
  Dear User,
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    Welcome to "Cutting Wizard 3.0" Evaluation.

    You have found a very special, unique, rare program.

    To be exact, this is the only program available of this type.

    Please read on, for more information. Thank you.

                                          M. Nimal Gunarathne  B.Sc.(Eng.)


  A brief description
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  Construction materials like Aluminium, steel and timber etc are typically
  available only in standard lengths.   This requires the customer  to  buy
  standard  lengths and cut them into smaller pieces in accordance with the
  needs.   The customer  has  to  find  the  optimum cutting schedule which
  results in minimum waste of money and material.

  Generally,  several standard length sizes are available for a given  type
  (cross  section),   which  are  priced  approximately  according to their
  lengths.   This requires the customer  to find an optimum buying schedule
  as well.

  Due to the above difficulties, instances of optimum buying and cutting of
  standard lengths are rare.   In general the average wastage of money  and
  material involved in bar cutting lies within the range of 5 - 15 %.

  Deciding  the  optimum  buying and cutting schedule is a complex process.
  Only a computer  program  like  this,   can  successfully  bring down the
  wastage to a figure less than 1%.

  The "Cutting Wizard" learns the details of available standard lengths and
  required cut lengths from the user,  and provides the optimum buying  and
  cutting schedule to minimize the waste.

  Customer  is benefited in many ways:  by reducing waste,  making accurate
  estimates quickly, which makes his bids competitive.

  Material suppliers can assist their  customers  by offering them the best
  buying and cutting schedules.


  Users  will experience DRASTIC REDUCTIONS in Cost and Material Waste.
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  An average user will RECOVER THE COST OF THE PROGRAM in less than
  TEN INSTANCES OF USE.  A heavy user might do so at the first use.
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  The following software environment is required to run this program.
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  (1)  Windows 95 ( 97 or 98 ) with "Notepad.exe" installed.

  (2)  Visual Basic 6.00 Installed or
       Visual Basic 6.00 Runtime Libraries Installed in your computer.

       ( VB6 runtime libraries are available at following sites.    )

       ( http://www.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/win95/dll/simvb6-3.zip )

       ( ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/win95/dll/simvb6-3.zip  )


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  If you face any  difficulty  in  setting  up  the  necessary  software
  environment, or running the "Cutting Wizard", please send me an E-mail.

          E-mail                      --->   nimalgm@sltnet.lk

  I will send you the installable version of "Cutting Wizard" evaluation,
  ( Which includes runtime libraries ) by E-mail as an attached ZIP file.

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  Printing the document file for more Information
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  Please read the "CW30-404.TXT" file for a detailed information about  the
  "Cutting Wizard" program.

  You can easily load the "CW30-404.TXT" file ( and this "readme.txt" file)
  into MS Word. Please have the settings given below.


               Paper Size     ==>  A4
               Font           ==>  Courier New
               Font size      ==>  10

               Top    margin  ==>  1.0"
               Bottom margin  ==>  1.0"

               Left   margin  ==>  0.8"
               Right  margin  ==>  0.8"


  You will see, that the  document  is  properly paged.  You will also find
  that a detailed discussion on an  important  topic  is  included  in  the
  document.    It  is  worth  printing ( 22 Pages only ).  Please print the
  file and read it conveniently.

  Use the "sample*.pro" files to test the program.






  Guidelines for installation
  ---------------------------

  If you are using VB6 Run time libraries obtained from the above mentioned
  network site,  please carefully  read  the  information given in the file
  named "readme.txt".   You may  have  to  run  the  "setup.exe"  twice  as
  instructed.

  After the above installation,  unzip the "CW30-404.ZIP" to any directory.
  Then  run  the "setup.exe" to proceed.   The program will be installed to
  the "C:\Program Files\Cw30e" directory by default.

  Select " Start | Programs | Cutting Wizard 3.0 Evaluation Copy " to run.

  ( An icon file named "Cw3.ico" is available in the above directory for  )
  ( those who wish to create a shortcut and assign an icon in the desktop.)


  Status of the program
  ---------------------

  I am distributing "CW30-404.ZIP" as a Shareware.

  The evaluation period should not be more than 30 days.


  Distribution Policy
  -------------------

  Please distribute the file "CW30-404.ZIP" free to all others.  Permission
  is given to everybody to  distribute  "CW30-404.ZIP"  on disk,  BBs or CD
  provided that it is distributed in it's original form.


  Author
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  I am a Mechanical Engineer by profession.   Currently I am working  as  a
  computer  Systems  analyst  cum  Programmer.    Please  contact me if you
  require further details about the program.


     Postal address                 --->  M.  Nimal  Gunarathne
                                          23,  First Lane,
                                          Station  Road,
                                          Homagama,
                                          10200,
                                          Sri Lanka.


     E-mail                         --->  nimalgm@sltnet.lk

