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Clicking will automatically fill in as the text to
be added to the part. is used in conjunction with nesting.
When the part that has is nested, the text from the work order
field (nest- part setup) is automatically used as the text on the part instead of
. This allows the part to be stored in the part directory and used
for many different orders.
There is only one type of text used within NC Express. Any other types of text will
need to be imported from the DXF file and tooled interactively with any of the text
marking tools.
4.6.3 Manual Cycling
Manual cycling is the function of creating a cycle (path) for tools to follow. When
a part has been tooled a cycle can be created manually for all tools to follow a
certain path when the part is ran in nesting and optimizing. Manual cycling can
also arrange which tools to use in which order also, meaning a manual cycle order
tool changes to carry out a certain function.
Not to be confused with Teach cycles, manual cycles is a separate feature from
Teach cycles, but can be used in conjunction with Teach cycles.
Exercise below will demonstrate tooling a part with round holes requiring punch,
form, and tap. Punch, form, and tap can be manually cycled for a particular
geometrical hole then use Teach cycles to repeat this for each time the Autotooling
sees the same geometrical shape.
The following will cover the process of applying a cycle to punch and nibble
hits in Intertool.cp.
Create a Cycle
Step 1: Open part Intertool.cp
Step 2: Click on toolbar to open Manual Cycling dialog.
Step 3: Add hits to dialog:
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