Lima, Carlos Magno deCarvalho, Viviane Maria Lélis2014-12-172011-05-042014-12-172010-04-23CARVALHO, Viviane Maria Lélis. Methodology, Coding System and Tool for Modeling of Furniture. 2010. 100 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Tecnologia de Materiais; Projetos Mecânicos; Termociências) - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2010.https://repositorio.ufrn.br/jspui/handle/123456789/15634On this research we investigated how new technologies can help the process of design and manufacturing of furniture in such small manufacturers in Rio Grande do Norte state. Google SketchUp, a 3D software tool, was developed in such a way that its internal structures are opened and can be accessed using SketchUp s API for Ruby and programs written in Ruby language (plugins). Using the concepts of the so-called Group Technology and the flexibility that enables adding new functionalities to this software, it was created a Methodology for Modeling of Furniture, a Coding System and a plugin for Google s tool in order to implement the Methodology developed. As resulted, the following facilities are available: the user may create and reuse the library s models over-and-over; reports of the materials manufacturing process costs are provided and, finally, detailed drawings, getting a better integration between the furniture design and manufacturing processapplication/pdfAcesso Abertotecnologia CADtecnologia de grupomodelagem tridimensionalplugingoogle sketchUprubyCAD technologygroup technologytridimensional modelingpluginGoogle sketchUprubymasterThesisCNPQ::ENGENHARIAS::ENGENHARIA MECANICA