Edge banding: workflow suggestions

[tookemtoni]

We’re starting to use a lot more edge banding.

How can you communicate to the workshop where the edge banding goes?

Note:

The workshop uses an Edge Banding Machine that removes the EB thickness from the destination piece and then installs the edge banding…so I don’t have to take an account for the edge banding dimension or model it. I would most likely just change the appearance of the face to represent the edge banding.  

[wersy]

To show where the edge banding goes, you must first design the furniture.

[tookemtoni]

😂

[TrippyLighting]

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@tookemtoni wrote:

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How can you communicate to the workshop where the edge banding goes?

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We can probably give you recommendations based on our experience in manufacturing, approaching about 4 decades in my case. But that might not reflect your situation.

I think you need to strike a balance between what the folks on the shop floor that do the actual manufacturing work, and what is possible in Fusion 360. Have you talked to those folks ?

[tookemtoni]

Thanks @TrippyLighting, I making the switch to 100% Fusion so I am excited to see if there is a better way than how we do it today.

The hope of this post hear what other professionals using Fusion were doing to communicate with their shops about edge banding. 

[g-andresen]

Hi,

in the screencast I show 2 procedures

günther

[Warmingup1953]

Certainly worth a look is a PAID add-in JoinerCAD. I have only trialed it so I am by no means an expert.

Short intro tutorial:

https://youtu.be/bH4orncED_Y?si=OQR-AZIGmPgl-c9T

I assume because you have a milling edgebander you are a larger Enterprise? That being the case you'll be needing an Automated approach to communication to the shop floor. At a company I work with on projects we use Microvellum. This  sits atop an Autocad Licence (Not Fusion 360 unfortunately!) and it generates labels that communicate on the shop floor: