Effective ways to Customize Commercial Building Products with Sheet Metal Drawings

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Effective techniques you can use to customize
building productswith sheet metal drawings
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Rise of customization in building products

• Building products are 80 customized and 20
  standard

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Major areas of customization in building products
Product size
Material
Color
Accessories
Form and finish
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Challenges in addressing customization

• Iterative drafting process
• Lengthy approval and design cycle
• Delayed manufacturing
• Rising project costs

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

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Implementing customization in sheet metal
drawings

• Product configurator
• CAD macros

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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

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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

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• Customized design solution helps the building
  product manufacturers stay competitive!

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solutions
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