To make a long story short, Microvellum and cabinet vision are great, but architects mainly use programs like Revit. So my question is, why dont architects send us their Revit files, and someone come up with a program that can send that straight to the CNC? Why do we need to seperate a from scratch detailed submittal, if the contractor who the architect trusts, trusts thier millwork company?

Because architects drawings as they pert a in to cabs and accurate construction details are grossly inaccurate, wrong, and coarsely drawn?

No idea but other than basic cabs with fillers id never run off eveb the best set of drawings ive gotten fronmy best architect.

The integration would save so much time, even if you still had to adjust everything. And the benefit for them is the quicker turn around.

I would second Mark B on this one. If ever built what was on an Arch drawing I would loose my shirt and never get another job. I've been working with the same architect for 10 years, no matter how may times I point it out, there are never and fillers, counter over hang, clearance for appliances, the list goes on. Not to mention the lack of care some drywall/framers have here. Just finished up an apartment building where the 12' x 12' kitchens were out of square 3".

I just drag in the plan and elevation view pages I need as a grouped dxf, scale them, and drop my cabs right on the dxf.

Mark +3

Defining things parametrically has it's own issues. Try doing real world stuff, like a bastard hip in Rev.

I was told Rev should work with Inventor.

So, you just need to buy into that and woodwork for Inventor.

Rev is made by autodesk, the company that makes acad. Acad is how old now and they still have not added preferred order of osnaps when more than one possibly is under the crosshairs. What is that now? A trillion extra clicks to specify because not a single person who drives acad with code and design seems seems to have any real world experience using it?

Rev, can export acad 3d soilds as a dxf, dwg, or sat. You can also export your bom with dims to a software to feature recognize the soilds for toolpathing.

I couldn't imagine taking something a typical architecture company does to a 1/2 million dollar machine. It seems crazy dangerous to me and I did cut a ream of 11 x 17 ream of paper to 8 1/2 x 11 with an industrial 3 phase table saw and with a gang rip blade (don't ever even try it). That's something that makes a long timer shop foreman's eyes open wide. Heh. Boom boom boom all the way.

With all that said. If rev has a decent api you could write it yourself. After all, the parts are created with parametric, so all the needed information is right there. It doesn't get any easier than accessing and converting existing information to other formats. Clear the area of life and turn on the machine remotely. I wouldn't want even an animal within range of a machine crash. 🥴

if an architect send their drawings directly to a machine,they would go broke, architects and designers, even the builders are completely clueless, on how a cabinet is made from the time we order plywood, unload, create submitting in cabinet vision, waiting for approvals,,,from the final approval (which they end up changing ) to manufacturing (cnc and edge banding) to finishing to assembly to delivery;; to an installation,they will change at least twice then we have a final walk through....

just my experience after doing this since the 90's

i would never have our estimator and take off guy come into the shop and jump on a table saw...i just wouldn't make sense,,,,and vice versa, the finisher doesnt jump on Bluebeam and do a take off,,,