from design to cnc cutting.

[panormus]

hello and good 2012 to all.

I am learning to use catia v5 thanks to the manual of the prof of the noble.
I'm drawing a call and I wonder how to pass a 3sca design to a cnc.
I should pass all the pieces of the same material in 2d and let them cut but I don't know how to do this. Can you help me?

 

[panormus]

hello and good 2012 to all.

I am learning how to use catia v5 thanks to the prof manual of the noble.
I'm drawing an aircraft and wondering how to pass a 3d design to a cnc.

I should pass:
1- list the pieces,
2- divide them by type of material,
3- lay them on a floor (included possibly the surface that being of canvas 4- I could cut with precision), so in case of particular form such as a cone or similar things, develop it on a floor,
5- divide them into sheets (so 2d) and each sheet contain pieces of the same material,
6- Pass them in dxf
7- give them to a friend with a 400 kg cnc that cuts the world,
8- take care of the reassembly.

Some aircraft designer (or not) knows how I could do and if these production steps have a name?

greetings

 

[Joshua662]

I tell you how I can call them every designer or designer has his own way of working right or wrong that it is....

I work like this: "Surely it is wrong but slowly I will learn thanks to the people present here in the forum"

1) separate base "things that falls automatically"
2) I divide according to the type of processing lfp or lfm ll
with a progressive numerical code example "lfp00001" is for processing plastic component 1. metal lfm sheet metal
3) qeusta phase should be called development plan what catia does automatically in drawing environment
5) table setting
(6) conversion
7) sending machining centre
8) prototyping and assembly.

I don't know if they're correct but most of them think they're...

 

[panormus]

I tell you how I can call them every designer or designer has his own way of working right or wrong that it is....

I work like this: "Surely it is wrong but slowly I will learn thanks to the people present here in the forum"

1) separate base "things that falls automatically"
2) I divide according to the type of processing lfp or lfm ll
with a progressive numerical code example "lfp00001" is for processing plastic component 1. metal lfm sheet metal
3) qeusta phase should be called development plan what catia does automatically in drawing environment
5) table setting
(6) conversion
7) sending machining centre
8) prototyping and assembly.

I don't know if they're correct but most of them think they're...

Thanks for the joshua answer.
for point 1, I realized the function, for point 2 I ask you how to separate the various pieces with different materials (if for example you have a product with more parts and in different material what do you do?). I've seen that the separate base creates a list file, but it doesn't divide by materials used.
for point 3 I saw how to put on sheet the 3 views of an object and how to quote it, but is there any command that performs this operation automatically for each part?
point 4 is not present (perhaps a text error) and I do not know what conversion is. do you mean saving in a format readable by cnc?

Thanks again.

 

[Joshua662]

for reasons of internal organization of my company I never had the problem of dividing by material. we divide by type of processing. the material we put it inside the catpart... for the quotation there is a command that if selected automatically quotes each part.... for the point 4 I explain so I hope to be clear, if I design a sheet metal beam and I want to quote it print it and if I want to cut out the profile itself a piece of sheet for an archaic prototype just go on drawing select the plan for the table setting choose the option seen developed and get the cone on a plane... conversion means saving a file in a format that gives the possibility to be passed on cnc, for example a company that collaborates with us to cut to the plasma pantograph we pass to them fil .dxf and he passes the design on the cutting software selects the profiles puts them on a cutting plane so as not to waste material and then drives the pantograph.... I hope to have been clear... If you need my baby, I try to help you. . .

 

[panormus]

thank you 1000 joshua, you were precious and clear, but I still have no way to try. I'll try and do what you say and I'll let you know.

Thanks again
bye:

 

[Joshua662]

of nothing in my little boy if I can help help... ok you can contact me also in pm.... good job. . .

 

[Assodicuori]

Hello, I am a young geometra, I have been working for 5 years in a metalmechanical company and I realize 2 d drawings on autocad and I make them cut to a cnc plasma pantograph. I would like to understand how to make three-dimensional structures and then be disassembled in pieces to be realized on the 2d...thanks in advance

 

[Andrea Bellachioma]

Bye!
depends on what you have to do..you have to make sheet boxes or anything?
greetings

 

[Assodicuori]

Bye!
depends on what you have to do..you have to make sheet boxes or anything?
greetings

Hello I should draw a helical scale...and I would like to be able to make the same scale with the plasma pantograph, obviously in pieces to be assembled