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MillLister, Inc. announces the approval of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for the SmartLister Orientation Method. Patent number 6,928,331

  SmartLister now has 6-sided 3D solid feature recognition! 

We provide cutting-edge Bill of Materials (BOM) / Cut List / Mill List / Feature Recognition detailing software and Services based on SmartLister (patented), SmartModeling, and SmartMachining technology. AutoCAD® versions 2000-2007 are supported.

Why SmartLister and not some other detailing software?

In a nut shell, SmartLister's approach is exactly 180 degrees different from all of our competitor's software.

All of our competitor's require that you create complex formulas and parameters to drive the graphics on the screen. When you want your cut list or output to CNC, your exported data is derived from the formula database you created. If there is no formula, then you have no data to export! Doing complicated assemblies with their method is difficult and time consuming, if not impossible. Typically, the programming required to do this sort software is extremely easy to code and yields quick, but simplistic results. What do you do if it is not simple? Do you spend considerable more time trying to get some cumbersome software to create the graphics and hope the cut list will be correct, when just drawing it in 2D, cut listing it by hand, and programming your CNC by hand for each part is clearly the faster way to go? Do you then try and justify the additional time required by saying that you now have 3D assembly and mistakes will be minimal? There is never a justification, when there is a superior method available.

There is a better way.

Only SmartLister actually measures and feature recognizes the graphics on the screen. This approach is the most intuitive there is. Just draw it in 3D, like you would build it in the shop, and SmartLister will generate the manufacturing data. No matter how complicated the assemblies become, the process is always easy, fast and straight-forward. You do not need to be a mathematician to use SmartLister. You only need to know how to actually build cabinets in the shop and then draw it in 3D. It does not get any simpler or easier than that. The results are clearly an improvement. Simple drawings can be done at about the same speed as any parametrically based software, but the complicated custom assemblies are handled with better speed and ease.  The reason why no other detailing software does this is because we have invented and patented the only solution that makes this approach possible.

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Please note that SmartLister now does 6-sided feature recognition.

SmartLister will automatically measure your selected 3D AutoCAD® solids and then quickly and easily create Bill of Materials, Cut Lists, Mill Lists and CNC ready DXF files. 

SmartModeling, bundled with SmartLister, will allow you to easily stretch multiple 3D solids and assemblies in one operation, as well as move, copy, erase, mirror, array and copy-rotate multiple holes in multiple solids in one operation.

MillLister, Inc. also sells Progressive Wood Works SmartMachining module. This add-on module will add holes for hinges, line drilling, drawer guides, confirmat® screws,& dowels, and even tongue & grove, dados and rabbets, and even erase multiple holes in one operation.

You can see more about SmartMachining here

Automatically measuring multiple solids with orientation information, and stretching multiple solids are not found in any other CAD application. 

SmartLister and SmartModeling give you the tools for design freedom, manufacturing and speed. You can  throw away parametrics, formulas, rules and constraints. Your drawings stay in a native AutoCAD® format for collaboration with other trades. It is fast, easy, and only takes 20 minutes to learn! 

SmartLister is a straightforward no-nonsense approach that actually works today.

What could be simpler and more straight-forward than just drawing the objects you want, stretching them if you need to change their size, and then automatically measuring them to create a cut list?. Detailing can actually be a fun and fulfilling job. We put creativity and functionality back in your hands, where it belongs.

With SmartLister:
In just a few minutes you can turn this....                 Into this....

With SmartModeling (bundled with SmartLister):
In just a few seconds you can turn this....         Into this....

 

SmartLister is for any trade that uses solid raw materials like wood, metal, stone and glass to create their products.

SmartLister will generally yield a savings of 2/3 or better for design to manufacturing times for custom models. Add those saving to the additional savings yielded by having the correct Mill Lists to avoid costly errors and mistakes and the exact materials list for purchasing and you have a savings that cannot be ignored. Can you really afford not to try this unique Software? You can be saving time, money, mistakes and materials in 20 minutes!

One company that produces a well known formula-driven cabinetry add-on has been quoted as saying, "If any software could automatically measure the solids drawn to  get the size information, instead of getting it from a  formula database, that would be The Golden Egg". Try it yourself and see how superior SmartLister's approach is for custom and  hard to define drawings, assemblies and models.


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To provide the woodworking and construction industries with a solution that is the most cost effective and quality producing available.

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