Success Story
Venturia, a company based in Slovenia with over 70 years of experience and around 60 employees, specializes in industrial air filtration and the implementation of dust removal systems. Their second important activity is comprehensive solutions and systems for milling, crushing, separation, and recycling of metal waste.
Venturia aimed to enhance their existing design process by maximizing the use of 3D modelling. Additionally, there was a need to efficiently generate customized DXF files of sheet metal flat patterns for use with CNC machinery.
They also wanted to support the design workflow with a data management solution to keep everyone accessing data from a central source and to streamline workflows across engineering, manufacturing, and other teams.
Venturia, a company with decades of experience in industrial air filtration and metal waste separation, looked for a solution to revamp their design process and boost efficiency.
After the initial needs assessment, the following project goals were agreed upon: fully embrace a 3D modelling approach, introduce a solution for automatically generating DXF files for downstream CNC usage, and implement a custom-tailored data management solution.
Autodesk Inventor as a part of Product Design & Manufacturing Collection was presented by Basic d.o.o. as a comprehensive solution to cover their needs for 3D design.
For customized DXF file generation Basic d.o.o. offered their existing solution AutoDXF. This Inventor add-in makes it possible to quickly create flat patterns and batch export DXF files for downstream consumption. The AutoDXF add-in was available immediately as an existing solution from Basic d.o.o.
For solving data management requests Basic d.o.o. offered implementation of Vault Professional with inclusion of custom developed Vault add-in. The add-in would take care of automating some well-defined critical tasks: email notifications and DXF and DWG file generation on specific life state changes and automated folder structure replication.
Based on the project goals Basic d.o.o. implemented the following solutions:
Venturia streamlined their design process by fully embracing Autodesk Inventor for 3D modelling. The introduction of AutoDXF for Inventor enabled efficient DXF file generation, benefiting downstream CNC operations, and eliminating most of the previously required designers' manual work. Customized data management solution, Vault Professional, upgraded with the 'Vault Assistant' add-in, now provides robust data management capabilities and precise control of automated actions on life state changes which used to be very time-consuming manual processes before the implementation of this system.
According to Venturia these solutions resulted in increased productivity, reduced lead times, and improved precision, contributing to Venturia's growth in their industry.
Venturia accomplished revamp their design process and boost efficiency by fully adopting Autodesk Inventor for 3D modelling and implementing AutoDXF for Inventor, which facilitates smoother workflows and efficient DXF file generation for CNC processes. On top of those systems, data management solution Vault Professional with the 'Vault Assistant' add-in, was implemented to provide precise control over the design data and enhance overall workflow efficiency.
These comprehensive solutions resulted in concrete benefits, including increased productivity, shorter lead times, and improved precision. This successful collaboration underscores the value of tailored solutions in addressing specific business challenges.
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