| This example deals with the inclusion of different bottle shapes into a open tray and then into a pallet load. The first step is to open a new document window and change the package type to "Bottle". |
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| Once this is done, we will see the bottle drawing. We will change the bottle shape and convert it into a jar with a screw-on cap. |
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| To change the shape, first we click on the "cap" button and drag the mouse sideways to change the cap diameter and vertically to change the cap height. Then, we click on the "body" button to change the height of the rest of the bottle. Note that when the cap and the body proportions are increased, the neck proportion is reduced. The movie to the right shows how this is done. |
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| The next step before calculating is to select "2x2x2 Tray" from the Box Construction menu. Note that this example will only work as explained if the rest of the input data is consistent with the default values. |
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| Then, we use the Recalculate command from the Tools menu to see the resulting pallets. To see the trays correctly, we may need to select "External box view" from the View menu. Other tray view options include only primary packages, empty tray and section view. |
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| Once this is done, our results should look like in the screenshot at right. |
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| Since we want to find the optimal box and pallet arrangements, we will need to order the pallets. For this, we select "Power Sort..." from the Tools menu. |
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| A small window will appear in which we introduce the sorting criteria. In our case, we will sort by the amount of primary packages per pallet in a descending order. |
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| Once this has been done, we will see the best pallets in the first rows. We select the third pallet because it uses a box arrangement that doesn't stack the bottles/jars on top of each other. |
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| Once the pallet has been selected, we choose "Detailed Report" from the Window menu. |
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| This opens up a new window from which we can see the pallet, box and primary package information. |
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| If we want a bigger drawing of the pallet, we can click on the "Pallet Views" tab and then use the Toggle Pallet View command from the View menu to go through the different pallet drawings. |
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| If we select "Toggle Pallet View" enough times, we will see the 3D pallet drawing in a large size. |
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| Another possibility for viewing the pallet loading mechanism is to use the Palletizing Movie export feature that is available from the File menu. This process will ask first for the name of the movie file and then for the QuickTime movie compression settings. The "animation" setting produces good movies that take up little disk space. |
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| The resulting movie should look similar to the one at right. |
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