Posted in Fabrication Details

More Options on Opening Schedule

Our Opening Schedule for hollow metal products has more entries offering more options on every line item. We now offer specification of different faces, profiles, anchoring methods, wall conditions, and sections for all four standard framing components – typically the head, hinge jamb, inactive hinge jamb for single swing and strike jamb for pairs, and sills.

Frame, window and door assemblies will adapt as necessary to reflect these settings, so every master definition can be used in many different contexts.

Of course, every component in a more complicated assembly with an arbitrary number of parts can have these settings changed in the assembly variant screen.

Posted in Fabrication Details

Automatic Tooling With Custom Shapes

The Digital Resources System is designed to tool parts completely automatically, even when the use of custom tooling shapes is required.  The system can be trained to use any arbitrary shape appropriately.

Here we see an overview of a hinge jamb produced in a turret with limited tooling including very custom shapes.

Three special cases are show.  A special miter tool used to punch the miter and a portion of the rabbet.  This tool is asymmetrical and its center is offset, yet it is automatically used exactly as desired.  A special tab tool is used to punch the complete tab and a portion of the base lines.  And, due to limited tooling, a round hit is used to approximate the 45 degree chamfer.

The use of these special tools, and the jagged shape of the area being punched, leaves a scrap remnant whose odd shape is handled efficiently by the system’s scrap removal.

Posted in Engineering

avoiding interference with other features and preps when placing preps

The Ordermation™ engineering system has a powerful function  allowing the placement of preps while automatically detecting and avoiding other preps, the +FDRAWAVOIDING  command

All of the four following drawings have countersunk mounting holes placed with the exact same command.  The holes are placed differently depending on interference:

Hinge Jamb with no interference:

Hinge Jamb With Interference:

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