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.