CATIA - PRISMATIC MACHINING PREPARATION ASSISTANT 2 PRODUCT (MPA)

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Documentation Addenda

Prismatic Machining Area You can pre-highlight Prismatic Machining Areas in the 3D viewer by moving the cursor on the feature in the Manufacturing View:
  • Highlight when the guiding contour is selected as faces:
  • Highlight when the guiding contour is selected as Edges:

You can request a permanent representation of Prismatic Machining Areas and Machinable Axial Features:

  • At recognition of the features, the permanent representation is not visible.
  • Select one or several features in the Manufacting View, and select Hide/Show in their contextual menu to show or hide their permanent representation.
  • Alternatively, right-click a feature in the 3D viewer and select Hide/Show in the contextual menu.
  • Permanent representations of Machinable Axial features:
  • Permanent representations of Prismatic Machining Area features
  • Click its permanent representation directly in the 3D viewer to select a Prismatic Machining Area or a Machinable Axial feature .
  • In axial machining operations, click No point in the Geometry tab to select a Machinable Axial feature  from its permanent representation in the 3D viewer:
  • In Pocketing and Profile Contouring operations, click the arrow on the right of the Feature to select a Prismatic Machining Area from its permanent representation in the 3D viewer:
  • When creating a Prismatic Machining Area manually, you must select a guiding element and a bottom to enable the pre-highlight and the permanent representation of the feature.
Global feature Recognition
Pattern Creation
A new check box Counter Depth is added in both commands, to take the counter depth of the Machinable Axial feature into account while creating patterns: