Adding Releases

  • Click “Projecting” from top menu bar
  • Choose and click project
  • Choose and click release
  • Check if listed parts are correct and complete
  • If no, contact Engineering
  • If yes, click “add panels”

Creating Programming Tasks

  • Click “Scheduling” from top menu bar
  • Choose project from dropdown
  • Choose release, department, and worker from dropdown
  • Click “add task”

Programming Cutting Tasks

  1. Locate task by project and release, and click corresponding number in “ID” column
  2. Does this task include multiple release?
    • If no, skip to step 4
    • If yes, go to step 3
  3. Click “0. Combine”
    • Select additional releases
    • Click “Combine” button below releases
  4. Click “1. File operations”
    • Is “DWG” highlighted in green?
      • If yes, skip to step 5
      • If no, select “DWG” box and click “Copy/overwrite files” button
    • Confirm “DWG” is now highlighted in green
  5. Click “2. Spreadsheet”
    • Confirm drawing, quantity, and panel totals at bottom match PanelBuilder totals
    • Optional: Click “2. Spreadsheet” again to collapse it
  6. Click “3. Nesting”
    • Make sure you have completed corresponding work in PanelBuilder
    • Click “Parse PanelBuilder release folder”
    • Check keys and parts of generated drawings
    • Click “add to db” button at bottom