Study on the possibilities of dedicated CAD applications development for the furniture industry

Abstract

This paper presents the results of a research for finding the best solutions to design and develop the CAD applications for the furniture industry. The solutions considered exclude the use of complementary software such as AutoCAD, Inventor or SolidWorks, the main target being stand-alone, cheap and easy to use solutions. The paper presents concepts of components typing in the furniture industry and thepossibilities to construct complex combinations of furniture using these typed components. A dedicated application for designing certain types of bookshelves is also presented. The application is stand-alone and it was written in the object oriented programming language VB.NET. The study has been carried out with partners from the furniture industry, whose opinions and views on this matter were of great help.

Keywords

• cad applications
• furniture industry
• vb.net programming