Brandt
Brandt is a Homag Group brand, best known for edgebanding. It is worth being precise about what that means for file formats: an edgebander is not programmed with a part program the way a machining centre is, so woodWOP and MPR belong to the CNC processing centres in the group rather than to every machine carrying the name.
- Type
- Machine builder
- Based in
- Germany
- Part of
- Homag Group
- Programmed with
- woodWOP
- Machine control
- powerControl, powerTouch
- File formats
- .mpr
What Brandt is known for
Brandt's reputation is in edgebanding: applying and trimming edge material along the side of a panel. That kind of machine is set up rather than programmed. The operator selects a job or a set of parameters at the control, covering the edge material, the glue, the trimming units in use and the feed, and the machine applies them to every panel that goes through. There is no part program describing a path, because there is no path to describe: the panel goes past the units in a straight line.
Where woodWOP fits, and where it does not
woodWOP is the programming software for the group's CNC machining and processing centres, and the .mpr file it writes is a part program: a panel, a set of holes, a set of contours. If the machine in front of you drills and routes, it is in the woodWOP world and MPR is the file it loads. If it applies edge material, it is not, and looking for an MPR to feed it will not get you anywhere. Some processing centres do both kinds of work in one pass, and those are programmed from woodWOP like any other.
How to tell which toolchain your machine is on
The quickest check is the control itself. Open the machine's own program directory and look at what is already in it. A list of .mpr files means woodWOP, and a converted program will go in beside them. A list of jobs or parameter sets with no part programs at all means the machine is set up rather than programmed, and no conversion is going to change that. This is a more reliable test than the model name, because brand and machine type do not line up neatly across a group this size.
If you do have an MPR to deal with
It is plain text and it opens in any editor. A header names the format version and the panel, a variables block gives the panel dimensions names so the program can be resized, and then one block per operation describes the work. The convention worth knowing before you read one is depth: a drilling depth is measured into the material as you would expect, but a contour depth is written as the height of material left standing under the cut, so 12 in an 18 mm panel means a 6 mm deep cut.
Converting a program into the Homag world
netool reads Xilog Plus XXL and Morbidelli PGM and writes MPR, which is the route for a shop moving work from SCM machines to Homag Group processing centres. The honest status matters here: the MPR writer follows the published description of the format, but nothing it has produced has been opened in woodWOP or run on a machine. Every conversion says so, and the 56 reason codes report anything else it would not translate.
File formats on this site
.mprwoodWOP MPR
Converters for these formats
XXL to MPR converter
Turn a Xilog Plus XXL program into a woodWOP .mpr program for Homag, Weeke and Brandt machines.
Open toolPGM to MPR converter
Turn a compiled Morbidelli PGM program into a woodWOP .mpr program for Homag, Weeke and Brandt machines.
Open toolMPR to XXL converter
Turn a woodWOP .mpr program into a Xilog Plus XXL program for SCM and Morbidelli machines.
Open toolMPR to PGM converter
Turn a woodWOP .mpr program into a compiled Morbidelli PGM program for SCM and Morbidelli machines.
Open toolMPR to G-code converter
Turn a woodWOP MPR program into plain ISO G-code for routers that take it.
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Common questions
Do Brandt machines use MPR files?
The CNC processing centres in the Homag Group are programmed from woodWOP and load .mpr part programs. A classic Brandt edgebander is not: it is set up at the control with a job or a set of parameters rather than fed a part program. Check what your machine's own program directory contains before assuming either way.
What file format does an edgebander use?
Usually none in the sense meant here. The settings live on the control as a job or parameter set rather than as a part program file describing a toolpath. That is why there is no edgebanding equivalent of an MPR to convert.
Is Brandt part of Homag?
Brandt is one of the brands within the Homag Group, alongside Homag and Weeke. For the machines in the group that are programmed at all, the toolchain is shared: woodWOP writing .mpr files.
Can netool convert a program for a Brandt machine?
If the machine loads woodWOP MPR part programs, yes: netool converts Xilog Plus XXL and Morbidelli PGM into MPR. If the machine is an edgebander set up at the control, there is nothing for a file converter to do.
Is netool affiliated with Brandt or Homag?
No. netool is an independent converter. Brandt, Homag, Weeke and woodWOP are trademarks of their owner and are named here only to describe the file formats netool reads and writes.