Users Workshop Documents - UWD Module

This optional module provides the user the toolset to create customized workshop document models and templates.

Presentation

On entering the module, the user is presented with the opening page:

1: Open existing document, modify it and save it.

2: Create a document/template from a blank document, fill the page and save it.

3 & 4: Create a document from an existing template, fill the page and save it.

Documents are the final sheets that will be filled in GO2cam: the file extension is *.DMOD and they are saved in the directory Models.

The details below will focus on the creation of a document from scratch.

To do so, click on Blank Document.

The program interface is opened as shown on the right with the page setup in the middle, by default in A4 format.

As from v6.11, if the background is set to white, the page is shown in light grey color with a black outline.

The margin is visible in dark grey.

All the tools required to create the documents are available in the menu Creation of document.

Menus

The User Interface offers 3 menus: Design, Layout and Template.

Design:

This menu is a selection of the main wireframe commands, given in 2 main submenus Creation, Drawing Finish. Other submenus are dedicated to Text commands, hatches and to import and position images.

Layout:

This menu is dedicated to the creation of the page contents:

sections for text, vocabularies and Users questions,

3D windows, tables and Repeats.

See the table below for more details.

Template:

Templates are pages including elements used in all the pages of the document: frame, name of document, version, logo of company, etc. When you create a document from a template, each created page is using this template.

The creation and registry of the template is not done with the menu File dedicated to the document. There are specific commands and dialog boxes in the menu Template:

Document Manager

When you enter the module, the display bar gives you the dialog of filters  and a new dialog : the document manager. (Typically on the right side)

Right-click on the page name and select edit to access more options for the page setup.

Features:

• define the format of the document(A4, A3…), the orientation and the size of margins,

• you can create several pages on the same document, with different layout,

• you can rename the created pages.

• you can change the order of pages by right-clicking to access the function in the popup menu. The list must be ordered by first column if you want those items to appear.

The current page is shown as bolded in the manager.

▶️ Watch a video on the right showing the interface of the module.

Text

Creation of the texts that will be fixed in the document: titles, headlines, etc.

Technical Vocabulary

Those vocabularies are data and values taken from the tools and the cycles pages. They are sorted in predefined categories based on the tool and strategy pages.

General Vocabulary

Machining and system vocabularies sorted in 5 categories: machine, material, machining, environment and system.

User Questions

Those texts are specific user questions that GO2cam cannot guess: name of company, name of writer, revision of document, etc. When you fill the document, a table asks you the answers to these questions.

Sort of the User Questions

You can change the order of questions in the table, and also change the question itself.

3D Windows

4 types of window can be created: Part (3D display with stock and work-holding device if you want), Cycle (screenshot of the toolpaths), Tool (3D display or icon or tool page image or customized photograph) and Layout of Solid.

Barcode has been added under Tool type. The barcode is exported in the document as a bar.

Create a table

Creation of a table to insert vocabularies. Define it by 2 points and give the number of lines and columns. You can use the grid to create the table (with Ctrl key).

Table Preparation

Beforehand, the table is created with its headers and the vocabularies are positioned in 1 line; then you use the table preparation to fill the whole table in one click only!

Repeat

Ability to repeat some elements to avoid multiple selection: texts, vocabularies, user questions, 3D Windows and tables.

Open a template

Save a template

Delete templates

Definition of a template is similar to that of a document.

Make use of the Design and Layout menu to define a template.

Save the page from the Template menu to define it as one.

You can define as many pages with different formats in a template, it will act as a library. When you open it to create a document, only the default 1st page will be shown. Create another page with a different format and if the format is available in the template library, it will generate that page. Else a completely blank page will be generate.

You cannot define 2 or more pages with the same formatting. Only the 1st one will be considered by the software.

▶️ Below is a video showing an example of creating a template.

A document model can be created completely from scratch by using the Blank Document option or from a template. If a template is available in the opening window, simply click on it to start the process.

Make use of the Design and Layout menu to define the page as required. You can add as many pages as necessary for the model.

The layout menu has some very powerful tools to facilitate the creation process, such as the Vocabularies, 3D windows and Table preparation.

General and Technical Vocabularies have labels that can be placed anywhere on the page and the information will be automatically drawn from the software/system during the application step.

3D windows will automatically generate images in the document.

Table preparation eliminates repetitive tasks by filling up tables automatically only from data inserted in the first row.

▶️ See the video on the right for a detailed example.

Application of the User Workshop Document model is done from the NC file menu in GO2cam main modules (milling, turning, etc.)

Click here for detailed information about the UWD command.

▶️ Also see a video on the right showing an example.

Quotation:

Another interesting example of the use of UWD is to help generate quotations documents for the manufacturing process. This works in tandem with the estimation of cost command and the various cost parameters defined, to obtain the required information. The vocabularies for the cost parameters can be defined in the model and the document will be generated.