Quick Pallet Maker

EXPORTING BOX COORDINATES

QPM Version: 4 and above

There are occasions in which users will want to export the box placement data from Quick Pallet Maker to an automatic/robotic palletizer or other machine/software. For this, QPM produces a list of the box x,y,z coordinates and the box orientation in a comma-delimited text file.
For this example, we will calculate pallets using the default data. The resulting Available Solutions window shows a list of pallets from which we select the first one. Example 12
The next step is to select "Export Report - Box Coordinates" from the File menu as in the screenshot to the right. Example 12
The screenshot to the right shows how the comma-delimited case data looks when opened with Microsoft Excel. The first column contains the box number, starting from zero to count-1. The next three columns contain the x,y,z coordinates of the bottom-top-left box corner. The fifth column contains the box orientation (explained below). The white boxes show the different available orientations in Quick Pallet Maker. Note that orientations 1 and 2 (right-side-up) are the most used. Example 12
Orientation = 0 Orientation = 1 Orientation = 2
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Orientation = 3 Orientation = 4 Orientation = 5
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