Stock Creation

In V6.11, we have completely renewed the dialogue of Stock creation.

This dialogue is similar in the 3 different situations:

• creation of stock, when you go from Design to Machining tab for the first time,

• edit stock, when you double-click the line in Machining Tree or right-click and select Edit.

• creation of stock during the automatic import of solid.

Some icons will appear depending on which environment (Milling/Turning/Swiss Machine/Wire EDM) you are working in.

Milling and Wire-cut EDM Parts

Turning Parts

Shape of Stock

Cubic (Milling & Wire-cut EDM)

You can choose the shape of the stock by clicking on this icon. The physical shape of the stock is now displayed in the combo box.

For the cylinder, you also have the ability to define a cylinder as a tube, by defining a value for the inner diameter

Cylinder (Milling & Wire-cut EDM)

From Existing Solid (All)

You can create a stock by clicking on a solid if you select this option.

Cylindrical (Turning)

The cylinder bar can also be defined as a tube by defining a value for the inner diameter.

N sides (Turning)

Create a stock bar with N number of sides for instance, with a hexagonal face.

By selecting a profile (Turning)

Define the stock by selection of profiles to have a distinct shape.

Selection

Keep links with entities

We can also maintain the links with the selection. So, if the geometry is modified, then the stock will be automatically recalculated.

Delete all

We clear all selection using the ‘Delete all’ button

Select everything visible

Use to select any geometry visible on the screen.

Sizes

Dimensions

When your stock is known, you can input the dimensions in terms of length, width, height and diameter/radius(Inside/Outside), Length of Bar, Number of sides( for N sides stock)

Redefine manually the center

To define any point of the stock to be the center.

Center Automatically

To automatically define the center of the stock.

Lock dimensions

Help to keep same dimension while editing margins.

Margins

Margins(-/+)

Margins enables the creation of the stock by an offset of the bounding box of the geometry.

Identical margins for X and Y

This a button available to input identical values for the X and Y margins.

Center the margins

When any of the axes dimensions are locked, you can utilize the 'Center the Margins' button to ensure equal margins for the corresponding locked axis.

Safety Area

By clicking on this option, a dialog box appears where you can set parameters for a safe envelope.

In Milling, Cylindric stock can be tube shapes, thanks to the possibility of defining a inner diameter value.

Edit Stock: We now allow margin modification when stock was created without history

There are two possibilities to define a cast stock:

1. You have the ability to import several solids in one file or several files. During the import command, you can define one of the solids as the stock.

2. The second possibility is to merge the stock shape on the part with the command Add, in the menu File. After merging the 2 files, you can select one solid as the stock in the stock edit command.