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QPB_ShopSourceQuickPlate Builder allows you to create nested plates, import and draw parts in just seconds.

QuickPlate Builder’s features include:

• Drag & drop parts directly to sheet
• Automatically shape nests parts when you drop them
• Includes automatic shape nesting reshuffle “toggle” feature
• DXF import
• Part drawing
• Save tool path & send to post processor, PLUS
• Raster-to-vector conversion!

You can request a QuickPlate Builder demo from the SDS website:

www.shopdata.com/demoform

QuickPlate Builder is priced to fit your budget!  Take advantage of the SDS Tech Support & Update special noted in our product brochure!

For more information call SDS Sales at 972.494.2719 or email Gary at [email protected].

Building Information Modeling (BIM) has changed the design process and introduced new challenges to the HVAC detailer. Many hospitals, government, institutional, and educational customers are now requiring sheet metal shops to produce 3D duct drawings for their projects.

Our QuickDuct CAD software gives you the ability to:

• quickly and easily produce 3D drawings; and
• download the duct to your plasma cutter

You’ll save time in detailing, produce more duct in less time, AND become BIM compliant! It all starts with our industry leading 3D detailing package.  

Don’t wait for BIM to change your world – get ready now, and guarantee your customers the most reliable BIM compliance possible with QuickDuct CAD.

Download ShopData’s BIM Info Sheet

More about ShopData’s QuickDuct CAD

ShopData’s cutting software comes with three levels of part / piece nesting: manual, rectangular and advanced shape nesting.  While all three provide superb material optimization, only shape nesting offers advanced algorithms to generate the lowest percentage of scrap by matching interlocking angles and contours. Nesting within the scrap (or cutouts) of other pieces for maximum precision is standard with ShopData’s advanced shape nesting.

ShopData offers several products with advanced shape nesting – Kitchen Works, QuickDuct CAM, and Parts II Plus w/ShapeNest – allowing the tightest nest possible without sacrificing accuracy, speed, and materials. 

To maximize the precision of laser cutting, ShopData offers additional features and modules, including common line cutting, chain cutting and our unique EdgeStart Nesting.

• Common line cutting allows parts with congruent edges to be cut together, decreasing wasted material and speeding up processing time.
• Chain cutting reduces scrap in a sheet by bringing the edges of parts together to and burning them out in one continuous line. 
• The NEW EdgeStart Nesting module allows for the nesting of rectangular pieces on the edge of a sheet and against each other with true common line cutting, utilizing the entire sheet with no skeleton left over. Your laser cutting is maximized with EdgeStart Nesting! Watch demo video (includes audio).

Are you getting the highest precision cutting possible? Tell us about your shop, or email us today and let ShopData get you on the road to maximum productivity!