NC Manufacturing Infrastructure
Enhanced Functionalities
- ToolPath Editor: Feedrate Modification
- This enhancement to feedrates is integrated to the Area Modification
command of the tool path editor and works on one or several tool paths.
Tool path editor is available on APT imports and milling operations.
Tool paths can be modified partially or globally.
- ToolPath Editor: V4 NC Mill Support
- This enhancement enables Tool Path edition on manufacturing data
from V4 NC MILL models.
- ToolPath Editor: PP Word Management
- This enhancement enables merging several PP instructions and editing
PP words inside a tool path.
- Video Mode: Usability Improvements
- This enhancement provides a number of usability improvements such
as improved error messages; open fixtures support; extended support
of turning tool holders; save CATProduct at the same location as the
Process; interruptible progress bar; capability to disconnect non cutting
diameter; and support of probing operations.
- Feed Support for Transition Paths
- This enhancement provides a number of improvements for transition
feedrates. In particular, you can now locally set the feedrate for a
transition path to a machining operation B from a machining operation
A or from a tool change activity. This is done by selecting the
Transition check box in the Machining Operation dialog box for
operation B.
- Head Change Activity
- This enhancement provides a new Head Change command in
the Auxiliary Operations tool bar.
Clicking on this command inserting a new Head Change activity in the
program, if an NC machine with at least one head is assigned to the
Part Operation.
- Automatic Generation of ROTABL and TLAXIS for Changeover from Lathe
to Mill
- This enhancement allows automatic generation of ROTABL and TLAXIS
statements whenever there is change-over between Turning and Milling
Operations.
- Ordered List of PP Tables in Machine Editor
- Prior to this release, Post Processor (PP) word table names were
not listed in an order, thus making it difficult for the user to locate
a PP word table. This enhancement addresses this usability issue and
lists the PP word tables in an alphanumerically sorted order. Controller
Emulator and Post Processor selections are also listed in sorted order.
- Improved Error Messages for Output Generation
- This highlight improves the message issued after NC data output
generation by quantifying the number of errors/warnings along with success/failure
information.
- Replace the Tool Assembly of Multiple MOs
- Prior to this release, the Replace Tool contextual command
could be used to replace the tool of selected Machining Operations.
This enhancement allows the tool assembly of selected operations to
be replaced.
- Tool Number in Process Table
- This enhancement allows the following additional parameters to be
accessed in the Process Table: Tool Number, Corrector Id, Corrector
Number, and Radius Number. The tool number can be edited.