Applying an Opelist

You are ready to program a part you draw, or you imported from CAD.

In the Machining Tree, right-click on Machining choose Opelists then Import opelist.

Choose the Opelist you need, you can read the comments to recognize easily the one you need.

At this moment you also can modify a tool or replace it by another. Do a right-click to edit the tool. The techno and strategy parameters will be updated according to this new tool.

Your only action is to select the correct geometry, click on Start Calculation at each Selection.

Until all the selections are done, you can not Confirm. The missing selections icons are displayed with the selection arrow.

When all the selections are finished, confirm on the top: the whole part is programed!

Note:

If a cycle of the opelist works with automatic references and that we cannot find the reference in the part, when a cycle is mute, it is automatically deleted and the opelist is calculated.

1. While editing an Opelist, we can set parameters (strategy, movement, technology and options) that we want to personalize for different workpieces. To do this, we right-click on the Opelist and enter the parameters. Here, for each cycle, we can choose which settings we want to modify each time we load the Opelist. For example, the Z stock allowance.

2. Once we have set all these, we validate the parameters and the Opelist. Then, we load a new workpiece and import our Opelist.

3. Upon opening the Opelist, a window will pop up showing the adjustable preselected options that we chose earlier in the parameters tab when setting up the Opelist. We simply input the different values for the parameters.

4. After setting the different values and cutting conditions, we validate and select our geometry to apply the Opelist.