Koona Software - Quick Pallet Maker

A customer requested the ability to change the board density of the cartons that are built with Quick Pallet Maker. The default values had been 0.000569 pounds/inch² for when using Imperial units and 0.4 kg/m² for metric units. Now these values can be edited directly in the Preferences file, using a text editor. For this, we recommend MS WordPad for Windows and TextEditor for Mac OSX, both applications included with the operating system. The first step is to calculate pallets using the default data and starting from primary package dimensions. When we look at the results, we will see the box weight as a function of its contents and of the board density (see left column in the screenshot at right). In this case, the weight is 13.69 pounds.
The next step is to quit Quick Pallet Maker and locate the Preferences folder, which is called "QPM Folder". For Windows XP, it should be located in the Application Data folder, which is in the folder with your user name in the "Documents and Settings" folder. If you cannot locate the "QPM Folder", please download the following small app. For Mac OSX, this folder is located in the Application ~Library/Application Support folder. Select a file called "general.xml" from this folder and open it using the recommended text editors or the one of your choice.
In this example, we have used MS WordPad. As in the screenshot to the right, you will notice that there are two lines that define the carton density.
Since we are working with English units, we will change the default value from 0.000569 to 0.0008 between the tags or brackets. Please note that editing the tags themselves may result in the corruption of the Preferences file and the application may start behaving erratically (i.e. crashing). Once this has been done, we save the file (as text) and close it.
When we run Quick Pallet Maker and calculate again, we will notice that the box weight has been updated to reflect this change. In our example, it increased from 13.69 pounds to 13.88.