1Open the Nesting module.
2Click Open Plate button. Select Show Nested. Under the invoice number field enter: Planning Workorder*. * is the truncation symbol, and will show all nested workorders that start with Planning Workorder. Click Refresh.
3Open all the plates in the list.
4Select all the plates in the explorer on the left and Click the Schedule button 
5Tick the Ask For Filenames box, enter file names and click Schedule again. (If the plates have been scheduled before, and no changes have been made, it will remember the names)
If an error appears mentioning that the plates are unable to be scheduled, ensure that the database contains Plasma (Best) Stainless Steel process data. To check this, enter Process Data on the homepage. Under "Machines", select Kinetic Machine, then click Plasma (Best). Under "Materials and Grades" select Stainless Steel. If this is empty, your PrimeCut Tutorials database does not contain the Plasma (Best) Stainless Steel process data. If the data file is available, import it using the import button at the bottom of the window.
6Home.
7Click on the Planning module to open it.
In the screen that opens, you should be able to see the time bars representing plates scheduled to be cut. Drag the bars around to reorder the cutting schedule. For example you can order the plates to be in groups of their plate type:
The order in TouchCut would be as follows:
You can drag the plates between machines.
8Select the GR250(A36) plate with all its processing.
9Drag it to the flame table timebar. The following dialog should open.
10Select Plasma (Best) and Gas Cutting, and click Create Match. Click OK.
11The timeline bars will now look like this.
12Drag the GR250(A36) plate back down to the Kinetic Machine.
13Once again the dialog should open.
14Clear the match and Select Gas Cutting on the left and Plasma (Best) on the right.
15Click Create Match. Select the checkbox to the left of the Ok button. Click OK.
16Within the Detailed Plan tab, select the Kinetic Machine tab and Click the Auto Schedule button 
. This rearranges the schedule by due date. The order should now be as follows:
By selecting the plates you can observe the due date for the first two plates are Christmas Day 2030, and the final two are New Years Day 2031. There are a mixture of workorders on the first two plates, and the soonest one is the due date given to the whole plate.
When the kinetic machine schedule timebar background in the screenshot is blue, it is to show the machine is on (nothing to do with the Auto Schedule button).
TouchCut now displays the updated schedule:
So the machine operator can see the order you want them cut, but can activate any of the scheduled plates.
17In the bottom window, you can see the selected plate, and its details.
18In the top left corner we can see the Unschedule 
button, which removes the plate from the schedule.
19Open Plate in Nesting 
, opens the plate in the nesting module, without unscheduling the plate. This is useful if you want to review the plate in more detail.
20Once the TouchCut operator has activated the plate, the plate becomes locked, and cannot be unscheduled. The timebar now is a blue/green, and has a key symbol. The Unschedule button is now grey.
In the above image the thin bar at the bottom of the activated plate shows how far the plate is through it's cutting processes.
This bar is repeated in the plate summary at the bottom of the screen
If the emergency stop button is pressed then the timebar looks like this.
When a plate is cut and reconciled, it should appear in the list of closed plates, in the right hand window.
The red highlighting on the top plate is to show that it was rejected.
The plate underneath was reconciled.
Clicking on the cut plate, we see its details appear in the bottom window.
By clicking on the Parts tab we can see how many parts were successfully cut
The red highlighting helps to indicate that a part was rejected - the number rejected can be seen
If the Notes tab is yellow, it is because there is a note written with the plate by the operator.
The operator is forced to write a note before he can reject a plate.
Open Global Settings from the start screen. Click on the Planning tab. Note the settings for the length of time allowed for scheduling.
Runtime Slippage is a time allowance per unit runtime.
Plate Changeover Overhead is the time allowance per plate
Min Plate Duration makes each plate take a minimum of time to process.