Company modelling defaults

Company modelling defaults give your team a shared starting point for new conversions.

For your whole company

1. Select a company workspace in the header. Open Company Settings from the top navigation. On smaller screens, open the menu at the top left first. You must be a company owner or admin.
2. Click Modelling instructions near the top, beside Workspaces & people.
3. Enter your defaults in the text box, then click Save company brief. The defaults apply across the company's workspaces.

Which instructions take priority?

1. Part brief for the part you are converting.
2. Personal modelling instructions from the account starting the conversion.
3. Company modelling defaults for the company workspace.

Voluminate combines the applicable instructions into a single brief. When two instructions conflict on the same modelling decision, the brief tells the model to follow the higher-priority instruction for that decision only. All other compatible instructions still apply.

The combined brief has a 2,000-character limit, including headings.

Two examples

Personal instructions override one company default

The company asks for 5 mm corner radii and chamfered hole entrances. Your personal instructions ask for 3 mm corner radii on CNC parts. On a CNC part, the 3 mm instruction takes priority for the corners. The company's chamfer instruction still applies.

The part brief overrides one personal instruction

Your personal instructions say to use the midpoint of the specified tolerance range for CNC dimensions. The part brief says to use the nominal diameter for the main bore. The part brief takes priority for that bore. The tolerance midpoint instruction still applies to other CNC dimensions with specified tolerances.

For one part

1. Open the part from your Workspace. Click Convert in the model area. If Choose your output appears, select a service and click Continue.
2. In Get a more accurate 3D model, enter your instructions in Part details, the first text box.
3. Check Instructions for this conversion underneath. Click Convert at the bottom when you are ready to start.

On the part page, open Modelling instructions. For the next conversion previews the current instructions. Used for this model shows the saved instructions for the selected model. Expand View exact brief to see or copy the full text. People with access to a shared part can see the saved instructions for its models.

New instructions apply to new conversions. To change an existing result, use the feedback loop.

See Personal modelling instructions to save preferences for the conversions you start.