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A Cutting Edge Sewing Instruction
and Engineering Report Program
SewSpec was originally written in August 1993.
Berkline was the first company to purchase the software and it has been in
continuous use since October 1993. Klaussner purchased the software in August
1995. StyleCraft purchased the software in October 1997. A'cad Solutions started
a complete rewrite of the software in August 2003. Lane Action purchased SewSpec
2.0 in November 2003. StyleCraft requested updates to the software in June 2005.
Berkline requested updates to the software in June 2006.
Executive Overview
SewSpec program was written to
allow Product Development Personnel and Sewing Engineers to create a single
drawing document for sewing upholstered furniture. Using Sewing Cut Files the
personnel can create accurate drawings that show –
Upholstery Material Pieces and
Raw Materials arranged in groups to be sewn together
Sewing Operations to be performed
on each piece
Sewing Instruction Notes listing
the steps required to sew the grouped pieces together
Bill of Material list of all
pieces with summaries by material type & exportable data
Bill of Material and Raw
Material pieces added to drawing
Report of Sewing Operations with
Sewing Inches, Raw Materials & Stitch types
Engineering Data output to text
format file for use by main frame database system
Program Benefits
Learn the complete drawing system
in less than 1 day
Create finished drawings in 1 to
4 hours after a few weeks of use
Create a single source document
including reports
Easy to use by Product
Development Personnel and Sewing Engineers
Simple system to add or change
upholstery pieces, raw material pieces and sewing operations
Easy to create, add, modify or
delete Sewing Instruction Notes
Create accurate Bill of Material
of all Upholstery Material pieces
Automatically create ASCII output
file from Bill of Material for export to other programs
Eliminate the task of manually
calculating total Sewing Inches and Sewing Operations
Create accurate Report of Sewing
Inches, Operations, Raw Materials & Stitch Types
Provide improved communication
between Product Development, Manufacturing and Accounting
Create "Bid" documents for
sub-contractors
CAD Manager controlled file
folders, sheet layout, layers, colors, linetypes and plotting
Programs Details
(for more information select the following)
SewSpec Base Program Instructions
Sewing Instruction Notes Module
Bill of Material Module
Raw Material Module
Sewing Engineering Report Module
Drawing Examples
Programs Pricing
SewSpec History
NEW Features now available in Version 4.0
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Changes to Existing Programs |
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Sheets
(insert Title Block)
Change Title Block to add Design By and Sewn By |
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SSlayer
(layer control)
Add Raw Material layers - line, block shown, block
not shown, block quantity |
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SSsn (sequence
numbering)
Add Berkline bundle code (A=Arm, B=Back, C=Seat) to
sequence numbers |
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New Programs & Features |
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RawMat
(insert Raw Material Blocks-Text)
Program reads RawMaterial.xls and allows user to
select Raw Material to insert
Type of
data - Block, Block hidden, Length (user input length), Rectangular
(user input length & width), vinyl die cut
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SSpieces (manipulate
pieces)
Add ROT program to rotate pieces by 90 degrees |
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Changes to Existing Data files |
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Rates.xls
Changed to
allow multiple company data files
Added Raw
Material Number, Unit and Conversion Factor |
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New Data files |
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RawMaterial.xls
List of Raw Material to be inserted as blocks, text
or markers
Data to include Description, Raw Material Number,
Style Number, Material, Type, Width, Unit and Conversion Factor
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NEW Features now
available in Version 3.0
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Changes to Existing Programs |
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SSsheets
(insert Title Block Sheets)
Add new section to dialog box for input of
StyleName-CutCode MTEXT
3 Style
Names and 5 Cut Codes
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SSsn (add Sequence Numbers to
PieceData blocks)
Read Style Sequence Number file if it exists and
store existing Sequence Numbers, Determine existing or new Sequence
Numbers and add to current drawing PieceData blocks
Write data to output file in format |
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SSbom (add Bill of Material)
Change program to allow User to select specific
sheets for BOM, New programming to automatically select sheets by Cut
Codes(s) |
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SSsheet, SSbom & SSreport
Switch location of BOM &SERS sheets for BOM sheets
horizontally by CutCodes |
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SSvelcro (insert Velcro)
Change all Velcro programs to read new Velcro
Hook/Loop Operation by Width, Hardcode program for Sewing Pattern (all 4
sides, double needle, etc.)
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SSreport (add Sewing
Engineering Report)
New programming to automatically select sheets by
CutCodes(s),
New programming to Create Sewing Engineering Report output file |
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New Programs & Features |
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Assign Sheet Title and Page Numbers
New dialog box
Show list of Style Names and Cut Codes from
Style Name MTEXT for user to select
Input Number of Sheets with selected Style
Names (renumbers sheets to 1 of 2, 2 of 2, etc)
Input Heading Text
User Select Sheets in order of numbering -
Program changes Title and add Heading Text if input |
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Create/Edit Style Names MTEXT
New dialog box
Show list of Style Names from existing Style
Name MTEXT
Data Format - Sew Sheet Style Name - Fold/SER Sheet Style Name
Confirm “Dash” is never used in Style Name
One Sewing sheet Style Name box and one
corresponding Folding/SER sheet Style Name box
May be
same values
Add MTEXT above sheets and left of NC import
area (large enough to read when zoom extent)
Add button to list Piece ID list from
StyleNames.xls |
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Changes to Existing Data files |
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Rates.xls
Add new columns for Leather only and Vinyl
only in Rates.xls files
Add new column to Operations worksheet for
thread factor per inch of operation
Add new column to Operations worksheet for
Raw Material Part Number |
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New Data files |
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Sequence Numbers by Style
One data file for complete Style across
multiple drawings
Only duplicate Sequence Numbers for pieces
that are mirrored
Data format per line
Sequence Number, Part Name, Material & LR/S |
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New Output Data file formats |
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Sewing Engineering output by Heading/Routing
Code (SewRTG*.SER file)
Name of file by Style Name(s) separated by
Dash (confirm Dash is never used in Style Names)
Output Data - One line for each
Heading/Routing Code
Cut Code
number, Heading/Routing Code, total time in minutes, date |
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Sewing Engineering
output by CutCode (SewBOM*.SER file)
Files by CutCodes in file by drawing
name/date
Output Data - One line for each Sewing
Engineering Operations/Event Type
Cut Code number, Operations/Event description, total time
in minutes, date |
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