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CAD Essentials for Fabrication at the Tipping Point of Industry 4.0

CAD Essentials for Fabrication at the Tipping Point of Industry 4.0

Master Sheet Metal Fabrication; Understand Theory of Designing Process Sheet metal fabrication process is not like any other fabrication. But why! Firstly, sheet metal products usually have low prototype volume and high production runs, which makes the fabrication very cost effective because of large initial set-up as well as material costs. These parts are known for their durability because of which they are exceedingly suitable for the high-end application like automotive chassis, brackets or enclosures. Components like chassis are made from a single sheet with uniform thickness, and so final CAD designs and fabrication drafts need to be close to design intent. Some fundamental rules and definitions turn out to be a great savior during designs, and in some cases, sole reasons to success, are often overlooked. For instance, bending the most common operation happening in sheet metal fabrication is not a process that removes metal from the base material. Operation that generates waste Be shrewd in selecting the material; & shrewder for fabrication process

Why 5D BIM and Quantity Surveyors don’t get along? BIM models are relational and parametric in nature and the building construction industry across the globe uses it. Going a step further, 5D BIM models include specification data and several other properties which are directly used for pricing an entire construction project or a particular construction phase/work; are not less popular. Quantity surveyors, working in a collaborative project environment, want to leverage 5D features to ease out their tasks of quantity take-offs, cost estimation and management, but they don’t - why? 5D BIM: Numerous benefits & challenges Benefits that 5D BIM offers include visualization, collaboration, project quality and BIM data quality, project conceptualization, analysis capability, efficiency of take-offs during budget estimate stage, efficiency of cost planning during detailed cost plan stage, risk identification, ability to resolve requests for information (RFIS) in real time and many more. Electronic standard for coding BIM software 5D setup costs

5 Crucial Architectural Design Management Challenges Changes have a pattern that regularly disrupts the day to day activities of any organization; and for an architectural firm, wherein there are multiple teams of architects working on a single project, even less number of changes look like so many. Such design changes affect the quality of the work delivered and result in excessively elongated project working hours. An architect can’t claim it to be a productive day while sitting at the design board and estimating the time it requires delivering designs as required by all stakeholders. And as it is said, quality is the utmost important factor for architects or architectural consultants to stick to estimates and deadlines. Let’s take a look at some of the most salient management challenges that architects face with today’s building construction industry setup: Account for credibility Accounting for, and managing the resources of an architectural firm are amongst the biggest challenges. Resource allocation Unavoidable delays

Articles - Design for Manufacturing: Guidelines for Sheetmetal Fabrication Perfect sheetmetal-fabrication designs—those that avoid engineering change orders (ECOs)—evolve only when designers take care to consider the capabilities of the equipment on the shop floor. For example, a designer may assume that hole and shaft diameter should match, thinking that a 50-mm-dia. shaft should fit into a 50-mm-dia. hole punched into a sheetmetal cover. However, the shaft will not fit into the hole; in fact, it will just sit on the circumference of the enclosure. To allow the shaft to sit on the hole seat, the hole and shaft both require dimensional limits and tolerances, based on the type of fit needed—clearance fit, interference fit or transition fit. In addition, when punching the hole, the tooling will create impressions on the sheetmetal, potentially leaving excessive burrs. Overlooking these considerations can lead to ECOs, and wasted time and money. When piercing several holes in a sheet, shear stress generated in the workpiece tends to reduce material strength.

Building a relationship between contractors and product manufacturers Bhushan Avsatthi, a director at Hi-Tech iSolutions, outlines the role BIM can play in bringing together building products with the contractors who need them on site, with benefits for all. BIM – Better Information Management. This is what AEC industry professionals have been quoting for what BIM does to bring value addition to their line of works. Yet building contractors and building product manufacturers have failed to establish an undisputed relationship when it comes to space planning, space utilisation and equipment installation on construction sites. There are always divergent views between the two, and reaching a consensus has become just a myth. At this juncture, BIM specialists across the world are keen to explain the value of highly underrated BIM content and establish harmony among manufacturers and chief site contractors. To proactive BIM specialists, level of detail (LOD) is more than mere stages of building design development and planning. Till demolition do us apart

How to Design Perfect Sheet Metal Roofs? Posted byJaydeep Chauhan on February 21st, 2018 Popularly used as modern day building construction shed, sheet metal roofs, have gained significant acceptance in the past few years as the manufacturing industry advanced. With some notable developments in the manufacturing industry, especially sophisticated machining processes, smother coordination between teams and in-depth knowledge of the sheet metal behavior under various manufacturing processes, complex and unusual designs of metal roofs have become widely accepted. But again, acceptance of complex designs means the need for perfection right from the first draft and consideration of every minute details, building codes, regulations, processes consideration, and much more during drafting stage. Additionally, designs for sheet metal fabrication needs to be precise adhering to standards right from initial drafts. To show how to obtain perfectly designed sheet metal roof, let us make a case in point, try and understand the conclusion.

Reverse Engineering Solutions: Eliminating Metal Support Structures Owing to the lower fabrication costs, higher durability and easy availability, sheet metal parts are extensively used in the industrial machinery, especially for enclosures and fixtures. Physical properties of light weight and relatively high hardness make aluminum and cast iron the two most popularly choices. But all this is a fancy picture. Today sheet metal parts used in industrial machine tools have aged, and owing to longer service life, such parts undergo massive wear and tear, exposure to extreme work conditions and get corroded. Such issues lower the efficiency of the sheet metal parts and eventually make them run out of usual functioning capability. Foremen’s thumb rule approach Especially when a sheet metal fixture on a machine tool is worn out, the challenges are at peak. Ideally, such misalignment issues should be solved by replacing the part or fixture with a new one. Trusting thumb rules; do you? Time to eliminate the thumb rule

3D Furniture Modeling & Rendering Services We develop photorealistic 3D rendering models of furniture products for high-end furniture designs suitable for marketing and sales catalogue. Our 3D modelers develop CAD designs using SolidWorks and render it for client specific using 3ds Max, V-Ray and majorly Photoshop and Light room. What furniture do we design? Our skilled team of 3D artists develops furniture CAD models for offices, residence, outdoor furniture, retail furniture and other recreational furniture products. Our 3D furniture modeling and rendering services include: Reach out to us for any furniture 3D modeling and rendering outsourcing projects. Furniture Rendering Samples: Redefining Collaboration of CAD Designer and Manufacturing Engineer The manufacturing industry is pacing at breakneck speed, and innovations, too are so focused that every segment of manufacturing right from designs to finishing processes have uplifted pointedly. Industry pioneers project two major factors that are driving these innovations. One happens to be the competitiveness amongst B2B (Business-to-business) marketers for SME (Small and medium-sized enterprises) manufacturing companies and second being advancements in the engineering sector. Innovations are, in fact, the results of researchers that come as paying the toll of increasing competition, delivering quality and minimum engineering lead times. Manufacturing timelines: Pacts signed, broken and signed again With evolving designing tools in CAD, manufacturing firms have strategized to collaborate efficiently from very early stages to eliminate the challenges, whatsoever, early. Fold 1: Revamping Best Practices for Designing Fold 2: Apply today’s CAD to Manufacturing Ready Designs

Mass Customization is the Winning Strategy for Retail Furniture Manufacturers “Experiences say that the design cycles can be reduced by 45% of the original time with software solutions for design automation.” With expanding retail stores and markets, the furniture design needs also have increased. It is an easy task only until the entire store’s furniture is designed from scratch. Series of challenges are encountered when only a single part of the furniture is left to be designed. Let’s say that the entire retail fashion store is ready and furnished with shelving, racks, and drawers, and just the fitting room furniture is pending. Furniture Design Challenges New designs of the fitting room should complement the existing furniture. Furthermore, fitting rooms should be sturdy and reliable considering their rough and repetitive usage. Furniture design engineers when try to address either one of the above challenges, other challenges tend to get overlooked due to squeezed deadlines. Picking a choice CAD – excellent alternative Like this: Like Loading...

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