Autodesk Parametric

[Jon83]

Hi-

Just wondered if anyone can help me, I am currently using Autodesk 2009 to program my nail gun cnc building garden sheds.

Here's a brief description of how I’m using it-

I have use Autodesk as a basic cad software (my boss spent a fortune on it, not sure if it was a good sales man or my boss doesn’t have a clue).

So to create a nail path its basically one straight line broken into many lines, each break of the line is where a nail will be fired by my cnc.

So here's my dilemma-

On this nail gun CNC I'm using it takes too long to program. To nail up a simple frame of a garden building

1- I have to select one out of three different nail paths

2- I have to adjust the height

3- I have to draw a cad drawing with the uprights on it

4- I have to copy the nail path on top of these uprights then delete any un used geometry.

I have made many parametric programs using Xilog Plus for SCM machinery. I would use this if I could but it needs to export as a .dxf file.

Surely there is a way in autodesk where I can make my program using a simple table formula.

i.e Nailpath 1= 50mm wide 2= 70mm wide 3= 100mm wide
Height = 2000mm
Position of upright 1= 500mm
postion of upright 2 = 750mm

Any help much appreciated

[ger21]

Are you using AutoCAD? Autodesk is the company, they have many different products.
If AutoCAD, you can write an Autolisp program or VBA macro to do what you want.

[Jon83]

Hi Ger

Thanks for the reply. I have Autocad 2009 installed on the laptop but I use inventor. I am willing to use autocad, if like you say I can program in that. I will have a look into it and see how I get on.

Which way would you recommend? Is it something I can do as a novice?

Cheers

[wages]

Have you figured this out?
I can think of a couple of ways to do this with Inventor.
You can drive a part file via and XLS file, allowing you to enter the data into a table and then updating the part to drop out the path, then save the face of the part as a DXF.

Unfortunately I have Inventor 2010, and won;t be able to give you and example that you can open.

[Jon83]

Hi

No still haven't figured this out yet

If you can explain to me what needs to be done I can have a go myself, or explain it to a firm in England called Quadra Solutions who supplied the software.

Cheers

[wages]

can you supply some example files of how you're doing it now?

[Jon83]

Do you have an email address I can send you the information to? I have taken snap-shots of what I'm having to do, so you can see thouroughly

Cheers