Hi all.
I need your help. I work in a company that makes custom-made kitchens. This means that the kitchen modules will be more or less the same, but the dimensions will change.
Now I want to create a library with all the modules that we can make. And when I have an order, I have to do a "pack and go" and save the assembly in my new folder and edit the assembly with the dimensions of the request.
For this, I was thinking of drawing the assembly using the top-down method, this way all the pieces of my assembly will be connected.
But to be easier for future orders, I think it's better to also add equations (for length, width, etc).
But I have no idea how to create the equations for this type of assembly.
Am I clear enough?
Thank you very much.
Good evening
The solution of the pack and Go seems to me to be a pain in the ass!
Unless you put an extension for each new case as well as pack and go actually allows.
Why the expansion! Because if by misfortune you don't have a perfect seal between your files, as soon as you change the dimensions of a piece of furniture, it will have repercussions on all the things you could reopen because even not the box.
On the other hand, if you put an extension it's frozen for this case and if you get a piece of furniture for another case you will have to rename it by copy (save as ==> Save a copy with a new name).
It all depends on the variability of the furniture.
Personally, I would go back to renaming the furniture put in an ASM in the name of the "tartequiche" customer's business so that there is no risk of getting mixed up.
This is what I do for the different iterations of a somewhat complex prototype, which allows me to keep the different evolutions of the latter.
My colleagues will give you other super cool solutions!
Kind regards
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Hello
I sometimes make custom-made furniture based on a model with an equation.
The difference on my side is that I work in sheet metal work and therefore in multiple bodies (all-stainless steel furniture in folded sheet metal for professional kitchen).
When I change the external dimensions of the furniture, everything follows...
For kitchen cabinets, the method mentioned by @Zozo_mp seems relevant to me (personally I would do the same...).
Otherwise, without wanting to advertise and not knowing what your investment plans are, the company Eficad distributes a rather nice software that integrates with SW: SwoodDesign.
It allows you to configure your boxes from A to Z with hardware integration and machining management with SwoodCam.
Kind regards.
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That's exactly what I want to do. When you change the external dimensions of the furniture everything must follow. And how do you design the furniture? Assembly?
I forgot to mention that our supplies are made of stainless steel. We draw in sheet metal