Cabinet software speeds design and production

Space 3D is a well-proven three-dimensional and parametric software which speeds up and simplifies cabinet design and production.

Space 3D has signed an exclusive agency agreement with leading Italian software house Brain Software to supply and support its innovative Spazio 3D cabinet CAD/CAM software in the UK and Ireland.

Being marketed under the Space 3D brand, the well-proven three-dimensional and parametric software speeds up and simplifies cabinet design and production.

It is suitable for use with any make of CNC machining centre and available in five levels for users with varying requirements.

Level 1, which contains features usually found only in more expensive panel software packages, creates straight cabinets in a few minutes using simple commands to produce a cutting list.

The Level 2 module incorporates the same features but also has a built-in library of 10,000 components and 50 door models.

This allows around 500,000 different design combinations.

Designs can be changed by inserting or substituting different doors, handles, legs, hinges, drawer fronts and drawer guides.

It also creates cabinet tops, shelves, skirting boards and frames, moulds the edges of panel tops and shelves and gives them a smooth finish.

With Level 2 the shape of a room - for example, a kitchen - can be drawn, complete with all the walls, and the cabinets placed in the exact spots they are to go.

You can then obtain a 3D view of the room, which is useful for face-to-face meetings with customers.

Level 3 incorporates all the features found in Levels 1 and 2, as well as being able to deal with straight or curved furniture or curved rooms.

It can develop complex cabinet designs, such as curved cabinets and those incorporating mosaics or marquetry.

It also provides high quality rendering, showing all of the items that make up the room in virtual reality.

As well as containing all the features found in Level 3, Level 4 can estimate the materials used in one or more projects, produce orders for materials suppliers and a bill of materials, and manage standard or structured codification.

It incorporates panel optimisation facilities.

Top-of-the-range Level 5 contains all the Level 4 features plus the ability to manage edge applications and provide production costs and reports together with warehouse management data.

To make the software even more productive, Level 1 can be supplied with full CAM capabilities plus the facility to produce barcode labels, as can Levels 2-5, which can also produce cutting lists.

Said a spokesman for Space 3D: "The easy-to-use software is available at different levels so that customers need only buy what they actually need.

The time savings it provides are remarkable as there's no setting or marking out needed and no template making, plus there's total accuracy in the product being produced.

"As the software can be used with any make of CNC machining centre and provides enormous efficiency savings, we expect it to be extremely popular with designers and manufactures of cabinet-based products".

A full after-sales support service is provided to get users up and running quickly and ensure they get the very best out of the software.

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