Tangent brochure
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Tang en t 6 Tangent 6 is the latest release of Aeronaut’s industry-leading cutter driver and nesting software. Tangent has always been at the cutting edge of machine control software in the industrial, recreational and technical textiles field and now Tangent 6 has many new features which put it further ahead and make this an essential upgrade. Multi-tasking. You can now have your cutter working in the background while you open, configure and nest other jobs. With Tangent’s sheet based cutter control window, you always know what job is cutting and can pause, cancel or change a job at any time with a click of the mouse. Background nesting. Set a job to autonest in the background or queue a whole set of autonesting jobs to run while you are opening, configuring and cutting other jobs. Template based. With templates, you save entire cut configurations so factors like tool assignment, speed, acceleration, overcut or undercut, smoothing etc. are saved and can be re-used on new queues. The next time you need to use a configuration, you just import your patterns into a template and hit the cut button. With Tangent 6, external programs like ParaSol link with Tangent templates so patterns open directly in the right template with the right nesting and cutting configurations pre-set. DXF Imports. Handling very large DXF files in Tangent has been greatly improved. Translation routines have been added for many more esoteric spline types and support for text entities with large quantities of text has been added. Most importantly, you no longer have to make sure your files conform to DXF-AAMA layer naming conventions. All your DXF layers can be mapped to Tangent tool paths and saved as a template. Multiple windows and Open GL graphics. Tangent has always had multiple windows and now with Open GL graphics, they are even more usable. Patterns have transparency so you can clearly see overlaps and previously hidden patterns in a queue. Dragging patterns between windows is faster and more intuitive. 64 bit universal Cocoa application. Tangent 6 is a 64 bit application which has all the user interface controls and features which you expect in modern applications. Unlimited Undos. With multiple undos, you can play around with a nest for ages secure in the knowledge that you can undo the whole lot if you want to. All this with no speed hit.

Tangent ~ The closest thing to actually Cutting from your CAD program. View cut points. With Tangent 6 you can see both your original design paths and the path your cutter will take around a pattern. If there’s smoothing applied or if your design program has output a path as a spline or a polygon, you can see exactly how a path will cut and use Tangent 6’s new tools to change this if required. Change cut direction. With Show cut points selected, you can now click on a corner point of a path to change the direction of a cut. Essential when cutting tight queues in difficult material. Change...