Passion for woodworking industry to be presented by SWOOD at LIGNA

 Tuesday, April 18, 2023

In May at the mecca of the woodworking industry LIGNA, SWOOD will be present to share their passion for the industry and show how the solution is taking part in digital transformation for a lot of companies. SWOOD, supported by its reseller DPS Germany will be presenting, the latest release of SWOOD 2023, developed for the wood industry needs.

SWOOD as a design solution for business

SWOOD Design deals with efficiency of the design process within companies creating custom and standard furniture. It tailors SOLIDWORKS to the wood industry needs by adding specific features that automate repetitive tasks. This furniture design solution offers a set of features, libraries and data that can help to design faster and modify them easily in SOLIDWORKS environment. Some of these features are:

• Material management to manage all the parameters of wood material like grain direction, thickness, etc.
• Create entire rooms using the layout mode (kitchen, store fitting, dressing room, etc.)
• Optimized connectors insertion to add assembly functions such as Lamello, dowels, etc.
• Use SWOODBoxes sub-assemblies which is a drag and drop element and once done export all the project data: automatic drawings, hardware list, bill of material, etc in .XLS, .PDF, .CSV, etc, and many customizable formats.

Optimising production lines and increasing manufacturing efficiency with SWOOD.

SWOOD also offers solution for manufacturing and nesting.  The SWOOD CAM and Nesting solution helps companies realise their furniture products to real life by creating CNC programs based on a 3D model. Managing the wood CNC machines becomes easier as SWOOD CAM covers all their specificities. Coupled with SWOOD Nesting, you can nest and optimize your nesting panel to reduce any waste as well. Some of the features that you can see live at LIGNA can be:

• Shape recognition for automatically detecting pockets, contours, etc.
• Preview the full program within the simulation with material removal feature.
• Program export for different post-processors of machines like HOMAG, BIESSE, SCM, Felder, HOLZHER, etc.
• Nesting from 3D models and match grain direction of front panels
• Couple manual nesting with automatic and generate reports in .HTML,. EXCEL, .PDF and other related formats.

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