Software for furniture construction DESIGN SINTEZ 

 Calc Base The additional module to Design Sintez for materials calculation. Accounting a price offer with the maximal accuracy. Create a material specification for each unit (furniture) and for the whole job.

The module uses 2 basic kinds of units  for price offer calculating: units with entered fixed prices and units with generated element nomenclature.

1. Units with fixed price - these are non-standard units created by the module New Base. They participate in the price offer with the entered price in the Units register (they have a unit of measure "pieces"). The units saved in Archival units register do not participate in price calculating.
2. Units with created element nomenclature. It contains 2 subgroups:
• Units with added element nomenclature -These are non-standard units created by module New Base, but they have a unit of measure "package" and element nomenclature, entered by the operator (modules Nomenclature elements and  Nomenclature units). All elements change their consumption norm for each change of the units sizes , in which they participate, depending on the unit measure and their position in it. To use these units for price offer generating, you have to place them in the Unit register.
• Generated polyelement units - They are units generated by modules Cabinet, Base cabinets, Sink cabinets,  Corner cabinets, Angular stands, Worktop, Additional elements. These modules automatically create element nomenclature of the generated units (when the option Create an element nomenclature is enabled).

     To generate the price offer, you should have entered materials for connecting with elements of the units in the drawing (Nomenclature Materials). The calculated total quantity of elements in the current job connects to materials for end price formation.

Nomenclatures for price formation: materials, elements, units

The creation and definition of nomenclatures is obligatory operation at work with units with a unit measure "package". The first step is entering of Nomenclature Elements and after that the Nomenclature of units. The Nomenclature Materials can be edited on each stage of work. This sequence of creation of nomenclatures is not obligatory. You can update them gradually. You will save time and work, if you use an already created nomenclatures of elements for creation of units.   The volume of nomenclatures is: Nomenclature elements  - 5000 rows, Nomenclature units -1000, Nomenclature units - elements (this is a productive form from connecting of elements to units) - 10000 records (rows). You can get an information about the  status of nomenclatures in the module Test of units - > operation Capacity of nomenclatures. Here you can clear the nomenclature Units - Elements, too.

Nomenclature elements

The set of elements creates a construction of the units. The nomenclature of elements creates  and can be used repeatedly for different units. The elements are real parts of unit, they have no entered sizes.  Their characteristics depend on the unit parameters . To create a new element in nomenclature , press the button New,select the created new empty  row and enter its parameters into the fields under the list. The element name can be any text. The sections Position and Deviation concern to the element and the probable unit, in which it will participate in top view.

Units nomenclature

The Units nomenclature is derivative of  the Units register and is intended to configure the price offer formation, the quantity of materials and their automatic cutting (nesting).   The units are created in the Units register with a unit of measure "package" and are configured as a package of elements in the Units nomenclature.  To add a new unit for creation of its element nomenclature, use the same button (New unit). Press the button Units register, which  become active and choose unit, necessary for you, from the list. Then press the button  Choice. Add elements, necessary for you, to the created new nomenclature consistently (button Adds elements) from the Nomenclature elements (opened only for a choice) in the view, in which they are created. Each unit can get unlimited number of elements. The connected elements to the unit are saved in it  and their correction or deleting from the Nomenclature Elements is not reflected in the nameconfiguration of unit. For similar or identical configurations of elements in units with various s (difference in the sizes for example), you can copy a set of elements of an already configured unit (Copies elements) and then only to create their copy as a configuration (Moves elements) to other units. The deleting of units from the nomenclature is not reflect on the Units register.

   Use the button Print to print out the nomenclature configuration of elements for selected  units in Excel or OpenOffice Calc.It opens  new empty list with  the chosen unit for printing its element structure (after selection of unit in the list with the nomenclature of units). At a wrong choice of unit you have to select it in the list for printing and press the right button on it to erase it. The list with units for printing deletes automatically after  start printing (button Print).

Nomenclature materials

 Here (Nomenclature Materials) are described real materials, from which there will be produced elements or they are elements participating in units. The materials connect to elements only at the price offer formation.At addition of a new material (the button New) it is necessary to be entered a Name of  material, Sale price, Measure and the defined from the measure sizes of the material.  If  the measure is  "l.m"., then enter the size on X, for "sq.m". - on X and on Y.  The view for sizes entering  is toward view top. The sale price for materials in measure l.m.and sq.m can be entered for entire package (slab, roll) and the program will calculate the price for a unit of material, based of its dimensions automatically. For pricing and cutting takes the price per unit of material (field Sale price), not Selling price for 1 package.

  There isn't constraint on the length of the materials names, but it is advisable to enter a short name (up to 15 characters). Otherwise, if you use a export  to software application Optimik, the name of the exported material will be cut. This in turn will lead to confusion due to mismatch of the materials' names.

If you want to differ the edgeband as thick on a cutting map check an option Thick edge for this material. To the name of the edgeband automatically adds the word thick. If you check the option Thick edge 2, then to the name of the edgeband the word "thick 2" will be added, and in a cutting map it will be designated by other designation (different from this for a thick edgeband).  These two options allow to distinguish three different edgeband thicknesses on the cutting map. In a consequence at connecting of these materials with elements (Price offer - > List of elements) and opening of module Cutting of materials,  the options Thick and Thick 2 will be reflected automatically in the list of adjoining to elements edgebands in a window Choice of edgeband (opens by the button Edgebands) .

The buttons Line downwards and Line upwards change the sequence of the list (rearrange). Select a material and press one of these buttons depending on the chosen  moving direction.  The change of materials sequence of in the main list reflects on the materials sequence on groups, too.

Classification of materials by groups - Create a group or choose such from the list Groups with materials. Select material and press the button Register material in group.

For long lists of materials you can use the operation Search for material. Enter the name of the material in the text field. The searching makes at the beginning of a word.

The button Verification makes a logic test of the entered sizes and the chosen measure. Their entered prices must answer to the respective unit of measure (piece - individual price, sq.m. - price of square meter, l.m.. - price of linear meter). You can add and change the nomenclature of materials each time you need.

Setion  Equalizing of calculated expense to the material dimensions

Here defines what will be the waste of material, ie. how much will be increased the calculated material quantity for a product and report Calculation on units/ Total.

Waste % - The field specifies the percentage that will increase the calculated quantity of material and the value will be entered as a waste to it. The sum of the two values defines the total quantity required to manufacture the article. When there is a entered value into the field, the other options are inactive and vice versa - if you choose one of two options, the value into the field nullifies.

To the half - If this option is checked, when calculating the total amount of material it will be equated to half the size of sheet materials (melamine faced chipboard, hardboard, etc.) or half length for materials with unit of measure measure "lm". If the calculated amount is more than half of the sheet / roller or rod, the quantity will be equated to the whole area / length of the specified material.

To whole- If this option is checked, when calculating the total quantity of material it will be equated to the entire surface of sheet materials (melamine faced chipboard, hardboard, etc.) or to the entire length of the material with a measure "lm" - edgebands, profiles, etc.
If into the field has entered Waste% value, the options "To the half" and "To whole" are disabled.

Double click with left mouse button on the options To the half or To whole turns off them.

For example: In the nomenclature was material edgeband with unit of measure lm and roll length 50m. For an article is calculated quantity of edgebands 23 lm.

• If have been entered  Waste% = 10% for this material in the report "Calculation on units/ Total" the result is: Quantity = 23 meters. ; Waste = 2.3 m and total = 25.3 m.
• If for the same material is active options To the half - Quantity = 23 meters.; Waste = 2m.  and Total = 25 meters. 
• For selected option To whole - Quantity = 23 meters., Waste = 27 m and Total = 50m.
  

Price offer formation

The module calculates automatically price of the job based on the participating in it units (based on the entered prices of the units or materials for their manufacture). In the process of price offer generating participate all units with generated element nomenclature (when their element nomenclature is connected to materials) and the units which have an entered price in the Units  register.

The price offer can include 2 kinds of units:

• Existing in the drawing units
• Additional units, not existing in the drawing.

Existing in the drawing units

These are generated units with created element nomenclatures to them and non-standard units (desks, tables and etc.), inserted in the drawing by module Insert units. They are specified  with "from a job" in the list.

Colunm number with price from Units register- This value defines what price from Units register to be taken in price generating  for the selected unit. If the list contains several identical units, they receive a common number of column, ie there can be not several units with the same name and different prices.

Added to the price offer - Additional

They don't exist in the drawing. They are added for the price offer generating only and participate in it and in material calculating. They are specified as "additional" in the list. The way of their addition is: Press the button Add. Opens a dialog describing the content of Units register. Select a unit from the list and press Select. Enter a column number (from 1 to 4) from Units register to define the price of the unit.

To delete such a unit from the list, select it and press Delete.

The button Offer opens  specification to the already created price offer in Excel or OpenOffice (if certainly you have connected the generated element nomenclature with materials and have defined the prices of units with fixed prices).

The option On units  adds a detailed list for the expense on elements for each unit to the printed specification. It is active by default.

The elements of units with unit of measure "package" which participate in the price offer, must be connected with materials. Press the button Elements list. Loads a form for connecting  - Register of participating in the drawing elements.

The section Elements includes the specification of the calculated expense for each of the participating elements in used in the drawing units.  Their quantities are  calculated on the basis of their relations with units and depending on their measure.  The list with the materials can be filtered according to the measure and with the buttons in the upper end of the dialog - sq.m,l.m and piece. Select an element from the list (with double clicking the left mouse button). In the right list are loaded the materials with the unit of measure responding to the measure of the selected element for connecting. Choose a material and press the button between them (Choice of  material). You can choose a material from group or from the complete list with materials. In the long lists with materials it is possible to sort the list on a Material name; Length or Width of the materials or to use Search for material... field. When there is a found concurrence the cursor will be set on a respective line.Specify and connect consistently elements appropriate to the selected material or other material in the list.  If there is an element associated with the material that must be assigned to another element (or elements), select the associated row and right-click on it. In the upper left corner of the window is displayed the name of the copied material. To connect it with other items, select them with left mouse button and then right click on the marked rows. The prices of units from Units register are loaded automatically from the specified column in the Units register. You, certainly, can connect them with a material, if the structure of unit allows this.

  There is a small window with the description of the materials, connected with elements in the job ( in the right bottom corner of the form). It is intended for group selection of elements, connected with a concrete material and their reconnecting with other material. Select a material from the list. In the left field are specified all elements connected to it . Choose other material from the nomenclature and connect the elements to it.

- This button opens the module Nomenclatures for price formation. You can open Nomenclature materials and create a new material for connecting with elements without leaving the current operation (Price offer formation). Enter a new material and save the made changes in the nomenclature. The made changes become seen in the working list after an exit from the module Nomenclatures for price formation.

ATTENTION! For units in the drawing, which have only one element and unit of measure, different from "package" and  have got entered prices in the Units register on columns, the price from the Units register is accepted with priority  (according to chosen columns: 1-4 ), regardless of the fact that you connect an element to a material. To connect an element with a material, the prices on a column in the Units register must be 0. For example: if for the identifier of the generated  worktop "TK" has an entered price in the column 1 ("Price 1") at operation  Price offer formation (even if connect the element with a material from the nomenclature), in a consequence the program will cancel the connecting and will restore the price from the Units Register.

Press the button Offer to print out the specification. The specification creates in a file "C:\Proekti.xls"  or "C:\Proekti.ods" , in format  Microsoft Excel  or OpenOffice Calc. This file is created on your disk at installation of  Design Sintez (The choice of program makes in the form System parameters.).

 The specification can be detailed (separately for each unit) or generalized. The option On units prints а detailed specification.  Irrespective of the chosen kind of the specification  always under the list with the participating units you can see the total calculation by elements and materials, connected to them. 

After the end of processing Excel (or OpenOffice) it will ask you  whether  you want to save the made changes. Press Cancel and you can edit the made specification. If you choose No, the table closes without saving. If you choose Yes, it closes and saves as page in a file Proekti. Subsequently you can open this file again and to make changes in the chosen page.  Closing it, Design Sintez automatically returns you in the current working drawing. 

The generated and saved price offers remain as pages in Proekti.xls (or Proekti.ods).  Excel and OpenOffice support up to 256 pages in one file. Therefore it is necessary  to look through and to delete the unnecessary pages periodically.  The address and the name of a file Proekti.xls (or  Proekti.ods) must be not changed, as well as name of page Prices.

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