ADKSolid: BlachSolid

ADKSolid is a service company which faces Polish and world markets expectations in engineering software development that helps engineers in their everyday work. We specialize in creating and developing integrated software on Customer demand, which cooperates with the 3D CAD SolidWorks® system. Add-ins developed by ADKSolid are tools entirely adjusted to Customer needs. They enable better planning and aims and assumptions verification set by designers and process engineers. Thanks to our add-ins every SolidWorks® User will be really able to save time and money in his Company.

As a proposal to our Customers we offer add-ins developed from the basis as well as a far-reaching flexibility in adjusting the already existing solutions to their authorship needs. Basing on elaborated solutions enables to reduce the add-in development process for add-ins ordered by the Customer to essential minimum, at high quality of the product and its functionality remaining as the Customer precisely stated.

In ADKSolid we also elaborate on add-ins for manufacturing cost estimation for sheet metal components as well as add-ins for design for assembly analysis that use data taken from the SolidWorks® model.

BlachSolid is an application, which main task is to help the User to control the manufacturing costs during sheet metal parts design in SolidWorks®. The add-in gets all necessary data from the model for preliminary cost estimation: sheet-metal processing e.g. sheet-metal forming, cutting, punching, bending, etc., sheet-metal coating e.g. protective and decorative coatings, functional coatings, and other.

Cost estimation by using BlachSolid involves:

• defining type of material, production capacity and choosing cutting operation of the model;
• selecting proper Calculator;
• complementing the selected Calculator with the information about the cost component and other data that can be taken directly from the 3D model of the part;
• saving the calculation on the Cost List.

BlachSolid enables the User to:

• calculate costs in the selected operation mode:
• create many cost Analyses in one Project saved on the PC hard drive;
• add and delete references of the analyzed SolidWorks® model to the Analysis;
• set default values for cost Calculators,
• adjust parameters of the calculation to conditions prevailing in the enterprise,
• generate summaries in a form of clear and readable reports.