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		Welcome to Autolaunch™ Free lineal and area cutting software (nesting) Autolaunch™ offers absolutely free of charge (and no catches it really is totally free), software to assist with the logic of how best to cut anything from either a stock length (lineal - length) or rectangular sheet (area nesting of rectangular panes from larger stock sheets). It doesn't matter what the product is that you need to cut, you simply use a material description that best suits you needs. Define the simple rules and you are away. Why is Autolaunch™ software free? It's very true in life, that if something is too good to be true, then there will inevitably be a sting in the tail. So it's a fair question, why is the software free and what is the catch? Well, the software was written a few years ago in the programming language "C", for the DOS environment rather than Windows. This tends to reduces commercial opportunities, so the full unrestricted versions are released for no charge. The software, however, is nonetheless very real and well tested and remains effective on some critical sites today. Cutting optimisations in under one second! The downside with DOS programs, is that the learning curve is not as straight forward as Windows applications (the software works quite happily in all versions of MS Windows). The upside is that the software was specifically written for commercial use in an critical environment with a design that gives immediate optimisations in under a second that can easily be viewed on screen or printed. Furthermore, the printed cutting lists are very clear and concise, making it very easy to follow, for the people who cut the materials. Getting this right saves money on cutting errors. Both the Autolaunch Lineal Optimiser and the Autolaunch Area Optimiser are installed by the professional Windows Program Installer from the excellent Clickteam ™. Say goodbye to error reports! Equally important, rather than wait until the very end to discover that it's impossible to cut some of the keyed in data, Autolaunch Optimisers prevent this happening, at the point where the logic error occurred. We all know that you can't cut a 5 metre length from a bar that is only 4 metres long, but it's surprising that much software won't warn of this until the end of a massive keying entry. These programs have a tendency to produce reams of paper at the very end advising all the errors, not exactly user friendly! As much as was possible, Autolaunch software is idiot proof. That was a major design criteria for the team using the software with very expensive materials on long delivery times. It was vital to know how the bespoke materials would be cut, to get the purchase quantity correct, without vast over or under stocking. Computer programming background of the author Computer programming has been a serious hobby of the author for over 20 years and back in the mid- late 80's he met with some success with 5 published computer games for the English Sinclair Spectrum home computer. At their peak, they sold over a quarter of a million copies in various formats. Today, even these are now available for free download from this site and the The World of Spectrum, together with a very clever piece of software that emulates the Sinclair machine on a PC. It is good to see these "retro" games from the 80's given a second lease of life, with over 11,000 other free games. It's a sort of a history lesson in a way, games today are very much more sophisticated with huge budgets and teams of staff. In conclusion We would ask that if you use the software, please let us know what you think of it, good bad or indifferent (although to be fair, we don't envisage developing it any further). If there is enough interest we will try to put together a FAQ page to help other users, though to be fair, to date, there has not been much feedback.   Copyright:- Clive Brooker 2001 - 2008