Yani in building mode... he *** at drawing and as accuracy goes he needs a computer. A pencil snapper that can't draw a straight line. Lucky for the tools, like a laser level.
A router "look at those oh so cute joins"
So I did a month of homework and found a few things that are interesting and curious.
https://www.mozaiksoftware.com/
Every wonder how these kitchen companies do the software? Do they draw it up on Autocad from home grown templates?
NUP the whole thing is a package from shop front to shop back.
"Exports to Paperless Shop" It is a parts list but I suspect it includes billing components.
https://kcdsoftware.com/doors-plus/
If doors and drawers are your company’s specialty, KCD Software’s Doors Plus is a stand-alone, template design software to communicate with your nested based CNC router.
Hundreds of templates are included in the software like doors, drawer fronts and dovetail drawer boxes. It’s also easy to create your own one-of-a-kind custom templates. Parametric tool paths can be assigned for your multiple tool operations. Create your own custom libraries for doors, drawers, wine racks, fluted pilasters, valances and more for traditional and CNC manufacturing.
Doors Plus includes over 300 ready-to-use custom component templates. The order-entry system makes it easy to enter your custom items and modify details on the fly. Doors Plus gives you more custom product capacity, flexibility and efficiency than ever before.
What's interesting is the narrow vertical market and the end to end nature of the software.
I'm a cost control guy, if i'm not getting a cost reduction for providing a perfect file the I don't care.
Unfortunately with proprietary software I 'm not spending $2,000 for copies of each copy of my vendors software. They can rebuild the file and I'll charge the client.
Then you create a box and merge the Draw object with the box to get surfaces. And one should absolutely be touching wood for the whole process.
Needs a blog post. Most people would give up before they worked this crap out.
That isn't what I suggested at all!
I suggest Corel write a plugin for SketchUp. Very different things. They could do it under a developer name if they didn't want to do it as Corel, It would go in here...
https://extensions.sketchup.com/
You have to bypass the DXF, DMG and go directly from one format to another to get the highest level of features. Likely not much more than the current export filter with a bit of tweaking.
I don't call that a cost but a promotion opportunity.
"Here's a plug in for Draw files it is free. You can also get a 30 day trial of CorelDraw."
Putting a plug in in Draw is pretty useless because you then have to promote that. That's like promoting the lost and found box at a charity shop. It's got to be the other way around to grab some of the momentum from SketchUp.
Only Sketchup users who would receive CorelDRAW would need it. Who would those Sketchup users be?
Who would create CorelDRAW files that would need to be imported to Sketchup?
I get plenty of Sketchup renderings I output from Draw. So multiple noise reduction filters, upsampling and color correction are a must.
It's an entirely different world of expected reliability, cost and acceptance. The user base is accustomed to having powerful workstations with $3,000 to $5,000 worth of software installed.
Corel is just not in the sphere of acceptance. They could be if they took two years to fix bugs, made CFM and PDF importation viable in the architectural world.
I'm not holding my breath!
SketchUp has a growing user base. They are doing very well. It's the first choice for people using routers. It's got the plug ins for doing that work.
Using Draw with 3D something has a lot of advantages. Particularly, lines converted to shapes, to combined objects.
3D gets in the road of drawing.
Doing it as a plug-in for SketchUp, rather than a new filter in the next version of Draw has the potential to reach out to previous version users. Any reach is an opportunity to promote an upgrade.