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The history of woodWOP — What can your current version do?

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A lot has changed since 1991. What can your current version do? How has woodWOP developed?

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The new version comes with an optimized user interface: clear lines, a uniform colour scheme. The focus is entirely on the workpiece.

2025 | woodWOP 9

  • New user interface including dark mode
  • Favorites mode: Clear parameter entry for editing macros
  • Drag & drop of contours and macros
  • Intelligent snap points and snap lines, multi-selection
  • Travel path optimization for identical machining operations
  • Enhancements to the nesting plugin and block macros
  • Developed for Windows 11
  • The new woodWOP 9.0 design: clear user interface in light and dark mode for optimum user-friendliness
    The new woodWOP 9.0 design: clear user interface in light and dark mode for optimum user-friendliness
  • The new woodWOP 9.0 design: clear user interface in light and dark mode for optimum user-friendliness
    The new woodWOP 9.0 design: clear user interface in light and dark mode for optimum user-friendliness
  • Drag & drop: fast and intuitive placement of processing steps and planes directly in the graphic
    Drag & drop: fast and intuitive placement of processing steps and planes directly in the graphic
  • Favorites mode: clear parameter display for faster and more efficient editing
    Favorites mode: clear parameter display for faster and more efficient editing
  • Intuitive drag & drop contour programming for faster and more efficient contour creation
    Intuitive drag & drop contour programming for faster and more efficient contour creation
  • Multiple selection: simultaneous processing of multiple contour elements for maximum efficiency
    Multiple selection: simultaneous processing of multiple contour elements for maximum efficiency
  • Nesting plugin: automatic position suggestions for efficiently inserting and processing single parts
    Nesting plugin: automatic position suggestions for efficiently inserting and processing single parts
  • smartSnapping: intelligent capture lines and capture points for precise and fast work
    smartSnapping: intelligent capture lines and capture points for precise and fast work
  • Travel path optimization: more efficient processing order for reduced program times and increased machine efficiency
    Travel path optimization: more efficient processing order for reduced program times and increased machine efficiency

2023 | woodWOP 8.1

Out of support for Windows 7 machine computers – Contact your Salesperson for Update

  • View a list of the tools being used
  • Additional parameters for macro names
  • Variable table: keyword TOOLNUMBER and insert separators
  • New functions in the pocket macros and in the block macro
  • Manual nesting with the Nesting-Plugin
    → Successor to woodNest Basic (out of support)
  • Improved performance: ignore inactive components and macros
  • Connect vertical milling operations
  • Developed for Windows 10, Windows 11
  • woodWOP 8.1 tools used
    Get a comprehensive overview of the tools used in the woodWOP program.
  • woodWOP 8.1 pocket macros
    Easier programming through additional options.
  • woodWOP 8.1 additional parameters
    Which parameters should be displayed in the macro tree? Define them easily now.
  • woodWOP 8.1 variable separator
    Clearly arranged variable table by using separators.
  • woodWOP 8.1 block macro
    Easier and faster programming thanks to the new functions in the block macro.
  • woodWOP 8.1 connecting milling
    With the new function, vertical milling operations can be combined.
  • woodWOP 8.1 manual nesting
    Manual nesting of individual parts is now possible directly in the woodWOP interface.

2021 | woodWOP 8.0

Out of support – Contact your Salesperson for Update

  • New formula editor with syntax highlighting
  • Mass changes of parameter values
  • New wizard and technology database for edge gluing programming on CNC
  • Nesting plugin
  • New MPRXE exchange format
  • Feature recognition extension: 3D grooves and pockets, 2D holes
  • New possibilities in the variable table
  • Developed for Windows 10, Windows 11
  • woodWOP 8: New wizard for programming edge banding on the CNC
    woodWOP 8: New wizard for programming edge banding on the CNC
  • woodWOP 8: Feature recognition extension: 3D grooves and pockets, 2D holes
    woodWOP 8: Feature recognition extension: 3D grooves and pockets, 2D holes
  • woodWOP 8: New possibilities in the variable table
    woodWOP 8: New possibilities in the variable table
  • woodWOP 8: New formula editor with syntax highlighting
    woodWOP 8: New formula editor with syntax highlighting
  • woodWOP 8: Mass changes of parameter values
    woodWOP 8: Mass changes of parameter values

2019 | woodWOP 7.2

Out of support – Contact your Salesperson for Update

  • Rotating of components
  • Machining milling macros mirrored with automatic change of the direction of rotation or alternatively change of the tool
  • New macro „label“
  • Monitoring the effective working length
  • Import and editing of SAT surfaces
  • Align 3D model automatically
  • Developed for Windows 7, Windows 10
  • CNC Machining Center CENTATEQ P-110 including 3D comfort package
    CNC Machining Center CENTATEQ P-110 including 3D comfort package
  • Settings for mirrored milling
    Settings for mirrored milling
  • Align 3D models
    Align 3D models
  • Rotate components
    Rotate components
  • Working lengths monitoring
    Working lengths monitoring

2017 | woodWOP 7.1

Out of support – Contact your Salesperson for Update

  • File preview and miniature view of MPR(X) files
    File preview and miniature view of MPR(X) files
  • Venture 115 with free-standing powerTouch control panel
    Venture 115 with free-standing powerTouch control panel
  • Alternative operating mode in the variables table
    Alternative operating mode in the variables table
  • Import and processing of an STL file
    Import and processing of an STL file
  • Sawing on surfaces of a 3D model
    Sawing on surfaces of a 3D model
  • Automatic detection of bore holes in a 3D model
    Automatic detection of bore holes in a 3D model

2015 | woodWOP 7.0

Out of support – Contact your Salesperson for Update

  • Direct text function in polygon path macro
  • Single-line fonts
  • 3D CAD functions for the creation of 3D surfaces
  • Import of 3D CAD data in the DXF, STEP, and IGES formats
  • CAM plug-in – New macros for roughing down, finishing, and formatting of 3D objects
  • Automatic generation of milling paths from 3-axis processing right through to interpolating 5-axis processing
  • Pocket milling with islands with offcut detection
  • Developed for Windows 7, Windows 10
  • BMG 311 Venture with gluing station and powerTouch
    BMG 311 Venture with gluing station and powerTouch
  • Pocket trimming with islands
    Pocket trimming with islands
  • Design of a 3D model with suitable clamping template
    Design of a 3D model with suitable clamping template
  • 3D engraving on curved furniture front
    3D engraving on curved furniture front
  • 3D model roughing down and finishing with woodMotion
    3D model roughing down and finishing with woodMotion
  • ToolManager tool management
    ToolManager tool management

2012 | woodWOP 6.1

Out of support – Contact your Salesperson for Update

  • BOF 211 – Venture 12
    BOF 211 – Venture 12
  • CAD plug-in offers CAD functions directly in woodWOP
    CAD plug-in offers CAD functions directly in woodWOP
  • Layer control in woodWOP CAD plug-in
    Layer control in woodWOP CAD plug-in
  • CAD-Konstruktion auf geneigter Ebene
    CAD-Konstruktion auf geneigter Ebene
  • Fast component selection
    Fast component selection

2009 | woodWOP 6.0

Out of support – Contact your Salesperson for Update

  • Tool management with 3D graphics
    Tool management with 3D graphics
  • BHP 200 nesting machine
    BHP 200 nesting machine
  • 3D graphic of workpiece, tool, processing, and clamping equipment
    3D graphic of workpiece, tool, processing, and clamping equipment
  • 3D graphic of workpiece and processing
    3D graphic of workpiece and processing
  • Display of profile tools and clamping equipment
    Display of profile tools and clamping equipment

2002 | woodWOP 5.0

Out of support – Contact your Salesperson for Update

  • Table plate with free-form pocket and offcut reduction
    Table plate with free-form pocket and offcut reduction
  • Venture 16L
    Venture 16L
  • Room doors with components
    [Room doors with components
  • Tool management
    Tool management
  • Automatically generated gluing with the wizard
    Automatically generated gluing with the wizard

1999 | woodWOP 4.5

Out of support – Contact your Salesperson for Update

  • Contour element programming of a table plate
    Contour element programming of a table plate
  • Optimat BAZ 41
    Optimat BAZ 41
  • Work surface with edge banding
    Work surface with edge banding
  • Automatic rotation of gluing station
    Automatic rotation of gluing station

1997 | woodWOP 4.0

Out of support – Contact your Salesperson for Update

  • Variable programming of a side part
    Variable programming of a side part
  • Creation of a body side with components
    Creation of a body side with components
  • Gluing of a free-form contour
    Gluing of a free-form contour
  • BAZ 20/30
    BAZ 20/30

1994 | woodWOP 2.5

Out of support – Contact your Salesperson for Update

  • woodWOP 2.5 on the homatic control system 1994
    woodWOP 2.5 on the homatic control system 1994
  • woodWOP 2.5: Work surface program
    woodWOP 2.5: Work surface program
  • Programming of the gluing station with woodWOP 2.5
    Programming of the gluing station with woodWOP 2.5
  • woodWOP 2.5 on a DOS operating system
    woodWOP 2.5 on a DOS operating system
  • BAZ 10 with 6-slot edge magazine
    BAZ 10 with 6-slot edge magazine

1991 | woodWOP 1.0 — Variant programming

Out of support – Contact your Salesperson for Update

  • Simulation software 1991
    Simulation software 1991
  • The first woodWOP version 1.0
    1992: The first woodWOP version 1.0
  • BAZ 10 Optimat with gluing unit
    BAZ 10 Optimat with gluing unit