How to use Velmar Cut

A railing order comes in. 1D cuts bars and tubes to length. Name the job.

Add part starts a row. Type its name, the tube, the length, the height and the quantity.

The rest of the list is in a spreadsheet. Copy it, then Import table ▸ Paste from Excel.

10 rows, 226 pieces, in 4 tube sizes. Velmar Cut knows the columns by their headings.

A row can have mitred ends. The preview shows the stair handrail's 55° and 125°.

Next, what you cut from: Stock & remnants. Add stock takes new rows, or paste them as well.

Six-metre bars with their price, and the remnants left from earlier jobs, which are used first.

In Cutting settings, Saw & material holds the saw's kerf and the shortest piece worth keeping.

Now press Optimize.

0.4 seconds later: all 226 pieces on 48 bars, 93.6 % of the material used, and the cost.

The remnants go first. Bars cut alike are grouped, so the saw operator repeats one pattern.

A list like this can take hours to lay out by hand. Here it can take moments, and the time can go into production.

Click a bar: every piece on it with its length and end angles, and what is left over.

Cut lines and Cut sequence tell the operator where to cut and in what order.

For the workshop: Print / preview ▸ Cutting plan + elements.

The preview shows every page. Save PDF writes the file; Print sends it to a printer.

The cutting schedule: each pattern, how many times to cut it, each piece's length and angles, what remains.

After the plan come the part drawings: one per part, with its dimensions and both end angles.

3D view shows any bar in three dimensions, piece by piece.

Now the plates for the same order. 2D nests parts on sheets.

The office sent DXF and DWG drawings. Import parts from CAD, then pick the files.

Each closed outline becomes a row, with its shape. Type the material and the thickness for all of them.

Set how many of each, then Import selected parts. Unit conversion is done for you.

Plain plates come from a list. Import table ▸ From a file… reads CSV and Excel.

One bracket has no drawing yet. You can draw it here: Add part ▸ Draw new part…

Start from a template, or draw your own outline. Give it a name.

The Profile tool: click point after point, hold A for a tangent arc, and click the first point again to close.

The Circle tool: a click places a hole. Type its diameter on the right.

Slot works the same way. Every element stays editable, in the list on the left.

Dimensions shows every size. A click on one lets you type a new value.

OK puts the part in the job, with its contours. Set the quantity: 20.

No CAD program was needed. For some small workshops, CAD may not even be required: it's all inside.

A drawing can be changed too. This flange's bore has to be Ø100. Select the row, then Edit shape.

Click the bore and type the new diameter.

OK keeps the new shape on this row. The drawing's other holes stay as they were.

The sheets: Add stock ▸ New sheet, with a standard size. Then material, thickness, how many and the price.

In Cutting settings, a laser, plasma or waterjet job takes contour nesting. Straight cuts are for saws.

The level sets how long it searches: Fast up to 1 minute, Balanced 5, Best 10, Maximum 30.

Optimize. The search runs in the background, and the window shows its best plan so far.

You can go on working. Stop and use the best plan keeps what it has at any moment.

All 256 pieces on 3 sheets, found in 5 minutes at this level. The last sheet leaves a large remnant.

Click a sheet to see it alone.

There is the bracket you drew, with its holes and its slot, nested among the other parts.

Click a part and its card shows it with its sizes, and where it lies in the plan.

And the flange you edited comes out with its Ø100 bore. Scroll to zoom in as far as you like.

Details gives each sheet's cutting length and pierces, for quoting.

The same Print / preview prints every sheet with its parts numbered.

The Warehouse is one stock for every job on this computer: bars with where they lie and how many.

Bars, bar remnants, sheets and sheet remnants, each on its own tab.

A new order: a sliding gate, in the same tubes.

Instead of typing stock: Warehouse ▸ From warehouse…

Items that match the job come first. Tick what you may use; the plan takes only what it needs.

Optimize: the remnants go first again, then the new bars.

When the plan is cut, Apply to warehouse books it: what it took, and what it leaves.

Every remnant worth keeping is listed. Name them, untick any you scrap, and Apply.

The warehouse now has fewer bars, and the new remnants are ready for the next job.

Movements records every change: what, when, how many, and for which job.

An order is often both kinds of work. New project… and a name.

The job on screen can be its first job, with everything in it.

Add job adds a new job or an existing file. The plates join the tubes in the sidebar.

A click on the project's name lists its jobs. Customer, units and currency are shared.

Optimize all jobs plans them one after another, while you see each one.

The project is one file, with every job and every plan.

Project report…: the totals, the stock to prepare, then each job's plan, in one PDF.

Apply all to warehouse… books out the whole order in one step, after asking you.

Every reusable remnant of every job is now in the warehouse.

And it stays in Recent jobs, ready to open again.

Export plan: PDF and HTML reports, DXF and DWG for your CAM, SVG, pictures, and quoting data.

Print / preview: the plan, the parts and stock tables, and stickers for the parts.

For 1D, part drawings: dimensions and both end angles of every part.

A detailed report adds each piece's coordinates, when someone wants to check a cut.

And stickers, 24 to a page, one for each piece.

All of this can save hours of planning, use less material, and leave more time for production.

And for some small workshops, CAD may not even be required. Drawing, nesting, plans and the warehouse are all inside.