RotoSpider manual

Describes RotoSpider 0.8.23

How to describe your machines and molds to RotoSpider, give a product its shape, and compute, read and edit a layout.

• Start here

  • What RotoSpider does
  • Install the desktop trial
  • Make your first layout

• Set up your factory's data

  • Prepare the master data workbook
  • Set up a machine and its arms
  • A straight arm, parameter by parameter
  • An offset or L arm, parameter by parameter
  • Enter your molds and products
  • Set the clearances your factory works with
  • Work in millimetres or inches, Chinese or English

• Choose the right shape for a product

  • Decide which shape to use
  • Enter a box or cylinder mold
  • Build an L-shaped, triangular, wedge or tapered mold
  • Enter a sphere
  • Draw the outline of an irregular mold
  • Build a shape that changes as it goes up
  • Import a CAD file of a complex mold
  • Understand the space a shaped mold needs

• Compute and read a layout

  • Enter what you need and compute the layout
  • Read the result
  • Try another machine or a changed mold

• Edit a layout yourself

  • Move, turn, unmount and remount molds
  • Decide what the app may change on its own
  • Undo, redo and start over
  • Keep and reopen layouts

• Share and get help

  • Share a layout from the web app
  • Send a support bundle
  • Ask an AI assistant or call the WebAPI

• Reference

  • Glossary
  • Mouse, keyboard and touch
  • Questions people asked
  • What is not supported
  • What changed