3D DESIGN AUTOMATION AND VALIDATION

Automation can supercharge your 3D development workflow. As part of the design creation process automation speeds up development and ensures best practices are maintained. The designs coming from an automated development stream are often of a higher quality fewer late-stage modifications saving time and money.

Automation can also unlock complex design workflows for non 3D enabled experts. Powerful design tools can be deployed and driven by simple interfaces or based on the upload of simple input files. This approach allows experts, who may not be capable of producing their own 3D data, to play a larger roll in development reducing outsourcing costs and avoiding QI through intent translation between users

In this example ARNE.STUDIO worked with Wilder Creative to automate their deign of built in furniture.  Using a set of dimensional inputs in combination with design requirements we were able to output individual components necessary to produce complex wardrobe carcasses. The output files were nested into flat boards ready to produced on the CNC machine.

The bespoke plugin is capable of producing both one off designs and multiple units for large scale developments maximizing storage space for the consumer.

We reduced the design time from hrs to mins while providing a dynamic template that we could optimized with standard features and cutting profiles further reducing onsite assembly and fitting time.

The tool was also capable of being driven by a web-based configurator allowing D2C business to be formed on the back of custom residential furniture production.

Automation is not just useful for producing new designs it can also be used to evaluate and validate existing designs.

Instead of having numerical inputs you can use an existing 3D models as an input and then use automation to identify any issues with the design.  In the below proposal ARNE.STUDIO outlines a workflow where we were able to validate incoming designs against a set of brand and company specific rules and standards. This up front design evaluation allows you to shorten the design lifecycle, avoiding late-stage changes and ensuring costly features are not designed in from the start reducing both program and component overall costs.

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