Varstotas (Carpenter table) is software for furniture design. The software functions in Autodesk Inventor environment. Varstotas functionality improves or automates such fields of furniture design:

1. Edge banding and material attachment to furniture parts 2. Convenient placement of furniture hardware and fittings and automatic drilling of the holes 3. Convenient copying of assemblies and renaming of parts 4. Automatic coding of parts according to user predefined rules 5. Convenient prototype design reusing in new product design 6. Automatic creation of furniture parts views and specific furniture information about part (edge banding, texture direction etc) output to part view 7. Automatic generation of blank list for cutting from board 8. Labels generation. Part code&material, dimensions, edging scheme and edge material are included in the label 9. Edge banding part list generation 10. Furniture assembling part list generation 11. Materials list for suppliers generation 12. Program generation for CNC machines 13. Included library of hardware and fittings – most common types of connections, drawer mechanisms (Tandembox, Metabox, etc.). The library could be easily modified and new items added by the user himself System shows high efficiency, especially in small and medium business enterprises. The stages of office table design are shown bellow. For office table design Autodesk Inventor & Varstotas is used.

Table volume skeleton building.

Splitting volume to stand alone parts of table and assembling it to one product.

Material attachment and edge banding

System allows manage boards and edge banding materials library. Varstotas automatically recognizes parts edges and colors it with corresponding color. Board material attachment is done by picking part on a screen or selecting it by filter. Banding is applied by picking edges on parts. Part and his blank dimensions are calculated automatically, corresponding to texture direction and banding.

Furniture hardware and fittings placement, holes drilling

Varstotas has wide standard components library of furniture hardware and fittings. If necessary, own types of hardware and fittings can be created by standard Autodesk Inventor features. Varstotas allows interpret components iMates and propose more convenient way to insert it in product assembly. Automatic drill, respect to hardware and fittings residing, can be applied. This approach allows avoiding hole positioning mistakes in connected furniture parts. Especially it's sensitive through design modification process.

Prototype using in design process

Usising prototypes is quick and comfortable way to copy any assembly in new place and ability to apply any scheme for renaming of part's file name, allows any product or part of it to use as new design. Assembly copy function takes into account relations between assembly parts, derived parts, drawings and presentation files.

Creating drawings

Vartstotas Auto Print function allows automatically scanning the assembly and generates views of parts in a drawing sheet. Specific function generates additional information necessary for full furniture part drawing description. It is edge banding lines, texture direction, blank bounding box contour, part bounding box contour , Part Number on each part view, legend of edge banding.

BOM creating

BOM creating is most important furniture design and production preparation job. Automation of this job has big influence to design process efficiency. Varstotas allows generate varies information sections of project, necessary for production organizing. Assembly BOM shows structure of furniture. List of part blanks can be used for board cutting operation. Edge banding specification is used for edge banding job. Parts labels can be printed and stick to parts on a first cutting operation. It allows easy identification of part through manufacturing process. Summary of materials could be applied through estimating of project and ordering of materials. Each type of BOM can be generated in Excel sheet format or format necessary for any software. For example blanks part list can be exported directly to CutRite or any software for board cutting optimization. Assembly BOM and summary of materials can be translated in format necessary for import to any ERP system.

NC machining

The purpose of Varstotas module VCAM is automatic generation NC programs for CNC manufacturing. System works with furniture part 3D model. VCAM automatically recognizes holes on a part and apply necessary tools operations for manufacturing of them, with respect to lathes type and configuration. Contour milling, pocketing and sewing operations allowed also. Output can be organized as G-code or Woodwop *.mp4 format.