Lumber Edging, Trimming & Grading Resource Toolkit

Software

As mentioned in description section, a new 3 dimensional lumber visualization, edging and trimming software is developed. This software has been made available for free. Currently, the windows version of this program is available. Contact us for more information.

Future Development

The current version of the program has been tested for errors, bugs and difficulties in using. This program needs further testing and evaluation on user’s parts for necessary improvements and user friendliness. The board and defect information was collected from filed by manual, this will cost much time. Using scanning equipment obtain these information will be studied in future. For optimal cutting method, the optimum solution can be found by using exhaustive search procedure. The optimum result tells users where to edge and trim board can obtain the best lumber value for a given piece of board. However, the running time costs much during search optimal solution. In future, a more ideal optimization module will be added to the system (Dynamic programming algorithm or network analysis algorithm). Once the ideal optimization module is done, the next challenging steps would be to formulate automated machine system that can be actually used in saw mills.

If you are interested in part of developing team and need the source codes of this program, please contact us for more information.

This resource toolkit site is supported by Wood Education and Resource Center.