Glass
Panels with their holes, notches and cut-outs, checked against the toughening rules before they are cut.
Glazing and mirrors: panels with their edge work, holes, notches and corners, for cutting tables and water-jets.
What you can design
4 parametric designs come in the library's Glass folder (File › Run Parametric…): open one, type your sizes and the drawing follows. Open any of them in the viewer to try it.
The trade's tools
For a drawing whose industry is Glass, the toolbar and Edit › Tool offer these tools beside the general drawing, editing and dimensioning tools. Each is parametric: change a size, or move a point it was drawn on, and what it made follows.
Hole Pattern
Holes on a bolt circle (PCD), in a row or in a grid, measured from an edge.
On the toolbar's Holes button
Lead-in and lead-out
A lead-in and lead-out in the waste, where a closed cut starts and ends.
Room Outline
A room from its wall lengths and turns.
Edge allowance
A glass or stone panel's cutting size, oversize for the edge work.
On the toolbar's Allowance button
Fitting notch
A hinge or clamp notch in an edge, its inner corners rounded.
On the toolbar's Notch button
Corners
A panel's corners rounded, clipped (dubbed) or notched.
Cut-out
A sink, hob or socket cut-out, or a tap hole, set back from an edge.
Water-jet inlay
An inlay's piece and its opening, with a fit clearance.
Exports
File › Export › Export… lists these formats first for a Glass drawing:
And the formats every trade uses:
Machine profiles
File › Send Using Machine Profile sends the drawing to a machine in one click, with the format, options, layer names and pens it needs. These come with the app:
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Emulator: CNC (G-code)
G-code
ParametrIQ machine emulator
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Emulator: plotter / cutter (HP-GL/2)
HP-GL
ParametrIQ machine emulator
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Glass cutting table (DXF shapes)
DXF and DWG
Glass tables that import DXF shapes (Bottero, Intermac Genio, Bystronic glass, Hegla, Lisec, Grenzebach)
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Waterjet (DXF, cut and etch)
DXF and DWG
Waterjets through OMAX Intelli-MAX, Flow FlowXpert / FlowCut, KMT or the machine's CAM
Reports
File › Reports… works these out from the drawing, to save as a web page or as CSV:
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Glass order list
Each pane (a closed outline on a cut layer) as a glass processor orders it.
Design rules
File › Check Design, and every machine export, checks a Glass drawing against these rules:
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Notches too big in glass
A notch in the panel's outline (at an edge, or a corner cut away) more than a third of the panel's width across or a third of its height deep.
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Cut-outs too near glass and stone edges
A cut-out (a closed shape inside the panel that isn't a hole) with less glass between it and the panel's edges than half its width to its left and right, or half its height above and below it. In Stone and tile: a cut-out with less than 50 mm (2 in) of stone round it.
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Holes too near glass and stone edges
A hole (a round hole, or a slot: two half circles joined by straight sides, as one polyline or as lines and arcs) whose edge comes nearer an edge (its panel's, or a notch's or cut-out's) or another hole's edge than twice the panel's thickness (the drawing's T, or 6 mm, 0.25 in), or nearer a corner (the panel's, or a notch's or cut-out's inner one) than six times the thickness, or a hole smaller across (a slot: its width) than the panel is thick. A rounded corner is measured from where its sides would meet. Fix it moves a hole too near an edge straight away from it.
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Sharp inner corners in glass and stone
An inner corner (a notch's, a cut-out's, or the panel's own, as in an L shape) that is sharp, or rounded tighter than the panel allows: in glass, its thickness and at least 10 mm (0.375 in); in stone, 10 mm (0.375 in). Arcs and a polyline's bulges count as rounded corners.
Read more
The help's page for the trade describes each tool, design, report and export in full.
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