Creating individual support tools drawings from а common stripping die drawing

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Support rules and bridges drawings

Generating bridges drawings for individual support tools

Using smaller-sized dieboards from waste materials

Individual support tools drawings

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Support tool rules define bridges drawings

Support tools are generated according to pre-defined rules. A rule exists for the generation of the respective support tool for each component type from the set of stripping drawings. Consider the following example.

Example:

In a FemaleStrDie drawing, we have used the same component for the positioning of the holes necessary for the mounting of support bars:

The same support tool rule (indicated in the Rule column) will apply to all four sets of holes:

As a result, four bars will be generated in a single drawing.

Generating the bridge drawings

In the next step we generate the bridge drawings for all the drawings related to the stripping system.

• On the Diemaking toolbar, click Generate All Bridges .

The program detects all automatically generated stripping drawings — LayoutMaleStrDie, LayoutFemaleStrDie, LayoutFrontStripper, or all support tool drawings, in the current case, drawing "15mm" — and creates a bridge drawing for each one of them.

Using smaller-sized dieboards from waste materials

Quite often, die manufacturers use smaller-sized dieboards made from waste materials to cut support tools. In this technology, it is a handy solution to have each support tool in a separate drawing, and, as a result, to create a bridge drawing from each of these drawings.

Individual support tool drawings

There are two approaches to separate each design in a separate support tool drawing:

By copying a drawing

1. Right-click the tab that contains the support tool drawing that you want to copy, and then click Copy Drawing.

The program copies the drawing, and adds it to the left of the existing drawings on the taskbar.

2. Go to the copied drawing and edit it: leave as many designs as you want the program to cut in one go.
3. Click Save.
4. Go back to the original drawing, and edit it too.

By creating a new drawing

1. Right-click the tab of the support tool drawing that contains the support tool that you want to copy, and then click New Support Tool Drawing.

The New Drawing dialog box appears.

2. Type the name of the new drawing, and then click OK.

The program creates a new drawing.

3. Go back to the original drawing, and copy the support tool that you want to put into its own drawing.
4. Paste the copied support tool into the newly created drawing.
5. Return to the original drawing, and delete the just-pasted support tool.