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Frame Station ​

The Frame Station is a machine type dedicated to the frame layer (zone 0) of a wall or floor panel — the structural frame of studs and top/bottom rails, before any cladding goes on.

Why a dedicated machine type ​

On most lines the frame is built on a Mobi One that also handles the cladding faces. Reusing that machine for the frame meant carrying a lot of settings that don't apply to the frame, and — more importantly — it forced the inside and outside faces of the frame to share a single configuration.

The Frame Station solves this:

  • It only exposes the settings that are relevant to the frame layer (framing nails matrix, frame gluing, machine zero, etc.).
  • It lets you configure the inside and outside faces independently, with a separate setting for each face where it matters.

It comes in two versions, matching Mobi One:

  • Frame Station V1 — produces MOB v1 machine files.
  • Frame Station V2 — produces MOB v2 machine files.

Both accept a machine configuration file upload, just like the Mobi One machines.

Configuration in Produuz.it ​

In Production Settings > Machine Settings, create a setup with the model H&M Frame Station V1 (MOB v1) or H&M Frame Station V2 (MOB v2). Then, in Production Settings > Production lines, link it to a station with Machine station and give that station zone 0.

Machine settings ​

  • General — Machine zero, blocker heights, max wall length. There are no direction switches here: the orientation is set per face under Face Inversion, and the frame layer orientation is a job option.
  • Framing — Auto framing nail matrix paddings and minimum CtC, dynamic nail positioning, clamp deactivation. The Nailing Matrix by Beam Size opens in its own window from here: the matrix by beam size (height), with the option to read its rows as size ranges (each row covers from its own size up to the next one) instead of exact sizes, the table of nail columns by beam width, with its own ranges option, and one matrix per part class if you need them, with a preview of the nailing. Both tables are kept sorted when the setup is saved. See Mobi One for how these tables work.
  • Face Inversion (per face, per axis): whether each whole face of the frame is machined flipped. When enabled, all of that face's operations — woods, nailing, sawing, drilling, flooring and glue — are mirrored on the chosen axis. X and Y are independent and set per face:
    • Invert X axis (outside face) / Invert Y axis (outside face)
    • Invert X axis (inside face) / Invert Y axis (inside face)
  • SVG Drawings — All on by default. One switch per operation drawing generated with the machine files, as on the Mobi One. A Frame Station usually owns zone 0, so its switches decide which drawings are made for the whole line.

INFO

The inversion is applied to the whole face at once, so every operation of that face stays consistent with the others. It never affects the layer stacking (Z).

Job options ​

The MOB v2 panel file tab of the setup (and the Station Job Options block of the report form) holds a shorter set than a Mobi One:

OptionWhat it does
Production starting sideWhich face comes first. The Frame Station usually owns zone 0, so its value applies to the whole line.
Shift modeHow the panel is measured against the table stops. Also applies to the whole line. See Shift mode.
File generation with operations that exceeds the machine sizesWhat to do with operations beyond the machine size.
Frame layer orientationinside, outside or none: the face the frame is read from.
Use Custom Matrix patternNail the frame with the nailing matrix of the machine setup.
Minimal framing CtCThe smallest distance between frame nails.
Frame gluing tool id and Frame sawing tool idThe tools for frame glue lines and frame saw cuts.
Max distance between glue lines for joining themGlue lines closer than this are joined into one.

Treat extra woods as normal frame woods is also listed in the job tab, and has no effect there at the moment.

When to enable the face inversions ​

If the two faces of the frame are machined in opposite orientations and one face (typically the outside) comes out mirrored relative to the other, enable the X and/or Y inversion for that face. The whole face then follows the orientation the machine uses to machine it.

The Y inversion is ignored by the Mobfile Generator and by multipanel groups.