Merging Manufacturing Programs

You can merge several Manufacturing Programs to optimize Tool Changes, for example in several copies of a Manufacturing Program.

  1. Click Merge Program .
    The Merge Program dialog box is displayed.
  2. Select the Manufacturing Programs to merge:
    1. Click to add Manufacturing Programs to your selections.
    2. Select a Manufacturing Program and click to remove it from your selection.
  3. Click Preview.
    The Tool Changes are listed at the bottom of the dialog box.
  4. Click OK.
    The first Manufacturing Program found is kept and concatenates all the components of the selected Manufacturing Programs. The Tool Changes are optimized. The order of the machining steps on a single part is kept.

    Merge Program does not support copy operators, but supports machine instructions.