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The rotation envelope
The spider carries the molds, but the rotation envelope decides what fits. Shrink it and watch molds move to the staging area.
Documentation
See RotoSpider mold layout and RotoScheduler production scheduling.
The RotoSpider Web App showcases the core layout capability. Desktop adds complex-shape import, factory master data, and layout files. RotoScheduler is the separate factory scheduling product built on RotoSpider.
Product introduction · 3:55
Watch the introduction
Feature tours · 18 short videos
One idea at a time
Each tour takes a single part of RotoSpider and shows it working in the web app, so you can watch just the piece you need.
1:01
Arrange the molds yourself
RotoSpider gives you a starting layout. In the 3D view you can select a mold, slide it, turn it, or lift it off to the staging area and put it back somewhere else.
0:40
Straight arm or offset arm
Both arm types sit side by side. Pick the one your machine has, fill in its dimensions, and the layout follows immediately.
0:52
Your molds and how many you need
One row per mold: its shape, its size, its weight, and how many you want on the spider. Ask for more and the layout is worked out again at once.
0:33
Change Need without losing your layout
RotoSpider first keeps every mounted mold in place, then checks a full rearrangement. Undo lets you compare both results and restore the old Need.
0:51
The staging area
Molds that could not be placed wait here instead of disappearing. Your requested quantity never changes.
0:52
Reading the result
Three places tell you how the layout went: the count above the staging area, the loaded column, and the line saying why it stopped.
0:54
Molds that are not boxes
Pick the real shape of each mold. The software fits the actual outline, not the box around it, and that is where the extra room comes from.
0:55
Clearance and the spider edge
Room for your people to reach the bolts, and whether a mold may hang past the spider edge while staying inside the rotation envelope.
0:36
Millimetres or inches, and your language
Switch the whole app between millimetres and inches, work in your own language, and send a layout to someone as a link.
0:38
Undo, redo, and starting over
Every change you make by hand can be stepped back and forward, and the whole layout can be handed back to the software at any time.
0:49
When you know better than the check
Three switches let you keep a position the strict rules would refuse, so you can explore an idea without the software arguing with you.
0:36
Building a mold shape you do not have
Type the real measurements of an L, a wedge or a tapered mold and use it in the layout, without drawing anything.
0:53
A shape that changes as it goes up
Some molds are not one outline at every height. Stack levels, edit each one, and RotoSpider fits the exact result.
0:43
Your own mold and machine data
The desktop app keeps your molds and machines in a workbook you own, with every dimension editable in the app rather than in Excel.
0:41
Layouts you can keep
Every layout is a tab you can save, reopen and compare, so a question you answered last month is still answered.
0:36
Comparing machines
Ask for the same molds, then change machine. The loaded count tells you what each arm would really carry.
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What if this mold were smaller
Change a mold's size inside one layout to test an idea, without touching your master data until you decide to.
Written manual
Read the manual
The English trial manual for RotoSpider Desktop covers the same ground in writing, including the parts no video reaches yet.
RotoSpider trial user manual (PDF, English)
Narration and captions in these videos are computer-generated from an English script. Mold layouts and the RotoScheduler preview use representative trial data, not certified factory master data.