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Table and Stop(s)
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Menu: Part | Part clamping | Table and Stop(s)
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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 put the part to control on the table and stop this one with another face.
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 chuck is defined by one flat surface and one cylindrical surface perpendicular to the first one in the first). 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 | Table and Stop(s)" 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 table. This face has to be a planar face.
Click the face of the table (in the file2). This face has to be a planar face also.
Select the face to align (in the file1). This face must be a planar face
Select the face of the stop (file2).
It's possible to orient the part by fixing two direction (one in file1 and the corresponding one in file2).
All the elements of the part to control (curves, solids, surfaces) are copied in the file2.
Coordinate system to coordinate system
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Table, center and locator
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