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Vise
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Menu: Part | Part clamping | Vise
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Purpose
Understanding the function
How to use
Others part clamping
This menu allows the user to rapidly put the part in a machinable position without using the TopSolid functions.
To do that, TopSolid'Control asks to put in contact (Face on Face) two (or three) faces of the part with two (or three) faces of the vise.
Generally speaking, the part is designed in a different document from that of the control document. The original document (the document containing the part) can be a ‘.top’ or a ‘.ctl’ document. However, the positioning function’s aim is to position a part on the machine’s table to make it machinable; therefore, it is not only the finished part that can be used, but the finished part and its associated geometry (also the curves if it's necessary)
The button is used to go faster if a part already exists in a TopSolid'Control document and if the user wants to put it again (in another position for example) in another control document.
Open the document with the part to control (file1).
Open a new TopSolid'Control document (file2).
Select the machine. On this machine it's necessary to have the component required for this clamping, ( The vise is defined by three faces). In the case or the machine doesn't have this component, it's always possible to add it before using this function.
Select the menu "Part | Part clamping | Vise" or click on the icon.
Select the entities (curves, solids, surfaces) representing the part to control.
Click the face (in the file1) to put on the parallels of the vise. This face has to a planar face.
Click the face which defines the parallels of the vise (in the file2). This face has to be a planar face also.
Select the face to put on the vise jaw (in the file1). This face must be flat.
Select the face of the vise jaw (file2).
It's possible to stop here. In this case, TopSolid'Control will try to put the part in the center of the vise jaw. It's also possible to align one face (file1) of the part with one face of the chuck (file2)
All the elements of the part to control (curves, solids, surfaces) are copied in the file2.
Coordinate system to coordinate system
Quick
Table and stop(s)
Table, center and locator
Chuck
V-block clamping