New Release : Auto-Trim and Filleting for the Kipware® SketchPad

Kentech Inc. is pleased to announce the release of Version 10 of the Kipware® SketchPad - our Conversational CAD/CAM application that is available either as a stand-alone application and is also included standard with all Kipware® Conversational titles.

Version 10 is released with many new features "under the hood" ... but also a couple not so hidden ones as a response to client requests. If you follow us on Twitter ( @Kipware ) Facebook or through our Blogs ... you know that no machine shop software developer works harder to bring new features and new development to market more than Kentech Inc.. We are constantly publishing blog posts outlining our tons of new releases for all our software titles. As we continue the development of the Kipware® SketchPad into a more powerful drawing package ... we are also balancing the ease-of-use into our development. That thoughtful development has led us to two powerful and sought after features in a drawing package into this Version 10 SketchPad release.

TRIM : The new TRIM feature allows the users to simple select the (2) elements from the Element List box ... and have the SketchPad automatically determine the intersecting point of (2) entities and trim the excess from those entities at their auto-calculated intersecting point.

FILLET : The new FILLET feature works similar to the TRIM feature outlined above ... except will not only trim the entities but will also add a user defined radius between the (2) entities.

You can watch a video presentation of these new features on our 

YouTube Channel : KTSoftware

These new features are shipping standard in the Kipware® SketchPad ... which is included with all Kipware® Conversational titles ... as of August 18, 2014.

Kenney Skonieczny - President
Kentech Inc.

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New Release : Enhanced Scrap / Re-Work Calculations for KipwareQTE® - Machine Shop Estimating Software

Like it or not ... scrap and re-work is an integral part of the machine shop life. The importance of including the cost of scrap and re-work is essential when creating your cost estimates and quotations. Version 13.0.0 of our KipwareQTE® has been released and includes some very easy but powerful enhancements to the scrap calculations and formulas of the software.

We have included new inputs into the ESTIMATE INFORMATION tab where users enter their estimate reference information. New inputs and fields include :

1. Scrap Percentage ... where users can enter a percentage of the total estimate base quantity they would like to include for scrap or re-work.
2. Costs Associated with Scrap ... where the user can select which areas / costs are to be associated with the scrap or re-work. For example ... they can select to include only manufacturing costs such as material and tooling in the scrap cost calculations. Full options include material, tooling, labor and all non-machining costs.

These inputs and fields are quite simple ... but make it very easy to include the often over-looked scrap or re-work costs that are associated with real life on the real machine shop floor. Like the many other "real world" features included in KipwareQTE® ... like perishable tooling costs ... scrap and re-work cost inclusion will insure that your estimating and quoting with Kipware® is assisting with not only winning more work ... but winning more profitable work.

Version 13.0.0 with the new and enhanced scrap / re-work feature is shipping standard as of 08-04-14 with KipwareQTE®.

Kenney Skonieczny - President

Kentech Inc.