Effective ways to Customize Commercial Building Products with Sheet Metal Drawings

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Effective techniques you can use to customize building products with sheet

metal drawings


Rise of customization in building products  Building products are 80% customized and 20% standard


Major areas of customization in building products

Product size

Material

Color

Accessories

Form and finish


Challenges in addressing customization 

Iterative drafting process

Lengthy approval and design cycle

Delayed manufacturing

Rising project costs


To overcome these challenges, manufacturers need  Faster design approvals  Automation of non-productive drafting tasks


Implementing customization in sheet metal drawings

 Product configurator  CAD macros


Case Study

Customized drawings for electrical enclosure delivered using DriveWorks product configurator How?  Logical rules for automation developed accurate drawings for sheet metal enclosures using preapproved customization rules

Impact  Removed snags from 3D models  Recalculated power dissipation for design accuracy  Enabled multiple design combination for enclosures Read More…


Case Study

SolidWorks macros help reduce errors in customization of door frame shop drawings How?  Connecting SolidWorks API with VBA tools to get user specification and develop sales documents, part lists etc. with accuracy

Impact  Reduced shop drawing errors to almost zero  Saved custom design data in Excel in a structured format  Reduced design cycle time to few hours Read More…


Customized design solution helps the building product manufacturers stay competitive!


Get in touch for efficient design automation solutions

www.hitechcaddservices.com info@hitechcaddservices.com


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