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I just tried to find a round number to work with.Enhance your presentations with free diagram templates I didn't try to see how many inches and decimal points I could go. Now make those dimensions 1640' (Feet) now extrude it to 1640' (Feet). Make a box in SW and tag two dimensions on it Hori. What, specifically is the 1640 limit that you mentioned? But it sounds like you have covered a lot of this already. Don't in-context anything (not that I think you would need to do that). That will definitely help speed up the process. If you make everything in a basic shape or form including your office area. That would save on overall file size and help in speeding up your plant design. The SW folks suggested that a 'configuration' of each machine could be saved that represents just the envelope of the machine. The plant here is 'huge', with many different types of machines, and hundreds of them, in addition to the office space. That you may be able to use in your design.Įvansville, IN RE: Facilities Layout with Solidworks SoledWorker (Mechanical) I believe there are some people that has made chairs and stuff like that. One last thing though, you might want to ask this question at NG. I enjoy a good challenge, and doing a plant layout would definitely be in that category.ġ) Know your overall size of the entire plant?ģ) What would be involved to make it look the way you want it?Ĥ) Are you willing to accept a large challenge such as this or are you looking for the easy way out?ĥ) Plan it out before you make your first part!! Because down the road your going to have issues come up and you don't want to spend all your time trying to figure it out along with planning your next move. I'm sure most people here and most other NG would suggest some other CAD software. But I don't know what you do so it's hard to say. Then with basic shapes it could probably be done fairly quickly. It would be harder to model that quickly, unless your just looking for basic shapes. Since I don't know what kind of plant it is I don't know if it is feasible or not. How big is the plant and office space combined?ĭo you have conveyor systems or is it all just molding machines placed on the floor? Anything larger will require a second part. But I don't have a need too.ġ) The largest area in cubic Feet is 1640.

I have always thought about making something like that and I would love to give it a try sometime.

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