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Coordinate system to coordinate system
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Menu: Part | Part clamping | Coordinate system to coordinate system
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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..
Here, the function is going to orient the part to control using a coordinate system on another coordinate system.
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, ( One coordinate system). 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 | Coordinate system to coordinate system" or click on the icon.
Select the entities (curves, solids, surfaces) representing the part to control.
Select the first coordinate system to use (in the file1). With the next dialog box, it's also possible modify this coordinate system before the clamping function.
Select the second coordinate system (in the file2), where the first coordinate system will match. With the next dialog box, it's also possible modify this coordinate system before the clamping function.
All the elements of the part to control (curves, solids, surfaces) are copied in the file2.
Quick
Vise
Table and stop(s)
Table, center and locator
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