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Technical documentation for Swood software tools, including SwoodReport, SwoodReport3, SwoodEditor, and SwoodMerge. Covers installation, licensing, and advanced configuration for generating reports, managing hardware components, customizing project properties, and creating Biesseworks backups.

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What's inside Swood

  1. Overview of SwoodEditor for SwoodReport management

    SwoodEditor is a tool developed by Solid Solutions used to customize and manage SwoodReport settings. It provides control over the woodworking design workflow by allowing users to:

    • Modify report generation aspects, including adjusting columns and setting sorting orders.
    • Specify the output location for generated reports.
    • Change default Swood settings to increase flexibility in the design environment.

  2. Overview of SwoodReport3 reporting philosophy

    SwoodReport3 is a customizable reporting application designed as a "skeleton application." Unlike previous versions with hardcoded features, it provides building blocks that allow users to define how data is displayed. Key capabilities include:

    • Tree-structured data: Using the TreeBy feature to condense repetitive data into a tree format for better readability.
    • Role-specific views: Creating profiles to display only the pages and tables relevant to specific teams (e.g., a shop floor profile).
    • Metric Visualization: Adding dashboard pages with charts to track stats such as panel counts, programs, and costs.

  3. Overview of Swood Nesting for CNC panel optimization

    Swood Nesting is a tool integrated into SOLIDWORKS that provides automatic panel optimization for CNC manufacturing. It allows users to minimize material waste, manage specific grain directions, and nest multiple projects simultaneously. The tool supports both automatic nesting strategies and manual manipulation of nested components to refine the output.

  4. Overview of SWOOD CAM capabilities

    SWOOD CAM is a 2-day training course focused on CNC manufacturing. Key capabilities include:

    • Tooling & Machine Setup: Building virtual tool libraries, configuring drilling aggregates, and setting up machine selection, panel orientation, and stock sizes.
    • Machining Operations:
      • Drilling: Manual and automatic drilling operations.
      • Milling: 3-axis operations (contouring, pocketing, grooving, engraving) and 3D roughing/finishing for surface machining.
      • Multi-Axis: Custom coordinate systems for 4-axis angled faces and full 5-axis machining operations.
    • Efficiency Tools: Using 'CAM Copy' to propagate machining operations from one part to all panels in a frame.
    • Nesting: Generating nested layouts and optimizing CNC output using the SWOOD Nesting module (requires separate module and compatible CNC).

  5. Overview of Swood CAM for woodworking NC machines

    Swood CAM is a specialized tool integrated into SOLIDWORKS used to manage NC machines dedicated to woodworking. It allows users to generate machining programs and production documents. Key capabilities include:

    • Creating or drag-and-dropping toolpaths onto components to accelerate machining setup.
    • Managing complex operations using dedicated tools for drilling blocks, aggregates, edgebanding, and horizontal spindles.
    • Simulating toolpaths to verify machining intent before producing code for various woodwork machines.

  6. Overview of SwoodReport3 Exporters

    Exporters enable the automatic generation of output files when running a report. This allows users to automatically save assets such as images, CSV files, and PDF documents to predefined directories without manual intervention.

  7. Overview of SwoodReport3

    SwoodReport3 is a reporting module for Swood Design and Swood Cam projects used to generate customizable production reports for woodworking professionals. It is a complete rebuild of the previous reporting system with a modern grid-based layout and a data output engine that is up to 10x faster than the previous version.

  8. Overview of SwoodReport production reporting

    SwoodReport is a module within the Swood suite used by woodworking professionals to generate detailed, customizable production reports based on Swood Design and Swood Cam projects. Its primary purpose is to streamline shop-floor operations by improving communication between the design and manufacturing phases.

  9. Overview of SwoodEditor3

    SwoodEditor3 is a customization and management tool developed by Solid Solutions for SwoodReport3. It allows users to control report generation by adjusting columns, setting sorting orders, and specifying report output locations. Additionally, it can be used to modify default Swood settings to optimize woodworking design workflows.

  10. Overview of Frames in SWOOD Report

    The SWOOD Report allows users to classify Assemblies or Multiple Stock Parts as Frames. When frames are present in a project, a Frames tab appears, providing detailed information on the panels, hardware, and programs associated with each Frame.

  11. Overview of SwoodMerge

    SwoodMerge is a tool designed to merge multiple SwoodReports into a single, cohesive output. It is particularly useful for template-based workflows (reusing standardized reports for common items), subdividing large projects into manageable sections (e.g., by room), and collaborative reporting where different team members generate separate reports for the same project.

  12. Overview of Swood Center

    Swood Center is a module developed by EFICAD for use within SOLIDWORKS and Swood. Its primary purpose is to enable the capture of parameters to facilitate top-level configuration and design automation.