Basic Steps

Every user can have their own user account when operating the saw. This makes it possible to provide different levels of system access to personnel and enables the plant manager to review productivity levels of staff. For more details, see User Management.

Note: A user must be logged in to start cutting. The name of the currently logged in user is displayed in the message bar located at the bottom centre of the main window and highlighted in red below.

To log into Simple, do the following:

1. Click on the toolbar.

2. The following window pops up:

   Select your user name from the drop-down list. Note: For more details on how to edit the user list, see Add/Edit a user and Remove a user.

3. Enter your password.

   Notes:The Password field is greyed out if the access level of the selected user is below the password level set in the User Management window.The password of any user can be changed by anyone with a supervisor or engineer access level in the Edit User window.Once logged-in, each user can change their own password in the Change Password window.

4. Click .

To log out of Simple, do one of the following:

• Click on the toolbar.
• Select Logout from the File drop-down menu.
• Click on the toolbar to let another user log in.

The following file types can be loaded into Simple to run cutting sequences:

• Simple files (*.smp)
• Simple files version 2 (*.smp2)
• MiTek files (*.mme)
• TrusSource files (*.dat, *.*)
• Omni files (*.omn)
• Alpine files (*.trs)
• Max Customer Cutter files (*.ems)
• Blade XML files (*.xml)
• IMP files (*.imp)

To open a file, do the following:

1. Click on the toolbar, or select Open... from the File drop-down menu.

2. The following window pops up:

   Browse for the file you wish to open.

3. Select the file and click , or just double-click it.

To close a file, close the corresponding file tab or select Close from the File drop-down menu.

Any unsaved changes are lost.

Several job files can be open at the same time and managed in the same window. Each job file is opened in a new job tab to the right of any existing tab(s). The job tabs are located under the toolbar and look like this:

You can switch to any open job by clicking on its tab. Job tabs can be dragged around to change the order or dragged out into a separate pane to display two files side by side.

Notes:When the saw is not running, all jobs can be reordered to any order required. When the saw is running, only jobs to the right of the current running job can be reordered as they have not been run yet.If a Packfeeder 2 is running, only jobs to the right of the next pending job can be reordered as the picklist has already been sent for the current job and the next one.When a cutting sequence is running, the current job tab is displayed with a green background. If automatic Job Sequencing is enabled, the next job tab will be displayed with a yellow background.You can also switch to any open file by selecting the file you wish to view from the Window drop-down menu.

To merge several files into one single file, do the following:

1. Open one of the files you wish to merge (for more details, see Open and close a file).
2. Select Merge from the File drop-down menu.

3. The following window pops up:

   Browse for the other file(s) you wish to merge.

   Note: if there are more than one additional file to merge located in the same folder, you can select several files by pressing and holding down either the  ⇧  key for consecutive files or the Control key for non-consecutive files.

4. Select the file(s) and click .

   The members contained in the selected file(s) are added to the current member list.

   Note: If Interleave Members is checked, the new members will be interleaved (i.e. alternated) with the existing ones. If unchecked, they will simply be added to the end of the member list.

5. Repeat steps 2 to 4 for files located in different folders, if any.

6. Save the merged file by doing one of the following:

   • To merge the files into the currently open file, click  on the toolbar, or select Save from the File drop-down menu.
   • To merge the files into a new file, select Save As... from the File drop-down menu (for more details, see Save a file).

Note: files can only be saved as Simple files version 2 (*.smp2).

To save the file displayed in the current tab, do the following:

1. Click on the toolbar, or select Save from the File drop-down menu.

   If the file has already been saved, it will be overridden using the settings previously defined in the Save As window.

2. If the file is saved for the first time, the following window pops up:

   Browse for the file destination.

3. In the File Name field, enter a name for the file.

4. Enable one, both or none of the following options:

   • Optimised: The current optimisation order will be preserved and embedded in the file. No automatic optimisation will occur again upon loading the file. However it will still be possible to modify the file or manually run a new optimisation.
   • Locked: The file and the embedded optimisation will be locked. It will never be possible to modify the file or run an optimisation again, except through the Batch Optimise feature.
5. Click .

Note: to save a new copy or change the save settings of a file, select Save As... from the File drop-down menu and proceed as above from step 2.