Hi All,

About a year ago, I posted a thread titled "Discussion and Questions about an Innovative Production Method with Microvellum" where I shared my idea of developing Container Products approach. Over the past year, I’ve been using this method in production, and it has significantly improved my work efficiency.

However, there is a drawback to this method: when generating a work order, it’s impossible to select an individual cabinet from a group because the entire container is treated as a single product.

To address this issue, I decided to move away from the container product approach and adopted an XML Import method to generate everything. Simply put, this allows us to define as many variables as we need in Microvellum, which can then be used to control cabinet parameters.

To make this work, I developed a desktop application (with a horribly designed UI 😅) where all predefined variables can be set. The data is then imported into Microvellum to automatically generate all production data and drawings.

Here are some screenshots of the interface. I’d love to hear your thoughts on this!

Although the interface is dense and requires a lot of input, most of the fields are automatically populated based on a standardized PDF document provided by the customer, called Colour Selection. This document provides detailed information about various materials and attributes.

Therefore, the main task is to select the corresponding cabinet type for each Bay and assign the appropriate width.