The L-Series delivers a reliable and highly productive conveyorised cutting system that will dramatically enhance the speed of your cutting room. Whether you are a sample maker in the fashion industry or responsible for cutting challenging composite materials, upholstery fabrics or technical textiles, the advanced technology of the L-Series cutter will give you consistent, trouble free and accurate cutting, time after time.
From Silk to Aramid
The Pathfinder range of high-precision conveyorised cutting machines are designed and manufactured to deliver the very best results. Pathfinder engineers will discuss your particular requirement and configure a solution that will be perfectly tailored to your production environment. The Pathfinder L-Series comes standard with the folllowing:
- Windows® operating system
- PathCut® cutter operating software
- Touchscreen user interface
- Utility drawer
- Digital vacuum control – 2 speed
- Vacuum Economiser® power saving function
- Import standard industry files – DXF, HPGL, ISO RS274d, NTV, ESSI
- Common line deletion – dynamic ‘on the fly’ calculation
- Notch identification and alteration
- Drill hole identification and transformation
- Cut line proximity awareness
- Automatic cutting window calculation- ‘Whole piece cutting’ where possible.
- Zoom and Scroll graphic gestures
- Piece and cut order and identification
- Self diagnostics
- End cut – Operator programmable
- Cutting small pieces first – user definable
- Pre-set cutting parameters
- Multi-level user access – parameter protection
- MultiCut™ queuing of nested files
- QuickPath™ automatic cut piece ordering to reduce dry haul
- Integration – automatic cut job queuing, cutting list status and completed marker list
- Automatic selvedge waste cut at programmable intervals
- Self adjusting software parameters optimising cut quality
- Marker manipulation features, notch selection, rotation, flip, drill omission, scaling and more
- Conveyor advance pause – automatic user definable
- Automatic conveyor advance – distance & time user definable
- Automatic pause at piece selected
- Selection of pieces – do not cut
- Automatic lay width checking
- System history file – production cut file verification
- Power fail re-start sequence – integrating intuitive operator prompts
- Maintenance Manager – automatic reporting of maintenance requirements and schedule
- Head parking – user definable
- Units display in metric, imperial/yards and inches
- Flaw avoidance- automatic piece movement avoiding material flaws
- Recut – Selection of single piece or from piece number
- Multi-language supported
- Roll feeder (bar and cradle feeding)
Customisable for any application
A single L-Series cutter is suited to a wide variety of applications. The cutting head can be fitted with four working tools at the same time including both Round Knife and Drag Knife, Marking Tool, and a Crease, Notch or Punch tool. Additionally there are a host of pre and post cutting productivity enhancing options for material loading, piece marking and bundling.
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ABR (Airbrush) – non contact paint marking for difficult materials such as fibreglass
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ANT (Automatic Nesting) – automatic pattern nesting. (Available only with PTW)
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APM (Adaptive Pattern Matching) – Bow & Skew adjustments for stripes, motifs and pre-printed textiles
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BCR (Barcode Reader) – automatic opening of production using barcodes
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DRG (Drag Knife) – ultra fine cutting tool for specialty materials
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HDC (Head Camera) – camera dynamically interacts with PathCut for Matching and other functions
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IJP (Ink-Jet) – mounted inside the cutting head used for printing part identification
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JTP (JetPen) – non contact high speed ink marking
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LSC (LS Convert) – automatic conversion of native PLA & PLX file format
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MRK (Marking) – tool holder accepting a variety of standard marking pens-seam lines/text etc.
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OFD (Offload Display) – synchronised display of delivered cut parts
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OFP (Offload Printer) – adhesive label (50mm x 35mm) synchronised with OFD and delivered cut parts
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OFJ (Offload Projector) – synchronised projected display of delivered cut parts directly onto the material
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PTW (PathWorks®) – integrated within PathCut® enabling pattern creation and nesting
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PM (Pattern Matching) – aligns patterns across cut parts with pinpoint accuracy from any striped, plaid or motif material
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PRA (Production Analyst) – remote access to production manager data – standalone software
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PRM (Production Manager) – integrated production reporting