In a turret punch press, it is often fastest to make all hits with a given tool before changing to another tool. There are circumstances where it is necessary to override that behavior, such as when rapid travel from one edge of a long part to the other could dislodge a piece of scrap held on by micro-joints.
In the Digital Resources’ system, all tooling is done completely automatically. This example shows how we set up a rule for detecting when this tooling order is needed, along with a rule for applying the tooling order.