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Tech Deep dive - Creating Panelling in SWOOD
Explore the seamless integration of SWOOD with real-world CNC machines at Biesse in Daventry. Dive into the technical details and discover the power of SWOOD in SolidWorks.
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Hello and welcome. In this video, we'll be taking a look at the process behind generating a nested result of this bedside table, specifically for a three axis flatbed CNC machine within SWOOD there are three main modules. SWOOD design SWOOD CAM and SWOOD nesting. Today we're going to be looking at the fourth module addition to this, which allows us to leverage all three of these modules to generate batch results. As you can see, this product has been generated using SWOOD design with connectors, SWOOD boxes, materials, and then edge bands. We've now created this as a SWOOD center model using SWOOD center configurator. This allows me to take parameters such as depth, height, width, handle style and material. I can change all of these parameters directly inside of SolidWorks for individual models as required. When rebuilding all these parameters are pushed to the individual items and the product is updated. We can take this one step further using SWOOD center service SWOOD center service essentially allows us to generate batch results of a number of different variations of the same model. By building these rules at this stage using SWOOD center Configurator. We are then able to open up these SWOOD center service application. We can say that we're ready to run and we can then add a list of jobs to our job list using the bedside table. We can then specify the parameters that we want to control within here. We can change the material to Maple. We can change the depth to 400 mill, the width to 450, and the overall height will bring to 500. We can change the handle style and accept we can specify that we want three of these units and we can add another item to our job list for the second job. We can modify the parameters again, changing the depth on this one to 300. The width will leave the 350 and the height. We can bring that down to 400 will leave the handle status number. But this time we're going to change the material to Maple and finish will add a third job to this project. Choosing the bedside table again, specifying the parameters, and this time changing the width to three hundreds, the depth to 250 and the height. We're going to bring that up to 500. The material for this instance, we're going to bring that down to Maple as well and click finish. We can give each of these jobs, a name, and I can modify the quantity for each of these items as required. We can run the jobs at this stage to generate a project for each of these and a set of report documentations. But we can take this one step further using the nesting tab I can generate a new nesting job. Select an item for the configuration. I'm going to be using nesting settings for the BSE machine and we're going to add all the jobs in our job list to the single nested result. When we're happy with this, we simply just click the play button to execute once SWOOD center service has finished running. It'll present us with the folder to open. If we select to open the folder, you'll see that all the nested generation has been done here. We can double click on the HTML file to open the nesting result. Within here we can see all the panels being generated, a list of all the sheets being made and a detailed list of each of the items. We can click on to any of these items and see exactly what parts are being placed onto the nested sheets within here. We can also view each of the run nesting results. As you can see, a clear difference in the geometry between each variation within the nested result. We have the ability here to view the sample program that's being created. In this instance for Biesse Machine, we're generating a dot CIX file which can be loaded directly into the B solid interface. We also have a summary of the amount boards required, along with the number of edging required labels are also generated through report export here as well, and the documentation is able to support any CNC programs being sent to the CNC machine. Hopefully as you can see. SWOOD Center service allows us to quickly leverage all the work done within SWOOD design SWOOD CAM SWOOD nesting to enable us to batch generate a number of different variations of the same job. All these programs can now be sent to the CNC machine for manufacture. Thank you for watching.