Best Practice: Managing Varying Plywood Material Thickness

Best Practice: Managing Varying Plywood Material Thickness

Hey Everyone! 

We have started down the road of Formula materials, but I am not 100% sold that is the proper way to go for us and I am looking to see what others are doing to manage material thickness' when using full dado construction or similar. 

  1. What construction method do you use? 
  2. How do you have your material setup and manage the mild thickness changes? 

Our situation:
We are a full custom shop using full dado construction, so the difference between 0.72 & 0.76 is a big one. Flip operations are not an option in our shop and other construction methods aren't really an option at this point to. But definitely open to other options. 

Currently using formula materials which is simple and great, especially when I have a custom material. 

But... 

But if I buy a unit of 3/4" UV Coated Maple and it measures out to 0.76" and my previous setting was 0.74" from my understanding I would have to go into every Cutpart File Component and change the thickness in the lookup table at the project level and for each project's individual cutpart file that will be using that material. 

Do I... 
  1. Continue with Material Wizard and keep it as part of the engineering process to cross check all Cut Part Files. 
  2. Switch to standard material file management and adjust thickness at the library level.
  3. Other???
  4. I am not super well versed on the F! Sheet, but from my understanding it is global, and what if I made a material look up table there? That feeds the M! lookup tables?

    MVU eLearning



    Grow Your Knowledge
    Follow along with RJ as he takes you on a journey to build your foundational knowledge of Toolbox.


      Follow us on:

               

        Google Review