Transmission of programmes to numerical controls • Downloading via serial port• DNC• Workshop network Functions specific to some technologies • Shape libraries developed for boiler making and ventilation ( act/ shapes module in option)• Transformation of letters and drawings into contours to be cut ( act/ sign module in option)• To control drilling and marking heads (zinc powder, centre punch, knife, laser engraving, alphanumeric marking by ink jet or plasma…)• • Management of nesting multiplicity (before and after)• Nesting of parts into recesses (at n levels)• Common-cut or common-shearing nesting (with total taking into account of tool encumbrance)• Recovery of partially-cut metal sheets and off-cuts of any shape• Study of metal sheet formats (with choice of the best formats in batch mode)• Nesting of parts around or under the clamps• Many possibilities of interactive nesting: part copy, nesting of part groups, re-calibration of nesting zone, part blocking/unblocking… • Automatic X and Y part replication Machining sequence and tool trajectory • Automatic definition of lead-ins and optimized tool trajectories, with possibility of interactive modification (entry points, cutting sequence, including NC commands, cutting direction, micro-junctions...)• Choice of the calculation mode for tool trajectories according to the technology used.• Check of the anti-collision between flag sequences of entry points and parts• Continuous cutting (automatic and/or interactive generation of bridges between parts, reducing the number of entry points)• Possibility of flying over (lift the head) or automatically bypassing the contours already cut• Possibility of automatic duplication of a part’s attributes onto its copies (entry-point position and values, cutting direction...)• Cutting of the skeleton (in automatic or interactive mode)• Management of pre-leadins (punch for mixed technologies or pre-cut rectangle for oxyfuel)Case of punching-nibbling:• Automatic definition and chaining of tool trajectories on the metal sheet per work zone (punching, nibbling, slitting) and possibility of interactive modification• Possibility of imposing constraints relative to the use sequence of tools, to calculate an optimised machining sequence• Automatic management of work zones (clamp resumption)• Management of part removal and/or holding (trap industrial doors, suction cups, micro-junctions…)• Automatic avoidance of clamps in rapid crossovers To control the programmable bevels (oxyfuel, plasma, laser)• Specialised functions for the control of NC routing machines (automatic recovery of trimming cutter, management of specific machining…)• To control part removal systems by suction cups and palletisation management with placement optimisation of parts resulting from several nestings • Integrated rectangular nesting to control combined punching-shearing machines• To control the cutting of tubes on 2D machines equipped with a rotating axis (requires the act/ tubes module in option).• Genuine multi-torch nesting for oxyfuel with multi-plate cutting• Taking into account of thermal distortion (oxyfuel, laser) thanks to various functions: cutting of a part in several passes, string cutting, specific cutting sequence to dispatch the heat on the plate…• Automated common cutting of parts two by two for cutting following contours• Automatic management of pre-cuts for common-cut work (laser)• Laser cutting management of plates covered with a plastic film (burning or vaporisation).• Specific management of speeds, accelerations and slowing downs for water-jet cutting • Integrated PPCBASIC runner compiler (advanced post-processor generator) • Programming with or without sub-programmes (parts or contours) • Re-reading of NC files (bidirectional post-processor) under certain conditions• Dynamic simulation of the tool path Post-processors • Printout of customised workshop documents (nesting drawing, information concerning the cut parts, machining operations, machine time, tools used, detailed list of parts with bar code possibility...) Printout