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goldenshine
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Ideas wanted

Hi Guys, I'm design a solution. Please advise. The scenario is:
200 sales persons sell simple machines with their laptops. A customer talks with a salesperson and choose some parts, then an assembly would be automatically created (as DWF format) according to the customer's requirement.
The machine is quite simple, we don't need any CAD command. Just use a programm to auto-create the assembly.
For maintenance/cost reason, we don't want to buy 200 licenses of CAD.
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Anonymous
in reply to: goldenshine

You could do it with the DWF Toolkit. There's a couple ways to do it. You
could either define routines to draw each part new or build up a block
library of the individual parts.

We've actually done up a similar program for a customer to design piano
hinges with different lenghts and hole patterns. There's some work in the
interface and actually drawing the geometry but it saves their engineer and
sales people a ton of time now that it's done.

If you want email me over some samples of what you are creating.

--
Rodney McManamy
President
CADzation
CAD to PDF and DWF Solutions for Architects and Engineers
rmcmamamy@cadzation.com
http://www.cadzation.com
wrote in message news:5483056@discussion.autodesk.com...
Hi Guys, I'm design a solution. Please advise. The scenario is:
200 sales persons sell simple machines with their laptops. A customer talks
with a salesperson and choose some parts, then an assembly would be
automatically created (as DWF format) according to the customer's
requirement.
The machine is quite simple, we don't need any CAD command. Just use a
programm to auto-create the assembly.
For maintenance/cost reason, we don't want to buy 200 licenses of CAD.
Message 3 of 8
Anonymous
in reply to: goldenshine

Check out this example that does just that:

http://192.234.68.95/CC_host/pages/custom/templates/HLP/assemble.cfm?cc_nvl=((CC_TSF,),(CC_TVL,()),(CC_NVL,()))&cc_tsf=&cc_tvl=()


wrote in message news:5483056@discussion.autodesk.com...
Hi Guys, I'm design a solution. Please advise. The scenario is:
200 sales persons sell simple machines with their laptops. A customer talks
with a salesperson and choose some parts, then an assembly would be
automatically created (as DWF format) according to the customer's
requirement.
The machine is quite simple, we don't need any CAD command. Just use a
programm to auto-create the assembly.
For maintenance/cost reason, we don't want to buy 200 licenses of CAD.
Message 4 of 8
goldenshine
in reply to: goldenshine

Hi Scott
it's exactly what I want. Thanks!
The problem is, may I let the user to work at offline? Let the server to create the assebly is good but our salespersons always work at offline situation because they cannot connect to internet at the customers' side.
I guess, for the website you mentioned, there should be a CAD engine installed in the server. If I install the CAD engine to all salespersons, it would be very expensive( more than 200 licenses), and not easy for maintenance.
Message 5 of 8
goldenshine
in reply to: goldenshine

Hi Rodney
Do you mean we can use DWF Toolkit to create assembly? (with existing parts).
Message 6 of 8
Anonymous
in reply to: goldenshine

The Holophane site has a copy of Inventor on the server. The user selects
the parts, the site assembles them, and then publishes a 3D DWF to show the
result. They even run the wind test on the assembly.

wrote in message news:5484231@discussion.autodesk.com...
Hi Scott
it's exactly what I want. Thanks!
The problem is, may I let the user to work at offline? Let the server to
create the assebly is good but our salespersons always work at offline
situation because they cannot connect to internet at the customers' side.
I guess, for the website you mentioned, there should be a CAD engine
installed in the server. If I install the CAD engine to all salespersons,
it would be very expensive( more than 200 licenses), and not easy for
maintenance.
Message 7 of 8
goldenshine
in reply to: goldenshine

Thanks Scott
I May consider to use DWFToolkit to build assmblies. Not sure about the possibility.
Message 8 of 8
Anonymous
in reply to: goldenshine

I would check out Inventor's Apprentice API. This is freely available from

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?id=1079044&siteID=123112



This is an API that allow you to build inventor assemblies automatically,
although I am not sure if is has an option to publish to DWF.



Another useful newsgroup would be Autodesk Inventor Customization
Discussion Group



Ben



wrote in message news:5483056@discussion.autodesk.com...
Hi Guys, I'm design a solution. Please advise. The scenario is:
200 sales persons sell simple machines with their laptops. A customer talks
with a salesperson and choose some parts, then an assembly would be
automatically created (as DWF format) according to the customer's
requirement.
The machine is quite simple, we don't need any CAD command. Just use a
programm to auto-create the assembly.
For maintenance/cost reason, we don't want to buy 200 licenses of CAD.

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