What is Strumis Integration?
Primecut can integrate with Strumis. In doing so Strumis takes over the role of inventory management and workorder control. From Strumis, items to be cut are selected, along with a set of inventory plates for Primecut to nest onto. Primecut then creates "Strumis job" workorders, and loads the items to be nested and the Strumis plates in nesting mode, and does autonesting. The user can manipulate the nests and after scheduling them exits back to Strumis. Strumis reads the result of the nesting from primecut: Parts nested,nest DXFs, and offcuts (only 1 offcut per nest at this time). Primecut can still be used for Touchcut machine integration and scheduling. When the machine cuts the parts, Primecut can be notified by Reconciliation at the machine, and can in turn inform Strumis via "Workstation feedback" that the parts are ready.
Kinetic maintains a detailed document describing how to configure and use Strumis, available here .
Where does Primecut get its Plate Gap from for Strumis Plates?
Strumis sends through plate geometry, grade and thicknes; we then call our function:
//Get the plate gap from plate templates
gap := GetPlateGapFromTemplates(plateImportItem);
This looks in your Primecut templates for all templates with a matching grade and thickness. It reads the gap from one with a matching length and width if available, if not from the first grade and thickness match, and if no templates of the same grade and thickness we revert to the default gap size of 10mm. So to control your nesting gap sizes, ensure you have templates for each grade and thickness that Strumis is going to require.