In article , "Leon" wrote:

"Doug Miller" wrote in message
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In article , "Leon"
wrote:
For those of you that have Cut List Plus the latest version, 2005 is now
available. I can say that this version is terrific. I have had the
Silver
Edition for some time now and the 2005 version appears to a great
improvement.

Can you give a quickie rundown of the enhancements?

As usual the web site provides nice screen shots of the program.
www.cutlistplus.com

Yeah, I think it is much nicer looking with more icons to do more tasks.
IMHO the optimization is now more flexible and efficient. I have the full
blown version of Sheet Layout and up until this point felt that Sheet Layout
was a bit more effective in cutting layouts. With CLP you now can as always
optimize for minimal saw set ups and cut OR minimize off cut sizes. In
addition now you can also click the Style button that will give you 5 ways
to cut each piece of wood individually. The style that you choose for 1
board does not necessarily make you use that style for all boards. You can
choose 1 of 5 style cuts for each board or panel, The styles that you can
use are 1. Where you prefer to make mostly rips, 2. Where you prefer to
prefer to make mostly cross cuts, 3. Maximize side cut off left overs, 4.
Maximize bottom cut off left overs, and 5. the standard out put.
For the Gold version of the program you can create customer pricing sheets
that spell out materials labor costs. This may or may not be good thing
depending on how you like to present a quote to a customer. This version
also gives you the ability to tax different items or labor plus lets you
make mark ups to many costs of the project.
In the Raw Materials section there are now Vendor and Bin columns.
For the Parts screen there is now a Group Edit icon that lets you selected
more than 1 part and change most any aspect of all at one time.
For print outs you can now select landscape or portrait individually for
each type of print out.
And finally from the web site a list of changes on the 2005 version
a.. New featu Price estimating tool.
b.. New featu Customer proposal generator.
c.. New featu Labor cost tracking.
d.. New featu Stock trim (around the outside edge of a sheet of
plywood).
e.. New raw materials column: "Bin" allows you to keep track of where each
size stock is located. Or, use it to track vendor part numbers.
f.. New column in all grids: "Notes" allows you to enter any text you
wish.
g.. New featu keep track of which vendor supplies you with each item in
your raw materials list.
h.. New raw materials columns: "Markup" and tax information columns. Used
by the pricing and proposal tools.
i.. Updated interface is even easier to use.
j.. Improved Printing and Print Preview. Now, specify the page orientation
for each section of the printout.
k.. Plus, many minor enhancements.
May I warn you again that if you install the limited demo/reader version
that it will replace you current version. I use GoBack and was able to
restore my previous version easily.

Very cool. Thanks, Leon.

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Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

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