| This example explains how to create slipsheets, which are thin slabs used as pallet substitutes usually made from corrugate fibreboard. The first step is to run Quick Pallet Maker and open the Standard Cases and Pallets window from the Window menu. Once that has been done, you will need to click on the second tab of the window to see the pallet table to the left. |
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| The next step is to select one of the pallets (use one with the same units as the slipsheet you will create) and then use the "Duplicate" command from the Edit menu to create a new identical pallet. |
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| The first modification that is made to the pallet refers to the dimensions and name. In this case, we double-click on the cell with the pallet name and the pallet height and edit both. Once that has been done, we can change the color of the pallet by clicking on its drawing with the right mouse button (ctrl+click on Mac OSX) and then open the color selector. |
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| The pallet with the new color should look like the one in the screenshot to the right. |
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| The next step is to close Quick Pallet Maker and look for the folder that contains the QPM preferences. This folder is called "QPM Folder" and should be located in the Application Data folder (Windows XP) or in the library:Application Support folder (Mac OSX). A small Windows application for locating this folder can be downloaded from the following link. |
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| We locate a XML file called "pallettypes.xml" and open it with a text editor, which could be MS Wordpad (Windows) or TextEdit (Mac OSX), both free applications. Once we open the file, we scroll down to the information for the last pallet we created. The set of tags is separated from the others by the "pallet" tags. We can tell that the data corresponds to the slipsheet because the "name" tag contains the "slipsheet" name that we assigned previously. |
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| In this XML file, we will look for a tag called "dwgType" within the tags for the pallet we just created. We will change the value that is stored between the ">" and "<" characters to "1" (one). This is for rendering this pallet always as a sheet, instead of as a 4-way pallet. |
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| When we run Quick Pallet Maker again, we will see the list of pallets. |
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| And from this list, we will be able to select the pallet we created. As we select it, we will note that the detailed drawing checkbox has been deselected. If we move to another pallet type, it will be selected again. |
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| To try our new pallet, we open a new document window, starting from primary package dimensions and select "Slipsheet" from the pallet types. |
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| After selecting "Recalculate" from the Tools menu, we will be able to see the slipsheet drawing. |
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| This drawing is visible in the front view. |
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| And in the side view. |
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