PhoenixPhil
29th Oct 2009, 11:04 am
I work for a company that design & manufacture lifting platforms for the disabled and i'm the designer.
I would like to automate all of the design processes - make it all lot quicker. I do a sales drawing that is sent out with the quote and then the final design for manufacture.
I would like to have Autocad 2010 draw a sales drawing just by, say filling in a box on the screen with the relevant details of the lift and have the drawing created automatically.
Then use the same box interface idea as used for the sales drawing but this time to greate detail drawings plus a cutting list on an excel spread sheet.
The big question is, has anyone done this sort of thing before? and what did you do?
Perhaps the most important thing to mention is that the Lifts are very similar
and it tends to be the same components that change, while all the others are the same.
I can use LISP & VB quite well and quite happy to use it to achieve my goal, however there's not point trying if it's unachievable. Hence the question.
Thanks in advance.
I would like to automate all of the design processes - make it all lot quicker. I do a sales drawing that is sent out with the quote and then the final design for manufacture.
I would like to have Autocad 2010 draw a sales drawing just by, say filling in a box on the screen with the relevant details of the lift and have the drawing created automatically.
Then use the same box interface idea as used for the sales drawing but this time to greate detail drawings plus a cutting list on an excel spread sheet.
The big question is, has anyone done this sort of thing before? and what did you do?
Perhaps the most important thing to mention is that the Lifts are very similar
and it tends to be the same components that change, while all the others are the same.
I can use LISP & VB quite well and quite happy to use it to achieve my goal, however there's not point trying if it's unachievable. Hence the question.
Thanks in advance.