Pro-ENGINEER 2 Wildfire Tutorial

Peter Kitson

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Setting the Manufacturing Environment


In this section of the tutorial, you will establish the manufacturing environment. Manufacturing mode provides the Manufacturing Setup (MFG SETUP) menu to establish specific settings for your model. Within this menu, examples of items that can be set include the machining workcell, tooling, the machine coordinate system, and fixtures. You must define a workcell and a coordinate system before you can start creating NC sequences.

Step 1: Select MFG SETUP on the Menu Manager.
Pro/ENGINEER will launch the Operation Setup dialog box. An operation is one specific setup of a machine tool for the manufacturing of a design. It can consist of multiple NC Sequences. Within any operation, the minimum required setup includes a machine work cell and a machine coordinate system.

The Operation Setup dialog box (Figure 4a) contains the following elements:
Operation Name >> The operation name identifies the operation within the manufacturing process. The default operation names have the format OP010, OP020, where the number gets automatically incremented by the system. You can type any name.

NC Machine >> The name of the machine tool (workcell) used to perform the operation. If you have set up some machine tools prior to creating the operation, their names appear in the NC Machine drop-down list.

Fixture Setup >> This section contains the icons for creating, modifying, and deleting fixture setups. The drop-down list contains the names of all the fixture setups defined for the operation, with the name of the currently active setup displayed in the list box.

Machine Zero >> Select or create the Program Zero coordinate system, to be used for NC output and for other machining references.

The Retract group box >> Specify how the tool retracts between the cuts.

Surface >> Set up the retract surface.

Tolerance >> Controls maximum deviation of the tool when it moves along a non-planar retract surface. The default is 0.1" (in English units) or 1 mm (in metric units). You can type any value.

Stock Material >> Select a name of the stock material.