BladeWidth

 

Name

 

            BladeWidth

 

Type

 

            Read/Write

 

When to use it

 

            You can set the value of this property before calling the methods StartGuillotine, StartNested or  StartMultiStages.

            You may get the value of this property anytime.

 

Prototype

 

            property BladeWidth : Long;

 

Explanations

 

            Specify the width of the blade used for cutting the material.

            For some glass cutting operations this parameter could be 0. For wood cutting this parameter should be greater than 0.

            This number must be integer. For working with real numbers read here.

 

If the width of the cutting blade is greater than 0, then the wasted material will always be considered as follows:

            - if the cuts are vertical, the wasted material will be in the right side.

            - if the cuts are horizontal, the wasted material will be just below the cut.

 

The picture below shows such an example. The cuts are depicted with a black line. The wasted material (due to the cutting blade width) is shown in grey.

 

 

 

A bigger picture taken from  Real Cut 2 D program is shown bellow.

We are cutting from a piece of 2000x2000 units.

The size of all small pieces is 300x500.

For explanation purposes only the width of the cutting blade was set to 100.

The blank spaces (at the right of each vertical cut and below of each horizontal cut) are of width 100 and represent the waste generated by the thickness of the cutting blade.

The rectangles filled with the pattern represent the waste which is thrown.

 

 

 

Note

 

In most of the cases the cuttings have a width equal to value of this property, but there are some cases (specially at the margins of the table or when there is only one piece left tu extract) where the thickness is smaller. See picture below:

 

 

Default value

        0

 

See also:

 

            GetCut, Working with real numbers.