Using the Process Generator Wizard

Use the Process Generator Wizard to easily create a whole Die Face Design process.

This task shows you how to:

 

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Initialize the Process

You can define the Press Line.

  2. In the Define Press Line dialog box.
    1. Define the Number of Blanks.
    2. Define the Number of Operations, that is, the number of steps to create.
    3. Optional: Select Check Process Result.
  3. Select a standard file from the list.
    • If a Process Method Plan is created, the standard file is read to initialize the parameters.
    • If no Process Method Plan exists, but an analysis is created, the standard file is read to initialize the analysis parameters.
    • If a Process Method Plan is created from the read file, and an analysis is created afterward, relations are created depending on the type of the elements to analyze (Geometry resulting from a cut tool, geometry resulting from a curve partition, …).
    • Global parameters are stored under the Process Method Plan (and created if they do not yet exist).

Define the Part

You can to define the input parts and the rest of the process for each blank.

  1. Expand Part Definition
  2. Under Current Blank, select a Process Method Plan.
    1. Click Method Plan Properties for more options.
  3. In the Define and Position Input Parts dialog box.
    1. Select the input parts: They are the surfaces to position.
    2. Click Define Surface Positions to manage the positions of the surfaces.
  4. In the Define the Blank dialog box.
    1. Select a wireframe as the Blank Contour.
    2. Optional: Define the Blank Material Properties.

    Material and Thickness are stored under the model, and used in the Process Cost Export.

  5. In the Define Flanges and Trim Partition dialog box.
    1. Select elements to define the flanges.

      They are the curves that split the result of the positioning to define the folded areas.

      For more information about Edit Automatic Flange Boundaries, see Computing the Boundaries of the Flange.

    2. Select to manage intermediate geometries.
    3. Select elements to split the part boundary.
    4. Select the elements (wireframe) to cut the scraps.
    5. Select to manage tolerances and intermediate geometries.
    6. Use the context menu under the items to create missing geometries.
  6. Repeat for each blank.

Assign Geometries to Operations

You can assign geometries to operations, create cam directions, and define operation positions over a press line.

  1. Expand Operation Planning.

    Tip: Use the Not Planned Only filter to only see not planned elements.

  2. Verify, edit, and add elements as required, for example:
    1. Drag elements in a node as required.
    2. Drop a geometry from Not Planned to OP.
    3. Click Create OP to create one.
    4. Select an OP. Validate it, verify, and edit its properties, or define its press position.
    5. Select an OP and click Create Tool.
    6. Select a tool and edit and validate it.
    7. Select several tools and click Group Tools
    8. Select a tool, then Create Cam.
    9. Selet the Cam Swivel option.
      When selected, the tool direction is unlocked for step swiveling. The tool direction is moved when a swiveling is done (Blank or part swiveling). When cleared, the tool direction is not impacted by the swiveling.
    10. Select the direction to optimize.
    11. Select an analysis to display the current results.
    12. Select elements to analyze.
    13. Press Optimize (or Edit Robot Coordinates for a manual optimization).
    The cam is created under Grouped Tools.
  3. Use the context menu to create or optimize a cam direction.

Manage Scraps

You can manage automatic or manual planning of elements.

  1. Press Automatic Planning of Scraps if required.
  2. In Manual Planning of Elements
    1. Select addendum surfaces to compute scraps element during the process definition
    2. Create surfaces from the context menu.
  3. Select custom elements to add and join to the result of the process step.
    1. Select the first and the last step that define the range within which the customized elements are joined.

Assign Detailed Geometry

You can select geometry to go from the initial concept to the fully designed process.

  1. Open the Assign Detailed Geometries dialog box.
  2. Select an operation in the top table then the detailed geometry to associate.
  3. Select a tool in the bottom table, then the detailed geometry to associate.
  4. Alternatively, select the part that contains the Concept to Detail Link related to the selected step.
    The step geometry and the related tool geometries are automatically retrieved from the Result Detailed Geometry geometrical set of the Concept to Detail Link.

Configure Analyses

You can configure the global parameters to analyze the process.

  1. Set the Global Parameters.
  2. Press Check All Analyses

    • Draft Analysis.
    • Depth Analysis.
    • Cut Normal Analysis
    • Cut Shear Angle Analysis
    • Cut 2D Analysis
    • Cut 3D Analysis
    • Insertion Depth Analysis
    • Circle Analysis.
    • Pierce Analysis.
    Note: Quick Cut Normals Analysis, Quick Cut 2D Analysis, and Quick Cut 3D Analysis use the required input surface of the trim partition for trim partition elements, and the step geometry for process wireframes. They automatically retrieve some surfaces.

Choose Selection Options

You can activate selection options for easier controls.

Select the required options.