AVC LAY

About the software

Plugin AVC_Lay for AutoCAD and BricsCAD. Lay 3D-solids to XY plane. Group and sort list of details, make FlatShot for CNC.

Using this plugin you can quickly lay out the details of a complex assembly in the XY plane. This is useful when you are designing products made from sheet materials (furniture, woodworking), and when you need to do detailing, arranges every detail drawings. The plugin allows you to put selected solids in the XY plane of the world coordinate system, regardless of how they were arranged in space.
In a single click the plugin can do copy and a few turns of solids. Moreover, you can immediately select all solids components in an assembly, rather than to lay out solid by solid. As a result you get a neat column of details sorted from highest to lowest with text title.
In addition the plugin can:

• Find parts inside assembly blocks, arrays, xrefs.
• Filter only the parts you need by layers and manufacturing technology.
• Write the header of each part with its size and any description.
• Find identical parts and group them by writing the quantity in the title.
• Make you own title format rather default.
• The program can automatically find parts that are mirrored to each other. It can also execute the Mirror command if the part is specially marked in the AVC Properties Palette or if it is found in mirrored assembly-blocks.
• Choose which side to put the part up depending on the manufacturing technology.
• Mark texture on detail.
• Do FlatShot*. Use it to make curves for CNC.
• Group parts and arrange them in several columns.
• Sort parts by size or any properties.
• Number the details, writing numbers into solid properties for further use in Smart Leaders.
• The program can сount how many assembly-blocks are used in model space, no matter how many you have selected.
• Multiply the number of parts by the size of the batch produced.
• On/Off its settings without dialog window directly from command line. Thus you can make you own buttons and macros to use different variants of -Lay command.
• Quickly switch between several sets of settings (styles).
• Interact with plugin A>V>C> Properties Palette to get the names of solids, to measure the number of mirror parts and rotate solids market as Texture Across.

*BricsCAD version does not support now the creation of Flatshots with invisible lines and can not create Fields.
Original objects remain unchanged - laid out copies of it. Plugin can work with 3D-solids only. It not works with Meshes, Surfaces and Blocks.
Read about downloading and installing the program here: https://sites.google.com/site/avcplugins/lay
To run the plugin, you will have to register account and top up your account balance or receiving bonuses.
Then you can activate one of the licenses:

• Annual license - 15 EUR.
• Unlimited license - 75 EUR. Free updates for 1 year.
• The trial period is 20 days.