Do you spend too much time on estimating and preparing factory work orders? Do you over-estimate material usage to get quotes out quickly?

FastCUT® Glass Optimizer is an easy and affordable PC software package that produces fast and accurate estimates and work orders for panes and linear product.

FastCUT® Glass Optimizer is ideal for all materials including window making stock like window rubbers. A simple switch will swap the software into linear mode for optimizing length based items such as aluminum sections for windows or shower screens. Printed cutting lists, nest images and costing reports offer benefits for office and factory. All Reports are printable, including material Utilization and Dimensioned Patterns.

We have markedly improved the efficiency of our cutters, especially in terms of cut to size requests...managers are also able to improve their turnaround time and pass on savings." Lyle McGrath - Capitol Glass "We've used FastCUT for 2 years and found it to be a great time and money saver in relation to minimizing glass waste on cut to size jobs and on estimating. It is very good at giving you the best stock sizes to use."Greg Lloyd - Alternative Glass Supplies "In dealing with million dollar projects FastCUT has allowed us to assess the cutting loss quickly and within the customers time-frame". We no longer tie up production with optimization requests and have full control on quotation turnaround." Robert Price - Don Mathieson Glass. "......excellent. FastCUT does save a lot of time" Matt. - Kaeling Glass Service PA. I cannot believe how well this software works! Within 30 minutes of installing it, I was saving $$$!! Fastcut takes the guesswork out of determining how much material we need, and how to cut each panel for maximum utilisation of the material. Fastcut now forms the basis of our costing for all our jobs, and I cannot recommend it highly enough." Paul Ellis, Director-Composite Installations, Sydney.

Fast Summary of Benefits for Office & Factory: Fast (Printed) Cutting List! Produces your 'best price' on material for fast estimates. Quote customers immediately! Use FastCUT to help with ordering. Saves Material "Why cut up more than you have to?" Optimizes Panes, Window Frame components and Coil product like flyscreen. Optimizes Remnant before using Standard size Stocks. Produces simple reports for analysis. New version exports a DXF file!

FastCUT^® Powerful™ Optimization Engine.
Optimization for us is about getting the greatest possible yield from material by trying millions of computer generated layouts. Sometimes it is about working out what stock to order in the first place. Even small improvements can result in large savings of material and considerably reduce production costs, maximizing the material utilization and hence minimizing the [wasted] area. The optimization/nesting technology used today is vastly improved on what it was even several years ago because of the fantastic increase in micro speeds.

Import / Export Microsoft Excel™ data.
You can simply cut and paste information from FastCUT to and from Excel™
Alternatively you can tailor your own quoting system. All your data can be entered into a Microsoft Excel™ spreadsheet. This data can be linked to FastCUT™ via a VBA MACRO. Run the FastCUT™ optimisation program from Excel™, returning the results accurately and quickly to your spreadsheet. A sample macro is provided free with FastCUT® Glass Optimizer.

Sample Output
To view & print some examples of the Output from FastCUT^®, please select from the links below. Each item is linked to an Adobe Acrobat PDF file. They can be viewed and printed with the aid of the Adobe Acrobat Reader program which is available FREE from the Adobe Web site. (Version 4 or above is required)

• Sample Panel Pattern #1
• Sample Panel Pattern #2
• Sample Panel Pattern #3
• Sample Linear Pattern #1
• Sample Linear Pattern #2
• Sample Report
• All of the above samples in a self-extracting ZIP file.
• View a Brochure on FastCUT Optimizer