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From project to G-code
A project fixes the panel and the shapes on it: a cut-out, a face pocket, edge polishing, a circle or a rounded rectangle — drawn by hand or imported from a DXF file. On the workbench you choose the machine, material size, margins and position, and Prepare builds the G-code per production step. Does the sheet need to sit on the machine rotated a quarter turn? Rotate the drawing and Factory recalculates every path.
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No program reaches the machine without a verdict
Factory reads every program exactly as the machine would run it and checks it against the work area, the tool and the sheet height. If it would cut below the table, outside the work area, or with the wrong tool, it won't start — and you see exactly which line is the problem before you press Start.
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Re-measured against the drawing
From the programs, Factory builds a height map of what's left of the sheet, with the kerf the way a saw blade really cuts. That map is compared with the drawing: if a cut-out is out of place or polishing is missing, the start is blocked. In the digital twin you see the same thing in 3D.
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One height model, with the source of every value
The saw and the mill agree on where the sheet lies: the support surface per machine, a calibrated height per tool. Every value shows whether it's measured, derived or set by hand. If the milling head is offset from the saw's zero point, you set that once on the machine — not per project.
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Production steps with checks up front
Before the start, Factory checks the connection to the machine, whether the measuring point is clear and whether the spindle has warmed up. Per step you see a time estimate, you can switch off a step or operation, or set a hold point where the operator has to confirm first. What you checked is exactly what runs: change anything afterwards and Factory asks you to prepare again first.
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Review the G-code before you cut
Every operation or whole step can be viewed and downloaded, with the actual milling paths over the drawing. In ten seconds you can see whether a cut-out is fed in from the right side — without wasting a single sheet.
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Only operable from the PC next to the machine
A machine can only be controlled from a PC that's paired with it, and pairing needs a six-digit code shown on the machine's screen. Nobody who hasn't stood at the machine can make it move. Opening it up can be done per machine, with a reason that's recorded in the audit log.
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Multiple sheets and workpieces on the bed
Place several material sheets with their own position and rotation on the machine bed at once, with a warning as soon as they overlap. Or place several workpieces on one sheet, with a position suggestion that checks for itself whether it fits.
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Wizards for recurring work
Dedicated wizards for milling cut-outs, polishing rectangles, a tile grid with bevel cuts, and aligning the saw. Anyone who wants to check or adjust the code themselves has a G-code editor and analyser.
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The chain in view when things go quiet
Between the browser and the spindle sit the control PC, Factory, the Factory Bridge on the factory PC, and InoControl, the machine software. The machine page shows that chain with the last known state per link, and one click tests the whole route there and back.
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The machine in 3D, with a timeline and cross-section
Every program can be viewed as the machine would run it: bed, conveyor, head, saw blade and milling head in 3D, with a timeline that steps you through the program line by line. Move the camera along with the head, cut a cross-section through the head, and see a finding as a sphere at the spot in the scene where something goes wrong. Available on the workbench step, in the G-code analyser, on the test piece, and before every start.
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Saw calibration with a test piece
Six short cuts into a test sheet — straight and bevelled, at two positions — and Factory reads off where the saw blade sits relative to the C-axis, what the bevel angle is and how thick the blade is. The corrections are saved against the machine right away, together with the blade used to measure: swap blades later, and the saw correction automatically shifts with the new thickness.
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The bevel follows the sheet's tilt
If a sheet isn't completely flat, Factory used to calculate with the lowest measurement for the whole sheet — leaving a bevel too deep on one side and too shallow on the other. Now Factory fits a plane through the height measurement, or you can enter the tilt by hand, and the bevel follows that tilt in height, cut by cut.
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Test bench: try a program without a sheet
Load a program onto the test bench and adjust the constants — a head offset, the bevel height — to see straight away in the cross-section what it does to the cut. Exactly what an operator would try at the machine, but without every attempt costing a sheet.
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Free-form shapes from a DXF, and the check back out as DXF
An L-shaped cut-out, an oval sink basin, or a curve from a spline: Factory mills every closed shape from the drawing, with arcs accurate to a hundredth of a millimetre and neatly rounded inside corners. Export the project again as DXF afterwards and overlay it on the original drawing: you see exactly where the machine is going to cut, before it does.
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Workbench for tile production: one program for the night
When you create a workbench, you choose the type of work. For tile production that's three steps: measuring height, a test cut in the margin, and bevelling and cutting loose as a single program. No steps you skip anyway, so you start one program and let the machine run overnight.
