This week I worked on a project that brought back memories of my homeland. I created two families, an orange juicer from Zumex and a refrigeration display from Imbera. Being from Spain, it was nice to create a family for a local product. The Zumex is a juicer that you’ll see in just about any bar or café there.
In this particular case, the families were being created for our customer’s customer, in the US. The juicer took some time with its geometry, the orange slider and canister in particular. It came out at 496K, oranges not included. The refrigeration display was straight forward, weighing in at 384K. See images of both of them below.
Both families included electrical connectors, tons of shared parameters, and levels of detail. The levels of detail were interesting in that the customer requested both medium and coarse to be exactly the same. While it’s not a request I often see, a change like that would be a piece of cake if the manufacturer already had a family with three levels of detail built-in (they didn’t in this case). You’d select the medium-level geometry and check one extra box. If there is coarse-only geometry, select it and delete it. Boom! A manufacturer-specific family is updated to a particular customer’s/project’s standard. More on standards in my next post.
