About Drilling and Riveting Processes

An automated Drill and Rivet machine is composed of head and an anvil. At each rivet origin, a specific sequence needs to be simulated.

The main inputs of the operation are:

• A manufacturing pattern owning a sequence of manufacturing fasteners.
• Several instruction sets describing the sequence of motions to be simulated before and after each rivet origin.
• Macro motions describing the Cartesian motions of the machine head between the rivet origins.

A typical Drilling Riveting operation allows the following:

• Move the machine head following approach macro motion
  
  

  1 - Machine head

  2 - Machine head TCP

  3- Pressure foot

  4- Rivet origin

• Apply approach instruction set (typically to move the anvil at working position)
• Move the machine head up to the first rivet origin (defined by manufacturing fastener)
  
  
• Apply fastening instruction set (typically to move the anvil and the pressure foot)
  
  
• Move the machine head to the position of next manufacturing fastener (following linking and clearance macro motions). Apply the approach and fastening instruction sets.
• Retract the machine head following retract macro motion.

Right-clicking on a fastener point gives access to contextual commands. See Context Menus.