How Does 3D CAD Modeling Help Furniture Manufacturers?

1. Rising demand for custom furniture

Customization has now gone beyond changing dimensions or color to adding unique elements in furniture design. This compels design creation that is 90% custom and 10% standard.

Resimercial designs, a new trend in the furniture industry, give a residential touch to every commercial space. This rising demand for customized resimercial furniture leads to multiple design alterations and longer design curves.

2. Copied designs and ‘over-designing’

In the furniture industry, over-designing is a significant issue. Good furniture companies strive to re-engineer casings to maintain a strategic distance from plagiarism. Materials like aluminum that are lightweight, anti-rust, flexible, and environment-friendly are favored above others.

3. Staying within budget

The new age office furniture with unique interior structuring and style demands resources with high skills and competencies. While this directly impacts cost, customers are not really keen on stretching their pockets. Furniture designers need to innovate and meet the new design requirements without increasing manufacturing costs.

1. Design flexibility

Parametric modeling offers the flexibility to alter dimensions without changing the whole design. A small sofa can easily be modified into a larger one with a triple seating capacity.

CAD experts employ specific software libraries to make these changes while significantly reducing the design lead time. The models thus created, can be directly used for seamless communication between manufacturing shop floor engineers and designers.

2. Decreased cost of operations

This concept aligns with the theory of Postponement, where again, parametric modeling emerges a true hero. It can help you conveniently design and manufacture semi-final assemblies from the Bills of materials (BOM). These semi-final products can wait until the final demand arrives wherein they can be quickly assembled and dispatched. A modular design approach like this helps you create multiple final configurations with same semi-final parts and saves cost by achieving economies of scale in production.

Rather than mass-producing a particular design in one color or fabric, you can first understand the market demand and create products that get the most orders.

3. Minimum iterations

Since there is no need to create new designs from scratch every time a small dimension changes, 3D modeling in furniture designing helps decrease iterations. You can create aesthetically appealing designs and have more room to explore different options before finalization.

4. Fast manufacturing

3D CAD models make design approvals faster and can introduce manufacturing early in the engineering cycle. By building a precise 3D CAD model of furniture product; this model with strategic points will help create DXF files for manufacturing.

5. Minimized costs

With 3D CAD modeling, furniture makers cut expenses by pushing away the chance of delivering structurally unstable furniture designs. Furniture models can be subjected to analysis tools like Finite Element Analysis (FEA) employing analysis by creating a fine mesh of the structure.

This way, a good simulation of the final product can be obtained as in actual loading conditions before manufacturing begins. To get all these benefits, an efficient CAD service partner can offer one-stop solution as well as save costs.

6. Quality marketing

Rendered furniture images of a comprehensive 3D CAD model empower marketing campaigns with high quality visuals giving them a competitive edge. These life-like furniture images using 3D rendering techniques have photorealistic effects in the design phase itself.

3D visualization helps manufacturers envision furniture texture or its look under different lighting conditions. Rendering essentially enhances physical properties such as shadows, dents, lighting and ambience and gives a more life-like feel to objects.

Check out the image below, for example.