Synchronizing a Manufacturing Stacking

You can synchronize the manufacturing stacking from the engineering stacking.

This synchronization is required to:

  • Let the manufacturing designer refine existing engineering plies data organization and prepare manufacturing. For example by associating cut-pieces to existing engineering plies design.
  • Enable concurrent engineering where the engineering designer can add new plies, reorganize existing plies in sequence, for example moving a ply from one sequence to another.
  • Update (synchronize) manufacturing data with the added objects or changed plies organization and keep the already added manufacturing data, for example retrieving the cut-pieces added to a ply moved from one sequence to another.

Notes:
  • This task is available in Composites Manufacturing Preparation.
  • When the manufacturing stacking is generated/synchronized, identification information is added to the engineering representation. This information is compulsory to recognize the composites entities and not recreate them during future synchronizations. Therefore, it is mandatory to save the engineering representation if the long warning message appears.

  1. After the modification of the engineering representation, open the manufacturing representation.
  2. From the Composites Collaboration section of the action bar, click Synchronize .
  3. Click ... and select the representation containing the engineering stacking in the dialog box that appears.

An information box opens with the list of new plies.

The representation containing the manufacturing stacking is updated with the changes made in that containing the engineering stacking.
Note:

The following features/actions are propagated when performing a synchronization:

  • Limit contour
  • Producibility parameters
  • Cut pieces
  • Modified plies directions
  • Modified plies rosettes
  • Modified plies contours
  • Reordered stacking
  • Created plies, sequences, groups of plies.

The following features are not propagated when performing a synchronization:

  • Numerical analyses
  • Flatten curves
  • Exploded surfaces
  • Core samples.

When you change the order of plies in the sequence of a manufacturing stacking as well as in the sequence of an engineering stacking, the reordering at the engineering level prevails when performing a synchronization.