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Die Design Menu: Piercing Design Tools
Access: Open this group of functions from the following location:
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Select Die Design > Piercing Design from the menu bar. Select the required function.
This group of functions deal with large arrays of holes or openings existing in die parts. The output of these functions are faces with a Piercing Face attribute created for selected holes. The same holes (i.e. having the same edge ID) in a preceding forming shape are plugged with regular bounded faces, as they are not pierced yet (as far as the manufacturing process is concerned).
Holes that have not been analyzed display a contour annotation around them in all the forming shapes. This way, you can quickly tell which holes still need a piercing definition.
The faces with the Piercing Face attribute can later be used in tool design to quickly place punches, matrixes and so on.
The Piercing Design functions are used in the Progressive Die - Strip environment or the Transfer Die - Process Design environment.
This group contains the following functions:
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Delete a piercing Hole Analysis. |
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Analyze piercing holes. The holes are analyzed, arranged into groups according to their shape and size, and then marked by a contour on their circumferences. |
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Create faces marked as punches in the piercing hole islands. This function can be invoked after running the Hole Analysis function. |
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