By entering a few parameters, CuteCad helps you generates the most common gasket shape geometries like flanges and heat exchangers.
Rectangular Flange Gasket
Bolt rectangle width: the width of the bolt hole rectangle.
Bolt rectangle height: the height of the bolt hole rectangle.
Bolt holes diameter: the diameter of the bolt hole rectangle.Width: the width of the gasket.
Height: the height of the gasket.
Inner hole width: the width of the inner hole.
Ineer hole height: the height of the inner hole.
Inner fillet radius: the radius of the inner fillet.
Outer fillet radius: the radius of the outer fillet.
Circular Flange Gasket
Outer diameter: the outer diameter of the gasket.
Inner diameter: the inner diameter of the gasket.
Holes diameter: the diameter of the bolt holes.
Number of holes: the number of bolt holes.
Bolt diameter offset: by default, the bolt holes are centred in the middle between the outer and the inner diameters. Change this value to move the holes towards the outer contour (positive values) or the inner contour (negative values).
Bolt center diameter: the diameters of the bolt holes center.
Angle offset: by default the first bolt hole is placed at 0°, change this value to rotate it counterclockwise.
3-way Heat Exchanger Gasket
Vertical rib thickness: the thickness of the rib between the two upper holes.Outer diameter: the flange outer diameter.
Inner Diameter: the flange inner diameter.
Holes diameter: the diameter of the bolt holes.
Number of holes: the number of the bolt holes.
Bolt diameter offset: the diameter of the bolt hole centers from the bolt circle diameter.
Bolt center diameter: the bolt center diameter.
Angle offset: the angular offset of the bolt holes centers from 0°, in degrees.
With CuteCad you can create many complex boxes just by entering their construction parameters.
Code: the FEFCO/ESBO code.
Length: the internal length of the box.
Breadth: the internal breadth of the box.
Height: the internal height of the box.
Material depth: the depth of the material.
Joint width: the joint of the width.
Bolt center diameter: the bolt center diameter.
Overlap: the overlap of the flaps
Circular & Square Lampshades
With Lampshade Creator, making a lampshade has become an easy task.
Select the shade type, cone or pyramid.
For
cones, enter the upper and lower diameters, the flap width and the slope length.
Check the 3D wireframe appearance of the shade…
…and your lampshade is developed in 2D, ready to be cut, with outer contour and inner creases defined.
For square pyramids, enter the upper and lower side, the slope length, the flap width…
… and the 2D shape is there, ready for cutting.
Simplify the management your furniture or car-seat parts in leather or fabric, by creating a complete model and all its variants in a single CuteCad file.
CuteCad – Sofa provides a complete toolset to scale, extend, shrink, offset, break or merge the shapes of your model and a special tool to group them into all the subsets you need, creating variants according to sizes (seats) and material combinations.
In order to have ready-to-cut shapes, CuteCad Sofa lets you add quality areas to your parts in leather and assign grainlines to the parts in fabric.
Parametric notches can also be applied to shapes at any time with 4 different patterns: U, V, C and I.
The new CuteNest plug-in allows you to automatically calculate the best placements of the shapes defined in CuteCad.
Choose the type of material (roll or sheet) and enter the values of material size, number of layers, minimum distance from the material edge and from other shapes.
Set the required quantities of the shapes and run the nesting. It’s all done!
At the end of the nesting calculation, the results can be copied into the current document and exported into one of the many available output formats.
Take a look at this video to see how CuteNest works.
Dealing with soles or other graded shapes?
Need to calculate sizes?
The GradingBuilder plugin provides the functions to quickly define the grading parameters and apply them to your shapes.
Select the shape that you want to grade…
Identify the direction of grading (the red line)
Define the base size, the smallest and the largest sizes of the range that you want to create and the type (and size) of symbolic notches
For each size define the increments in X (length) and Y (width) and the symbols to be applied.
Increments can be uniformly defined or changed size by size, according to your own rules.
Apply the rules and get the grades shapes overlapped for a final check
And finally spread them on the working area
Shapes are named according to their size
And symbolic notches are applied to each graded shape
Design the canopy according to its real sizes with the ordinary tools of CuteCad and use the
Canopy Helper plugin to make your canopy nicer and ready for production.
Need to apply
fringes to the edges of your canopy?
Choose one of the fringes shown below, set the parameters and get the fringe applied to the edges with a perfect distribution of distances between the flaps.
Need to divide your large canopy into slices, ready to be cut?
Canopy Helper, given the height of your roll, provides an automatic tool that slices your canopy, adds an overlap to each side of the resulting parts, assigns to it a sequence number and places reference marks for the sewing. Then it calculates the placement of all the parts on the roll, so that you can directly output the design to your cutting machine.
Coming soon…
