Readme.txt File 
 
This file has three main sections: 
1)  What is Sheet Layout? 
2)  System Requirements 
3)  Forward 
 
What is Sheet Layout? 
 
Sheet Layout (SL) is a program that takes raw material and  
illustrates how to cut it down into smaller pieces.  SL is  
used with rectangular sheets of material such as plywood,  
plastic, foam, fabrics, glass, steel, or just about any  
other flat stock material.   
 
SL optimizes the layouts taking into consideration user  
input cutting parameters such as, cutting preferences, grain  
direction, saw kerf and many others.  It literally  
considers 10,000's of combinations prior to determining  
the optimized layout.   
 
System Requirements: 
 
(1) DOS 3.3 or greater 
(2) Less than 640K RAM 
(3) Less than 1 MB Disk Space 
(4) Files = 10 and Buffers = 10 are minimum requirements for                                  
complete operation of the program and all help files.  
(5) A math co-processor is highly recommended but NOT  
required. 
 
 
Forward: 
 
Congratulations.  Sheet Layout (SL) is a state of the art  
material optimization system. It has been developed during  
the last seven years to its present form. It will save you a  
lot of time and money.  It increases productivity by saving  
most of the time you spend calculating part layouts  
manually.  What once took hours now only takes Sheet Layout  
and minutes. 
  
SL is distributed as Shareware.  Simply stated, the  
Shareware concept permits trying the product to determine if  
it meets your end use requirements prior to paying for the  
product.  There is no warranty offered and I assume  
absolutely no liability for its use.  Your continued use of  
the product and your voluntary registration of the product  
is verification that you have tried the product and find it  
to meet your requirements.   
  
Having said that, my goal is to achieve a high level of  
customer satisfaction.  The first step is to offer a quality  
product at a substantially lower price than comparable  
commercial products. About the only sacrifice you make is  
giving up phone support during normal working hours.  
However, after using Sheet Layout for 30 minutes or so,  
you'll probably note that phone support really isn't  
necessary. 
 
Three (3) registered versions of SL are offered to match the  
needs and budgets of individuals and corporations.  All  
three registered versions are exactly the same with the  
exception of the capacity of the optimization program.  In  
addition to capacity restrictions, the evaluation copy also  
has grain direction control disabled.   
  
The capacity of SL is measured by the number different part  
sizes and the quantity for each size that you can enter for  
any particular job. The user interface has no limitations,  
that is, you can enter any number of parts/sizes.  However,  
at optimization run time, any values exceeding the  
parameters of the version which you have will be "clipped"  
to the maximum allowable quantities for your registered  
version.  No warnings that part or quantity clipping has  
taken place are made to the user. See the Program Update  
screen available from the Main Menu for more details. 
 
Best wishes.  I hope you benefit greatly from the use of my  
product. Don Michelotti,  707 Sunlight Drive,  Rochester  
Hills, MI 48309  

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