203-PLK
planenplanen.de
Stegmaier Textile Solutions produces trailer tarpaulins on CNC-controlled machines. Creating the digital drawings and agreeing them with the customer were the most time-consuming steps in the process. Stegmaier commissioned us to program a tool in which tarpaulins are modelled in 3D from a set of input parameters, while production-ready CNC data for all parts, optimised to minimise offcuts, and shop drawings in PDF format are generated in real time. The aim was to automate both planning and production.

We first built the system as an offline tool with Rhino, Grasshopper and HumanUI and later developed it into a web application based on Grasshopper and ShapeDiver. The web configurator has more than 150 input parameters, which result in more than 100,000,000 possible combinations. Other tarpaulin manufacturers can use the service for a fee at www.planenplanen.de, where a free demo version with limited functionality is also available.

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Yearplanenplanen.de
Stegmaier Textile Solutions
Vorhammer
Digital Consulting
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Amlis Botsch, David Probst, Nick Förster
Schemmerhofen (DE)
Ongoing
2020– Next Project