October 2005
FastCAM Software for Profiling and Estimation

FastCAM e-Newsletter

October 2005

FastCAM e-Newsletter, Free to Subscribers

Issue# 14 




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OPTIMIZER FOR SHEARS is BETTER, FASTER AND CHEAPER!
with Fast Automated Cutting Lists!

FastCUT® is one of our most popular products because it has such broad appeal across the metal, (flat) glass, timber and associated industries. There's not a lot of software under $500 that affects your bottom line in such an easy, instant and dramatic way. FastCUT® lets even small job shops incorporate powerful nesting efficiencies into their business whether they use manual or automatic cutting.

As a developer one of our main concerns is how to achieve improved performance and new functionality without changing the look and feel of the program. We feel we have achieved this successfully with the new version.

FastCUT® v6 UPGRADE = $95. -- FastCUT v6 = $395.

Both offers end October 31, 2005.


go to the FastCUT web page for more info

FastCUT® lets you produce fast and accurate estimates and cutting lists for Rectangular, Linear or Stock Length materials (you can optimize on cost or material). You can obtain an estimate on dollars per cut and dollars per material so it's ideal as a quick and simple estimation tool. Printed cutting lists, nest images and costing reports can all be printed, as can material Utilization and Dimensioned Patterns. The Cut-to-Length option determines the optimum blank size to use for a particular list of rectangular parts that are to be cut from a coil of fixed or infinite length. Also appropriate for shear cut to length lines for Sheet, Bar and Tube.

FastCUT® has been sold for over 10 years and we have many satisfied customers. Even so we are always striving to improve our products. Consequently, we have re-written the program to allow for the use of smarter algorithms. FastCUT® is better and faster than ever before!

New algorithms to allow for new and superior logic including rotation.
A yield improvement on the majority of jobs.
An overall speed improvement.
Parts and stock description can now be up to 20 characters.
Stock rows have been expanded to 101 (from 51).

Equally important, these latest improvements do not require existing users to re-think or change the way they operate the program.

Paul Ellis of Composite Installations says "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 "

SPECIAL PRICING UNTIL OCTOBER 31        DOWNLOAD AND PRINT ORDER FORM


All new installations of FastCAM NC Systems now come complete with over 20 video tutorials. These tutorials have been very well received by our international resellers and partners because they are particularly affective for our non-English speaking users.

These videos teach skills in a quick, effective and low cost way. The CD is useful to have on hand in the event a programmer is ill or on vacation and another programmer needs to step in quickly.

AVAILABLE BY REQUEST ONLY
The FASTCAM VIDEO TUTORIAL CD is available on request for a small handling and postage fee of $25. ORDER FORM

(Customers on Service and Maintenance Agreements are exempt from paying this fee and can simply email us). Please list your name, company name and delivery address in the body of the email and allow 5-10 working days.


We're interested in hearing from customers and resellers! If you have news or can suggest a topic that you think will be of interest to our reader base, we invite you to email us!


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We attribute much of our productivity increase to FastCAM ..Phil Ryan, JCA Fabrication.          I'd never done a drawing before in my life. After 10 days with FastCAM, I built the first tank truck. Now it's our livelihood....Ray Castleberry, Castlebrook Welding.           By far, the quickest and easiest programs I have used......Rick Presseau, INCO Ltd.
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