become a working part of the router.
So I have a pro question...
I see laying a mask over the timber to be routed makes it easy to color the routed area without hitting the face.
My question is, what is available as a cheap stick on mask to cover a 8' X 4' sheet?
Sorry I started this thread in such a weird place, as in, apparel and...
My post was insufficiently detailed. My sign vendors are moving toward devices that are software and also task specific. As an example the vendor who only does light weight channel letters, cloud signs and the graphics they require. I have one that only mixes custom paint colors and will paint materials. One does only water jet cutting now. We may have 30 different vendors.
Then there's the vendor who put in the hand held cutter for spot jobs. When his cutting tables are busy he can use it to make repair stuff. For some reason there's a few nearby malls that have there over hangs out a bit far and the trucks like regularly smashing a letter or two.
What is designated as a sign is a broad definition. We have moved entirely toward only manufacturing custom signs and what I call sticker work.
Due to downward pricing demands we buy everything else, stick built rectangles, squares circles, what some call cloud signs, all channel letters and variable data signs.
HANDS DOWN all these signs can be manufactured and delivered to me, either to the job site or our shop for less than I can buy the material.
Variable data has become such a PITA due to (IMO) necessary regulation and downward pricing I won't discuss them with clients except for mall monument signs.
I'm just channel surfing and up comes Grant from BlackMagic flogging software on a commercial station in paid advertisements for software they give away for free.
That's not normal behaviour. He must have some particular reason for spending money building market share for something that is free. Are such adverts appearing in the US? It's got the smell of building up to list the company.
Was it on television? If so I didn't see it I only stream commercial free, run dvd/blu-ray or crank out music.
I just got a Fluence turntable for our vinyl and I working on replacing our real collectable vinyl with CD.