Part Types and Material Groups > Concept

In furniture design parts can be accounted by length, area or volume. For example a kitchen desktop in Bill of Material (BOM) is specified as length, cupboard sheet is specified as area, part of timber construction should be specified as Volume. We can say that we purchase material for the production of such categories:

Categories

1.Profiles

2.Boards

3.Timber

Autodesk Inventor recognizes only Parts and Sheet metal parts. Woodwork4Inventor implements more types of parts. The behavior of part during design process, the alghorithms for part dimension calculation and the way the quantities of materials are calculated for their production depend on the detail type.

Part type for Woodwork4Inventor is specified as Category field in part's iProperties. All ways of setting that field is acceptable for Woodwork4Inventor. It can be done by editing part iProperties, changing in Autodesk Inventor BOM editor, using part templates with prerecorded value of Category field, changing part type in Material Assignment command.

Category field is used for part type specifying

Woodwork4Inventor supports such Category field values:

Category field value	Woodwork BOM value	Part Type	Edge Banding	Size calculation type	Description
C00	Area	Board	Allowed	Auto. By range box	Parts calculated by area. Parts produced from board type material
C01	Volume	Timber	Allowed	Auto. By range box	Parts calculated by volume. Parts produced from solid wood type material
C02	Length	Profile	Allowed	Auto. By range box	Parts calculated by length. Parts produced from profile type material
C03	Unit	Unit	Not Allowed	No Calculation	Parts calculated as units. Parts produced and recorded as units
C04	Length	Profile	Allowed	Persistent Measurement	Parts calculated by length. Parts produced from profile type material.
C05	Volume	Timber	Allowed	Manualy recorded	Parts calculated by volume. Parts produced from solid wood type material
C06	Area	Board	Allowed	Persistent Measurement	Parts calculated by area. Parts produced from board type material
C07	Volume	Timber	Allowed	Persistent Measurement	Parts calculated by volume. Parts produced from solid wood type material
C08	Area	Board	Not Allowed	Auto. By range box	Parts calculated by area. Parts produced from board type material
C09	Volume	Timber	Not Allowed	Auto. By range box	Parts calculated by volume. Parts produced from solid wood type material
C10	Length	Profile	Allowed	Manualy recorded	Parts calculated by length. Parts produced from profile type material.
C11	Length	Profile	Not Allowed	Auto. By range box	Parts calculated by length. Parts produced from profile type material
C12	Length	Profile	Not Allowed	Persistent Measurement	Parts calculated by length. Parts produced from profile type material
C13	Length	Profile	Not Allowed	Manualy recorded	Parts calculated by length. Parts produced from profile type material
C14	Area	Board	Allowed	Manualy recorded	Parts calculated by area. Parts produced from board type material
C15	Area	Board	Not Allowed	Auto. By range box	Parts calculated by area. Parts produced from board type material
C16	Area	Board	Not Allowed	Manualy recorded	Parts calculated by area. Parts produced from board type material
C17	Volume	Timber	Not Allowed	Auto. By range box	Parts calculated by volume. Parts produced from solid wood type material
C18	Volume	Timber	Not Allowed	Manualy recorded	Parts calculated by volume. Parts produced from solid wood type material

Part types

Below you can see a few pictures where showing the categories of parts.


C00 and C06 category parts calculated by Area		C02 category parts calculated by Length		C01 Category parts calculated by Volume

Also a few additional categories, which allows Woodwork4Inventor to implement some additional functionality are implemented. We have the followimg categories:

1. ESK - category means that such a part is a skeletal part

2. SUBTRACT - means that part body serves as subtractive element in Woodwork4Inventor Cut Hole function.